Posted on 12th Jul 2025

Hong Kong Treats: Stuffed Tofu

The thing about Hong Kong is you can find a Starbucks on most street corners, but next to it you'll also find the most amazing speciality shops selling traditional food that has been around for hundreds of years. The local dessert houses serve up dishes like Black Sesame Soup and Tau Fu Fa (silky tofu drenched in a sweet syrup) and in Sheung Wan you can get every kind of dried seafood you can imagine- scallops, oysters, shrimp, sea urchin, you name it, they've dried it.

Cuisine

Time

10 mins mins

Servings

4 people people

Ingredients

Tofu

250g of fresh, firm tofu

Filling

50g cod fillet / white fish fillet, skinless & boneless
100g de-shelled raw prawns
2 spring onions
¼ bunch coriander
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp sesame oil
Salt & Pepper to taste
Corn flour

The Sauce

1 tsp chopped ginger
1 tsp chopped garlic
1 tbsp chopped coriander
1 tbsp chopped spring onion
1 tbsp black rice vinegar
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
2 tsp XO sauce
1 tsp chilli oil (optional)

Method

1. Mix all the sauce ingredients together and taste for seasoning

2. Slice the tofu into 2cm thick, 8cm long slices

3. Carefully scoop out a well into the middle of the tofu slice (about a tablespoon's worth). Add this to the filling mix

4. Roughly chop the fish fillet and place in food processor with the reserved tofu and all the other filling ingredients and blend gradually until a thick paste forms. Season with salt & pepper

5. Sprinkle some cornflour into the tofu well then spoon in around 1 tbsp or so of the filling then level it off with a spoon