Specialty grocery store with hot food, cold deli, and frozen food. Take out only. Taiwanese breakfast: Soymilk, Chinese donut, flaky sesame pastry, purple rice rolls. Other popular items: steamed buns, braised pork rice bowl, chon tzu, stir-fried rice noodles, sticky rice, frozen dumplings, noodles salad…
Tiny take-out joint offering classic Taiwanese buns, dumplings, tofu products & breakfast eats.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 12816 SE 38th St Unit G, Bellevue, WA 98006
Phone: (425) 974-1144
Website: http://www.tofu101.com/
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TOFU 101
Tofu 101 | Bellevue, WA
Tofu 101, 12816 SE 38th St, Ste G, Bellevue, WA 98006, US
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We got the sweet soy milk, meat baos, fried donut, and purple rice burrito and all were so good! I love that these prices are affordable and the workers are very nice.
So happy to have found this place as a fellow Taiwanese person! Can’t wait to come back and try more!
My biggest problem is that the shaobing 烧饼 is pretty awful. I don’t know if this is supposed to be taken home and reheated, but they are under baked and unseasoned and pale. A far cry from any I had in Taiwan. Improved when take home to toast.
I just got back from Taiwan so might be a little harsh.
Would I take my mom here? Yes but conditionally with select items.
When we found this place, we were looking for real (not store bought) soy milk and we most definitely found that here and so much more! Everything they sell here is delicious and authentic. I highly recommend!
This is a very small, family owned Taiwanese store that sells ready to eat food. It’s labeled as a grocery store, but it’s honestly more like an airport deli market where all the food is cooked, packaged, and ready to eat; you just pick them off the shelves and pay at the counter. Note that everything is made in house and they do not sell everything on the menu everyday. The one day they definitely sell everything they offer is Saturday. As you can guess, Saturdays are pretty busy. We got there at 9am and there was already a sizeable line waiting to enter. We waited 15 minutes before we entered the store. There are a few prepackaged snacks, noodles, sauces, and pickled stuff, but you can get those at any Asian market.
Since this place is so small, and the line so long, once you enter the store, we all stay in line and move around the store in a conveyer belt system; no walking back and forth through the store. There’s honestly no room for that. So if the only thing you want is on the back wall of the store, you need to wait until your position in line reaches the back wall, then you can grab what you want. If you suddenly realize you wanted something back at the beginning of the line, well…you can go back, but it’s really cramped, bothersome, and annoying. It’s ok to take your time looking at the labels to make sure you didn’t miss anything (the line moves pretty slow anyway), but going back is really annoying for everyone involved.
Note that the place is not so busy on the weekdays, but again, they may not sell everything on the menu on a given weekday. My sister went back on a Monday, and while it wasn’t busy, she wasn’t able to get everything that we wanted (namely zongzi and tapioca meatballs).
For the hot deli items, there’s a menu by the cashier, and you order at the cashier. Note that the fried dough is VERY popular. When we were checking out, the wait for the fried dough was at least 20 minutes and there were at least 10 people waiting for it. They gave out buzzers to the people waiting for the hot deli items that weren’t ready yet.
The staff were polite and quick to check out items and bring you your hot deli order. If you bought a lot of stuff, they packed your purchases into an open box. Otherwise, they packed your stuff into a plastic bag. Also, they do accept credit cards (Discover, AmEx, MC, Visa) as well as Google Pay and Apple Pay. I didn’t notice until afterward, but the cup sleeves for the hot soymilk are sitting right above the pay tablet next to the cashier.
$8.99 for shiitake steamed rice
$5.60 for purple rice roll.
~$11 for frozen zong xi, which was wonderful. perfectly cooked sticky rice with chunks of marinated pork.
was all scrumptious!!!!<3