Visited GF's grandfather at NTU Hospital after his angioplasty. The basement of the hospital was recently redecorated to have a nice food court and shopping area in the basement with an Eslite Bookstore among others. Apparently the family's been getting douhua at this shop almost every day. We headed down to the basement for more soy goodness after putting grandpa to bed. I'm a purist, a bowl of warm 豆花 with only ginger syrup for me. GF and others got the combo-bowl with extras like tapioca, red bean, and grass jelly on top. That's a bit too many different squishy textures for me.
The douhua itself was quite good. Scooped into thin sheets thick enough to keep it from falling apart but thin enough so that each spoonful is buffered by plenty of syrup. Even though it was getting late, the douhua still had the right silken texture, without getting tough and overcooked (i.e. turn into tofu). Had a clean soy flavor which was not overwhelmed by the brown-sugar syrup. Would've liked a bit more zing from the ginger, but the flavor was definitely present.
Turns out that they have a bunch of locations in the food courts of the big department stores along with the original store, such as Breeze Center, Eslite XinYi, Living Mall, etc. Next time we eat at the mall I'll be sure to leave some room for dessert.
小南門傳統豆花
Multiple Locations
