Tofu Room Dy's: a vegan tofu store in Sendagi

Last month when we visited the Aoyama Coffee Roaster and noticed their signed autograph of Snoopy, one of the store’s customers mentioned that Snoopy fans like to visit both the coffee roaster and a nearby restaurant called Tofu Room Dy’s. We’re not big Snoopy fans by any means, but a little Snoopy pilgrimage sounded like fun and so we decided to check it out. The store is fully vegan, and as the name might suggest, it simply focuses on one thing: tofu. For your main meal, you have two options - a tofu rice plate, or tofu sandwich. If you thought that was enough tofu, you thought wrong, because you also get two extra sides of it. The owner first brought out to us a block of tofu, simply seasoned with salt. He mentioned that if he put on any soy sauce (which is traditionally how you might eat tofu like this) it would hide the flavours of the tofu itself. Second was another form of tofu, in some sort of soup. He also let us know that usually soup in Japan is seasoned with dashi (i.e.…