The Symphony of Mapo Tofu

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This hot and numbing tofu dish features cascading layers of flavors – and a near-mythic backstory. Anney and Lauren dig into the science and history of mapo tofu.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:13.3	Hello and welcome to Save Our production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.5	I'm Annie Reese.
0:16.4	And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum.
0:17.6	And today we have an episode for you about Mapau Tofu.
0:20.3	Yes.
0:21.3	Ooh. Well, is there any particular reason episode for you about Mapau tofu. Yes. Ooh.
0:22.1	Well, is there any particular reason this was on your mind, Lauren?
0:24.9	It had been on our list for a long time.
0:27.5	I feel like I'm saying that a lot lately, but it had been on our list for a long time.
0:31.4	It's a favorite dish of mine.
0:34.4	And I knew it was going to be a little bit intense. Like, I'm intimidated by the
0:41.0	pronunciations. And I knew that there was going to be, like, a lot of reading to go into it.
0:46.1	But I was like, you know what? I want to think about Mapo tofu for a couple of days. Let's do
0:51.6	that one. And think about it. We did. And think about it we did.
0:55.0	I also love ma'pa tofu.
0:57.2	I, uh, after our Sheshuan peppercorn episode, I got some immediately.
1:02.8	Oh, yeah.
1:04.0	Oh, and it was wonderful. And now I'm in the position of, I would like to have it again.
1:11.2	Yes, I was extremely mad the entire time that I was reading about this, that I was not eating it at that current moment.
1:18.6	So I'm going to rectify it soon.
1:20.5	Oh, gosh. Yeah, probably me too.
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