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Fried Organic Tofu Sandwich at Southside Station

Fried organic tofu, pickled papaya, creamy sriracha sauce on house made brioche bun. Sandwich Score 43, rough. At Southside Station, Berkeley.

A sandwich at Southside Station, a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.

BriocheChipotle MayoTofuBrioche
43
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +15.

Uncharted, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
56
Harmony
42
Contrast
48
Structure
68
Focus
79
Composition
29
Quality
100
Envelope
96

More heat than 90% of the catalog.

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

house made brioche bun, toasted: fried organic tofu; pickled papaya; creamy sriracha sauce.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Pickled Papaya.

Balance

salt0.4 · 16thacid0.4 · 40thfat3.1 · 83rdsweet0.2 · 28thumami0.8 · 23rdheat0.8 · 90thbitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.416th
acid0.440th
fat3.183rd
sweet0.228th
umami0.823rd
heat0.890th
bitter0.0n/a

56 Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

What each layer brings

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
house made brioche bunscored as Briochebreadfat 2 softthe frame
fried organic tofuscored as Tofuproteinfat 2 soft silky+36
pickled papayanot scored
creamy sriracha saucescored as Chipotle Mayosaucefat 5 heat 2 creamy saucy+4

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

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