Vegetarian Section - A Dish, A Story - Stories of Famous Chinese Dishes

Author: Yiwen
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Using jokes to order dishes, pairing stories with wine; the taste is exquisite, and the joy is harmonious. The dishes in this volume "Vegetarian Edition" are all purely vegetarian: chestnuts, winter mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, tofu, fragrant yam, laver, and water shield, a dazzling array of choices that are hard to look away from; the flavors include light, mellow, fresh, fragrant, sweet, sour, spicy, and savory, with all tastes well-represented, each showcasing its unique charm. There are also exceptional dishes—named after meat dishes, resembling meat dishes in appearance, tasting like meat dishes, but in fact, they are all vegetarian. Some dishes are household names, well-known and familiar, such as braised chestnuts with winter mushrooms and bamboo shoots, baby cabbage in clear soup, phoenix tofu, and honey-glazed yam. Others are occasionally heard of, or even completely new, such as Lei Family tofu balls, vegetarian roast goose, and coral cucumbers. With over sixty dishes, each comes with a story that either makes people laugh uncontrollably, delights the heart, enriches knowledge, inspires the mind, or provokes deep reflection.