douhua

D2O1U1H4U1A1

noun

A Chinese dessert made with very soft tofu; tofu pudding.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

noundouhua (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA Chinese dessert made with very soft tofu; tofu pudding.

    Delicious douhua (soy bean curd) and soy milk located in Dongmen Market

    2017, Pei-ling Guo, Good Eye City Guide Taipei, page 127
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    One can find local vendors producing traditional products, ladling hot scoops of douhua, a yogurt-like bean curd, into large bowls, or baking salty flat breads inside a coal-heated drum.

    2002 January 10, Paul Mooney, “Pingyao: Walled city”, in Beijing Review, volume 45, number 2, pages 34–35

    Wandering, we dug into a pile of floury, handmade noodles, followed by pig's-blood cake covered with crushed peanuts and cilantro; fried buns stuffed with bitter greens; pungent soup with slivers of fresh ginger and whole pigs' feet; big hunks of melon, just in season; and heaping bowls of sweet, slippery douhua—chilled tofu pudding with azuki beans, mung beans and boiled peanuts.

    2008 March 30, Douglas McGray, “Last Days of Taipei”, in New York Times Magazine, page 132

    Generally, tofu and douhua are made from soymilk by the addition of a coagulant.

    2016 April, Murekatete Nicole, Zhang Caimeng, Hategekimana Joseph, Karangwa Eric, Hua Yufei, “Soybean Oil Volume Fraction Effects on the Rheology Characteristics and Gelation Behavior of Glucono‐δ‐Lactone and Calcium Sulfate‐Induced Tofu Gels”, in Journal of Texture Studies, volume 47, number 2, page 112

Origin

Borrowed from Mandarin 豆花 (dòuhuā).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 豆腐花
  • 豆腐花 (dau⁶ fu⁶ faa¹)Chinese dessert
Chinese Mandarin 豆花, 豆腐腦 /豆腐脑
  • 豆花 (dòuhuā)Chinese dessert
  • 豆腐腦 /豆腐脑 (dòufunǎo)Chinese dessert
  • 豆腐花 (dòufuhuā)Chinese dessert
Indonesian kembang tahu, tahwa
  • kembang tahuChinese dessert
  • tahwaChinese dessert
Thai เต้าฮวย
  • เต้าฮวย (dtâo-huai)Chinese dessert
Vietnamese tào phớ, phớ
  • tào phớChinese dessert
  • phớChinese dessert
  • tào phởChinese dessert
  • đậu hủ nước đườngChinese dessert
  • tàu hủ nước đườngChinese dessert
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