Aside from its best-selling sizzling tofu, Max’s Restaurant is offering another way to enjoy the plant-based meat substitute with a traditional spin: its new tofu pares.

Max’s uses the favorite street-side classic, beef pares (braised beef stew), as inspiration for its new tofu dish, featuring hefty cubes of golden-brown, pan-fried, breaded tofu tossed in a thick, smooth, savory brown sauce. The dish is topped with chopped spring onions and fried garlic bits, just like the traditional beef pares. You can opt to have it served sizzling or not.

Max’s tofu pares also comes with a side of nilaga soup – hearty, comforting beef stock with shredded beef, crunchy pechay leaves, chopped spring onions, and fried garlic bits. The soup adds more saltiness to the overall dish (if that’s what you’re after), and is good to douse your white rice in.

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Max’s also launched its new tofu fries, which are golden-brown, fried tofu pieces paired with a tasty garlic aioli dip.

The tofu pares meal costs P269 for dine-in orders, good for up to three or four people. Solo diners can also opt for the single tofu pares rice bowl for P189. You can also have the new dish as part of Max’s bundles, which start at P1,999, and includes Max’s regular fried chicken, large rice, tofu fries, chicken pancit canton, or chopsuey.

Max’s new items became available starting July in all its branches nationwide for dine-in and takeout, as well as for delivery via Max’s website or hotline number 888-79000. – Rappler.com