Vegetarian Abalone is usually served with Broccoli, just like the in-game pic, so you can boil some broccoli instead of using as many mushrooms as I did. As the name states, it uses a mushroom that looks like abalone.
Usually, that would be Bailing mushroom, which looks a lot like abalone when sliced.
Bailing Mushroom sliced
Sometimes other mushrooms like King Oyster mushrooms are used, especially since fresh Bailing might be quite difficult to find. Even if you use other mushrooms like Shiitake, the recipe will still turn out fine, though it’s not technically vegetarian abalone. The main difference would be in the texture.
And yes, the mushroom names don’t make much sense. Oyster mushrooms are different from King oyster mushrooms and abalone mushrooms is not the mushroom that looks like abalone.
Oyster Mushroom as the yellow thing
I also added some oyster mushrooms because it looks like the yellow things in the in game picture.
The White Thing
I wanted to try making this ghost thing with real food. Though obviously from the result you can tell that I simply resorted to cheating with Photoshop.
At first, I thought of using things like a clear potato chip using potato starch, or an ice balloon or soy lecithin. Either way, the challenge would be to make the thing float while also maintaining some kind of gradient to look ghosty.
I settled on using agar since that was what I had, but the jelly wasn’t stable enough and collapsed. Then my 2nd try was to attempt a blue screen with a flat sheet of agar. Which is half cheating, but at least the “ghosty colour” will look more realistic.
