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Mapo Doufu

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  • Serves

    4–6

    with 2–3 Other Dishes
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Yan-Kit So

Published 1992

  • About

Undoubtedly the most famous Sichuanese bean curd dish, which reflects the earthy regional sense of humour. Mapo actually means a woman scarred with pock marks on her face. This particular pockmarked woman, a Sichuanese Mrs Chen of the late-19th century, happened to be a superb cook who worked side by side with her husband, a chef of some repute. But it was Mrs Chen’s bean curd dish, with its lingering spicy and slightly numbing effect on the palate, that ha

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