This super simple yet flavorful tomato eggs stir fry with tofu is filled with Chinese Asian flavors and perfect served over rice for a quick dinner meal. Gluten Free and Dairy Free too.

I was inspired to make this tomato eggs stir fry after my trip to China. I pretty much traveled in China for two months surviving entirely on this tomato eggs dish.

Well ok, that might be a slight exaggeration.

I did also happen to enjoy the Kung Pao chicken, cashew chicken, beer fish, fish flavored eggplant, and a number of other dishes.

But this tomato eggs stir fry was definitely one of my favorites and a go to dish that I could comfortably order just about anywhere confident that it would be delicious and exactly what I was expecting.

This wasn’t always the case in China — since many times we would have to order strictly from a picture menu where we frequently had absolutely no idea what surprise was lurking within the dish. And we found a lot of the dishes to be so greasy, I’m talking drenched in oil. It was simply too much.

I have one distinct memory when D and I were in China, up at the top of the Zhangjiajie mountains national park staying overnight in a guesthouse with no heat and 30 degrees F weather outside. Needless to say we were freezing. While we were pacing outside to keep warm we watched an older Chinese man, with a cigarette hanging from his mouth and an apron on, chase down a chicken, clip back its wings and slice its throat with a knife. All with his cigarette still hanging from his mouth.

How’s that for a dose of reality?

As we attempted to figure out the dining situation the guest house employee who spoke a solid handful of English words led us into the kitchen, (where that same cigarette smoking man was cooking), and started pointing to various vegetables and ingredients scattered. Apparently this is the dinner ordering process.

It was clear we would not be ordering off a menu, nor would there be pictures to choose from.

Spotting a few eggs and tomatoes in the corner I aggressively pointed to those, steering away from the chicken, which we saw slaughtered earlier that afternoon.

We scurried into the dining area and patiently awaited our steaming hot tomato eggs stir fry, with a tomato egg drop soup and bowls of rice.

After a full day of hiking and the freezing weather we couldn’t have been happier gobbling up our meals.

Such a simple dish – like scrambled eggs with lightly sauteed tomatoes and a mix of a few Asian sauces – but the result was incredible. Lightly and fluffy scrambled eggs with the acidity of the tomatoes and the depth from the splashes of various Chinese sauces.

I decided to add some tofu into the mix to make this a full and filling dinner meal, which surprisingly added more flavor to the tomato eggs dish.

This Asian tomato eggs stir fry recipe is interestingly simple yet so good. Serve over rice garnished with green onions for a Chinese themed dinner meal. While the more traditional version of this recipe included the two main ingredients as tomatoes and eggs, I figure the addition of tofu could only enhance this recipe and make it even more hearty and filling for a full meal. So although no the original authentic tomato eggs recipe I had in China, I’d say this is pretty close!