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Chouyandou, 'stinky salt beans' (Huai River natto-like soybean)臭盐豆
Chouyandou is a sticky, strong-smelling Bacillus soybean from the Huai River basin, close to Japanese natto. Soaked yellow soybeans are steamed, seeded with Bacillus subtilis or simply wrapped hot in cloth and buried in straw, and kept warm until they grow a white film and long threads. The beans are seasoned to taste, after-ripened in the cold and eaten fresh or dried.
DocumentedSoy and legumes27 h – 2.9 days
Recipe
Amounts from a sourceThe farmhouse method in a 2023 draft group standard; factories spray about 1 ml of culture per kg of raw beans instead.
Optional; dissolved in 50 ml of water at 38–45 °C[CGAPA-cyd]
Salt, chilli and other seasonings
Added to taste when the beans are taken out[CGAPA-cyd]
Starter
defined B. subtilis culture, or none in the straw-nest (wudou) method
Total time across the recorded steps: 27 h – 2.9 days
Start
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What changes:Soybeans soak until they double in weight
Step 1 of 6
Soak
Time
7–24 h
Reported
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
B. subtilis
Bacillus subtilis
Output: soaked beans.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Chouyandou is a sticky, strong-smelling Bacillus soybean from the Huai River basin, close to Japanese natto. Soaked yellow soybeans are steamed, seeded with Bacillus subtilis or simply wrapped hot in cloth and buried in straw, and kept warm until they grow a white film and long threads. The beans are seasoned to taste, after-ripened in the cold and eaten fresh or dried. Made in 6 steps over 27 h – 2.9 days. The longest step, keep warm until stringy, takes 14–36 h (T/CGAPA group standard 2023) and runs at 35–52 °C (T/CGAPA group standard 2023). Bacillus subtilis does most of the fermenting.
Chouyandou is made like natto, but farm households traditionally made it only in the cold season and could ferment it with no starter by burying the hot beans in straw.
Wudou (straw-nest method, no starter)Hot beans wrapped in white cotton cloth or a new clay basin and buried in kitchen straw, wheat-ear straw being best, at 20–30 °C for 3–4 h as written in the draft [CGAPA-cyd].
Safety
A 2023 consultation draft of a group standard says factory wet chouyandou must stay at 5 °C or below through storage and sale, with a 3-month shelf life, and must meet China's soybean-product standard GB 2712 [CGAPA-cyd]. In a DNA sequencing study of pooled samples, B. cereus was abundant in kinema from Bhutan, a related Himalayan Bacillus soybean food, while B. subtilis led in kinema from India and Nepal; the study did not test chouyandou (Kharnaior and Tamang 2022).
Hazards the sources name: Bacillus cereus, abundant by DNA sequencing of pooled kinema from Bhutan, a related Himalayan Bacillus soybean ferment (not studied in chouyandou).