Cuisine characteristics
Mapo tofu is characterized by hemp, spicy, spicy, fragrant, crisp, tender, fresh and lively character, also known as eight-character proverbs.
Ma: It means that tofu should be sprinkled with appropriate amount of pepper powder when it is out of the pot. It is best to use Hanyuan tribute pepper for pepper, which is pure and refreshing. If you don't go to pepper, the smell of hemp gets stuck in your throat, which makes people feel tight all over.
Spicy: use the oil pepper in Dahongpao of Longtan Temple to make douban, chop it up and refine it, add a little cooked oil and pepper to cook tofu, which is spicy and fragrant.
Scalding: Tofu is characterized by keeping the temperature of the whole dish after cooking, which is not easy to cool. Every time I use chopsticks, I get the taste of freshly baked chopsticks.
Xiang: When the pot is served immediately, you can't smell the gypsum smell of tofu, but the rust smell of cold-soaked tofu, and there is no original unpleasant smell of various seasonings, only the taste that evokes appetite.
Crispy: The refined meat stuffing is golden in color, red and crisp, one by one. It is crisp at the entrance and melts when it touches the teeth.
Tender: Tofu is fried just right in the pot, white as jade, angular, and broken when twisted, so it is often eaten with a small spoon.
Freshness: The raw materials of Mapo Tofu are fresh, tender green, suitable for red and white collocation, and the color and taste are fresh and impeccable.
Live: It refers to a stunt of Mapo Tofu Shop: Tofu is served on the table, and long garlic seedlings stand upright in the bowl, green and bright, as if they had just been picked and chopped from the border, and they are vivid, but they are all ripe and have no astringency.
Mapo tofu collocation taboo
1, tofu and water bamboo; It is not suitable for eating with water bamboo, and it is easy to form stones.
2. Tofu and honey; Honey and tofu are easy to have diarrhea when eaten together.
3. Tofu and oranges; Don't eat with oranges, or you will get goiter easily.
4. Tofu mutton; Don't eat with mutton, which may cause jaundice and beriberi (vitamin B 1 deficiency).
5. Tofu spinach; Can't eat with spinach, both of which have the effect of smoothing the intestines and are easy to cause diarrhea.
6. Tofu and bamboo shoots; Not suitable for eating with bamboo shoots, easy to produce stones.
7. Tofu and persimmon; Can't eat with persimmon, when they get together, they will form stomach persimmon stone, which will cause abdominal distension, stomach pain, vomiting, and even lead to gastric bleeding in severe cases, which is life-threatening.
8. Tofu squid; Don't eat with crucian carp, otherwise it will easily cause edema.