麻辣鴨血臭豆腐 (Spicy Duck Blood with Stinky Tofu)

Spicy Duck Blood with Stinky Tofu is a famous Taiwanese cuisine. Many Taiwanese love this dish to death. Okay this may be exaggerating a little bit, but n one can deny that it tastes really good.

This dish, however, requires some courage to eat. Why? You may ask. Well, apparently many cannot come over with the smell, the name, or even the taste. First, it has stinky tofu inside. For a lot of people, stinky tofu really stinks, and they are against eating it because they think it smells like rotten food (but some of them can eat nattoo for some reason......) Some people cannot stand the name. To them, duck blood sounds really disgusting already, and there's still stinky tofu. Some people can't stand the spice. This dish is supposed to be spicy for it to be good, but some people think it's way too spicy.

Well, if you think you can stand all three of the above, congratulation, you've found a really delicious Taiwanese dish.

The tofu is soaked in the soup for a long time, so the flavor is in it for sure. Also, since it has holes everywhere in the tofu, it acts like a sponge that sucks all the soup and flavor into it. Every bite gives you the full of taste. Once you try it, you'll actually love the smell of it. You know that once you smell it, you can find it somewhere close.

To me, the duck blood has a silky texture, and it's really soft and smooth. Once it's boiled in the soup for a long time, the flavor also goes into it. Therefore the combination of tofu, duck blood, and the soup is the best. It is really delicious.

If anyone has a chance to go to Taiwan, welcome to give it a try. I'm sure you won't regret. Oh yea, this dish has another name: 臭臭鍋 (cho cho guo, or stinky wok).