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 ...

Today’s recipe for Mapo Tofu, a traditional spicy Sichuan dish that gives a numbing sensation when you eat it, has a curious legend behind its name, which translates to “pockmarked grandma’s bean curd ...

I eat a lot of plant-based meals, but often the fact that they don’t contain meat is beside the point. So it’s one of my pet peeves when a recipe, restaurant or brand makes a bigger deal out of what a ...

Add more bean sauce with chili for a spicier dish. Start the rice before you begin the stir fry. Some things are best left untranslated. This is certainly true of the famous Szechuan Chinese dish mapo ...

Shrimp (photo above features pork) is sautéed with salty preserved Chinese black olives, Thai chiles, and shallots, then hit ...

From May 1, 2020 (Friday), a new product, ' Ondama Mapo Noodle, ' has been introduced to the gyoza king. With the new container ' Gyoza no Osho Renchin Series ', the taste of the shop was the same ...

This image shows a recipe for Japanese-Style Mapo Tofu from the cookbook "The Wok: Recipies and Techniques," by J. Kenji López-Alt. (J. Kenji López-Alt/W. W. Norton & Company via AP) J. Kenji ...

Much of the classic Sichuan food at this restaurant, said to be the oldest extant Sichuan restaurant in Flushing, has a certain elegance and refinement to it, and the mapo is no exception. The flavors ...

Regulars at Chengdu Taste, the Alhambra Sichuan restaurant famous for its toothpick lamb and its two-hour wait for a table, know they can order specials off the menu. Stop in for dinner, and servers ...