There were all kinds of standard and innovative mixtures for bean products. All chefs could come up with all kinds of new dishes as long as they thought about them carefully.
But what Qiao Xuan told them were just ordinary ways of making those dishes.
Roasted chicken nuggets with yuba, stir-fried dried bean curd with celery and vegetables, shredded fried bean curd in cold sauce, glutinous rice with diced bacon stuffed with tofu puffs, and one of these bean products for a huge mixture with chili.
Those bean products would sell well when they were cooked with other side ingredients. Meat could be added too, but the price might be a bit too high for the common civilians to afford.
So, vegetables as side dishes for the wok should leave some space for the original taste to show.
Also, dishes with meat would have a better taste.
Tofu could be good either with vegetables or with meat, thus being really popular.