Have you ever eaten salty pudding? In China, there is a kind of food called tofu pudding which is another kind of Shanghai street dimsum. It is one my favorite dimsum. People usually eat it for breakfast with shen jian, guo tie (Pot stickers), xiao long bao.
First, soak soybeans in water. Then, grind the soybeans into fine particulates and sift it into soybean drink. After adding plaster into the soybean drink it eventually becomes tofu. However, if too little plaster is added it will not turn into tofu but will turn into a mix of solid and liquid which is called tofu pudding.
When people want to eat tofu pudding, they will put it in a small bowl and add in a variety of condiments and vegetables, meat or seafood. Different regions of China have different ways of eating tofu pudding. In the northern part of China, people like to put in grinded meat, chopped scallion pieces etc. In Taiwan, people will mix in sugar water, fruit or dumplings. In the summer, they freeze the tofu pudding and consume it as a drink. In the winter, they heat it add in sugar water and consume it as a type of soup. Shanghai is located on the eastern coast of China so people like to add in seafood products such as kelp, purple seaweed and dried shrimp. It is also common to add parsley and soy sauce which makes it very delicious and has the unique taste of Shanghai.
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