Yu’s Almond Tofu

Posted in Chinese, Desserts on January 20th, 2008 by mei| | .

almondtofu.jpgYes, I know. I haven’t been blogging. I’ve just been too busy with work. Truth be told, I’ve also been spending a wad of cash on another hobby of mine, photography, and so I’m lacking the wherewithal to grubstake my grub habits. (Check out my new flickr page here!) I’m also planning an uber big backpacking trip this year so that’s going to eat up mucho moolah and I’m going to have to live like a Jew. That’s not to say that I haven’t been eating out at all. Actually, I have but back to the whole spending too much resources on my other hobby… I simply don’t have time! However, props to my tech guy - Mr. Bobino - for reminding me not to abandon my fan base. So allow me to make my super smooth segue into today’s blog post…

Yu’s Almond Tofu. If you like almonds, you’ll love this place. The store sells almonds in its multifarious forms - almond crips (杏仁瓦片 - 129nt), almond nougat (杏仁牛軋糖 - 129nt), almond popsicles (杏仁冰棒 - 25nt), almond milk (杏仁汁 - 105nt/bottle; 42nt/cup), almond shaved ice (杏仁雪花冰 - 60nt to 80nt depending on toppings), almond milk with tapioca pearls (杏仁汁加珍珠 - 48nt/cup), purple rice porridge with almond tofu (紫米杏仁豆腐 - 58nt)… My personal faves are the almond tofu (杏仁豆腐 - 43nt) and the almond tofu in warm almond milk (熱杏仁豆腐 - 53nt; ad pictured top left). I just had the latter and it was awesome. It contained light but chewy pieces of almond tofu bathing in a delicious pool of mildly sweet almond milk. You can have the option of sprinkling the concoction with grounded almonds as well (I nixed that). You could also choose to add extra toppings for 5nt a pop. I chose my standard chinese dessert toppings : taro and sweet potato nuggets and pearl barley (I like to add these into my hot red bean and grass jelly soups as well).

Just writing about this is making me hungry again. Blarg.

Yu’s Almond Tofu 于記杏仁豆腐
Tong Hua Store - No. 109, Tong Hua Street 通化街109號 02 2378 1898
Guang Fu Store - No. 5-1, Guang Fu North Road 02 2756 5395
Heng Yang Store - No. 101, Heng Yang Street (Ximen MRT exit 4) 衡陽路101號 (西門捷運4號出口) 02 2370 1998
Le Hua Store - No. 168, Yong Ping Road, Yonghe (within Le Hua Night Market) 永和市永平路168號 (樂華夜室內) 02 3233 3933

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