Chen Mapo Tofu Review

As an old Chengdu person, I ate Chenma Caotang first. This flagship store often has a queue. This time I came mainly to bring foreign friends to eat. The environment is very good, with an ancient flavor. There is also guzheng accompaniment on the second floor, which is quite a feeling. The service is also very good. The dishes are really Sichuan cuisine. It is indeed suitable for bringing friends from other places to eat. Foreign friends like it very much.

"Chen Mapo Tofu" is one of the most local specialties in Chinese tofu dishes, and has become a world-famous Sichuan cuisine. This dish has a history of more than 150 years and is the most representative Sichuan cuisine. This dish is characterized by the "burning" method. On the snow-white and tender tofu, brown-red minced beef and green garlic sprouts are dotted, and a circle of translucent red oil is around, like jade inlaid with amber, with a unique flavor of numbing, spicy, hot, tender, crisp, fragrant and fresh.

I came to visit the Sichuan Museum and happened to eat Chen Mapo across the street. This Chen Mapo Tofu is the flagship store. It is very popular and you have to queue up for dozens of people to eat. The environment inside is very good, and the layout is not cramped. It is very comfortable and cozy. Mapo Tofu is of course a must-order. It is indeed authentic. I didn't finish it because it was too spicy. The garlic pork is also highly recommended. It is difficult to eat authentic this dish in other cities. This is good, large in quantity, and tastes good. In fact, what I want to recommend most is the steamed beef with rice flour. There are a lot of sweet potatoes underneath, and the steamed pork with rice flour on top is very oily. The sweet potatoes absorb the oil, so the beef will not be too greasy. In short, it was a good food experience. It was worth waiting in line for half an hour.

Overall review | The minimum consumption for the private room is 800 yuan, but there is a very substantial set meal for 10 people (888 yuan). There are still some left over after 10 people have eaten. It can be said to be very substantial! The reason why this restaurant is recommended is because the old Chengdu people also recommend it. He said that after visiting Du Fu Thatched Cottage, you must try the Chen Mapo Tofu next door, because it is the most authentic among the several restaurants in Chengdu! The location is also good. From the Qinghua Road door of Du Fu Thatched Cottage, go right, walk a few steps, and cross the road to arrive! Taste | Let me introduce each dish below. The first dish is cold chrysanthemum salad. Cold dishes are appetizing and also help to relieve spiciness. After all, most dishes are spicy. The second dish is pig ears, which are fragrant and crispy, and have a spicy taste. It is very addictive. The third dish is glutinous rice and sweet lotus root, which also helps to relieve spiciness and is refreshing. I like it. It has the sweet fragrance of glutinous rice and the fragrance of lotus root. The fourth dish is husband and wife lung slices. Many people have a misunderstanding that husband and wife lung slices must have pig lungs, but in fact, they don’t, they are all meat. I remember that there were many misunderstandings in English translation before, which is still quite funny. Just the right amount of spiciness, delicious! The fifth dish is garlic pork, which is almost the same as the husband and wife lung slices. It is a Sichuan dish with more garlic flavor and is refreshing! If you can't eat spicy food, you can rinse it with water. After all, it tastes good. If you can eat spicy food, just eat it directly. The sixth dish is stir-fried pea sprouts with walnuts, which is also a refreshing dish and relieves the spiciness! The combination of green vegetables and walnuts is wonderful. The seventh dish is the highlight, Mapo tofu. It is very good to make small portions so that everyone can taste it, but not everyone needs to order rice to go with it. This is a great design about the amount of food. The taste is great. After all, it is the signature dish. The name of the store is Chen Mapo tofu. How can you not try the signature dish when you enter the store? The eighth dish is fried shrimp, which is done normally. The ninth dish is dry pot pig intestines, which is a very authentic dry pot. Although the pig intestines are relatively fat, I don’t particularly like things that are too greasy, but the dry pot is just right to remove the oil, which has a different effect. The tenth dish is sour soup beef. I remember that the Sichuan dishes I often ate were maoxuewang, sauerkraut fish, etc. One of them was beef in sour soup. The beef was tasty and full of sourness, but a little spicy. It tasted good. The eleventh dish was rice crust. I took this photo after the performance. In fact, the rice crust was the bottom of the plate, and then the hot soup and vegetables were poured on it, crackling. After that, the rice crust was very crispy, fragrant, crispy and sweet, and it was very spicy. The twelfth dish was a hodgepodge. It contained my favorite yellow throat, which was half of maoxuewang. There were also beef and so on. This dish was also spicy, but it was more troublesome to fish out. The thirteenth dish was fish. Steamed sea bass, refreshing and spicy, with black beans. The fourteenth dish was bullfrog. I liked it very much. I felt that bullfrog would be fatter and meatier than frogs. The fifteenth dish was duck soup. Add mushrooms and stew together, rich and mellow! The sixteenth dish was fried beans, which went well with wine and was the best dish to go with wine. The seventeenth dish was buns, which were similar to those outside. The 18th dish, the finishing touch, Zhong dumplings, is sweet, slightly spicy and has a strong garlic flavor. It is my favorite! Very delicious, two dumplings in one serving, endless aftertaste! Service | A little bad is that they didn't remind us how to use chopsticks. The chopsticks are hollow and need to be covered with disposable bamboo chopstick heads. The waiter didn't remind us, and we thought we could use them directly. From this point of view, we are not very satisfied!

