Cold Mixed Rice Tofu

Cold Mixed Rice Tofu

　　Cold Mixed Rice Tofu

　　Rice tofu is one of Guizhou’s famous snacks. It is made by washing and soaking rice, grinding it with water into a rice slurry, then cooking it with alkali, cooling it to form a block-like “tofu.” When eating, it is cut into small slices or strips, briefly soaked in cold water, drained, and placed in a serving dish. Various seasonings to taste—such as chopped pickled mustard tuber, preserved vegetable, crispy soybeans, crispy peanuts, scallions, shredded kelp, shredded cucumber, houttuynia cordata, coriander, shredded radish, chili oil, soy sauce, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, and ground Sichuan peppercorn—are then sprinkled over the tofu along with the broth.