Guangling Dried Tofu 广灵豆腐干
Guangling Dried Tofu is featured among the local specialties of Shanxi.
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Guangling Dried Tofu (广灵豆腐干) is a salty, fragrant dried bean curd made from fresh black beans, which the Datong Evening News (大同晚报) calls a local speciality food of Datong (大同), Shanxi. Chinese Wikipedia lists it among Datong's well-known local foods alongside knife-cut noodles and Hunyuan (浑源) liangfen jelly. According to the Datong Evening News, it won a gold award at the 2001 China International Agricultural Fair and has passed green-food certification.
How it is made
The Datong Evening News describes Guangling Dried Tofu as handmade from fresh black beans by a jiangshui (浆水) fermentation method. The paper stresses that makers use only natural seasonings such as Sichuan pepper, fennel and star anise, with no chemical additives. It comes in two main kinds, salted and smoked, and the salted kind is further divided into doufugan proper and doufujin (豆腐筋, literally 'tofu sinew').
Flavour and texture
The paper's headline describes it as rich in the mouth, with a salty fragrance, and the article sums up its character in three words: sinewy, chewy and fragrant (筋、韧、香).
How it is eaten
People in Datong eat it straight as a snack or use it as a main ingredient in cooking; the Datong Evening News mentions it grilled, stir-fried and simmered in soups.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-24. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.