Tofu as an ingredient often takes on the characteristics of whatever sauce or preparation is being used to dress it. In the case of mapo tofu, those soft, placid blocks of tofu guard a scorching ...

Learn how to make mapo tofu at home. The legendary dish from China’s Sichuan province brings the heat and the numb in a meal that's filled with intense flavors. It's surprisingly easy to make with the ...

Mapo tofu is one of my favorite tofu dishes tossed with spicy, savory sauce and shiitake mushrooms and served over rice. This classic Chinese recipe is a main dish that will become a family favorite ...

Anyone who says tofu is bland or boring hasn’t eaten mapo tofu, the intoxicatingly spicy, fragrant dish from the Sichuan province of China. Unlike the gentle Vietnamese tofu dishes I grew up with in ...

A decades-long fascination with the much-loved Sichuan dish inspires research — and eventually a little experimentation. By Andrea Nguyen Anyone who says tofu is bland or boring hasn’t eaten mapo tofu ...

Mapo tofu (stir-fried tofu in hot sauce) was created by the wife of a small restaurant owner named Chen Senfu in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Mrs. Chen lived in the Wan Fu Bridge area in the northern ...

Those last beautiful summer tomatoes are put to good use in Hetty Lui McKinnon’s take on the classic Sichuan dish. By Mia Leimkuhler Today we have for you: A mapo tofu recipe that makes good use of ...

These are the regular 'Mapo Tofu Element [Medium Spicy]' (left) and the 'Golden Mapo Tofu Element' (right) for a limited time. 'Mapo tofu [medium spicy]' is for 3 servings x 2 times for a total of 6 ...