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with some garlic, peppers, mushrooms and szechuan sauce. hngggg.

or pakora style - batter deep fry

Get the wobbly "silken" tofu stuff that comes in a carton. Cut it into 1 inch cubes and marinate in rice vinegar (or white wine vingar if you don't have it), dark soy sauce, honey, red chili (I often use flakes but you can use a diced fresh chili and beat it up a bit in a pestle/mortar). Leave it in the fridge for as long as you can. I never remember to do it the day before, a couple of hours is fine.

When you're ready to cook it, heat up oil in a frying pan (deep enough to almost cover the tofu). Roll the cubes in cornflour, breadcrumbs and quite a lot of black pepper and then put them in the oil. Be gentle with your tongs or they'll fall apart. You have to watch them carefully in the pan and turn them around or the bottom will burn. This is the bullshit you have to do when you don't have a deep fat fryer :( Rest it all on kitchen roll when it's cooked and add some more seasoning.

I usually do this as part of some udon noodle dish or just plop the tofu on top of a soup.

or fried for a while in a lot of oil, then drained off. It can be like a really bland omelette otherwise and the inside can be a bit jelly-like. When it is done well it can be really nice. In Wagamama for example I'd rather have their tofu than their chicken, that's for sure.

mmmm pad thai

Use money to buy bacon.

Its basically the tastiest possible thing you can do with tofu. Maybe that's cos it has pork in it, but you can make it without pork and its still great.

http://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-ma-po-tofu/2/

and serve it with a tofu pork pie sausage roll

without people making funnies about "get some meat instead lol". One of the many internet rules of life.

then marinate that shit: soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, chili, lime, ginger, for a good few hours at least. then fry until browned and crispy, and serve with whatever veg / rice / noodles you fancy.

really though, tofu is one of the most versatile foods around, as it'll take on whatever flavours you put with it. experiment!