Chinese food culture is extensive and profound. Whether in the past history or in modern life, people have already developed eating into a knowledge. The living environment and historical culture of different regions have created different food cultures. So, what about Yong Tau Foo? How much do you know? The following article brings you more content, let’s find out together.

Yong Tofu, also known as Guangdong Hakka Yong Tofu, is a traditional dish of the Han Hakka people. It belongs to Cantonese cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, and Hakka cuisine. It is also one of the most representative dishes of Hakka food culture. It is the favorite of rural Hakka people during festive seasons or when they are busy.

Yong Tofu is a type of Hakka cuisine. Hakka cuisine, the formation of the flavor of Hakka cuisine is inseparable from the formation of the Hakka ethnic group. Just as the Hakka dialect retains the ancient charm of Zhongzhou, Hakka cuisine also retains the traditional life customs and characteristics of Zhongzhou.

There are two sayings: 1: "On New Year's Day in the north, the food is eaten together, like eating flat food, and it is named Jiaozi, which means "Jiaozizi". That is now "making dumplings". For thousands of years, dumplings, as a New Year food, have been deeply loved by people and have become a custom that has been passed down to this day. During the Spring Festival, people eat dumplings, which symbolize good luck and bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

After the Hakkas moved south from the Central Plains to Guangdong, it was very difficult to maintain this custom because rice was the staple food in Lingnan and there was a lack of flour. So they adapted to local conditions and used local materials. They ground soybeans grown in dry lands to make tofu, mixed pork and vegetables to make fillings, used tofu as dough, cut the tofu into two rectangular and diagonal pieces, and used chopsticks to cut each piece Dig a small hole in the middle of a piece of tofu, and insert the meat filling into the hole to form "yong tofu", and then steam it. This way of eating can replace eating dumplings.

2. Once upon a time, a man from Xingning and a man from Wuhua were good friends. They were upright and persistent, and they became friends in the same year. One day, they invited each other to a restaurant for dinner. When ordering food, people from Xingning say tofu and people from Wuhua say pork. The two refused to give in to each other, insisted on their own opinions, and quarreled. The shop owner was afraid that they would fall out, so he came up with a clever plan: mince the pork, mix it with condiments, stuff it into pieces of tofu, fry it first and then boil it, making it fragrant and fresh. As soon as the two of them ate it, they both cheered and thought it was much better than eating one dish alone.