The true star of this dish is the crispy fried mantou crowning the bed of eggplant. Lightly battered and fried, the slightly sweet and fluffy interior made for the perfect vessel for the eggplant (quite frankly, for anything), which took a backseat in this dish. Our request to purchase more mantous was politely, but decisively, refused. Clearly not the first time they’ve had such a request. Okay, we get it. Us customers cannot always have our ways.