70后土汉堡 (Fried Bun Smelly Tofu Sandwiches)
Lunch @ '70后饭吧' in Shanghai.
Truthfully, I was expecting myself to hate this. Smelly Tofu, thinly sliced, fried, sandwiched in a fried bun, and eaten, dunk in sweet condensed milk. I was trying to combine all the flavour molecules in my head and trying to make sense!
But tasting it, dispel all worries. Yeah, it did smell a little 'funky' when the order arrived, as you expect from Smelly Tofu. My mate took a quick bite before I did (as I was busy taking photographs) and he did not scrunch up his face.....then again, he is local.
I dunk one piece into the condensed milk and took a huge chomp. (Why be sissy and go for little nibbles?) And the world did not end.
There was a faint wisp of that funky barnyard-fecal note that Smelly Tofu delivers, but as it was sliced so thin, the sweetness and the richness of the condensed milk, actually masked the offnotes rather effectively. In the end, I was more or less, having fried buns and condensed milk, with just a hint of 'something'.
Surprisingly tasty.
70后土汉堡 (Fried Bun Smelly Tofu Sandwiches)
Lunch @ '70后饭吧' in Shanghai.
Truthfully, I was expecting myself to hate this. Smelly Tofu, thinly sliced, fried, sandwiched in a fried bun, and eaten, dunk in sweet condensed milk. I was trying to combine all the flavour molecules in my head and trying to make sense!
But tasting it, dispel all worries. Yeah, it did smell a little 'funky' when the order arrived, as you expect from Smelly Tofu. My mate took a quick bite before I did (as I was busy taking photographs) and he did not scrunch up his face.....then again, he is local.
I dunk one piece into the condensed milk and took a huge chomp. (Why be sissy and go for little nibbles?) And the world did not end.
There was a faint wisp of that funky barnyard-fecal note that Smelly Tofu delivers, but as it was sliced so thin, the sweetness and the richness of the condensed milk, actually masked the offnotes rather effectively. In the end, I was more or less, having fried buns and condensed milk, with just a hint of 'something'.
Surprisingly tasty.