Now there are stinky tofu in Nanjing, Shaoxing, Hubei, Anhui, Tianjin, Yunnan and other places, and the taste and practice vary with local eating habits. In addition to frying, there are steamed stinky tofu in Huangshan, duck oil stinky tofu in Yunnan, roasted stinky tofu and so on.

There are two kinds of stinky tofu in Nanjing, one is gray tender tofu, and the other is tile gray dried tofu. When the tender stinky tofu is fried to golden brown in the oil pan, it can be taken out of the pan. When eating, it is sprinkled with some Chili sauce, sesame sauce, garlic juice, coriander, shallots and Jiang Mo. It tastes crisp outside and tender inside, and it tastes delicious. Qianzi is a kind of gray stinky tofu, which needs to be fried in oil for a long time before it can be thoroughly fried. With the attractive fragrance spreading, small bubbles will appear on the surface of dried tofu, and when the color turns gray-black, it can be eaten. In qianzi, this stinky tofu is usually cut into small pieces and strung on bamboo sticks. After frying, it is directly brushed with the sauce prepared by the stall owner and eaten while it is hot. Crispy and delicious, quite chewy.

Nanjing Gaochun's stinky tofu is also somewhat different in practice. First, use good soybeans to make water tofu, and then press white water tofu into white dried tofu; Then add the dried bean curd to the salt water. The brine here is the most exquisite, and it needs to be made from the rotten kimchi juice left over from the second year. It is pure green and natural, does not contain any pigment, and emits a natural smell. Seal the jar when it is in full bloom, bury it in the ground and take it out in a few days. The white tofu has dried up. When you open the dried bean curd, you can see that it is blue and black from the inside out, and it smells strange, but after frying, the entrance is very fragrant.