/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11035168
No. Chinese & Japanese people have different taste in food to us. They enjoy slimy, gelatinous, etc, things.
So sea cucumber or congealed pork fat are delicacies in China.
They're just not things that people in the west normally enjoy.

There's also this false notion in the west that Tofu is healthy, or is a substitute for meat. The most famous tofu dish in China, Mapo Tofu, is extremely unhealthy as it's loaded with oil, and has meat in it.

Fried tofu is good though. It puffs up and changes texture, becoming more like bread than like jello. I think it's an enormous waste of time to fry it yourself. You can buy packets of fried tofu from asian supermarkets, and if you live with a big Chinese diaspora, you might have a local 'tofu shop' that fries its own, which will be fresher. I do and I buy it often. It's great whole in curries, soups, or sliced up in fried dishes, amazing in fried rice, anything really. Looks like pic related, and other kinds.

Fuck Japanese treatment of tofu.
Fuck. Tofu. Normally.