Tofu soup, with extremely common ingredients, but is tofu, bean jam cakes, shredded leaves, oil rot, pig's blood (now mostly with duck blood), but also put some fresh minced meat, add starch and thickened slightly after cooking into. Other cities will also have tofu soup, but generally are lunch, dinner for soup dishes, Changzhou is not, a side of the soil to raise people, Changzhou is to take tofu soup for breakfast, which in the country may also be the only city. Eat tofu soup, in bright color, soup soup, according to the favorite soup, or add some garlic leaves or cilantro or shredded mustard greens, stir, and then drink the soup while eating doughnuts and sesame cakes, it is really a delicious enjoyment, with the words of the old Changzhou, the best tofu soup in the West Yingli original Yinggui steamed buns store, where to eat the bean curd soup, that is, some people come to hit him with three mouths, and he will not rest his mouth!

Tofu soup is so pleasing to Changzhou people, to say a few reasons, I heard two legends.

One says that Emperor Qianlong went down to the south before and after the six driving tour of Changzhou, once lived in Changzhou scholar Qian Weicheng home. That day for breakfast, Qian Weicheng prepared a bowl of bean curd soup for Qianlong, plus two doughnuts and a piece of sesame cake, Qianlong felt that there is a unique flavor, eat with relish, saying "delicious, delicious," and asked how Changzhou people drink soup for breakfast?

Qian Weicheng told Qianlong a story, saying that this is related to the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang. Said Zhu Yuanzhang when he was a monk, had followed the abbot to visit Changzhou Red Lotus Temple, Changzhou area drought that year, for more than 50 days without a drop of rain, disaster years, the Red Lotus Temple can not get any good food, the kitchen on the rice grains, leaves, tofu pieces, plus very famous Changzhou Douzhai cake, poured into a pot and boiled to the abbot and Zhu Yuanzhang to eat. Already half-starved Zhu Yuanzhang after a gulp, tongue and lips are still left on the delicious aftertaste, asked the master what this soup, the master said is "pearl jadeite white jade soup" (pearl is rice grains, emerald is a green leaf, white jade is tofu block). Zhu Yuanzhang did after the emperor, but also often miss the Changzhou Red Lotus Temple ate "Pearl Emerald White Jade Soup" delicious, the Red Lotus Temple chef invited to Nanjing to let him do "Pearl Emerald White Jade Soup" for him to eat. Zhu Yuanzhang ate, felt bland and tasteless, not as fresh and refreshing as before, and asked: "Master how to do the soup is not as good as before so wonderful and delicious?" The chef said, "Only hungry people eat things to feel flavorful, now you are the emperor, eat all the world's delicious delicacies, that soup is just a common people's home food, naturally, it is not up to the royal royal food delicious ...... "Zhu Yuanzhang in order not to forget the past suffering and the The people to his kindness, he often let the imperial kitchen to him to do "pearl jadeite white jade soup" as breakfast to eat.

Qianlong heard, suddenly realized, the original Changzhou people eat tofu soup for breakfast and teach people to be grateful for the meaning of it!