Shoot and a Miss

Tuesday, Toronto experienced its first extremely cold day of 2012. In the mood for something warm and hot, I decided to check out Tofu Village in Koreatown. This fairly recent addition to the Bloor/Christie area made it onto Joanna Kates' Top 10 Restaurants of 2011. Unfortunately, I only vaguely recall the address and ended up a few doors down at Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu.

This large space also offered the soft tofu soup as well as Bi Bim Bap. All tofu soup here goes for $7.53 + tax. The numerous Korean patrons here was at first encouraging, but the Seafood Soon Tofu was mediocre. Unlike Song's Cook, the soup came with a generous order of rice. But the soup only contained 1 clam and 2 shrimps (that's hardly a galaxy) compared to the latter's generous helping of seafood. The tofu was average, lacking the freshness of Chodang Soon Tofu. Best was the bean sprout kimchi, crunchy with a slight hint of oil, and the soya bean kimchi, sweet and chewy.

You get cheap, filling food in a convivial atmosphere but otherwise, Buk Chang doesn't stand out much from the rest.