"Smelly food" is a major feature of Chinese food. Smell is a kind of taste, which is formed by breeding a mold on raw materials. It has the functions of appetizing, helping digestion and stimulating appetite. In every100g of stinky tofu, vitamin B12g is about12g, and the deficiency of vitamin B12g is one of the causes of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease. Eating stinky tofu is good for preventing this disease.

In Shaoxing, a famous water town, almost every family likes to eat "smelly amaranth stalks". Shaoxing people choose the main stem with thick thumb, wash it and cut it into 20-25 cm lengths, let it grow mildew and long hair first, then soak it in a smelly brine tank for two or three days, then take it out and wash it, add salt and steam it in water. When eating, don't chew directly between the big teeth. Squeeze the meat out of the stalk with the front teeth. At this time, you will feel that there is a strange umami between your teeth, which is a rich umami with a long aftertaste.

Shaoxing people not only like to eat stinky amaranth stalks, but also like "stinky food" such as stinky tofu, stinky mold, stinky mold beans and stinky milk rot (Fang Qing). Every time I come to Shaoxing, I don't forget to order one or two "smelly dishes", such as "steaming 1000 pieces of stinky mold" Cut a thousand pieces that are longer than layers of white fluff into pieces, add a little salt, sugar and a little red pepper, steam them over water and serve them. In the steaming fog, there is a little smelly smell, which really makes people drool. When I put a piece on it and put it in my mouth, I only felt that thousands of chewy pieces on weekdays, after being so "smelly", immediately became crispy and abnormal, melted in the mouth, and the umami was dyed on your tongue and throat, and your appetite was immediately adjusted.

There are many kinds of stinky vegetables in Zhejiang. In addition to Shaoxing's "stinky dishes", there are also stinky winter melon in Ningbo, thousands of moldy ones in Shangyu, dry embedded biscuits in Huzhou with stinky tofu, fried steamed bread in Fuyang with stinky tofu, and all of them are stinky in western Zhejiang and southern Zhejiang.

Some "smelly" gourmets simply put a smelly jar on the balcony and yard at home. Usually, bean products, vegetable stalks, edamame and wax gourd are put in to "stink it". Think about what it's like to fish out fresh and smelly stunners from the jar every day-that kind of expectation, that kind of coveting, is really a kind of "good taste every day"