Changzhi tofu cookshop

Tofu is a home-cooked dish of our people, and it can be eaten in many ways, both raw and cooked. Cooked alone or with other meat and vegetarian dishes, it tastes delicious. Whether fried, roasted, fried, stewed, stewed, fried, pasted and brewed, the dish has its own unique flavor. According to relevant information, hundreds of dishes can be made from tofu. In the Qing Dynasty's Sui Garden Food List, there is a saying that "tofu tastes better than bird's nest". The Japanese call tofu "Tang rot", and Arataro Nakamura, Japan, in his book Two Thousand Years in Japan and China, said that "people who make tofu all worship monk Jian Zhen as their ancestor." "Queen Mother Tofu", originally named "Qing Palace Tofu", is a famous dish introduced by Ma Wen, deputy director of Changzhi Military District Guest House, from his hometown in Chengde, Hebei Province. Therefore, food is a must-eat dish for Empress Dowager Cixi in the palace, and it is said that she is from Changzhi, so Changzhi County Hotel renamed "Qing Palace Tofu" as "Empress Dofu". According to legend, during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Yulan, the adopted daughter of Hui Zheng of Lu 'an Mansion, was elected to the palace. She often accompanied Emperor Xianfeng to Chengde, Hebei Province for hunting. One day, when it rained, Xianfeng and his party went to the roadside tofu mill to take shelter from the rain. Catch up with the new pot of tofu, steaming and fragrant. The host broke off several large pieces of tofu by hand and put them in a small basin, and poured them with pickled radish and pickled cabbage. After eating it, Niangniang felt a taste of Lu 'an's hometown and was very happy. After returning to the palace, let the imperial kitchen make her a sauerkraut and bean curd every day. Later, the imperial palace kitchen changed "sauerkraut tofu" to "Qing palace tofu".
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