In fact, full-course dinners can be made from just beancurd, eggplants, or pumpkins, a culinary feat besides which the much-ballyhooed "eight ways of eating one fish" of some restaurants pales in comparison.
比如全筍席、全豆腐席、全茄子席、全南瓜席……，就是以一種基本材料變化出多道作法不同、風味獨具，還有血緣關係的佳餚，這比起現在流行的石門「活魚八吃」，段數更高。素食花樣也多多中國菜名滿天下，嗜食善烹的中國人當然有本事把素食變成多樣風貌。