I don’t subscribe to any religion, but if I were forced to, my reply could possibly be ‘Food and I’m sure I have many fellow believers’. ;p A branch-off of it for tofu devotees would be Tofulism. I love tofu and most of the time I’ll eat tofu in whatever form it comes in.


I came across this Tofulism outlet when I ended up in Tung Chung after finishing a hike in Lantau Island. Ivan of Food Recentrunes joked that this is the religion of old lecherous men. Why? Because in Chinese, the phrase ‘吃豆腐’ (eat tofu)’ means to take advantage of a woman in a sexual way. Ha.


Well, see it any way you want, but Tofulism sells tofu in many forms. You can get soya bean milk (豆浆) in various flavours – plain, papaya, mango, watermelon, ginger, green bean, red bean. You can also choose to have soya beancurd (豆腐花) with some of mango, green bean and red bean.


Those jars on the shelf are fermented soya beans (南乳) which is used in more commonly used in stewing and stir-frying meat and vegetable.


Pieces of pan-fried tofu are also sold together with these pieces of vegetables (sweet potato, green chilli and eggplant) that have been dipped in batter and deep-fried. I didn’t think these looked very appetising. I tried the plain soya bean milk and a few pieces of the pan-fried tofu. The soya bean milk was fresh but I thought the tofu wasn’t particularly good. Five pieces of tofu cost me HKD11 and the soya milk was HKD6. The food was a little disappointing, but nevertheless I like the idea of a place devoted just to tofu!
Tofulism
G/F Shop No. 8
Fu Tung Shopping Centre
Tung Chung, Lantau Island
Hong Kong