homemade bean curd

A few days ago, I decided to make my own tofu :-) yes, japanese egg tofu!!!! I asked the chef in RMH & they said they used soya & eggs... Proportion? That's one thing they never use - measurements. To the pros, everything is "until it feels right".

so i googled "how to make homemade bean curd" & got the results. Off to pasar malam we went to buy the beans ^_^

Soak em

squish em

boil em! details here...

Now the real making of the bean curd begins!!! mwahahahahah!!!!

5 eggs - victims

skinned de-shelled alive!!!

beat em up & add in soya milk

don't forget to put salt on their wounds!

beat em till they bubble!!!

strain em too!

it should look like this by now :0

put em in the steamer

another layer

one on top of the other

cover & steam on low fire for eternity...

this is how it looks when done :-)

then fry em after cooled...

it'll turn out like this

or u can choose to fry them in cubes as well...

or quaters

fry some mushrooms...

add in chicken & chai poh

put it on the bean curd

make a soya based sauce...

garnish & serve!

Here's another bean curd topping varient which goes well with the egg tofu ^_^

we'll need scallops, dried...

chicken cut into strips

strips is to replace fish lips (which we'll blog about later) which we don't have...

boil in in a shallow broth, add oyster sauce...

our tofu!

add thickening agents - gum, glue or play dough

pour over the tofu & garnish :-)

I think i kinda prefer the 1st varient... usually, they'll add some seafood in as well but i'm poor & have no money to buy seafood & even if there IS seafood in the freezer, i wouldn't know where mummy hides them :-( anyway, I wanna make some more for my grannies!!! heheheh!!!