We made this for Foodie Night 05/24/2015 where the theme was food through the ages. We selected the age of the future. Our premise was that, in the future, meat would be scarce or out of favor and in vogue would be to dine from the harvest of hydroponically grown veggies. We created a stew that is mostly based on a Chinese hot pot recipe edited to include extra tasty veggies.
The main things we did different was to cook the tofu separately and add it to the top of the stew.
You may want to add a bit more stock if you like your stew to be more soupy as quite a lot of broth gets absorbed by the noodles and potatoes.
We added some completely optional far out garnish of Star Fruit and Rambutan in addition to attractive micro-arugula.