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I was surprised to hear that in traditional Chinese cooking, tofu was often used alongside meat (e.g. mapo tofu, which has tofu and pork.) How did it end up being used primarily as a meat substitute in Westernized Asian cooking?

by /u/Kufat in /r/AskHistorians

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