Maple’s Special – 10
Hey guys! I found this in China, what you think it is?
It reminds you of the delicious Tao Hua豆腐花 right? Haha.
If you think it that way, then you’re as silly as me! LOL >.<
In China, it’s known as Dou Fu Nao豆腐脑.
From appearance and ingredient, it’s exactly the same as our Tao Hua.
However, its taste…
There’s a weird taste inside the food, which tastes like cigarette smile.
When I have my first sip, I surrender.
It tastes as if the chef’s cigarette ashes accidentally drop into the pot of cooking. Horrible!
But after I complained it to our China Lecturer, her reply shocked us!
According to her, the residents here all go for the weird smell!
If there’s no such smell, they will not eat it!
I shouted a loud “OH MY GOD!” in my heart when I heard this.
But she said that, it’s actually the smell of charcoal.
From this, it leads me to think, what’s so different between our cooking styles?
I guess it’s due to the difference in living environment.
As you know, China is a huge country filled with different kinds of natural resources. Hence, the people here tend to live and eat based on the resources they can find for free or at cheaper price. For example, their main cooking fuel, charcoal is made from the burning of woods which are abundant in China.
In Singapore or Malaysia, we use natural gas in gas cylinder to cook our food instead of their traditional way. This is because we find that charcoal is dirty and very difficult to handle. Hence, for our convenient sake, we choose natural gas in cylinder which is higher in cost. The price for us is still affordable.
However, to China Chinese especially those illegal hawkers, the price of natural gas will really kill them. This is because the price of natural gas is 4X price of charcoal. Maybe one may say they’re too calculative, but being calculative is the only means for them to sustain their lives on, in such a competitive society.
We must be aware that, every single cent to them is very precious.
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