Dinner #28: Fried Tofu with Black Bean & Chili Sauce

Wednesday, March 25, 2009: For a little change of pace tonight I decided to go with tofu as the main course tonight. I really like tofu and everytime I have it wonder why I don't cook it more often. The source of tonight's tofu is Kylie Kwong. Emily & I first heard about her from Delicious magazine. We were going on vacation to New Zealand & Australia and they said we had to stop by her restaurant, Billy Kwong while in Sydney.

We were excited to go & planned to get there early as the restaurant doesn't take reservations. We showed up at 6:30 hoping to get in later in the evening but at that point they were already booked for the night and not taking any more reservations (apparently you need to show up around 5pm to get a table sometime that night.

A few years later I happened to pick up her Simple Chinese Cooking cookbook and this recipe comes from it.

Below is a picture of the tofu dish.



The recipe calls for salted black beans but I didn't have any (I need to make another trip to chinatown) so I used some black bean paste I had instead. The resulting sauce turned out really well. We also had stir fried bean sprouts (not pictured) which were very tasty. I tried to see if I could find the recipe anywhere online for either of these but didn't have any luck.