Tofu Tofu (SE4)

  The recent meal that I still remembered is last weekend I went to have sea food. The restaurant named Star Kitchen, and it is a Chinese restaurant which serves good Chinese seafood and southern Chinese food. One food I ordered named Sea Food Hot Pot. It was very delicious, my friends and I both said this meal is really good.

  
  In the Sea Food Hot Pot, it contains cabbage, fried tofu, shrimp, shellfish and crab. People put all of the ingredients into a hot pot to make the food be able to eat. Actually, cabbage and fried tofu taste not as good as seafood, but once people mix the seafood and tofu together, the tofu can absorb the taste from seafood to make it delicious. When I tried fried tofu in the hot pot, it tastes fantastic, and I can feel the taste of “Sea”, and also it is juicy. That makes me get interested into tofu because either in the United States or in China, people all eat tofu, but in different cooking ways.

  
  I got some knowledge form Wikipedia that tofu was originally invented by Chinese people named Liu An in Han Dynasty (It is about in Second Century), and then the production of tofu were introduced to East Asia and Southeast Asia, such as Korea, Japan and Indonesia. The spread of tofu is just like the spread of Buddhism because people who believe Buddhism don’t eat meat at all. Instead, they prefer to eat tofu for food because tofu can be cooked in many ways and taste very delicious. Tofu is not a normal vegetable, and it was made by bean. Tofu looks like a regular white block which is very soft. In Southern Asia and Eastern Asia, people like to have tofu for food because there are many types of tofu for people to choose, such as soft tofu, fresh tofu, fried tofu, and iced tofu. Different tofu has its own cooking way. For example, in China, people usually put soft tofu into soup because it can make the soup taste delicious. For the meal I had at Star Kitchen, people put fried tofu into hot pot and mixed the tofu with seafood, so we are able to taste the seafood’s flavor from eating fried tofu. Also, tofu is a healthy food because it was made by bean which has low calorie and little fat. People who eat tofu don’t have to worry about getting fat, so more and more people prefer to have tofu instead of beef and other kinds of meat in Western countries. Moreover, tofu has high calcium and iron which is good for old people and kids’ health.

  
  In addition, I read an article named “Tofu: A Versatile Source of Heart-Healthy Plant Protein” which was published by Food and Fitness Advisor. In this article, it says that it’s hard for people to get Protein form eating meat and seafood, such as beef and shrimp, but if people add tofu into their daily food menu, people will get more nutrition than eating other kinds of food. “Tofu contains no saturated fat or cholesterol”, “Tofu has higher amounts of fiber and phytochemical than animal proteins.”(Food and Fitness Advisor, p.5) That is true, and it is important for people who want to keep fit because in nowadays, it is hard to find food with lower fat, but with higher protein. Also, the food is from nature, not made by chemical. We know that some people prefer to eat health products instead of having regular food diet. They think health products can offer all the nutrition they need in daily life, but actually, it is not. If people rely on eating health products to keep healthy and keep fit, they will get weaker and weaker because health product is also a kind of “Medical”. Based on having regular food every day, health products can help people build a nice healthy body. In addition, “Tofu is also a good source of Iron manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, copper and selenium.”(Food and Fitness Advisor, p.5) People are more and more care about their health, no matter old people, young people or kids. Parents want their children growing in health, children want their parents living in good health, and young people also want themselves have a healthy body, so that they are able to do something they like to do. Having a healthy body has become a common view for more and more people.

  
  For having food, people just care about two points, one is the food’s nutrition, and another is the food’s taste. Tofu includes these two points, so it becomes more and more popular in our modern life. People are chasing healthy life and wonderful life, and I think tofu can give people the opportunity to achieve their ideal. Food is not just the food itself, it also represent a type of food culture—healthy culture. People want to eat in health and living healthy, food can be their tool. From eating healthy food, people are able to live in a better life. That’s all I learned from doing the tofu research.

Reference

"Tofu: a versatile source of heart-healthy plant protein." Food & Fitness Advisor Feb. 2011: 5. General OneFile. Web. 11 May 2012.

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