Fermented tofu (soybean curd) is widely distributed in East and Southeast Asia. It is known in mainland China and Taiwan as toufu-ru, toufu-ju, furu, rufu, sufu, funan, fuyu, tou-yu, tauzu, in the Philippines as tafuri, in Malaysia as tau ju, in Thailand as tau-fu yee, and in Vietnam as chao or dau-phu-nyu. In Japan, fermented tofu, known as tofuyo, is found only in Okinawa Prefecture (Shurtlef...
