tofu

Revered for more than 2000 years in China for it’s culinary and medicinal uses, tofu has withstood the test of time as a nutritionally complete food.

One Japanese liver expert uses cabbage and tofu as the primary way to guide obese patients to lose weight.

Mapo Tofu is a traditional Sichuan dish. It has a numbing sensation when you eat it. It’s spicy, hot and savory. It’s definitely my kind of good eats!

Judging from the number of establishments devoted to serving just ramen or sushi, it’s easy to think that’s all Japanese food is. Sitting on the sidelines is traditional Japanese cuisine, such as that served at Momokawa on East 28th Street. Here you find nabes (one-pot dishes) offered alongside kinpira (braised burdock roots and carrots in a soy sauce broth) and homemade sesame tofu.