Dried tofu is tofu skin.

Dried tofu (gān dòu

fu) is a specialty of the Northeast, also called "Northeastern dried tofu", also known as (doupier), it is a tofu product pressed into thin sheets . It is different from the tofu skin and Qianzhang'er produced in the south, as well as the yuba and dried tofu (the Northeastern dried tofu is thinner than Qianzhang'er and can be eaten raw or cooked).

Tofu skin is a traditional Chinese bean product, a food made from beans. There are many famous dishes in southern and northern China. Tofu skin is flat in nature and sweet in taste. It has the functions of clearing away heat and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and eliminating phlegm, nourishing the stomach, detoxifying, and antiperspirant. Tofu skin is rich in nutrients, with high protein and amino acid content. According to modern scientific determination, it also has 18 trace elements necessary for the human body such as iron, calcium, and molybdenum.

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The names of tofu skin in various places are not consistent. There are two types:

One is that a natural oil film is formed on the surface after the soy milk is boiled. The tofu skin made by picking it up and drying it is also called "youpi", "yuba", "bean curd clothes" and "bean bamboo shoots". This article will be labeled with "youpi" for the sake of definition;

II It is pressed tofu skin (Qianzhang, dried tofu), which is similar to dried tofu, but thinner (significantly thicker than oil skin, so it can be regarded as ultra-thin dried tofu), slightly dry, and sometimes salt is added, and the taste is the same as that of dried tofu. There are differences between tofu, and this article will be marked with "Qianzhang" for the purpose of clarifying the meaning.

Although both are called "tofu skin", their shapes, ingredients, tastes and cooking methods are quite different. But for example, Shanghainese eat vegetarian chicken and vegetarian duck. The vegetarian chicken is rolled into thousands of sheets, while the vegetarian duck is rolled into oily skin.

"Youpi" and "Qianzhang" are common soy products, but the interesting thing is that their nouns across the country are often annoying. The author has heard of "tofu skin" and "bean skin", "Beancurd skin", "youpi", "beancurd stick", "qianzhang", "baiye", "bean shoots", "dried tofu", it is conceivable that there should be more names for these two favorites across the country. Soy products. In places such as Anhui and Hubei, "youpi" and "qianzhang" are common soy products, and "youpi" is the local tofu skin.

What’s interesting is that in some areas in northern China where “qianzhang” is called tofu skin, the locals don’t actually eat “oil skin”, only “qianzhang”. In the Northeast, the "dried tofu" they eat is Qianzhang. In southern Fujian and other places, the "bean curd skin" they eat actually includes two soy products, "youpi" and "yuba". Hunan generally includes three types: "bean shoots" (yuba), "qianjianpizi" (hundred pages), and "douyoupizi" (youpizi).

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