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In Chinatown in Australia, a shop called "Chinese Stinky Tofu" is often full of seats, and the counter The customers waiting in line at the front were staring directly at the pot of fried stinky tofu, waiting for the stinky tofu to come out of the oven. Not only in Chinatown, there are now Chinese stinky tofu shops on many streets in Australia. The owner is Tang Lin, an international student from Zhejiang who is still studying at the University of Sydney.

Apprenticeship

Tang Lin once worked as a waiter at a fellow restaurant in Chinatown. Several customers from Zhejiang came to the store. As soon as they sat down, the customers asked: "Do you sell Shaoxing stinky tofu here?" Tang Lin shook her head. The customer was disappointed and said: "Aren't you a Zhejiang restaurant? Why don't you even have stinky tofu?" After the customer left, he tentatively said to the boss: "Since you can't buy stinky tofu in Australia, why don't we sell some?" The boss thought that Australia People are used to eating Western food and are afraid of the smell of strange things like stinky tofu. How can they eat it? There will definitely be no market for making stinky tofu."

But Tang Lin did not give up. He firmly believed that Chinese stinky tofu is popular in Australia. There was a market prospect, so Tang Lin gritted her teeth and decided to go back to China to learn skills from a teacher.

After one month of studying with a teacher, Tang Lin returned to Australia. However, just as Tang Lin set up a simple stove near the school. When he was preparing to open the business, the police confiscated his tools and warned him that if he continued to sell stinky tofu like this, he would be severely fined. It turned out that the smell of stinky tofu was so unbearable to Australians that they complained against him.

Tang Lin felt that if she wanted to open the Australian market, she must first open the market among the Chinese. So, Tang Lin contacted the Chinese student associations of some universities in Sydney and personally brought stinky tofu to them to taste for free.

That month, the store sold more than 80 portions of stinky tofu