Re: Would-be mums told to avoid soya

Neither of us used the word traditional. We discussed whether or not
this was the way she ate soy growing up and if her family ate soy as
Westerners knew it, or only fermented. She said no, it was really the
Japanese who eat fermented soy, but I know that's so, since tempeh is a
Japanese word, but also because among my Japanese aquaintances
fermented soy *is* eaten but is not the only soy they eat. She said soy
milk is used and drunk by everyone, but she doesn't think it's
fortified or with added calcium as it is here, and she thought that was
probably a cause of the high rates of osteoporosis there.

She added her parents bought tofu in blocks from street merchants who
come around selling it, and it was the same style tofu we see here in
vats in the Chinese grocers. She said some people still make their own
in Hong Kong, but mostly it's a thing bought from these small business
vendors and every family buys from a favourite vendor who comes to them
and a few others.


Zee

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