A slow cooked stew of tofu, eggs, potatoes, carrots, radish, wood year mushroom, button mushrooms. Flavored with toasted chilies, cassia, lots of bay leaves, start anise, coriander seeds, a little cumin, peppercorn. Soy sauce, oyster sauce, rice wine, sugar, MSG. Finished with black vinegar, scallions and cilantro. Chili oil and sesame sauce on the table.
Fire roasted eggplants with chopped mushrooms in "strange flavored" sauce and scallions.
A simple sour-sweet cucumber salad with peanuts.