máo dòufu or hairy tofu is soybean curd that has been treated with fungus and is eaten after it is well and truly fermented. These two guys from Florida sampled a mail order variety and found it retching. Language Warning with lots of Dry Heaving: Watch
Even the “Bizarre Food” guy, Andrew Zimmern found his limit in Taiwan at the House of Unique Stink. Here
h/t Monday Morning Meme Madness over on Twitchy
Now THAT looks like it can kill mosquitoes.
And appetites.
Serious question;
How do you know if it went bad?
“How do you know if it went bad?”
You die. Immediately. Too late for you but your family knows to toss the leftovers.
@SNS — We have a categorical conflation here. The hairy tofu IS hairy tofu BECAUSE it has gone bad.
SNS, I would imagine when you have more than one color of fungus growing on the tofu you give it a hard pass.
That mail order stuff should be tariffed to hell that, or FDA inspection should prevent it ever entering the country.
What about the cheese with the maggots, I hear that’s pretty good.
tofu = toe-jam. fierce japanese soldiers of ww2 had bean curd in their diet, i’d be fierce/angry if i had to live on that s**t
Hey, some people like Civet cat coffee which is made from coffee beans that were extracted from civet cat crap! Not me or anyone I know, but somebody’s out there buying that shit!
I have to admit that if I see cheese with the slightest bit of mold on it, I immediately throw it out, and make sure anything that touched it gets washed or tossed. Unless it’s bleu cheese, which I enjoy. Why is that???
Bleu cheese – just think of it as Penicillin…
Fermented foods of ALL TYPES are the best, healthiest foods you can eat.
I wonder how that compares to Japanese natto?
Have they tried eating lutefisk? Nothing like eating stinky gelatinous fish snot. One of my roommates before I was married was of Portuguese/Hawaiian descent who once cooked some Portuguese dried cod that stunk like hell and was stiff as a board. I tried it and once you got past the awful smell it wasn’t too bad but I never ate it again.
I bought a while ago. They taste good enough, but one of the steps you have to take in the cooking process arouses disgust. After cooking them, they have beards that stick out of the shell and you have to pull them off. It reminds a person of other things you might not want to think about.
I’ll never eat the stomach-turning little shellfish again.
geoff the aardvark
Monday, 14 April 2025, 14:09 at 2:09 pm
“Have they tried eating lutefisk?”
…King of the Hill has an entire episode on why lutefisk is a bad idea…gluttony, diarrhea, child shaming trauma, church burnings and a man with a terrible smell, its all here and all about the lutefisk….
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ymsn7
The Chinese eat some nasty ass shit… for realz.
So do the Filipinos with baluts being the worst example of gross food by anyone else’s standards. They also have San Miguel (we called it San Magoo in the US Navy) beer which is one of the worst beers in the world.
Is hairy tofu somehow related to hairy tacos?
@Cynic — I haven’t decided yet whether I want to try those hairy tacos with crema or not.
(OK. I’ll shut up and get my hat now.)
I’ll bet Rosie O’Donald’s underwear smells much worse.
I’ve had this, not my fav. Overly dramatic? Why not. I do like stinky fish in fried rice.
These two guys are silly, except for the gagging it’s funny watching them eat horrible “food”. People will eat anything…yikes.
BTW, if cheddar cheese gets moldy it’s usually on the surface, if it happens during refrigeration. Cutting off the surface layer with the mold works. It’s still ok to eat. The cheddar brick is very dense so the mold doesn’t get through.