Friday, 2 September 2011

Tai Sun supermarket


Today I visited Tai Sun for the first time since it has been refurbished and I was impressed!
It's so much cleaner and brighter and they've added loads more stock to their vast range of oriental delights.
Various exciting items (if you are easily excited as I am) included fresh brown crab, razor clams with half their juicy flesh protruding out of their shell, sushi, king prawns at about 12 for £2.50 and even fresh durian!
I could have easily spent a couple of hours in their just looking at all the food!
I bought all the items in the picture and have written a short review of some of them.
Soya milk was good in my tea and very beany on its own but, I can buy three times the amount for same price and the taste is just as good.
The pak choi and mushroom steamed frozen buns are amazing! Soft and delicately favoured plus they tasted very fresh. I'll definitely buy these again. They'll be great steamed with veggies as a healthy dinner.
The dried tofu is slightly odd and rather oily with a bit of background heat. The taste is sweet and with a meaty depth and a hint of sesame. Not too keen on those.
The red bean creams are delicious. Each one is like a hug in your mouth. They are marshmallows and their smell reminds me of being young which makes them strangely comforting.
They smell slightly custardy and don't really taste of beans... Warning these are very moreish I could easily have scoffed the whole packet of these.
The banana chips I didn't think would differ that much from regular ones but upon inspection I noticed they have no added sugar. I tried one and they are very different! They are a different texture and they also have that kind of 'slimey-ness' you get from eating a fresh banana (if you try them you'll understand).
They also stick to your teeth like nothing I've ever eaten before!
The deep fried and chilli tofu I will review by the end of the week as I've no room for them right now!

...The chilli tofu (top right in the photo) was delicious! I had it along with a vegetable and edamame stir fry and it was the nicest stir fry I've ever had! Best tofu I've ever had in fact and I've had a lot of tofu!
New staple food for me, that one!

1 comments:

sweet-komal said...

Ps. Sorry about the poor photo quality. I had to use my phone !