Australia’s ultimate jaffle: The pork and tofu toasted sandwich sending foodies mad – and it costs just $7
- Chinese restaurant Super Ling in Melbourne offers a wildly popular tofu jaffle
- The restaurant says the home comfort food is a ‘literal bomb’ due to its design
- It’s filled with chilli oil – which can go ‘flying’ – and is also topped with chilli flakes
- A vegetarian version which is made from fried eggplant is now also available
A Chinese restaurant offering a $7 toasted sandwich filled with tofu, pork mince and chilli powder is sending Australian foodies into a frenzy.
Super Ling in the Melbourne inner-city suburb of Carlton has been wowing its customers with its ma po tofu jaffle – a unique take on the Australian classic.
The restaurant’s owners describe the tasty snack, which also contains salty fermented beans and diced water chestnuts – as a ‘flavour bomb’.
A Chinese restaurant offering a $7 toasted sandwich filled with tofu, pork mince and chilli powder (pictured) is sending Australian foodies wild
‘It’s also a literal bomb,’ Super Ling wrote on its Instagram page.
‘An ill-positioned bite will send chilli oil flying if you’re not careful.’
Owner Iain Ling has overseen a menu also featuring enticing dishes like cuttlefish wonton soup and barramundi spring rolls, but it’s his jaffle that has had social media users’ tongues wagging.
‘I want one of these so bad,’ one person wrote.
Another added they think ‘longingly of them’ after trying one of the toasted sandwiches.
The grilled delicacy has become so popular that Super Ling has introduced a vegetarian version of the jaffle.
Owner Iain Ling (Super Ling restaurant pictured) has overseen a menu also featuring enticing dishes like cuttlefish wonton soup and barramundi spring rolls, but it’s his jaffle that has had social media users’ tongues wagging
The grilled delicacy has become so popular that Super Ling has introduced a vegetarian version of the jaffle
It contains deep-fried eggplant flavoured with chilli, as well as a tasty bean paste finished with garlic and ginger.
Like the original jaffle, the new version is topped with flecks of the chilli dust – and Super Ling has warned its customers to watch out for flying food.
‘Watch out for the flecks of chilli dust exploding face-ward as you munch into the crip white bread crust,’ the restaurant wrote in another Instagram post.
One social media user said they think ‘longingly of’ the tofu jaffle after trying one of the toasted sandwiches
The jaffles’ designer Michael Li has an esteemed track record in Asian cooking, Gourmet Traveller reported.
He has experience at inner-Melbourne fusion eatery Lee Hoo Fook, as well as Restaurant Shik in the city’s CBD.
But despite Super Ling’s lofty inspirations it has a relaxed vibe, channeling the social atmosphere of a pub while keeping with the trends with an affluent wine list.
Despite Super Ling’s lofty inspirations it has a relaxed vibe, channeling the social atmosphere of a pub while keeping with the trends with an affluent wine list (pictured Super Ling-branded Aperol Spritz glass)