Tofu Store Ii

Cheap Eats 2006, a decade on

January 25, 2016

We were heading inward to Richmond for a gig on Mon night, thence decided we'd accept the chance to revisit The Tofu Shop every bit business office of our Cheap Eats 2006 project. This house has been trading since the early on 1980s, thence it's no existent surprise that it's nonetheless going strong.

The basic ordering procedure hasn't changed since our first visit inward 2008 - y'all pick your plate size in addition to thence select from the bain marie dishes until they've filled it upwards for you. The prices get got gone up, but non past times a ridiculous amount - a pocket-size plate costs $12, a medium $17 in addition to a large $26 (compared alongside $8, $15 in addition to $17 dorsum inward the day).

I ordered a medium dish in addition to allow the staff locomote out a pick for me - at that spot was lots of practiced materials inward this bowl, including: broccoli alongside sweetness chilli tempeh, spud in addition to black-eyed beans, chilli jam tofu, chickpea curry, baked zucchini alongside paprika, feta in addition to garlic (this was the exclusively non-vegan dish) in addition to pickled cabbage salary alongside celery.

Cindy had a pocket-size bowl in addition to picked out her ain flavor combo, topping things off alongside a large dollop of tofu dip in addition to pickled ginger. The nutrient is fantabulous - fresh, salubrious in addition to loaded upwards alongside vegetables. It's real reminiscent of Munsterhaus (which originally had to a greater extent than or less form of Tofu Shop connection), correct downward to the same tempeh broccoli dish. Smooshing all the dishes into 1 plate makes the flavor combinations a picayune tricky, but it somehow seems to locomote okay.

We left plenty infinite to endeavour dessert - a slice of the apple tree crumble alongside a serve of vanilla malted soy ice-cream ($9). They've ditched the soft-serve that they used to offer, but nonetheless get got a pick of v soy ice-cream flavours (4 of which are vegan). I quite liked the ice-cream, but it was a fleck also tofu-y for Cindy. The apple tree crumble was pretty bland, sadly.

The Tofu Shop is a reliable source of healthy, flavoursome food. It's been dishing out the goods to Richmond people for decades in addition to the steady flow of people dropping past times to catch takeaway suggests that things are nonetheless going strong. The prices are a fleck steep, in addition to the infinite itself is nowhere nigh every bit prissy every bit the otherwise similar Munsterhaus, but it's a speedy in addition to delicious alternative if you're inward the neighbourhood.

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Read virtually our start see to The Tofu Shop here. Since our visit, it's been positively reviewed on vego blogs In the Mood for Noodles in addition to Poppet's Window, Gastrology, I Talk Too Much My Mouth Hurts, New International Students, Who Told You That?, mochii eats, Olive Sundays in addition to MEL: HOT OR NOT (although at that spot are a few complaints virtually the prices). KT Eats the World in addition to Sweet in addition to Sour Fork were less impressed.

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The Tofu Shop
78 Bridge Rd, Richmond
9429 6204
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Accessibility:  The door has a pocket-size lip owing to the street-level incline. Things are pretty spacious inside, alongside exclusively high stools to sit down on or a lower exterior tabular array (see altitude photo). We ordered in addition to paid at a low-ish counter. We didn't see the toilet.