One Plate of West Lake Fish in Vinegar Gravy Saved a Culinary Wasteland
一道西湖醋鱼，拯救美食荒漠
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- 210k Words
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- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Life
- Updated
- 2y ago
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90Chapters
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11.2kFans
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I tried making West Lake Fish in Vinegar Sauce myself...
Following the author's instructions, I bought the seasonings online and tried making it at home. Perhaps my cooking skills are lacking, as I couldn't find the dessert. The final product tasted almost exactly like the West Lake Fish in Vinegar Sauce I had in Hangzhou—in a word, awful! 😭
Twenty chapters of bragging about eating fish and getting slapped in the face—impressive! And this isn't Stephen Chow; Stephen Chow's stories are about relentlessly slapping people in the face without leaving any room for rebuttal. This protagonist is basically acting as a science teacher for others.
I finally found a point to criticize, so I quickly started ranting: How could Hangzhou be the birthplace of spicy food? To be precise, you could say chili peppers were introduced from Hangzhou. But did Chinese people not eat spicy food before chili peppers? Wrong! Before chili peppers, Chinese people ate spicy food with dogwood, the kind of dogwood that's missing someone when you plant dogwood everywhere.
West Lake Fish in Vinegar Sauce, I've heard it's really awful. Have any of you guys tried it?
Remove Liu Yifei; it feels too out of place.
How can West Lake Fish in Vinegar Sauce, which is so awful, be considered a savior of the culinary desert?
Just focus on cooking honestly. Seeing some fairy-like streamer giving out huge donations makes me feel a bit uneasy, like finding a fly in your Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup...
This author really can't live without Liu Yifei...
The dish "West Lake Vinegar Fish" is just like its name suggests; there's a fish in the vinegar-filled West Lake. Get it?
Write a food article, not a celebrity one. People click in to read your food article, to see you showing off your culinary skills and embarrassing others, and then suddenly Liu Yifei appears—it's really awkward. If I had to give you a suggestion, when it comes to comparing cooking skills with others, could you add some special effects or martial arts skills to the protagonist, something that…