Shandong Cuisine · FFET10013
Tai'an Tofu-Making Craft
Tai'an's tofu-making craft joined the national heritage list as an extension item in the fifth batch of 2021, made with clear, mellow local water.
On the table blue-and-white plates hold scallion-braised sea cucumber and a sweet-and-sour carp with its body arched, a bowl beside them holds milky white soup, and a hand lifts a piece of nine-turn braised intestine with chopsticks.
Represented by the cooking of Jinan and the Jiaodong coast, strong in quick-fire and braising methods, with stock-making as its hallmark.
On the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website, the traditional tofu-making craft is listed as a traditional craft, and the craft of Taishan District in Tai'an, Shandong, was added to it as an extension item in the fifth batch of the national representative list in 2021. The item page says Tai'an is rich in water that is clear and mellow, and that good water and soybeans are the natural raw materials of tofu. The same item, no. VIII-232, entered the fourth batch in 2014, declared from Huainan, Anhui.