Boiling Point Stinks Different

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • January 19, 2012
If there is one last great culinary mountaintop most of us Westerners have yet dared to climb, it's the fermented delicacy known as stinky tofu. Think you've conquered ripe French cheeses? Thai fish sauce? Kimchi? They're child's play. Stinky tofu...
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