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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...