Yong Tau Foo

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

According to http://www.goodfood.sg, Yong Tau Foo, which is also spelled 'Yong Tau Hu', 'Yong Tow Foo' and 'Yong Tow Hu', is an assortment of pre-cooked ingredients mostly made from a soya beancurd base (tau hu, tau kwa) and vegetables such as kangkong and mushrooms. The customer selects the individual ingredients in an a la carte manner and the server reheats them with the choice of noodles in hot boiling soup. The most common noodles are thick yellow noodles and bee hoon (vermicelli), served in the soup, or in a separate bowl with the ingredients.

The only term that I could think of to accurately describe it is "it's a dimsum lover's perfect meal." Every person's yong tau fu can be different. For a standard order that usually costs $3.50 you would need to choose a minimum of 6 ingredients from a wide variety of dimsum, fresh or stuffed veggies, noodles & seaweeds. If you wish to add more, then you would have to pay a small sum for each ingredient that would be added, which is around 70cents.

I normally pick mushrooms, bean sprouts, kikiam, blackpepper squidballs, stuffed bellpepper/ampalaya & kuay teow noodles with the regular soup. Some people use Laksa (spicy coconut milk soup), which is also tasty but I prefer the regular soup base because it's more healthy.

This is what I eat most of the time whenever I out of the house. So for those who really know me well, this would mean that it's about 90% of the time =D
I highly recommend that you give it a try when you guys visit Singapore.