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Rubing () is a firm, acid-set, non-melting, fresh goat milk
farmer cheese In the United States, farmer cheese (also farmer's cheese or farmers' cheese) is pressed curds, an unripened cheese made by adding rennet and bacterial starter to coagulate and acidify milk. Farmer cheese may be made from the milk of cows, sh ...
made in the Yunnan Province of
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by people of the Bai and Sani (recognized as a branch of the Yi in China) minorities.Mozzarella of the East: Cheese-making and Bai culture
/ref> Its Bai name is ''youdbap'', meaning "goat's milk".


Production

Rubing is made by mixing heated goat's milk and a souring agent, traditionally a mixture called ''năiténg'' (奶藤; lit. 'milk vine') made from a cultivated vine.


Preparation and serving

Rubing is most often steamed with local ham or salt beef, or sometimes served
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with salt and chilli. It may also be stir fried with vegetables (typically a mix of broccoli and
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), in a similar manner to how other mainland Chinese rural cuisine tends to stir-fry harder forms of tofu.photo
/sup> It is also pan fried and served with alternative flavourings such as dry chilli powder, salt, and Sichuan pepper powder.


Relationship to other cheeses

Rubing is roughly similar to paneer and queso blanco, but with the aroma of fresh goat's milk.


See also

* Yunnan cuisine *
Rushan (cheese) ''Rushan'' () is a cow's milk cheese of Yunnan, China. It is traditionally made by the Bai people, who call it (or , in another dialect of Bai), the etymology of which is unclear. Freshly made cows’ milk curds are pulled and stretched i ...
* List of goat milk cheeses


References

Chinese cheeses Acid-set cheeses Goat's-milk cheeses Yunnan cuisine {{Cheese-stub