25/01/2011
津味雲吞麵 Jun Wei Wanton Noodles
旺角旺角道48號地舖
G/F, Mong Kok Road, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/tofu-that-can-be-played-with-e2145697
The place I wanted to eat had temporarily stopped producing the item I wanted to eat, so was drawn here by the skewers of tofu on the corner of their mini fast food counter outside the shop.
The tofu skewers reminded me of the gourmet fried tofu with prawn patty at Cheung chau, so I decided to go in for them.
As soon as I sat down, I had the same experience as nyankoburger they asked what I wanted without giving me a chance at looking at the menu.
Quoted from nyankoburger "店員一坐底就即克問你食乜，連餐牌都未see……
前前後後又問左4·5次，真系好煩" http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2127847
Since the waitress didn’t give me a menu, I moved to another table where there was a menu, anyway I couldn’t find anywhere on the menu listing those tofu skewers or the instant noodles featured on their poster.
The arrangement was so inconvenient, items were not all on the menu and you had to get up or turn your back to see what was available from the posters on the wall.
Anyway ordered the instant noodles with spicy sauce (jah jeung) and the tofu skewers, the tofu arrived first. NOTE: $17 is only for plain noodles!! For toppings on the list shown, it is an extra $6.
The tofu was very different to what I was expecting, it was reheated in water, and not fried.
This was the entertainment of the day, I assumed it was pieces of tofu on the skewer, but when I took the skewer out, I found out it was one Single piece of tofu that had been scored criss-cut style.
To my amazement, I picked it up with a pair of chopsticks to see how long it would stretch before breaking!!!
This was very cheap $3 only!!
Overall the taste of it was just like normal tofu, not too greasy.
The noodles came shortly after, it looked so different to the product picture.
The sauce was EXTREMELY spicy, it contained grounded chillies, the similar type you get for kimchi, as a matter of fact they have a lot of dishes with Kimchi even though it is serving chinese cuisine.
The soup was weird, it was peppery, and in the soup, I found a piece of white carrot, seaweed and Siraitia grosvenorii (lore horn guor 羅漢果 ).
lore horn guo in msg soup!
On the way out, I was greeted by this totally alien switch with alien writing to press some button for the door to open!!!
Usually doors have automatic sensors or user-friendly door pushes, but this one was totally out of this world.
I didn’t expect to take so many pictures at this place, as I was expecting crap.
While I was taking pictures of the tofu outside, I saw that the ones on the right were slightly different, so I got one to try, it was meant to be fish tofu, she put the skewer in with the fishballs to heat them up.
After a while, she took them out and handed them to me, and they were COLD!!!
But that was not as irritating as finding sharp pieces of grounded fishbone in it, considering I am not a cat! I ate the first one swallowing some grounded bone pieces, thinking the second one probably doesn’t contain them, but I was wrong, I was pierced by a sharp fish bone in my gum.
Luckily it was the front of my mouth, and not the back, or I wouldn’t know how to get it out!
There were more pieces of bone in my mouth too, which I had to get out, so for health and safety reasons I decided to give it to the dustbin, perhaps it would have enjoyed it more.
