Qufu's smoked tofu is a well-known local characteristic traditional snack, unique flavor, a variety of ways to eat, can be cold mixed or stir-fried stewed soup, can be used as a meal and can be used as a condiment for wine, in Qufu large and small restaurants, restaurants, food stalls can see smoked tofu.
In the steaming pot, smoked tofu is boiled, and the soup in the pot is a soup of boiled meat, which is filled with chili oil, the color is red, and you can smell a very strong aroma from afar. When Qianlong came to Qufu, there were 108 dishes in the Confucius family banquet, including smoked tofu, which Qianlong praised after eating it, and since then Qufu East smoked tofu has been famous and widely circulated. Today, smoked tofu has been rated as the intangible cultural heritage of Qufu City.
The method of smoked tofu is very simple, cut the white tofu into squares and put it on the iron grate, smoke it with sawdust or grain bran, smoke until brown and yellow, turn the noodles and smoke the other side, after smoking on both sides, the smoked tofu is ready, the finished smoked tofu is yellow on the outside and white on the inside, the outer toughness and inner tenderness, especially delicious. Smoked tofu is economical, cheap and good, deeply liked by guests, in front of smoked tofu, whether it is a big boss who drives a luxury car and wears a suit, or an ordinary worker, when facing smoked tofu, there is no resistance, all of which are impressed by its deliciousness.
Qufu is full of smoked tofu all over the street, and the smoked tofu shop of the 63-year-old mother's family, the business is particularly hot, the smoked tofu cooked in a large pot is robbed by many diners, and when the meal is served, the queue is 20 or 30 meters away.
The aunt has been sitting in front of the pot of smoked tofu, constantly pouring smoked tofu outside, putting the smoked tofu in the bowl, cutting it with scissors, pouring the sauce, and then smearing the homemade chili sauce on the smoked tofu, three dollars a bowl has about five or six pieces of smoked tofu. Many people want a bowl of smoked tofu, two steamed buns, a meal costs only 5 yuan, eat delicious and save money.
Good economic conditions, will come back to a brine meat, his family's brine meat sold for 34 yuan a pound, the price is relatively cheap, the selling phase is particularly good, the color is red and shiny, the brine meat is soft and rotten without fishy taste, there is no taste of many big materials, you can eat the original taste of the meat, the marinade meat plus smoked tofu, the taste is even higher.
The aunt said that their family's smoked tofu has been passed down for 4 generations, and no one in Qufu can match it, and this kind of food cannot be eaten in other places in Qufu.