The Road to Gourmet Cooking Starts with Mapo Tofu
美食从麻婆豆腐开始
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- Completed
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- 3.2M Words
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- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Life
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- 3y ago
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I haven't read this book, but when I swiped past it, I initially mistook it for starting with Madou. Then I went back and looked more closely, and it turned out to be Mapo Tofu. 😰😰
Haven't watched it yet. Hopefully, it won't have that kind of plot where the main character sells a plate of fried rice for 188 yuan and the customers say it's cheap.
I can't understand why the author is so fixated on low prices.
Many of the dishes are priced too low, even considered bargains, by a large number of readers, such as the 25 yuan Wensi Tofu... Furthermore, I don't understand why the male lead's price is always so low. After all, the male lead is first and foremost a person, and also a filial son. He has a mother to support, and his family situation is not actually very wealthy.
In these kinds of food novels, the authors always seem to invariably price dishes worthy of state banquets at the same level as fast food restaurants. 😅
Oh right, I just remembered, the author probably has no experience working in a restaurant. Selling 3,000 servings of braised pork and at least several thousand servings of Mapo Tofu in 21 days is impossible for two people, let alone just 3,000 servings of braised pork in 21 days.
My first thought was that it started with the models.
I quite like this style. Each dish tells a little story, each dish has a process, unlike other novels where the system gives you a dish and you learn it instantly without having to try it yourself. Also, some novels make a dish ridiculously expensive. Food is meant to bring joy, not just for the rich. You can be a little pricey if you like it, but a fried rice dish costing hundreds of dollars?
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The 1-yuan tofu alone is enough to deter people. At the very least, people shouldn't be mindless.
Please, please, don't let it be that the food is supposed to be good for your health, and then it's sold at an exorbitant price with everyone scrambling to buy it.