Wang Chien-hsuan, a legislator who has long dreaded business socializing, holds that back in the age of material want, an occasional business dinner provided a chance for a big meal, but today, when swallow's nest or shark fin soup are spinning on lazy Susans everywhere, what suffering these meals dish out!
因此也有不少人大嘆「天下難吃莫過應酬飯！」一向反對應酬的立法委員王建就認為，吃應酬飯在以前物質貧乏的時代，還可以算是偶爾打打牙祭的盛事一樁。但在魚翅燕窩到處都是的今天，吃應酬飯只是活受罪。