Stinky tofu is a compulsory course for Shaoxing cuisine, but it is also the most difficult for most outsiders. It is infused with leek stalk juice, steamed and fried, and fried is more common because it is convenient to eat. Steamed has more home-cooked flavors, and the fine products are infinitely delicious. What you love to eat is to smell bad and move. If you don’t like to eat, you can’t avoid it. The masters do not need to add any seasonings, and the original is the "smelly".

In the various snack streets in the Jiangnan area, there must be fried stinky tofu, and its sizzling smell can be heard from ten miles away, and other stalls can compete with it. Selling stinky tofu stalls, no matter what the background, often hang a signboard: "Shaoxing stinky tofu", it can be seen that Shaoxing people are "notorious", only the Chairman of the Changsha Fire Palace, which is hand-picked by Chairman Mao, can be compared with it. . Although Lu Xun did not mention stinky tofu in his works, Xianheng Hotel, as the base camp of Shaoxing cuisine, will not let off the special food that makes Shaoxing “famous in the world”. In Xianheng's multiple collars window, a special fried stinky tofu was created, and the stench was filled with the smell of oil, but it still could not stop people from lining up. Stinky tofu is a minimalist food, but it reflects opposition and unity in all aspects: smell, smells stinky, eats incense, does not need to mention; taste, the outside is fried golden crisp, the inside is preserved soft tofu It is tender and flexible, and the sauce is accompanied by spicy sauce and sweet sauce to bring more flavor changes. In fact, Shaoxing's stinky tofu is not only a kind of fried stinky tofu. The steamed stinky tofu further highlights the stinky taste. The non-real "deodorant" does not dare to taste it; the stinky bean curd made from the bean curd, It is also a famous product that attracts more and more tourists. In comparison, the stinky tofu has been dissipated after being fried.