Bean curd varieties

1. Savory Bean Curd Brain

Savory Bean Curd Brain is mostly found in the northern region and is very tasty. The soup of savory tofu brain will usually add yellow cauliflower or fungus and other ingredients, some people in the production of savory tofu brain will also add meat, in coastal areas will also add shredded seaweed and shrimp and other delicacies. Some people also add soy sauce, vinegar, chili oil or chives and so on, the taste can be completely according to their own preferences to modulation, eat very good.

2. Sweet Tofu Brain

Sweet Tofu Brain tastes sweet, and the taste of salty Tofu Brain is quite different. Sweet tofu brain is usually found in China's Fujian Province and Taiwan and other places, in the production of the general will add a little syrup or brown sugar and other ingredients, in the hot summer many people will be sweet tofu brain cooled to eat, the taste is very good. If it is in the cold winter, people will also eat sweet tofu brain when adding hot sugar water, eat flavorful. You can also add ginger or mung beans to it, which makes it very tasty.

3. Spicy Tofu Brain

Spicy Tofu Brain, as the name implies, will certainly be eaten with a spicy feeling, which also seems to be a bit heavy taste. In our country Sichuan as well as Chongqing and so on everybody prefers to eat spicy bean curd brain, some will also be added to the inside of the Hu spicy soup, eat up very local characteristics.

Liu An, the king of Huainan, was the grandson of Liu Bang, the first Han emperor, and had his capital in Shouchun (present-day Shou County, Huainan City, Anhui Province).

According to legend, Liu An was not engaged in political affairs and was very ambitious. He was not satisfied with being a famous king, but always wanted to seek a more prominent position, and he was also obsessed with the art of immortality and was eager to seek the elixir of immortality. So, he called the magician guests in the Bakong Mountain, lit a roaring fire, a novel way to ask them to use soybeans and salt brine to alchemy, the results of the "refinement" of the snow-white and delicate tofu.

It is not a panacea, but delicious, unique flavor. This thing quickly spread, popular in the world, there is a poem for proof: "planting beans beans seedlings rare, exhaustion of the heart has been bitter. If I had known the technique of Huainan, I would have been able to get the spring cloth". Since then, tofu brain has become a famous traditional snacks of the Han Chinese people.