If the curiosity about what's in the steamer basket scores a five, then the curiosity about the tomato soup cooking in the large iron pot reaches a perfect ten.
Tomatoes, being a staple in Western cuisine and one of the most significant vegetables, are foods that virtually all foreigners have enjoyed since childhood.
Just catching the aroma of tomatoes, they could roughly imagine the taste of the dish in their minds, unlike those pastries you only guess the taste of.
"Such a strong tomato smell, is it tomato soup?"
"I don't think so, hardly any chef would make something like tomato soup, right? Maybe it's stewed meatballs or some dish with red wine, but those are Western dishes, it's definitely not what they're making."
"I didn't expect there to be such a tomato-rich dish in Chinese cuisine; I thought it was just scrambled eggs with tomatoes."
"It smells so good, it's killing me, I can clearly hear my stomach protesting."
