Wang Zhihe's stinky tofu is very stinky, but Cixi Dowager Empress Dowager still must eat every day, the reason for a **** there are two points. Originally, the Qing dynasty monarch and the harem dishes, although sumptuous but simple, not exaggerated, more strict dietary provisions system, each meal is not allowed to exceed the ration of the required range of silver two. However, to the Empress Dowager Cixi here, everything is too much smoke, only to see her own preferences. Empress Dowager Cixi extravagant to the extreme, not only scattered thousands of gold collection of precious jewelry, in the meal time is also wasteful, over the 60th birthday when set out of the banquet even spent on tens of millions of silver. But even so luxurious, every meal she must eat a simple dish, that is, Wang Zhihe made stinky tofu.
Wang Zhihe Stinky TofuThe first reason it appealed to Empress Dowager Cixi was its flavor. Wang Zhihe Stinky Tofu is still loved by many people even today, so it is clear that its flavor is really delicious and special. Although the stinky tofu is incredibly stinky, the more you eat it, the better it tastes. And before the Empress Dowager Cixi almost all the delicacies of the sea have tasted, this time suddenly appeared a novelty? Stink? Tofu, she was naturally very curious, but also very like.
The second reason why Empress Dowager Cixi had to have stinky tofu in every meal was Wang Zhihe? advertisements? played well. Wang Zhihe discovered the deliciousness of stinky tofu by accident. At that time, a friend came to him in a hurry, he could not clean up the tofu out of the house, after returning to the stinky tofu has grown green hairs, Wang Zhihe can only shave off the hairs plus the spices marinated, and then forgot about it until one day he wanted to find a small dish to eat, open the marinated container, the tofu is already stinky, but he tasted it is actually very tasty. Later, Wang Zhihe made a poem for the stinky tofu, both as an answer to the exam and as an advertisement, and he didn't expect to be successful as an official because of it, and even Cixi heard about this delicacy made by him.
Stinky tofu is so delicious and well advertised that many people in the capital knew that Wang Zhihe's stinky tofu was very special, and it would be hard for Cixi to say if she hadn't tried it. And after she tasted it, she was so impressed that she ended up having to have stinky tofu at every meal.