Description
A Taiwanese local single-serving hot pot simmering intensely smelling fermented 'stinky tofu', pork intestines, and pork blood in a spicy broth.
Restaurants serving Stinky Tofu Hot Pot
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Stinky tofu
- Pork intestines
- Pork bone broth
- Doubanjiang
- Shacha sauce
- Chives
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Cut raw, intensely fermented 'stinky tofu' into large pieces. Parboil pork intestines to remove odor and slice into rings.
- Prepare a single-serving small pot (heated by an alcohol lamp).
- Pour a spicy broth based on pork bone stock, doubanjiang, garlic, Shacha sauce, and chili oil into the pot.
- Pack the pot highly with stinky tofu, pork intestines, pork blood cubes (Zhu Xue), chives, enoki, and sliced pork.
- Heat at the table, simmering until the stinky tofu absorbs the broth and releases an intense odor.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Doubanjiang and Garlic
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Thick fried tofu, Pork offal
Pairing
Cold Taiwan Beer
Trivia
[Hardcore] The absolute peak of 'stinky but delicious'. The source of that intense smell when walking through night markets. Hugely popular among students as a cheap single hot pot.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Take the piping hot stinky tofu, which has absorbed the broth to its limit, out of the boiling pot and eat while huffing and puffing!
Allergen
Soy, Pork, Wheat, Shrimp (Shacha sauce)