/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13579587
Silken dofu, with arnato, and tapioca pearls.

ultra super mega firm. shoved up my ass

>>13579587
I don't.

>>13579587
That looks terrible.

>>13579610
It looks better with sauce and veggies.
But I wanted to show the fresh-out-the-wok tofu realness.

>>13579597
>arnato
I googled and found nothing
Did you mean annatto?

>>13579587
Why are processed tofu products you buy at the store (meat alternatives) so shitty when fresh tofu can be made great? Maybe I'm buying bad brands, if so is there any brands that are guaranteed tasty?

>>13579679
Meant
>arnibal (coconut caramel sweetener)

>>13579687
Is that taho?
Are you pinoy, anon?

>>13579747
Yea taho, and no, but I like taho.

>>13579756
Actually I like a lot of Filipino foods, and not just taho. Unpopular opinion on /ck/, but some Filipino food dishes are my favourite, and I could probably eat them all day if I could get them.

>>13579587
mapo tofu

>>13579587
More like nofu

>>13579777
Filipino here, fuck that shit. Filipino food is trash cuisine. It's the Banquet meals of asian food. In no other culture is sugar and spaghetti considered good, nor do they put spam in everything. They also lack presentation in even the most basic sense.

Every good Filipino restaurant in socal is fusion for a reason.

>>13579682
well when you take something that actually tastes good and make it processed it lowers the quality drastically. so imagine taking something that is really really bad like tofu and then processing it. mmmm

>>13579587
throw it out and replace it with steak. sometimes pork. occasionally chicken. never fish.

>>13580359
I like food from Cebu, and Luzon, but the Muslim cuisine is shit tier.
Outside of balut most non Muslim Filipino food is the best food in Asia with Thailand at a close second.
>sugar, and spaghetti
What? I haven't had that. I ate mostly
>Lumpia
>lechon
>pancit
>Bulalo
>Curry curry
>BBQ sticks
>Roast chicken
and a lot of other food while I was there.

Monitoring this thread- a vegetarian friend left some tofu in my fridge and told me to just eat it, what do?
Any recipies would be appreciated.
I have a pressure cooker and vegetable oil to fry with- if all else fails I was thinking of just pressing as much mositure as I can out of it, panko breading it, and then frying it into bootleg tenders.

>>13580359
>Jollibee food is all of Philippine cuisine

Dry, use a tofu press (or something heavy) to drain the remaining water, marinate, carefully fry. Tastes best like that but I'm usually too lazy so I just fry and deglaze it with soy sauce or something.

>>13580498
Just make some tofu vegetable curry with rice if you have the spices.

>>13580626
I would definitely try the tofu a little bit though, otherwise I find tofu a bit off putting, but that is just me.

>>13580359
>In no other culture is sugar and spaghetti considered good
I did wonder when anon said he meant brown sugar syrup

>>13580359
>In no other culture is sugar and spaghetti considered good,
The other one is Japan
>nor do they put spam in everything.
Hawaii

>>13579587
I bake it, ends up very crispy.

Will tofu go good with dog meat?
Am from Switzerland btw.

Stir fry with soy sauce and mushrooms

>>13579587
up my ass

>>13579587
Grilled. I use hot brine then press it to get out extra moisture. Brush on a little oil to keep it from sticking. Plain in miso soup.

>>13580498
Soak it in hot brine for 15 mins before you press it to fry it. It's pretty bland, so you can season it however you want.

>>13581155
Recipe pls.

I always get
>tofu steak with Ponzu (or maybe eel sauce not sure) at the izakaya
It's good. You assholes should try it.

What's with the vegan/vegan-y threads lately? Is someone doing something futile and silly with our board or what?

>>13581215
In case it is, I just wanna say that, no, were not what ever they told you this board is.

>>13581215
I'm not vegan, or vegetarian. I just like tofu steak.

>>13579587
Steamed! With soy sauce, sesame oil and rice wine! With lots and lots of premium ginger! Then topped with crispy fried garlic and onions out of the steamer! Its THE best shit, I swear

>>13579587
Steamed! With soy sauce, sesame oil and rice wine! With lots of premium ginger! Then topped with crispy fried garlic and onions out of the steamer! Its THE best shit, I swear

>>13579587
I really like agedashi tofu. It was really disappointing from my last delivery order though. I don't expect it to be as good as right out of the kitchen, but it wasn't even agedashi tofu. It was just fried tofu strips (kind of like pic related but more fried) that got somewhat spongy but not so thoroughly fried that the sponginess was good. It was just in between and tasted unfortunately reminiscent of tofegan products.

>>13579587
I tofu your mother's ass.

>>13579747
>buying and eating warm slop from a bucket on the street in the Philippines
Yikes

>>13579608
/thread

>>13581210
>eel sauce
It's been so long since I put fish sauce on my tofu.
Eel sauce though... never had but I imagine it's the supreme umami.
>>13582007
The website I screenshot made it sound appetizing but it does sound like literal slop.
>>13581215
This feels like an "ok boomer" moment
>>13581835
>agedashi
Is this the schwann's of Asian food delivery?

>>13583311
>The website I screenshot made it sound appetizing but it does sound like literal slop
Try mixing
>kinugoshi-dōfu (絹漉し豆腐)
>kuromitsu (黒蜜)
and
>black boba tapioca pearls
in an
>earthen donburi
Served warm, and eaten with
>Duck spoon (散蓮華)
for a superior version.

>>13579587
I like fake tofu made out of chicken. Tastes better than real tofu!

>>13579587
As a whole food vegan, I don't.

>>13583398
I used to eat this as a kid in Japan.

>>13579587
My landlord likes to gift me homemade Chinese food. So I'm fond of tofu soup with cilantro which is nice to have in cold Toronto nights while catching up on my anime.

>>13579587
squeeze water out as much as possible
toss in cornstarch
fry in oil until crispy
toss in sauce of choice
eat with noodles + broccoli

>>13579587
I don't care for tofu that much but mapo tofu is awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfsZwwrTFD4

>>13579587
Typically just fry in some sesame oil and then mix with a sauce or something. I should get more creative though

>>13579587
I don't

>>13583821
Based

>>13583311
Just a from local restaurant through Grub Hub. There are a lot of Japanese restaurants here. Agedashi is cubes (large ones based on what I've had) of silken tofu tossed in potato starch and quickly deep fried and served in a shallow amount of broth (kept on the side for delivery). The texture is completely different from strips of firm fried tofu.

>>13583398
The Japanese words really make it seem more mysterious, elegant, and gives off a folded over a thousand times traditional history.

>>13579587
I'm not a faggot, so I don't.

Press that bitch hard then ???

>>13584302
I don't ever coat or batter my tofu. I just cut the extra firm tofu into a dozen pieces and then fry it in peanut oil. I use a wok, but a flat bottom pan should work. Move the pieces around the pan to ensure none get burned. Flip once and set aside. Then cook your vegetables with mirin soy sauce and some hoisin at the end. Add the cooked tofu to the vegetables and stir to impart the flavors to it.

>>13580498
if you want to get really exciting and delay eating it, and if it's medium, you can freeze it, then take it out to thaw and water expanding will have torn big pockets making it extra spongy.
it has a grittier texture that is better for most things to stand out and also absorbs marinade better

I tofu like this

>>13585239
I had tofu like that at a thai restaurant and I didn't like it. It felt too airy. Like it was less tofu and more rice flour coating

>>13583402
mostly same, except I do eat a lot of pea protein veggie burgers from Trader Joe's and some other stuff.

>>13579587
that pictire looks like misery