If you’ve never tried stinky tofu, that’s understandable. It’s a dish you don’t often see outside of Taiwan, or outside certain parts of China. It is probably one of the dishes immigrants are least likely to bring overseas with them, not because they don’t love eating it, but because it would be a challenge to get foreigners to ...
The word stinky tends to be used to describe rotten food or something that smells bad. But in Mandarin, it’s associated with a personal characteristic. The Chinese character for stinky is 臭. It’s composed of the characters “oneself” 自 and “important” or “big” 大. In Chinese, “oneself very important” 自大 means a person has a big ego and is very arrogant. ...
In the eighth year of the Kangxi reign in the Qing Dynasty (1669), Wang Zhihe traveled almost a thousand miles from Anhui Province to Beijing to attend the imperial national examination. Little did anyone realize that stinky tofu would be born from this journey. Wang Zhihe was born in the rural area of Xianyuan County, ...
Taiwan may be a small country, but it has one of the most diverse cuisines in Asia — from bubble tea to stinky tofu — thanks to a mixture of Chinese, American, and Japanese influences. Whether you are a vegetarian or non-vegetarian, Taiwan has all the dishes to tickle your taste buds and give you ...
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