Beancurd sheet, where to buy from?

focus888

Ok im currently watching the cooking program and a chinese chef is making a sort of spring roll but with beancurd sheets which she uses instead of filo pastry to make some beancurd rolls. These look so good, does anyone know where i can get these from? thanks alot x

malima

Hi,
you will get them at your local chinese supermarket,, should be near the noodles,dried stuff ect. Remember to pre soak them.
hth
malima

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

And if you like the look of her cooking, her name is Ching He Huang - there are two books out by her at present.

Her website has a couple of recipes, the address is chinghe.com

el_gringo_3

A good cheap alternative is to buy a block of tofu (50p at Morrisons atm), freeze it, let it part-defrost and you should be able to cut fairly versatile sheets out of it! If I get some sweet and sour sauce for a quid from the chinese to go with it, i can make fried sweet and sour beancurd identical to theirs for £3.50 less!

baby_fuzz

el_gringo wrote: »

A good cheap alternative is to buy a block of tofu (50p at Morrisons atm), freeze it, let it part-defrost and you should be able to cut fairly versatile sheets out of it! If I get some sweet and sour sauce for a quid from the chinese to go with it, i can make fried sweet and sour beancurd identical to theirs for £3.50 less!

I think I should point that that this is in no way the same as dried beancurd sheets, which are made very differently.
dried bean curd sheets look a bit like this:
http://shop.waiyeehong.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1913&currency=GBP

but any chinese supemarket shoudl stock this.