Taho comes from the Philippines, where vendors known as magtataho walk residential streets carrying two large aluminum buckets on a bamboo pole, one with silken tofu and one with syrup and sago pearls. Their repeated shout has been a daily morning sound for generations and later became familiar online through Filipino comedy clips, vlogs and TikTok edits. Abroad, the call is often used by overseas Filipinos as a nostalgic reference to home, which helped turn a simple street announcement into a widely shared meme sound.