About the dish of "loach drill tofu", I believe many friends have heard of it, the general idea is to add water to the pot, put the loach into the pot, and put in a piece of tofu at the same time, slowly heat up on a low heat, and when the water temperature is heated to a certain extent, the loach is too hot because the water temperature is too hot, and finally all drilled into the tofu. At this time, the tofu with loach inside is removed and processed into a dish. The following is a picture found by Xiaobian.
However, a friend who likes food personally went down to the kitchen to make this dish and strictly followed the method he learned, but it still failed. He bought fresh loach and spent the first day in water all day, so that the loach could drain the mud juice from his intestines. The next day, when you start cooking, put a large piece of tofu into the pot together with the loach, then cover the pot and slowly heat it, and finally when you open the lid, the following picture appears.
The loach is cooked, but none of it is drilled into the tofu, so the friend laments that the dish is fake and cannot be made at all, saying that the loach will not drill into the tofu at all. Is the legendary famous dish "loach drill tofu" really true? Then it attracted a lot of controversy among netizens. Some netizens said that this dish was originally fake, and said that he had a friend who was a chef in the restaurant, and usually made this dish, the method was to first fry the loach to make it hard, and then insert it into the tofu and put on a picture.
Then someone immediately agreed with him, and gave another method, saying that it was simpler than this, that is, to freeze the loach in the refrigerator first, and then insert it into the tofu after the loach was frozen. Then there are other friends who disagree, saying that it is only that kind of practice now most chefs will not, decades ago in the big restaurant really saw the chef do it, the way is to use the northern tofu, before the pot to dig a lot of small holes in the appearance of the tofu, then the loach will automatically drill down this small hole.
In addition, some people said, don't argue anymore, he gave a seemingly more eclectic method, he said that it should be in the process of making tofu, before the tofu point is formed, first put the loach into it, and then point the brine, and finally the tofu is made, and the loach is completely hidden in the tofu. This statement seems to be more feasible, but it still feels a little mysterious, and I don't know if the loach burrows itself into the tofu is true.