Is Mapo Tofu Sichuan or Hunan cuisine?

Mapo tofu is one of the traditional famous dishes of Han nationality in Sichuan, belonging to Sichuan cuisine. The main ingredients are tofu and minced beef, as well as minced pork, and the ingredients are pepper and pepper. Hemp comes from pepper and spicy comes from pepper. Mapo highlights the "spicy" characteristics of Sichuan cuisine. A good dish must use the most suitable ingredients, which directly determines the quality of the dish.

Tofu is mainly southern tofu, neither too tender nor too old, with milky white color and beany smell. The characteristic of tofu is to keep the temperature of the whole dish outside the pot, so it is not easy to get cold. Every time I use chopsticks, I get the smell of freshly baked. On September 20 18, "Chinese Cuisine" was officially released, and "Mapo Tofu" was rated as one of the top ten classic Sichuan dishes.

Allusions and legends of Mapo tofu

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a small restaurant next to Wanfuqiao Wharf in Chengdu, and its owner was called Pockmarked Chen. One night, many more guests came. Pockmarked Chen's wife saw that there was no food in the shop, only a few plates of tofu and a little minced beef were left.

So she chopped the watercress, added the lobster sauce, and fried it in the oil pan. Add some soup, put down the tofu slices cut into two centimeters square, add other seasonings, add crispy minced beef, thicken the juice, and sprinkle a handful of pepper noodles on the tofu after taking out the pot.

A pot of delicious, spicy, hot, tender and fresh tofu is served. The guests ate a round belly and shouted happily. Later, the news spread that the tofu made by Pockmarked Chen's wife was delicious, cooked and saved money, and more and more people came. As a result, this dish became the specialty of the Chen family.

Because this kind of tofu is hot and spicy, the proprietress is also called Chen Mapo. Therefore, this tofu dish is called Mapo tofu.