Little Tokyo is a neighborhood in downtown LA that has blossomed in the last seven years or so. It is the go-to place for everything Japanese, including tofu and the Tofu Festival, where incidentally, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Tofu, the man who singlehandedly brought tofu to America. What a feat! He told me the whole story too. How he had to smuggle the first blocks in past customs, who of course would assume it to be some kind of chemist ploy, by stuffing them into socks lined with wax.
"No officer, that's just my special anti-fungus sock," he had to explain.
Of course, not even the bravest customs agent would dare venture his hand into that. And so, the first squares of white, squishy Japanese tofu were to make it into the US to be discovered only by the adventurous and brave.
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