Preparing a bear's paw is not easy, mainly because it's so time-consuming.
Anyone who's eaten a bear's paw knows that it has a very strong, gamy taste.
Most of the time spent cooking a bear's paw is actually dedicated to removing this gaminess with various methods, then re-infusing it with flavor.
Therefore, a bear's paw isn't an inherently delicious ingredient. Making it tasty requires the most complex and tedious cooking methods.
The reasons bear paws became a delicacy are twofold: first, hunting bears is difficult, and second, they are rumored to have powerful restorative effects.
Zou Feng had never eaten one in his previous life, so he didn't know just how restorative it was. But since this particular bear was a Demon Beast, its paw was undoubtedly nourishing enough to give a Martial Artist a nosebleed.
Yuwen Shuo, on the other hand, had clearly eaten this before and was well aware of how difficult a bear's paw was to prepare.
