Some of the wanderers who go out to work for convenience, eat fast food products, and work hard to create their own future. But every time it comes to the festive season, the homesickness plot will become more and more intense. I miss my parents, friends, loved ones, and local food back home. Stinky tofu from Hunan, small noodles from Chongqing, rabbit head from Chengdu, popcorn from Beijing, pancakes from Tianjin, duck blood vermicelli soup from Nanjing, intestinal noodles from Guangdong and so on. Of course, there are also our love tofu fruits in Guizhou.
Why is it called Love Tofu Fruit? In fact, most local people have gradually forgotten this problem, and today we will recall it together. Legend has it that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a couple in Guiyang Built a Thatched Hut in the Vegetable Field and Began selling tofu fruits. When the Japanese army began air raids, these simple thatched huts became temporary places for ordinary people to avoid air raids. Ordinary people found that this tofu was made quickly and the price was low. Therefore, it is often used to feed and relieve hunger, but only men and women in love can order a piece of tofu, can sit for a long afternoon, completely forget the Japanese air raids, and comfortably whisper and taste this delicacy. Therefore, the romantic alias of "love tofu fruit" has been handed down.
The production of love tofu fruit is also very simple: the tofu is cut into 5-7 cm squares, soaked in lye water, taken out of the bamboo basket, covered with a damp cloth, and fermented for more than 12 hours. Take out and put it on an iron plate and bake it until it is golden on both sides, and add your own chili water in the middle of the tofu, which is full of spicy, full of bean flavor, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Yes, yes, everyone has also noticed that in fact, in love with tofu fruit, chili water is its essence. As a special snack in Guizhou, folded ear root is essential, plus minced bitter garlic, chives, garlic, and coriander. Chili noodles, soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, wood ginger seed oil. Such a bowl of soul juice has been made. Coupled with the tofu fruit of the chili water, the taste buds are full of layers when eaten in the mouth, and the crisp and fragrant twisting ear roots mix all the spices, as if there is a kind of ensemble like invigorating, making the taste buds explode. Although it is said that the folded ear root is difficult for foreign friends to accept, in fact, after adding all the spices, it makes the taste of the folded ear root and other spices blend just right, so that foreign friends are also praised.
I vaguely remember that I returned to my hometown for a few years in the field, smelled a burnt fragrance in the distance, saw the kind big sister, flipping the tofu, I rushed forward to see the tempting pepper water and golden tofu fruit, at that moment, I knew I was home. Eating 3 pieces of tofu in one go, my mouth and heart are full of the taste of hometown. People who are wandering outside, what is your nostalgia? What snack reminds you of your bamboo fence?