Chodang Soon Tofu - Etobicoke

Fresh and delicious food. We're vegetarian and found many options.

Tried the chodang soon tofu with beef “maximum” spicy), boiled dumplings, and tofuyaki. Thought it all tasted great! Tofu tasted silky and fresh in the spicy soup. Banchan also included a fried fish on the side which I don’t normally see at other Korean restaurants.

This a legit old school Korean spot with in-house made tofu which is featured heavily throughout the menu.First off, the tofu is absolutely top-class. Very fresh, subtle flavour, and delicious texture (medium to firm . If tofu is your thing, you should definitely give this place a try.They have a number of dishes that play off their tofu, but my favourite is the veggie dumplings. The dumplings are classic Korean style and steamed. I think I remember chives within the dumplings but because the tofu is so fresh it really brings out the adjacent flavours of the other ingredients within the dish. The Yaki-tofu is a Japanese style fried-tofu block with a sweet soy sauce marinade. This was ok for me. It wasn't super crispy and so I felt the textures didn't express the tofu flavour in the best way.The soon tofu dish is banging. At other soon tofu restaurants, there's a number of other ingredients within the dish (kimchi, bok choy, mushroom, etc.. I got the original pork and that's exactly what they delivered: ground pork, a clay pot full of homemade silken tofu and the deliciously spicy soup. I thought it would be boring with other veggies in the soup, didn't even miss it the tofu is so good.Classic side dishes are free (bean sprouts, kimchi, and also a nice taster of fresh firm tofu with a very nice addition of two fried fish. That's different than most Korean places these days and very nostalgic as that's very old school Korean restaurant style.Finally, the best part of the tofu is that it tastes INFINITELY better the next day. We brought the dumplings and yaki-tofu home and left it in the fridge, I am not exaggerating, it tastes better the next day. I guess that in-house tofu recipe need a day to really let the flavours mellow into the dish.Big fan of this place, will be taking my wife there again.Vegetarian options: If you're a vegetarian, this is a must try. The tofu is close to if not the best in the city. Reasonable prices and the value of taking the tofu home is incredible as the food is actually better the next day.

I am very disappointed at the Beef Tofu soup. The portion of beef is unbelievably small . What beef? It is like minced beef. We ordered two tofu soup and the portion of the side dishes is for one person only. The place was not busy, only one other customer. There was no response when I asked for a check. I ended up went up to the counter to pay.Never will I go back there.

2.3/5This is review on soontofu jjigae and fried croaker take out.It's rare to see house made chodang soontofu place in toronto so I was pretty excited about this place. The place was close without any announcement so I had make 3 attempt to finally try their house made chodang soontofu jjigae.Chodang soontofu jjigae was 2.1/5.It was nice to try fresh chodang soontofu in toronto but extreme lack of seafood(frozen) in my soontofu jjigae was bit annoying. Many chodang soontofu are usually don't get a chance to form large pieces so I wasn't mad about how unformed my soontofu was. However, due to firming solution(salt+vinegar), my jjigae had little too much vinegary flavor. I'm not a huge fan of this as it interrupt overall flavor of jjigae little too much. So I was bit disappointed with this dish. If I go back again, I might try stronger flavour like beef ver. and see if that help balancing out firming solution flavour.Fried croaker was 2/5.Very thin small croaker. It was very good to pair with soontofu jjigae but it was way too small to the point that there wasn't much to enjoy. I recommend you to order one per person.Take out came with three banchans(side dishes). I didn't try them but according from my friend, they were quite good. Overall, it was nice nostalgic chodang tofu experience. Wish the food was done in little more quality but I understand that everyone is struggling with supply and inflation issue so I will give them few more tries to give them more accurate review in a future.