Coming to terms with strange food

My parents have a Chinese student cooking this weekend. Of course most of it was meat which I didn't taste, but of the vegetarian food there were some interesting set tofu dishes which looked like some sort of trifle with vegetables and dried mushrooms in.
It was delicious, but so different (creamy set texture for a main course meal, and little most of the taste in the vegetables)) that I had a real problem getting used to eating it.
Can't have done too badly though - I'm feeling very full now!