We Guizhou people have a warm feeling for tofu, and even affect our daily lives. Guizhou people have tofu on the table, and a meal has a home sustenance. Today, when we are far away from nature and enjoy food, we should thank the delicious scenery of Guizhou, and most of all, we should thank those who have achieved delicious snacks on the table.
In Guiyang, there are many ways to eat tofu, can be fried or grilled, fried, grilled, brine, boiled, cold mixed, you can think of a variety of cooking techniques, Guiyang people can achieve on the tofu. Among these tofus, "Love Tofu Fruit" (one of the eight snacks in Guiyang) is the most famous, belonging to the roadside snacks hidden in the streets and alleys of Guiyang.
Grilled tofu as a snack is not rare, and traces can be found in other parts of the country, but the only one who calls grilled tofu "love tofu fruit" may be Guiyang in the country. There are many theories about the origin of this romantic name, but the most widely circulated one is that it is said to be related to a romantic story during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Ordinary people eat tofu fruit is often relieved or full of hunger, and when they finish eating, they leave. Only some young men and women in love buy a plate of tofu fruit, dip it in chili water, chew slowly, talk about the world, and sit for half a day. There are also some young people who often get together here and gradually talk about love. Over time, people often say that eating roasted tofu fruit is eating love tofu fruit. This romance soon affected young people all over Guiyang, who came to taste it. After the accumulation of time, this has slowly become a famous snack for Guiyang people, so Guiyang's grilled tofu has the reputation of "love tofu fruit".
Guiyang's "love tofu fruit", not the general understanding of the kind of roasted tofu, different in the roasted tofu fruit used in the fuel is a little strange: before the use of pine cedar chopped as fuel, and now more use sawn wood surface, placed under the steel plate full of round holes, there is no open flame, but there is smoke, that is, this smoke tofu is smoked, smoked for a long time is the outside scorched, the inside of the tofu all become soup-like, and will not be roasted dry.
In order not to touch the rotten tofu during the baking process, but also to ensure that the tofu is heated evenly, in the baking process, the stall owner will use a small thin iron piece from time to time to deftly turn up a piece of tofu from the grill to change the surface of the baking system, so that the baked tofu can achieve the effect of external scorching and tenderness. When eating, use a shovel to cut the tofu as a waist, use peony to add pepper water made of pepper, ginger rice, onion, garlic paste, soy sauce, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, etc., eat it while hot, whether it is spring, summer, autumn, winter, a few pieces of belly, a layer of sweat on the forehead, that kind of enjoyment is really called comfort.
Guiyang locals evaluate whether a family's "love tofu fruit" is delicious or not, and the evaluation is based on whether his family's pepper water is good or not. If Guiyang people tell you whose "love tofu fruit" is delicious, in fact, most of them mean that his family's chili water is done well.
Although the matter of dipping in water is very small, there is a lot of learning in it. In 1942, the Guiyang Wentong Bookstore published the "Guide to Guiyang City", which wrote that the Qian people like to eat spicy food and pay attention to dipping water, which is related to the historical barrenness of Qiandi, and the commoners who live in the mountains are "given every day, only vegetables and tofu", "no oil and no salt, if not spiced with spicy, it is really the same as chewing wax", "Qian people are spicy, good is not accidental".
Pull away, stop first.
Chili water is very important in the "love tofu fruit", without it, Guiyang will be missing a famous snack. Generally, at least earlier, Guiyang's small stalls selling "love tofu fruit" will use Guiyang's local peppers, which are made into simmered chili noodles after charcoal fire, and then mixed with chili pepper noodles into chili water, in addition to the need to accompany the usual soy sauce, vinegar, ginger, chives and other condiments, there are two special condiments:
First, wood ginger seed oil, taste of the mountain demon, Guizhou people often use wood ginger seed oil as a condiment, in Guizhou cuisine snacks are more commonly used, its taste is more unique. One of Guizhou's gastronomic business cards, sour soup fish, is also indispensable for wood ginger seed oil;
The second is wild onion (Guiyang natives are used to call bitter garlic), which is a folded ear root that foreigners have a headache when they see it, but it is the favorite of Guiyang people, and this finely chopped folded ear root (houttuynia cordata) will be more delicious when soaked in pepper water.
Without the chili pepper, wood ginger seed oil, bitter garlic and chili water with folded ear roots, Guiyang's "love tofu fruit" is soulless, and it cannot be called an authentic Guiyang snack.
As long as there is a stall selling "love tofu fruit" in front of the Guiyang intestinal noodles and beef noodles (also a famous snack in Guiyang), people who will eat like to shout one or two tofu fruits to eat after ordering flour noodles, so that the noodles can be eaten more refreshingly. If you are a friend from abroad, in addition to Yun GuiChuanyu's, you should eat it with caution when eating tofu fruit, because there are friends from outside the country who are not used to eating folded ear roots. Today, the price has also gone from 3 cents earlier to 2-3 yuan today.
One place one taste, one taste one continuation. With the process of urbanization, now the tofu fruit stalls in the streets and alleys of Guiyang are also getting less and less, a small piece of tofu production is quite learned, to alkali blisters to ferment, saw small sections of cypress wood as fuel, roasted tofu pay attention to the heat just right, of course, the dipping sauce is selected, the dried ear root in the pepper water releases a faint fishy smell like gentle love, affection, red chaotian pepper spicy thoroughly, like a burning passion flame, hemp pepper drunk into the sea of love of the infatuation. "Love tofu fruit" in the population of Guiyang, that taste is still difficult to give up. If you are a friend from abroad, you can not talk about love in Guiyang, but the tofu fruit must not be eaten!
Jane remembers love tofu fruit
Address: Guiyang Oil Press Street Flower and Bird Market Antique City (selling pet area, next to fresh meat cakes)
Zhang Erjie is in love with tofu fruit
Address: Guiyang Baihuashan No. 68