The Heir to a Tofu Dynasty Finally Learns to Make Tofu
让传统变得时髦起来:纽约老牌豆腐店重返唐人街
Two years ago, Paul Eng decided to confront a reality he had been facing most of his life: He was the heir to a tofu tradition who had no idea how to make tofu.
两年前,伍启芳(Paul Eng)决定正视一个他一生大部分时间都在面对的现实:他是一项豆腐传统的继承人,却不知道怎么做豆腐。
Mr. Eng's grandfather learned the trade in the 1930s from fellow immigrants shortly after he arrived in Chinatown. He went on to open up a small tofu shop on Mott Street, called Fong Inn Too, and developed recipes that would become well loved in Chinatown for more than eighty years. When Mr. Eng's parents closed the shop in 2017, the recipes, never written down, disappeared with it.
伍启芳的祖父在1930年代来到华埠不久,就从其他移民那里学到了这门手艺。后来,他在勿街开了一家豆腐店,名叫“宏安”(Fong Inn Too),并开发了在华埠畅销80多年的菜谱。2017年,当伍启芳的父母关闭这家店时,那些从未被记录下来的菜谱也随之消失了。
At one point, while trying to recreate those recipes, Mr. Eng asked one of his parents' former employees how much baking soda a particular recipe called for. He said, "A cup."
伍启芳曾经试图重制这些配方,他问父母的一位前雇员,一种特定配方需要加多少小苏打。店员说:“一杯。”
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