Friday, October 27, 2006

So you think you're eating bean curds

We have been a little amazed by the varieties of soy bean products available here. Not only is there the basic soft versus firm tofu, there is also fresh or packaged, different sizes and textures, and whole rows of assorted flavors and pre-made dishes.
What's a little hard on us though, is that we can't always read the package (looks like Chinese to me) so sometimes we end up with a bit of a surprise.

Take this picture for example.
Can you see the yellowish tinge and shiny/glossy finish to the pieces? We thought we were getting some plain, white, firm tofu but there you go.

Actually this worked out quite well though because we were trying to make a saag paneer and while we didn't have any paneer, this stuff was much closer than tradional tofu.

Turns out it tasted pretty good too. Posted by Picasa

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Eh... what kinda tofu was it?

ShamrockJews said...

This is a mighty fine question and having now bought the stuff twice (both times by accident) you would think we would have taken the time to translate the label so that we would know what we are eating. However, if you did think that you would be wrong.
Still, we will try to find it again, translate it, and let everyone know.

Anonymous said...

Could it possibly be egg tofu?