"...it is call'd teu fu, that is paste of [soy beans]. i did not see how they made it. they drew the milk out of the [soy beans], and turning it, make great cakes of it like cheeses, as big as a large sive, and five or six fingers thick. all the mass is as white as the very snow, to look to nothing can be finer...."
- friar domingo navarrete, 17th century