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 my favorite tofu dish. The sauce is meaty and savory; it clings to the tofu, rich with oyster sauce, bits of ground turkey and minced garlic. This version uses frozen peas and carrots, ...

Yu Bo and his wife, Dai Shuang, gained international fame with their restaurant Yu’s Family Kitchen in Chengdu, China; ⁠consuming the painstakingly crafted and beautiful 16 cold dishes that begin ...

Mapo tofu is one of Sichuan cuisine’s most iconic dishes. It consists of silky tofu bathed in a fiery, aromatic sauce that balances heat, numbing spice and rich umami flavor. Mapo tofu roughly ...

Mapo Tofu is a titan of Sichuan cuisine, but the version you order at your local takeout spot has evolved significantly over the last century. To find the true roots of this dish, I went back to ...

"As with many famous Chinese dishes, this one has a story, and like the others, it's been told by so many people over so many years that you have to question its truth. Legend has it that Mapo Dofu is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...