Thursday, May 18, 2006

Can't really believe this




Credits to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yong_tao_foo

Yong tau foo (酿豆腐; pinyin: niàngdòufǔ; Cantonese: yong4dao9foo4, also Yong tao foo, Yong tau fu, Yong tau hu etc) is a soup dish with Hakka origins commonly found in Singapore and Malaysia. In Malaysia, the Ampang region of Kuala Lumpur is particularly famous for this dish.

Yong tao foo is essentially a soup containing a varied selection of food including fish balls, crab sticks, bittergourds, cuttlefish, lettuce, lady's fingers, as well as chilli, and various forms of fresh produce, seafood and meats common in Chinese cuisine. Some of these items, such as bittergourd and chilli, are usually filled with fish paste. The diner selects their favorites and they are then sliced into bite-size pieces, cooked briefly in boiling water and then served either in broth as soup or with the broth in a separate bowl. The dish can be eaten by itself or with any choice of egg or rice noodles, or bee hoon. Another variation of this dish is to serve it with laksa. Essential accompaniments are spicy chili sauce and a distinctive brown sauce for dipping.

The dish is popular among the health conscious people because they can select the vegetable items and avoid meat and oily food.

DIDN'T KNOW THEY HAVE YONG TAU FOO LISTED IN WIKIPEDIA...SPEECHLESS!

9 comments:

SuLee said...

good revenge!!! now im craving for it!!!

haha did u know my family run yong tau fu biz? from my hakka grandpa , my mom, now my uncle, aunty...

rightmywrong said...

WAH!Then you should seriously consider tapping into the business in canada...call it the umphhh-bang yong tau foo!

Can you make me some of those good stuff? haha..i wan some of those fried fish paste wrapped using beancurd skin...dunno whats the name but damn good...

im hakka too but im of the lazy bunch..haha

Nico C. said...

Wikipedia is kinda open to others to add and change stuff...anyone can edit it ... so probably some malaysian or singaporean added this bit...

SuLee said...

noo, i cant make those, is alot of work if u wanna make it from scratch! esp the filling.....hehe maybe i should try making!! just simply..

rightmywrong said...

whats the secret with the fish paste? I know some hakka yong tau foo has those "harm yue"..

Okay I wanna order bittergourd and those fried stuff I told you...hehe..

SuLee said...

erm, im not sure wat kinda fish they used,some kinda cheap fish im sure, gotto ask my mom...hehe order ill send all the way to SF , if i do make it, i ll prolly gonna use pork...hehe come la!! ill make some for u

rightmywrong said...

I want! I saw Darryl cooking on your blog! He has to cook for me too! In fact, the two of you gotta cook for me =P I'll be good, sit and watch. =)

SuLee said...

hehe sure,but u know what!? when i told him today that im gonna make yong tau fu, and he was like"ok" not even a "wow" or anything...

that coming from an ampang boy huh

rightmywrong said...

haha ungrateful ampang lad! Don't worry, I will eat the yong tau foo from the pictures you captured and put on your blog