香椿豆腐 - Stewed Tofu with Chinese Toon

[中文]
今天到台北汐止的一家茶館去吃飯，名叫「福中居」，雖說是茶館但中午晚上都有供餐，買的都是古早味，樣式還不少，地方古色古香很有趣，也很多人會帶著狗狗去逛，而且前陣子頗紅的連續劇「台灣第一味」也有在那裡拍攝，他們的手藝也的確可算的上第一味，讓人多吃一碗飯回家後還為想再去吃。如果有機會可以帶老外去嚐嚐道地的台灣古早味，不過忘記問他們有沒有提供刀叉，否則老外不會拿筷子就要把白斬雞當手扒雞吃了。最下面提供地圖以免迷路。 ##CONTINUE##
本來想要每道菜都照一下，這樣我就可以慢慢寫，但是照完前兩道白斬雞和炒高麗菜之後，我就只顧著吃忘了拍其他的，等我想起來已經只有殘羹剩餚了，只好趕快從大家口中搶救還剩一半的香椿豆腐，所以上面那張照片不太上相啦，不過有此可見好吃到我欲罷不能呀。(迷之音：不知道誰以前去泰國為了吃小吃還丟了行李，貪吃不要找藉口！)

為什麼我要請大家口下留菜，趕快拍攝這道香椿豆腐呢？因為它是我們覺得最新奇好吃的一道菜，也許在一般市場沒有再賣香椿，所以大多都使用九層塔來調味，因此之前我從來沒吃過香椿，當然也不知道味道如何。當我與香椿豆腐初次見面時，香椿的香味撲鼻而來，讓我十指大動顧不得剛出爐的豆腐燙嘴，馬上來品嘗看看，果然一股似曾相似的特殊味道在味蕾散開，有點像西洋的奧勒岡葉之類的味道，但也是有自己的特色，的確我不是什麼調味料達人，這種葉片調味料都很相似也都有各自的特色，所以請大家自己去嘗試看看囉！我後來也有吃過香椿炒蛋，可是不知道是因為香椿加的不夠多，還是跟蛋一起炒的關係，總覺得沒有這家香椿豆腐夠味。另外它的外表該雖不討喜但也還不至於噁心，可能是我吃慣了「青醬」義大利麵，所以總覺得它也可以取個洋名字「青醬豆腐」。

後來我查了一些香椿的資料，才發現在中醫觀點中它有「開胃健腸」、「固精止血」之效，這「固精」一詞我要怎麼翻譯才好，傷透腦！而西醫發現香椿富含抗氧化效果，甚至有生醫公司專門研究香椿希望能提煉抗氧化劑。我們通常是拿它的葉子磨碎來當調味料，不過似乎味道比九層塔柔和，沒有這麼重的味道。網路上的菜單發現對岸大陸比較常用涼拌方式配豆腐，我吃到的這種這騰騰充滿香椿醬汁的煮法應該算是台灣風格吧，因此我姑且就分類為台式風味啦！

福中居可以參考別人的介紹

[English]
We go to a restaurant for today's lunch. This restaurant decorates with old things and offers antique dishes. You can see a black TV, gramophone records, pulse tone telephones, the 1st generation mobile phones, and so on. You can seat in a log cabin and eat dishes which my mom or grand mom was eating when she was a kid. Some of them can be seen nowadays but others only are eaten at this type of restaurant. I recommend you welcome and feel the ambiance of early Taiwan stage. The Map below shows where it is. But you need a local to take you there because of no buses and no English signs. Especially, they have no English menu.

I try to take pictures for all courses. However, they are so much delicious that I forgot take them except the first two dishes. Finally, I just take photos of leftovers and a photo of a half my favorite "Stewed Tofu with Chinese Toon". By the way, I remembered that I also forgot my packet in Thailand because cared only for eating a Thailand snack. It's a bad record :$

Why would I like to introduce "Stewed Tofu with Chinese Toon"? Because I haven't eaten it before, either. I never ate food with Chinese Toon. So we chose it when we first went to this restaurant. The taste of Chinese Toon is similar to Oregano but they still have their own unique flavor. We usually use Basil instead of Toons for cooking. I think the flavor of Chinese Toon is more soft than Basil. It is better to cook with tofu. Although the appearance of "Stewed Tofu with Chinese Toon" is not pretty, it looks like green sauce pasta. I think "Green Sauce Tofu" is also a great western name ;)

After I was back home, I looked up the information of Chinese Toon on Internet and found it has some curative effects. Traditional Chinese medicine says that Chinese Toon is able to strengthen humen intestine and stomach, and make humen sperm stronger. Attention please every gentleman, you mush try this dish for your future life :p Besides, modern medicine finds Chinese Toon is anti-oxidant and help people healthy. What a wonderful food it is!

Finally, I'm not sure what style this stewed cooking way is. According to my reference, a Chinese style seems cold tossed. So I decide to label "Stewed Tofu with Chinese Toon" as Taiwan Style.

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