I love tofu. And in China that's an easy thing to enjoy, all kinds of tofu every day. In fact, it's only 1pm and I've already eaten four kinds of bean curd today. As soon as vegetarianism comes up over dinner, a Chinese person will tell me how it's great that I can eat so much tofu in China and that it's really good for skin. And it gives me the chance to show off my fancy tofu-related vocabulary while we discuss the different kinds and the best way to serve each one.
I know from my dietary studies in the UK that tofu is really good for women in general because it's full of lots of great girlie hormones. Yay for tofu. Yay for it being good for skin and for girls. Yay yay yay.
At dinner the other night this topic came up again. It is strange how seemingly random topics suddenly become very normal while I am in China. I flexed my vocab a bit more and said that I'd heard men shouldn't eat too much tofu because of the hormones. My Chinese companions looked at me like I was crazy. And then explained that 'eating tofu' had another meaning. My heart sank as I expected another "my boyfriend masturbates at 3:30" incident, see an earlier post for details. Thankfully, it was not of the same standard! 'Eating tofu' means touching the skin of a woman you don't know. So it's exactly right to say that a man shouldn't eat too much tofu, and that it impacts on hormones, but not for the way I imagined.
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