用英文介绍麻婆豆腐的作文
mapo tufu 麻婆豆腐英文介绍
Mapo doufu (mapo tofu), is a popular Chinese dish from
China’s Sichuan province. It is a combination of tofu set in a
spicy chili- and bean-based sauce, typically a thin, oily, and
bright red suspension, and often cooked with douchi
(fermented black beans) and minced meat, usually pork or
beef. Variations exist with other ingredients such as water
chestnuts, onions, other vegetables, or wood ear fungus.
“Ma” stands for “mazi” (Chinese: mázi, 麻子) which
means pockmarks. “Po” is the first syllable of “popo”
(Chinese: 婆婆, pópo) which means an old woman or
grandma. Hence, mapo is an old woman whose face is
pockmarked. It is thus sometimes translated as
“pockmarked grandma’s beancurd”.
According to Mrs. Chiang’s Szechwan Cookbook:
“Eugene Wu, the Librarian of the Harvard Yenching
Library, grew up in Chengdu and claims that as a schoolboy
he used to eat Pock-Marked Ma’s Bean Curd or mapo doufu,
at a restaurant run by the original Pock-Marked Ma herself.
One ordered by weight, specifying how many grams of bean
curd and meat, and the serving would be weighed out and
cooked as the diner watched. It arrived at the table fresh,
fragrant, and so spicy hot, or la, that it actually caused sweat
to break out.”
