Mouthing Off | Is stinky tofu ban for US restaurant discrimination or just lack of common scents?

09/04/2026 2 Views

Is the freedom to stink a right or a privilege?

I started to ponder this question after a report last week that a Taiwanese restaurant in California had been ordered to stop selling stinky tofu after repeated complaints from a resident.

Let me emphasise that these objections came from just one unrelenting individual. The neighbours in the commercial plaza did not seem to mind. Staff at the beauty salon next door said they could not smell the funky fermented bean curd.

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