“Fish tofu”
When my friend Melissa told me a few weeks ago that she discovered something called “chicken tofu” at the SM Supermarket in Megamall, I was more than a little intrigued. She also told me that Italian sausage, the kind used as pizza topping, could be bought by the gram and not pre-packed as most processed meats are. You can just imagine my excitement when I found “fish tofu” and Italian sausage at Cherry’s Supermarket last night. Cherry’s is much nearer to our house than Megamall. Unlike what Melissa found in Megamall, Cherry’s Italian sausage was pre-packed–but that’s okay. I want to use it for spaghetti sauce and that means I’d need lots. Despite not being able to find “chicken tofu”, I was still very excited because there was “fish tofu.”
Tofu is an inexpensive food item. My husband smirked at the PhP 140.00 price tag of the “fish tofu” but I wanted to try it. I mean the idea of tofu with minced fish is intriguing. So I took a pack and placed it in our shopping cart. Below, the “fish tofu” in its wrapping right after I took it out of the freezer at around 11.30 this morning. I was going to have it for lunch.
Below, the “fish tofu” minus the plastic wrapping. Strangely enough, the ingredients were not listed in the wrapping. Late as it was, having already bought the thing, I did wonder if it contained MSG which I really dislike. At any rate, the directions at the back of the package said they could be fried, steamed or dropped in hot broth. I decided to fry them. And because I wanted the cooked dish to look really attractive, I even took the extra effort of pan frying only two sides of each cube instead of deep frying everything. I wanted the top and bottom a darker shade of brown than the middle part.
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Hi! I agree with you. I myself have bought one thinking its good for our health and I was shocked when I tasted it! Its a fish ball shaped like a Tofu.
Tsk…Tsk….
malou
they should have at least specified the ingredients. for transparency’s sake.
I cooked something similar with fish tofu, regular tofu and crab balls i bought from megamall. I fried them first to give a cruch before mixing it with kang kong and carrots and some teriyaki sauce. I’m trying to remember how it taste like….maybe i’ll buy again. The one i bought looks imported or at least the guy doing the sales talk does.
Isn’t it illegal not to list ingredients on the packaging, as well as nutritional information? or is that optional?
At least the sauce is perfect with it.
sorry to hear about that
i would be toooo upset if that happens to me, pero hey, we all learn our lessons… next time, make sure the ingredients are printed on the label. i love your blog and your extra effort of browning just two sides is simply divine. keep up the good work!
I agree with you only that i haven’t tasted it.
but, oh… it looks so yummy!
peterb, i’ll try buying from Megamall too. But I’ll make sure the ingredients are listed.
Chevee, as far as I know, the ingredients are required to be listed. am not so sure about the nutritional info.
you’re right, penelope.
and the cooked dish didn’t turn out badly either. it’s just that i was really disappointed. i felt cheated.
thanks, kusinera.
i try.
LOL mimi, i’m sure it would have tasted better if it were real tofu.
Connie, the ones in megamall are displayed on trays. There’s fish tofu, lobster balls and around other stuff i can’t recall. It’s being marketed as “make your own hotpot”. No ingredients listed. It’s being sold per 100 grams i think. 100 grams at P37.50 i think. I asked them if it was made locally, and they told me that all of it was imported from Japan.
You know, in Chinese cuisine, there is such a thing as (if the Chinese term is roughly translated) tofu “skin”. There are dishes that contain this, not containing the soft tofu that we all know — it’s usually used as a meat replacement for vegetarian dishes.
Could be that the manufacturers are Chinese and fish tofu literally meant fishballs wrapped in tofu wrappers.
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i’ll check that out, pterb. thanks.
bunny, it wasn’t anything like that. there was no “wrapping”. it was like textured cubed fishballs. i’ve used tofu skins before in soup and they are more “rough” and the color is darker.
Wow, what would’ve happened if you and your family were vegans!?! The vegans are sure to have ‘raised hell’ here in the states.
Yes, it’s an understatement that that’s false advertising.
Connie: Then goodness gracious, now we don’t really want to know what that wrapping is truly made of, don’t we? Haha!
shirley, sadly, consumer rights are not a priority with any government this country ever had, present one included.
LOL bunny. THough I’m sure there some fish in them because our cat ate the ones i did not bother cooking.
Hello sassy, interesting!
Hi relly.
Interesting and maddening? LOL
hi there! i know this is kinda late, but i’ll post it anyway. try Hakka brand of fish tofu, i don’t know if there’s one in the Philippines. it is 65% fish meat..i’ve tasted it here in Australia and it is superb! it’s made in Malaysia
the best tofu I have tasted is actually the egg tofu in singapore..sometimes they also call it gold coin..
I believe that this fish tofu is just like the fish ball or cuttlefish ball. It’s made of some mashed white fleshed fish and lots of cornstarch and does not have tofu at all.
I agree with your sentiments I bought a pack too few months ago and got disappointed that it wasn’t a fish tofu at all as what it claims … misleading product
Omg, I told my mom to buy tofu the other day since I’m a noob of the vegan lifestyle and she ended up buying fish tofu! Since vegans don’t eat meat. period. she didn’t understand why I was freaking out, so now at least there’s a recipe for this so she can eat it. The ingredients did include fish meat and soy protein, so basically you were right: fish tofu = fish balls.