From the heart of Sichuan, China, comes the mapo tofu. Really good stuff. It's not your average tofu meal—think strong, spicy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uncover the origin of this popular and spicy Chinese dish. Have your ingredients ready before you begin - stir fry cooks fast. I love a dish with a good story behind it, and Mapo Tofu is a legendary ...

When my father took over a takeout restaurant in Phoenix in the early 1990s, the menu quickly grew from 18 dishes to over 50. Though beyond impractical and bordering on ridiculous for such a small ...

Mapo tofu is a Sichuan-style dish featuring soft tofu and ground pork cooked in a spicy chili bean paste sauce. Savory, hot, and perfect with steamed rice. Ingredients: Soft tofu, ground pork, ...

Zachary Hurdle, guest chef once a week at Eureka Compass Vegan Food in St. Paul, Minnesota, prepares this popular tofu recipe below for his customers who regularly request the richly flavored Chinese ...