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Chili tofu rice

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Chili tofu rice, from the video Makes 1
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Ingredients
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  • 1 whole soft tofu
  • 1 tsp salt
  • hot boiled water
Twenty minutes before lunch, take out a block of soft tofu. Put a teaspoon of salt into the container off to one side and dissolve it with hot water from the kettle, then soak the tofu.
  • rice
Cook rice in a rice cooker, or reheat leftover rice.
  • bean sprouts
After twenty minutes the tofu should be roughly room temperature. Drain the water, optionally add a bed of bean sprouts, put the tofu back on top and fill the container with more hot boiled water.
Stir a dipping sauce well until fully mixed, take a small piece of tofu, dip it, and eat it with hot rice.
Regional douhua and how to eat it