In ancient China, the northern part of the mountain was shaded and the southern part of the mountain was sunny. "Guiyang" is named because the city is located in Shan Zhinan. Ancient Guiyang was rich in bamboo, mainly making musical instruments "Zhu". Because "Bamboo" and "Zhu" are homophonic, Guiyang is called "Zhu" for short. Guiyang is located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of the motherland. It has beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, and is a good place to travel and play. Guiyang, in the middle of Guizhou Province, is the capital city of Guizhou.
When it comes to Guiyang's specialty food, I, a greedy cat, can't help swallowing again. Let me introduce you to a cheap and delicious food with a sweet name, Love Tofu Fruit.
Love Tofu Fruit is a famous flavor snack in Guiyang. Its main ingredient is white tofu cut into rectangular pieces. When it is made, the iron baking bed is oiled, the chaff shell is used as fuel, and the tofu blocks are kept turning on the iron baking bed until the skin color is < P > Huang Liang. When eating, it is served with sauces such as soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, balsamic vinegar, pepper, sesame oil, chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, etc., and dipped in it while it is hot. Its characteristics are crispy outside and tender inside, salty, spicy and smooth, full of fragrance, cheap and beautiful, convenient to carry and time-saving. It is a popular snack in Guizhou.
"Love Tofu Fruit" is the nickname of baked Tofu Fruit. It has such an nickname because its popularity is related to a romantic story in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
In 1939, a large area of China's northern, eastern and central regions was lost to the Japanese invaders. In order to further expand the aggression, the Japanese army also carried out air strikes on the southwest rear area. At that time, Guiyang was also an important target of their attack. Since Guiyang was attacked by air, there have been frequent alarms, sometimes several times a day. Dongshan and Pengjiaqiao in the suburbs are hiding places for people to avoid air strikes. Near Pengjiaqiao, a couple, Zhang Huafeng, who are nearly half a century old, set up several huts in the vegetable field as a place to make "baked tofu fruit", and the baked tofu fruit prepared here was taken to other places to set up stalls and sell along the street. After the air raid began, these huts became places to avoid air raids, and people came and went, which was very lively. Zhang Huafeng and his wife didn't go to the streets to do business because of the air raid. They found that people who avoided the alarm were often hungry and unable to go home for dinner, so they turned these workshops into shops and sold baked tofu fruit to people who avoided the alarm. Because the baked tofu fruit is fast, simple to eat, cheap, and can satisfy hunger, it quickly opened up the market.
Most people eat tofu fruit to satisfy their hunger, and then they leave. Only some young men and women who are in love buy a plate of tofu fruit, dip it in Chili water, chew it slowly, < P > and talk about everything for half a day. There are also some young people who often get together here and gradually talk about love. They seem to forget the threat in the air, and regard the Zhangjia store as a place for love, which is more romantic, and for a while < P > has become a gossip. Over time, people often say that eating baked tofu fruit means eating love tofu fruit. The Zhang couple simply renamed the baked tofu fruit "love tofu fruit". This romance soon affected young people all over Guiyang, and
they all came to taste it.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the number of people who eat love tofu fruit is still increasing, although they are not as romantic as in the past. But I have tasted delicious snacks. So that in Guiyang today, love tofu fruit is still a famous local snack, which is not only loved by locals, but also favored by foreigners in the past.
I didn't expect a small piece of baked tofu to have such a long story. In fact, there are many special snacks in my hometown, such as sausage noodles, bobo candy, beef jerky, Buyi batik, tea, fish in sour soup, beef powder and so on. I hope friends from afar will travel to Guizhou more often and enjoy this refreshing weather and delicious food.