Mapo Tofu

마파두부

You know it's spicy, and you order it again anyway. Hooked once by the Sichuan peppercorn aroma, twice by the numbing heat, and three times by mixing it into rice.

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❝ "Mapo" in mapo tofu means "pockmarked old woman." It's named after a tofu dish made by a woman with a pockmarked face in Chengdu, Sichuan, during the Qing dynasty. The name's a bit much, but the taste is legendary. ❞

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