Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all get the urge for Chinese food every now and then, and when we do, the temptation to order takeout is real. Long day on the ...

J. Kenji López-Alt has written a new cookbook with handy tips, fascinating asides and some 200 dishes all related to the wok. One recipe in “The Wok” is for a version of mapo tofu that is similar to ...

Mapo Tofu is a well known Sichuan dish recognized for its bold flavor and signature numbing spice. Soft tofu and minced beef ...

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 gets some heat from doubanjiang (Chinese spicy bean sauce) as well as some Sichuan peppercorns). Photo by Linda Balslev for TasteFood Mapo tofu is one of Sichuan cuisine’s most iconic dishes ...

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 ...

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