# Recipe needed: Jiachang dofu (Family style tofu)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-needed-jiachang-dofu-family-style-tofu/486329>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 17, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-needed-jiachang-dofu-family-style-tofu/486329 "2009-02-17T22:46:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-needed-jiachang-dofu-family-style-tofu/486329/1 "2009-02-17T22:46:55Z")

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But I want the Beijing style, not the southern style, which is too bland and sweet. When I was in Beijing there was this restaurant down in the SW quadrant near Tea street that had the best tofu dish ever. I want to (at least try to) make it.

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-needed-jiachang-dofu-family-style-tofu/486329/2 "2009-02-21T02:39:40Z")

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OK, we’ll bump once–someone has to know this.

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**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-needed-jiachang-dofu-family-style-tofu/486329/3 "2009-02-22T15:26:43Z")

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I have no answer, but I am curious as well!

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**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-needed-jiachang-dofu-family-style-tofu/486329/4 "2009-02-22T19:13:40Z")

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I’ve found a [link to a recipe](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7603457) with a picture of the dish in the wok–is this what it looked like?. Sounds yummy.

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-needed-jiachang-dofu-family-style-tofu/486329/5 "2009-02-22T22:21:44Z")

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I’ll have to try the recipe and let you know. Hunan Province is much too far south, but maybe the chef at “my” restaurant came from there.

It’s rather amusing that the article feels the need to inform us that Mao Zedong is the person “who led the Chinese Communist Revolution.” That’s not what I would call obscure information. ☹