The authentic numbing spiciness of Mapo Tofu certainly doesn't suit most foreigners' tastes.
Learning from the previous cold dish lesson, he had long decided to create tasting sessions to quickly screen which dish suits which diner demographic.
Besides tasting, he also prepared a whiteboard listing all the ingredients of the day's dishes, so diners could easily check for allergens themselves.
As for whether listing ingredients and live demonstrations might lead to copycats, Lin Chen seemed indifferent, saying that if just watching could enable someone to make authentic Great Xia Cuisine, they would be extraordinary.
Just as he had imagined, seventy percent of the diners turned red-faced and coughed non-stop after tasting the Mapo Tofu, quickly turning to Lucas for ice jelly.
The remaining thirty percent seemed to discover a new world; their eyes lit up like searchlights, and without a word, they took out cash to buy.
