Travel to Guiyang with a friend, get off the plane, the friend will pull me to taste the local flavor snacks——— love tofu fruit.
Love tofu fruit is a famous flavor snack in Guiyang, which can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of Guiyang. There seems to be no special piece of tofu, how can it have such a warm name? The story also has to start from the War of Resistance Against Japan, after the War of Resistance Against Japan entered the stage of stalemate, the Japanese army was forced to adjust its operational policy and began to carry out long-term air raids on the southwest rear area of our country, and Guiyang was also an important target of the Japanese air raids. At that time, the area around Dongshan, Qianlingshan and Pengjiaqiao on the outskirts of Guiyang was a hiding place for people to avoid air raids. Zhang Huafeng, an old man over half a hundred years old, built several huts with his wife in the vegetable field as a place to bake tofu fruits. After the air raids began, these huts became places to avoid air raids, and people came and went, which was very lively. People who are hiding from air raids are hungry and can't go home to eat, so they buy roasted tofu fruits to eat. Roasted tofu fruit is cheap, the flavor is unique, and it can fill the hunger, and there are many people who eat it. Some young men and women in love, buying a plate of roasted tofu fruits, dipping in chili water and chewing slowly, sit for half a day, as if forgetting the threat of air raids. There are also some young people who met and met when eating tofu fruit, and their feelings were secretly born, and many of them later married, all relying on "tofu fruit" as a medium. So people called roasted "tofu fruit" "love tofu fruit".
Love tofu fruit is made of old tofu, cut it into rectangular pieces, soaked in an appropriate amount of alkaline water, until the surface of the tofu forms a layer of skin with a certain toughness, and then fished out for fermentation for 12 hours. The iron mesh of the baked tofu block is specially made, first evenly coated with cooking oil, can prevent the baking time, the tofu block and the iron mesh stick together, but also can use the high temperature and aroma of the cooking oil, so that the taste of the tofu is more delicate and mellow. The fuel for roasting tofu blocks is also very elaborate, using bran shells and sawdust to take its aroma. Due to the fine particles of the bran shell and sawdust, the flame when burning is small. Therefore, the tofu pieces are heated evenly, and the skin is shiny and not scorched. Place the fermented tofu cubes on a barbed wire and bake slowly over low heat. During the baking process, it is necessary to constantly turn the tofu blocks so that both sides are evenly heated. Care must be taken during the turning, and the outer shape of the tofu must not be damaged, otherwise, the damaged surface will affect the tenderness of the inner bowl. When the baked shell is scorched buttered, the tofu pieces bulge like inflatable toys, and the love tofu fruit is baked. The dipping water used to eat love tofu fruit is also full of flavor. It is to chop sour radish, coriander and other materials, put it into a bowl, and add nearly ten kinds of spices such as chili powder, pepper powder, wood ginger powder, lye water, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, sugar and so on.
The way to eat tofu fruit is also very interesting, take a piece of baked "nourishing" love tofu fruit, use a very thin bamboo piece or knife to cut through the middle, cut into small pockets. Fill it with dipping water and eat it while it's hot, and you'll feel like you're full of flavor. The skin of the love tofu fruit is brown and chewy, and the inner white and delicate bean blossoms are tender and fragrant. Hot, spicy, fragrant and tender in the mouth are integrated, and the taste is rich. When eating, it is accompanied by an ice-cold drink, and the stimulation of alternating ice and fire is unparalleled.
Love tofu fruit, this romantic cuisine, sweet and bitter, the intersection of five flavors, extremely hot, extremely fresh, extremely tender taste, warm and lingering, breathtaking. Isn't this like tasting the feeling of being in love?
