The Fire Palace is a famous scenic spot in Changsha, Hunan, and is also a well-known Hunan-style snack bar at home and abroad. Among its various snacks, the most noteworthy is the stinky tofu, which has attracted many celebrities, and Mao Zedong personally inscribed "The stinky tofu in Changsha Fire Palace smells stinky and tastes fragrant", which is now the brand's slogan. Thanks to the popularity of Fire Palace, its ready-to-eat stinky tofu has also captured many consumers, and its sales on mainstream e-commerce platforms have been at a high level.
 
Fire Palace stinky tofu is known as "black as ink, fragrant as mellow, tender as crisp, soft as velvet", and the brine recipe and process have been passed down from master to apprentice. The main raw materials of its brine are tempeh water, shiitake mushrooms with stems removed, bamboo shoots and white wine. The brine needs to be fermented at a temperature of more than 5 degrees Celsius, and the fire palace flexibly controls the brine to keep the fermentation state at all times according to the different temperatures of the season, and is not contaminated with oil and other sundries, so as to ensure that it will not deteriorate and rot.
 
In addition, the season is different, and the time for soaking the tofu embryo in the fire palace is also different, and the tofu blank is generally soaked for more than 6 hours in winter; In spring and autumn, it takes more than 3 hours, while in summer it takes about 2 hours. The stinky tofu embryo obtained from this is gradually as black as ink, and then fried in tea oil until the heat is just right, poured with chili, sesame oil and other condiments, the stinky tofu is fragrant and attractive, charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
 
After the expansion of the scale of the Fire Palace, due to the catering preferences of diners from all over the world, the stinky tofu does not smell strong, and the taste is softer, which is more acceptable to consumers who try it for the first time. The blank of Fire Palace Instant Stinky Tofu is no different from freshly fried stinky tofu, but after vacuum packaging, its taste will not be as crispy and soft as freshly fried, which is also a common problem of ready-to-eat stinky tofu brands. Fortunately, the tofu embryo itself has a good taste, and the flavor is even worse after heating. However, the chili pepper and other condiments will float on the surface, and the inside is not flavorful, and the taste is dry due to the lack of oil.
 
There are a lot of flavors of instant stinky tofu in the Fire Palace, with a total of 5 kinds of spicy, cumin, beef, pickled pepper and tempeh, and there is no difference in taste and price, mainly in seasoning and spiciness. The most spicy ones are spicy stinky tofu and pickled pepper stinky tofu, which are suitable for spicy lovers; Foodies with an average acceptance of spicy taste can try cumin; If you can't eat spicy food and want to try it, it's best to choose beef and tempeh. The price of the five stinky tofu in 228-gram bags is 25.8 yuan, and friends with tangled symptoms can choose a combination of multiple flavors, and the price of 512-gram bags is 48 yuan.