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milk” and tosufu ( dou- fu- ru) means “molded soymilk.” Because of
the numerous dialects used in China and the difficulties of phonetic
translation from Chinese into English, sufu has appeared in literature
under many different names. e following synonyms for sufu in the
literature have been found: sufu, tosufu, fu- ru, dou- fu- ru, tou- fu- ru,
toe- fu- ru, jiang- dou- fu, fu- yu, and foo- yue. Sufu is also known as
tofuyo, nyu- fu, or fu- nyu in Japan (Yasuda and Kobayashi, 1987), chao
in Vietnam, ta- huri in the Philippines, taokaoan in Indonesia, and
tao- hu- yi in ailand (Beuchat, 1995). ese names confuse Western
people as well as the Chinese. Officially, sufu should be named furu
(or doufu ...