Yang County, an unknown state-level poverty county, surrounded by mountains on all sides, east of the Qinling Mountains, with the qinling mountains to block most of the cold air is blocked, the territory of the rain is abundant and rich in products, there are national protected animals crested ibis, pandas, antelopes, golden snub-nosed monkeys, etc., so it is also known as the hometown of the crested ibis.
Yangxian people are hospitable, sincere and warm, and always say hello when they meet and greet: Have you eaten? What do you eat? If you say you haven't eaten, you'll be able to walk in the door and finish eating. The folk customs are simple. There is a kind of snack that is popular with men, women and children here. It's the dough-covered tofu.
It is simple and convenient, and it is the best choice for hospitality. Every time a guest comes to the house, he must steam more than a dozen noodles and then make a pot of vegetables and tofu to entertain the guests.
According to legend, in the Qin and Han Dynasties, rice was soaked for four to five hours, washed and ground into a pulp, adjusted into a thin and suitable paste, steamed into dough skin, cut into strips and put into a bowl, and then added bean sprouts, spinach, seasoning water, salt, monosodium glutamate, vinegar, soy sauce, ginger and garlic water, and mixed evenly with chili oil according to personal taste, a bowl of red dough skin can be eaten.
How can a good bowl of dough leave a bowl of vegetable tofu? Spicy and fragrant dough skin after eating and then a bowl of sour soup to drink not to mention how comfortable. Vegetable tofu is also called vegetable tofu porridge, soybeans washed with cold water to soak up, ground into soy milk, in the past okara, put into the pot to boil, with each family's own sour syrup water to point out the soy milk, tofu squeeze and cut into pieces into the sour soup inside, a bowl of dough partner vegetable tofu is ready, sweet and sour, soft glutinous tofu, has become the favorite of the people of Yangxian County, no matter how far you go, never forget the bowl of noodle vegetables tofu made by your mother