Chapter 101: A Few Drinks at the Family Banquet

Discussion on how to easily make four substantial dishes in half an hour.

First, you need a maid for prepping ingredients, and then a pot of oil.

Blanch the tofu, gluten, and sweet potatoes.

Fry the tofu first, then the sweet potatoes.

The best-tasting version of Eight Treasures Tofu is actually the low-budget version. You just use the cheapest rehydrated squid, shrimp, sea cucumber, and snail meat that you can buy at the market, along with fish balls and crab sticks. Mix it all in a pot and enjoy that artificial flavor.

If you follow the high-end version as taught online by fancy restaurants, this dish is as good as ruined.

Not that it tastes bad, you just can't say it has any character, unless you need an extra dish to fill the table; otherwise, there's no need to order it.

Of course, there's an even lower-budget version, given that nowadays you're not even guaranteed to find rehydrated seafood at the market.