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[1] Eating tofu is a slang which means flirting or harassing someone (sexually).
The origin of the term: It's said that tofu shops usually were run by wife and husband in the old days. Female boss in a tofu shop took tofu as their daily food, which made their skin tender and smooth. On one hand their fine skin helped attract more customers, on the other hand it showed some kind of coquetry to them. Men liked to take "to eat tofu" as an excuse to go to a tofu shop and flirt with the female boss there, verbally or even physically. Therefore, wives, feeling jealous, scolded their husbands, "Today, you went to eat tofu again?!" Now, "eating tofu" has become a word to describe man flirts with woman.
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