At the table
Gently mix the dressing through the cubes and eat with a spoon. Ask about chili and peanuts before the bowl is dressed if you need them changed.
This version contains peanuts and soy sauce, which may also contain wheat. Check the chili oil and other seasonings for dietary restrictions; a rice base alone does not establish a vegetarian dish.
This is a Liangsan home-style cold bowl. Dressings differ; Hunan and Guizhou rice-tofu dishes do not share one fixed recipe.
GET TO KNOW THE DISH
What goes into it?
Explore some key ingredients below. Preparations may use additional seasonings and ingredients.
This is a Liangsan home-style cold bowl. Dressings differ; Hunan and Guizhou rice-tofu dishes do not share one fixed recipe.
Typical ingredients
Recipes vary by restaurant.
How does it taste?
Sour and chili-hot, with garlic and aromatic herbs.
- Chili heat
- Texture
- Smooth, softly springy rice-jelly cubes with crunchy peanuts.
- How it’s made
- Rice slurry is cooked with plant-ash alkaline water, then cooled to set. The cubes are dressed with tomato, garlic, coriander, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, chili oil, fish mint, scallion and peanuts.
This is a Liangsan home-style cold bowl. Dressings differ; Hunan and Guizhou rice-tofu dishes do not share one fixed recipe.
A CONNECTION TO PLACE
Origin & regional roots
Associated with Hunan.
About this regional connection
Hunan: Liangsan,Xinhuang householdcoldversion.
Ask if they have it first
请问你们有米豆腐吗？
Do you have this item?
A LITTLE SOMETHING TO READ
Story & history
A summer bowl in Liangsan
This account describes a tradition or story, rather than an established historical fact.
In Liangsan, a town in Xinhuang’s Dong community, rice tofu is part of home summer cooking. The rice paste is cooked, cooled and cut before being dressed. Its tofu-like shape gives the rice food its name.