Really?
Whenever I eat it, it tastes like a really thick slab of noodle or something.
Was probably undercooked, the bit I nibbled on raw before cooking the rest tasted a little bit that way.
I'm amazed that you hadn't tried it before, haha!
Yeah... I've been hearing people sing its praises for so long, I don't know. I figured it would either be expensive or difficult to prepare, or at the very least unpleasantly bland. I'd mostly only eaten tofu fried, thinly-sliced and included in the occasional sushi roll before - where it was
delicious, but I figured it would be difficult to achieve that level of yum with my lacklustre cooking skills.
Yeah, I find it a little bland actually, but not in a bad way. Nowadays I usually put a little sriracha on it, but sometimes I just snack on it raw (:
A shame it dries out pretty quickly if you don't keep it in water. It turns a color pretty fast as it dries, and they *say* to keep it in water, but I don't know how quickly it actually goes bad (it's just bean paste... but better safe than sorry).
Crud, I didn't know that about the storage. Hopefully mine's still alright. ...It was only like $2 for the whole block anyway, though.
My housemate (one of the main people championing its goodness to me recently) cooks his with spices, often including sriracha (or however you spell it). He says he's going to introduce me to the world of spiced tofu, but honestly I'm already in love with the stuff just plain.
The bit I tried raw was alright... a bit too strong-tasting for me. It has a weirdly nice smell, though!
I think I'll stick to cooking it, then the taste matches the delicious scent more closely.