This recipe for Chinese Mapo Tofu is a classic, spicy, numbing, saucy tofu dish that comes together in 20 minutes. It's bold, comforting, and perfect over a bowl of freshly steamed rice. Mapo Tofu is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...