Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a soft, bland, white cheeselike food, high in protein content, made from curdled soybean milk: used in Asian and vegetarian cookery.
noun
- unfermented soya-bean curd, a food with a soft cheeselike consistency made from soya-bean milk
soy bean curd, 1880, from Japanese tofu, from Chinese doufu, from dou “beans” + fu “rotten.”