Tofu & vegetable dishes 豆制品与蔬菜

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Shanxi

Gaoping Roasted Tofu 高平烧豆腐

Gaoping Roasted Tofu (高平烧豆腐) combines a yellow roasted surface with a soft, chewy interior. It is a local Gaoping (高平) snack served hot after the roasted pieces are boiled. Garlic paste is a customary accompaniment.

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Shanxi

Bagong Scallions with Pork 巴公烧大葱

Bagong Scallions with Pork (巴公烧大葱) makes scallion whites the main ingredient of a Jincheng (晋城) dish. The scallions grown in Bagong (巴公) are large, strongly aromatic and thick-fleshed.

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Shanxi

Shouyang Dried Tofu 寿阳豆腐干

Shouyang Dried Tofu (寿阳豆腐干) is a firm soy product made in Shouyang County (寿阳县). At local producer Jianmin Industrial Company (健民实业), the tofu has a reddish colour, compact texture and strong bean aroma.

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Packaged Inner Mongolian milk curd, known as naidoufu.
Inner Mongolia

Milk curd 奶豆腐

Fresh milk curd can be mildly sour and chewy, while drier pieces are more concentrated and firm. Sweetened preparations taste different from plain ones.

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Scrambled Eggs with Sand Onion (沙葱炒鸡蛋) — dish photograph
Inner Mongolia

Scrambled Eggs with Sand Onion 沙葱炒鸡蛋

Scrambled Eggs with Sand Onion (沙葱炒鸡蛋) is a stir-fry of eggs and sand onion (沙葱), the desert plant known to botanists as Mongolian chive (蒙古韭). Popular Science China (科普中国) calls it the most home-style way to cook sand onion.

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Inner Mongolia

Wild Wormwood Shoots 柳蒿芽

Wild Wormwood Shoots (柳蒿芽) are the young stems and leaves of a wild plant that the Daur (达斡尔族) people living along both banks of the Nen River (嫩江) pick and cook in soups and stews. The Daur name for the plant is 'kunmile' (昆米勒).

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