douhua

douhua noun: a Chinese dessert made with very soft tofu; tofu pudding.

Noun

douhua (uncountable)

A Chinese dessert made with very soft tofu; tofu pudding.
- One can find local vendors producing traditional products, ladling hot scoops of douhua, a yogurt-like bean curd, into large bowls, or baking salty flat breads inside a coal-heated drum.2002 January 10, Paul Mooney, “Pingyao: Walled city”, in Beijing Review, volume 45, number 2, pages 34–35
- Wandering, we dug into a pile of floury, handmade noodles, followed by pig's-blood cake covered with crushed peanuts and cilantro; fried buns stuffed with bitter greens; pungent soup with slivers of fresh ginger and whole pigs' feet; big hunks of melon, just in season; and heaping bowls of sweet...2008 March 30, Douglas McGray, “Last Days of Taipei”, in New York Times Magazine, page 132

Chinese dessert: tào phớ, phớ, tào phở, đậu hủ nước đường, tàu hủ nước đường

Generally, tofu and douhua are made from soymilk by the addition of a coagulant.2016 April, Murekatete Nicole, Zhang Caimeng, Hategekimana Joseph, Karangwa Eric, Hua Yufei, “Soybean Oil Volume Fraction Effects on the...
Delicious douhua (soy bean curd) and soy milk located in Dongmen Market2017, Pei-ling Guo, Good Eye City Guide Taipei, page 127:

Borrowed from Mandarin 豆花 (dòuhuā).

What does douhua mean?: Douhua means a Chinese dessert made with very soft tofu; tofu pudding.
What is douhua in Indonesian?: Douhua in Indonesian is kembang tahu, tahwa. See Douhua meaning in Indonesian.
How do you use douhua in a sentence?: Generally, tofu and douhua are made from soymilk by the addition of a coagulant.
What part of speech is douhua?: Douhua is a noun.

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