Tofu is a pale soft block pressed from soy milk. Fried tofu, silken tofu, a block of tofu.
It is made like cheese — soy milk is curdled and the curds are pressed — and how hard you press decides everything from silken to extra firm. It has almost no flavour of its own, which is the point. The name is Japanese, from a Chinese phrase meaning curdled bean.
1nountofuA soft block pressed from soy milk.
“The vegetarian curry was made with fried tofu instead of chicken.”
tofu is a food.
Japanese tofu comes from Chinese doufu, curdled bean.
ltc
豆腐 — curdled bean
English, today
tofu
Japanese - 豆%腐, from ltc 豆腐 (“curdled bean”). a doublet of dubu and doufu.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA