My Tofu House — Restaurant in San Francisco

Located so close to Chinatown! After a long and cold morning in the streets of Chinatown I'm glad we seeked refuge through the tunnel and ended up at My Tofu House! Usually this place gets really packed around lunch time so my friends and I decided to go ~11:30 while most people were still in church so we'd beat the crowds. When noon came we were happy we did because the line ended up winding around entrance to past our field of vision.

The moment I walked into to secure a spot for lunch, a waiter quickly found me a booth and before I even got a chance to look through the menu my tea was in front of me! As my friends filtered in each one had their cup of tea within moments of being seated, very attentive if not scary-quick service.

Naturally since we were at a tofu house, I ordered the pork tofu soup, medium, my gf got the kalbi because it seemed like a large portion for ~$12 and our friends shared a bibambap. As we waited of course, we were served side dishes that varied from bean sprouts, daikans, anchovies, fish cakes and each of us got a deep fried mackerel. Each side dish was very refreshing and definitely helped prep us for our lunch. The mackerel also really surprised me! Personally I had always had trouble eating them because I couldn't peel them well. My friends laugh as they explain you can eat the fish with the skin on! It was delicious and made devouring the fish so much easier!

As our food arrived you could smell each of our respective dishes as they smoked and sizzled on their way to our table. I felt almost bad that the people in line were only feet away from us, but the early bird gets the worm right!? My tofu soup was like most, really flavorful and really warmed my core, but what stood out with this particular restaurants tofu soup was that they had more tofu present that I've ever had in this dish, which was a great surprise for me personally. Since tofu does a really good job absorbing the broth its in, each bite was as incredible as the last. My gf's kalbi was also really well cooked, with slight char on the outside yet still noticeable juicy on the inside.

The only downfall of our trip here was that we had first thought for lunch the kalbi was $12; however, because it was a Sunday all entree dishes are automatically dinner prices, so we ended up paying $22 for the dish, which after finding that out, didn't make the portion to price ratio that appealing. Perhaps we missed a notice, but we looked at the menu before over many times, so maybe it wasn't posted well enough? Not pointing fingers though, because all our dishes and the service made our experience here very fun and memorable; we're sure going to try this place again, and but we'll definitely be on the look out for edited prices! Sundays = automatic...

Ordered delivery soondubu, very impressed with value! (Photo is only ONE entree’s worth!) Huge portions, we couldn’t finish our soups and still had an entire container of banchan left (which were all individually delicious). Was also surprised to receive an entire packet of fried fishes- very generous amount. Non-spicy is exactly that, zero red. Medium spicy wasn’t crazy spicy either, good for those looking for a little heat but still able to taste the flavor. The dumpling in the soondubu were fresh and very flavorful with nice thin wrapper, and though I normally find dduk overly chewy and boring, theirs tasted freshly made and bouncy and reminded me more of fresh mochi. Also love that you can add meat, veggies, etc. to the soondubu for only $1 more each! Looking forward to ordering...

Imma start this one like this. It’s a foggy night in San Francisco. Sound about right? You just crossed the Golden Gate Bridge for who knows what reason. Maybe you were at a wedding in Marin? Maybe you took a trip to the beach because you needed to get away from it all? Maybe you don’t even have a reason. But you’re here for the first time in years. She is magical and majestic at the hour of 7:30 pm. You drive on by and enter the city. The sun blinks her last words. It’s dark now and you hungry af. You want something. No. You need something. Something low and deep that will make you grumble with soul afterwards. You need that something, that meal that will remind you just how thankful you are to be alive, that food that will tell you to take care. You need...