Pingqiao is a town at the southern end of Huai'an District, bordering Baoying County in Yangzhou. The Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou in the west has a history of thousands of years of town building, and is listed among the hundred famous towns in Jiangsu.
According to legend, when the Qianlong Emperor went down to Jiangnan and passed through Pingqiao Town, it was late, so he entered an inn, came to the front hall, ran to the hall and asked Qianlong and his party what kind of dishes and rice to order, Qianlong saw that there was steaming white and tender tofu next to the door, so he called the shopkeeper and said: Just make this to eat, eat well and reward. The owner was overjoyed to hear this, so he asked the best chef to braise tofu in the traditional way. Qianlong ate a large bowl in one breath, still unfinished, even claiming seconds. The owner introduced that this is a famous dish in Hirabashi, called Hirabashi tofu. Qianlong wrote down "the first dish in the world" with a stroke of his pen.
Pingqiao tofu is a famous dish in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, which belongs to Huaiyang cuisine, which has its own superiority as the top work of Huaiyang cuisine.
It uses inner fat tofu, cuts it into consistent diamond-shaped pieces, accompanied by diced chicken, diced shiitake mushrooms, coriander foam, fresh with crucian carp brain, Hirabashi tofu is economical, delicious and delicious, not greasy, and vegetarian into the lungs. Pingqiao tofu is absolutely in two: one is seasoned with crucian carp brain and chicken soup, the whole world, only this one, regardless of the soup mouth, can think of this is already strange, ghostly; the second is that after the dish is served, slightly greasy does not seem to be hot, in fact, it is very hot, the spoon does not rise, the gas does not rise, the spoon is up, so it needs to be eaten after blowing, be careful and slow to use.