Ingredients being too good could actually put a chef in a bind, and Heath was in just such a bind now. Although he was the sort of person who would drink red wine while eating barbecue, he had to admit that, expensive as red wine was, it really did not go very well with barbecue. Its flavor did not taste very good mixed with barbecue, though of course some people might enjoy that combination. Heath was not one of them. He still preferred beer with barbecue, especially ice-cold beer. It simply tasted better.
But these Mt. Coronet Soybeans really did taste excellent. They ranked among the finest soybeans, and even if they were not the very best, calling them one of the top ten would certainly be no problem. The trouble was that pairing soy milk made from such fine beans with ordinary ingredients would give people the impression of [the imposing Guan Yu riding a horse so scrawny you wondered whether it was about to die, then charging at Lü Bu]. The Mt. Coronet Soybeans were Guan Yu, while the other, ordinary ingredients were the scrawny horse.
Could someone ride a scrawny horse? Of course, that did not stop it from being perfectly rideable. But the problem was that this was Guan Yu, and he was facing Lü Bu, a mighty general of his time. Doing that really was rather disrespectful.
And it was particularly jarring.
So crab roe buns did indeed seem to be the only choice to pair with the Mt. Coronet Soybeans. Still, Heath decided to give the matter some more thought. After all, crab roe buns required Purple Crab, and Purple Crab was quite expensive. Although Heath now had quite a lot of Customer Satisfaction, constantly using Purple Crab roe like this would eventually exhaust