To be honest, the dish really isn't that great. Although it looks like Sichuan cuisine, once you taste it, it's not quite the flavor of China—it's hard to imagine the addition of cream to the red chili oil soup of Sichuan cuisine; whose idea was this new Sichuan invention?
Spicy Girl, being a true Sichuan native, found it even more painful to swallow. She couldn't stomach it, yet she couldn't bear to waste the money she'd spent, so she had to force it down.
Shi Nian, seeing this, felt quite sympathetic and suggested, "Next time, why don't I buy some ingredients and we can cook something ourselves? I've seen old-style clay pots for pickled vegetables at the Chinese supermarket. We can buy a fish to stew, that would definitely taste better."
Authentic Sichuan food requires ingredients flown in directly from Sichuan; although it's a hassle, what can you do when Chinese people can't do without that taste? So now, Chinese supermarkets also sell air-flown ingredients.
