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AVOID "Qui Lait Cru" Cheese Shop
There's still no topping Fromagerie Atwater, though it's on the other side of town.
Pink Salt aka Saltpeter needed
Hmmmmmmmmm...it's true, those of us without an uncle who knows what he's doing start at a distinct disadvantage.
:(
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
yup -
When I went, they had Pulmuone "Silken" but they didn't have "Extra-Silken".
House Extra-Soft is a lot closer to Pulmuone Extra-Silken than Pulmuone Silken is.
I've been looking all over town and Pulmuone Extra-Silken seems to have disappeared from the shelves altogether!!
As the owner at Epicerie Coreene et Japonaise said, the wholesaler seems very unreliable.
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
Thanks to everyone who wrote in with leads.
Here are the results:
I went to PA Supermarché on Fort but they seemed to have 20 kinds of non extra-silken tofu.
But the solution was Eden in La Cite, on Parc Ave. They had House-brand "Extra-soft" tofu. It's a Japanese brand, even if the package was (confusingly) in Korean. What they call "Extra-soft" turns out to be what Pulmuone called "Extra-silken". The taste was pretty good, and the texture excellent.
Overall, we still think Pulmuone Extra-Silken is best. But it's no longer available anywhere in town! So House Extra-Soft it is!
Thanks everyone!
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
Chowhounders are awesome!
We were all out of ideas two days ago, now we have like 10 leads!
thanks y'all...
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
The cylindrical thing is Korean, actually. Japanese people are scared of those!
Beggars can't be choosers, though, so you're right: we really should start experimenting with those.
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
I think it's ok, but my wife - who is a tofu fanatic - is convinced it's not really right: doesn't crumble properly, too hard, no taste at all. (She's convinced real tofu should have a faint sweetness and a subtle soybean flavor).
Listen, for mere mortals, normal silk tofu is easy to find.
But the fanatics demand organic extra-silken...and I stupidly went and married a fanatic!
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
Oooooh...but Kazu's a restaurant, right? You think they'd let me buy the tofu to take home?
Still, wonderful lead. Chowhounders are the best. Thank you!!
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Kazu
1862 Sainte-Catherine St W, Montreal, QC H3H 1M1, CA
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
Thank you! Very helpful...I'll go by later today.
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
http://www.pulmuone.co.kr/eng/Products/Tofu.asp?MENUCODE=M004&MENUSUBCODE=M004_01
I think it was that one.
It's a big company in Korea. The Organic Extra Silken stuff was great! Somebody else must carry this in Montreal...
Top Quality Japanese/Korean Silken Tofu, Where Art Thou?!?
OK, so my wife is from Japan, and she's a big Tofu Snob.
She even writes about it: http://www.menuism.com/blog/tofu-is-tofu-not-meat/
Seriously, she's obsessed.
We used to get a really nice Organic Extra-Silken korean tofu at Epicerie Coreene et Japonaise on Ste. Catherine West, just off the Forum. It was impossibly light and dreamy and would just collapse on contact with a chopstock...the way Silken Tofu should.
But they've stopped carrying it. I asked the owner about it. He said the supplier was too flaky - would have product one week, then not show up for the next two, etc. - so he stopped buying from them.
Every other Tofu brand we've found is yucky. The stuff at Kim Phat doesn't bear talking about. Chinatown is full of gnarly fake-meat style Chinese tofu. The other Korean shops seem to carry only industrial Tetrapak tofu that's Silken in name only.
We're pretty desperate by now. It's putting a serious strain on our marriage.
Where oh where can you find seriously light, fluffy, fresh Korean/Japanese style Silk Tofu in Montreal? There has to be some place...
Rehearsal Dinner: Where can 25 people eat well for $750 in Montreal!?
I want to thank everyone who's written in with suggestions. We have a lot of good options now that we never would've thought of before...now we start calling!
Rehearsal Dinner: Where can 25 people eat well for $750 in Montreal!?
OK, so if this won't work, what's a creative solution to this problem?!
Rehearsal Dinner: Where can 25 people eat well for $750 in Montreal!?
Now we're talking...
Rehearsal Dinner: Where can 25 people eat well for $750 in Montreal!?
Help!
My niece is getting married in Montreal this summer and she's asked me to help her organize the rehearsal dinner.
My job is to help her find a restaurant to wow her guests on a budget. She has about $750-800 to spend on the dinner. Here are her parameters:
-Bring your own wine
-Location: Central Plateau, Downtown, Quartier Latin or Westmount
-Cuisine: French or Italian, emphasis on presentation
-Small and cosy
Ideally, she'd like to find a SMALL restaurant where she can basically reserve the entire place for a couple of hours on a Thursday night. She'd like to negotiate a fixed menu (i.e., everybody eats the same thing, banquet style), for a fixed price. It's important to her that the owner allows her to choose the music during the Rehearsal Dinner.
Anybody here been to a place like this? Anybody here OWN a place like this? Lets talk!
La Salle a Manger sucks!
I think you're being a bit harsh. Some of the food is really stunning. The problem is that they're just not consistent.
On the evidence of my main course last night, I'd give La Salle a Manger six stars. The lacquered duck with pan seared Foie Gras here was one of the most startling, best excecuted, most imaginative dishes I've had in ages. The duck and the foie gras were served over a series of daintily cooked and differently flavored vegetables, making each bite just slightly different from the last. It was a tour de force of seasonings, tastes, textures, each delicate, each perfectly judged. This is what fancy restaurant food SHOULD be like.
My wife's vegetarian entrée of pumpkin cake was on that level too. Impossibly light, dreamy really, set off against perfectly poached apple and caramelized onions under a lovely melted local cheese. Sheer delight.
So, it's a great restaurant, right?
Not quite, because this came directly after a disastrously misjudged Seafood Started containing two or three lovely bits alongside an Extremely Spicy scallop ceviche which made it impossible to taste anything else on the plate!
And it came directly before a platter of simply inexcusable cheeses, still cold from the fridge, insipid and boring.
The more I think of it, the angrier I get. How could a chef talented enough to make a main course like that even consider serving cold cheese that tastes like it was made by Kraft? How could a chef imaginative and careful enough to make that pumpkin cake put a soul destroying ceviche on a platter alongside a delicately spiced bit of squid?! It makes no sense!
It really makes me sad, because some of the dishes at La Salle a Manger are absolute show stoppers. But I can't recommend this place. When a bill for two comes to $200, you need to trust a chef to take good care of you from the appetizer right through to the desert.
Going to La Salle à Manger is more like going out with an abusive bastard that treats you wonderfully one day and beats the hell out of you the next. It's not right.
