A world which gets "cooked up" through the vegetable knife, hot pot, and ladle may be one which is "made the old-fashioned way, bit by bit," but it's a lot more reliable than "cooking up" land prices or stocks!
菜刀鍋剷「炒」出來的世界，固然「粒粒皆辛苦」；但比起「炒」房地產，「炒」股票，總是踏實多了。