Don???t tell Chinese people you like to eat tofu (here???s why)

If you break it down, that’s what the word “tofu” (?????? | dòufu) refers to — rotten beans.

Well, okay, maybe not really.

??? (dòu) means bean, and ??? (fu) means rotten, decomposed, decaying, spoiled.

But why do rotten beans make tofu in Chinese?

Some say because spoiled soy milk has the appearance of tofu.

Some also say because certain kinds of tofu (like the famous Taiwanese “stinky tofu”) is made from the process of fermentation which is, a sort of controlled rotting…

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