I came across it on the way to Sichuan Museum. The decoration is very retro and the reputation is also very good. I found a place to solve lunch. The signature mapo tofu, I felt like the little chef in China, it was so delicious! Spicy and fresh, the tofu is not too old or tender, you can't make this taste at home, where is the rice? The pot-crusted pork slices, the toppings are sweet and sour, and there are small fungus, tomatoes, magnolia slices, and pea tips in the toppings. The pot-crust is crispy and fried just right. This dish is spicy and appetizing, suitable for all ages. Lotus leaf steamed pork, I thought it was a lotus leaf steamed pork, but it turned out to be a lotus leaf cake, which was a bit fooled. The taste is good, not sweet, but a little spicy, I like it. I have to complain that the meat of the steamed pork and garlic pork is the same thickness, and the steamed pork should be thicker to taste better. Zhong dumplings, my favorite Chengdu snack, was boiled. I have to give a thumbs up to the transparent kitchen.

It was almost lunch time when we came out of Huanhua Creek. We found this restaurant was very elegant, so we went in to look for food. The waiters were dressed very nicely and the environment was very good. Since we don't eat spicy food, we only ordered the dragon wonton, and also ordered crispy tofu, chicken cold noodles, and Beijing sauce pork shreds. The total cost was 100 yuan, and the three girls couldn't finish it, so we wasted 3 wontons.

A classmate who settled overseas came back to visit his family. We recommended a lot of delicious food to him, but he wanted to eat Chen Mapo Tofu. So we went to this flagship store. Business was booming. We couldn't book a private room 3 days in advance. 14 people finally squeezed into a table for 10 people by adding stools. We went there at 5 pm, and we had to queue up at 6 pm. After sitting down, I started ordering dishes. I estimated that the fighting power of 14 people should be very strong. I ordered 14 dishes and 1 soup. In the end, it turned out that I overestimated my fighting power. At least half of it was not finished. I will be more careful next time. The signature Chen Mapo Tofu was only a small pot, but it was the last to be served. It was soaked in red oil, and the seasoning reminded me of the instant noodles I ate when I was a child. It was amazing. It is said that the best thing about this store is its special tofu. Anyway, my mother went to the vegetable market several times and couldn't buy such delicious tofu. The crispy tofu with batter was sweet and sour, and the tomato sauce used made me think it was the way to make bear paw tofu, but it was not. The taste is also OK. Compared with a table of spicy dishes, this can adjust the taste. The tofu pudding beef fillet is very classic. The beef slices are large and tender, the tofu is smooth, and there are Sanzi. The whole is spicy and spicy, and the portion is sufficient. The tomato three fresh is more like a soup dish, with meat slices, tomato slices and tofu strips. It is still very delicious. I drank a bowl. The taste on the tip of the tongue is like a pig house soaked in a basin as big as a washbasin. Each piece is surrounded by a pile of green peppercorns. This is the most delicious. Although the portion is small, the taste is good and impressive. Mapo fresh pepper fish is actually fish fillet, similar to the way of boiled fish, with a base of vegetarian dishes, the taste is very good, and the portion is full. The dry pot chicken is also a pot of piles, but don’t be scared by the appearance. There are enough potatoes and a little less chicken. The taste is very good, but compared with the dishes made with tofu pudding, it is not so eye-catching. The Sichuan pepper rabbit cubes are deep-fried rabbit meat. Because of the Sichuan pepper, it has a charming peppery and spicy aroma. I think it is very suitable for drinking. I ate a lot of it with chrysanthemum tea. Fuqi Feipian, a typical Sichuan dish, is not bad. The osmanthus honey marinated lotus root is also well done, especially the thick layer of osmanthus sugar sauce, which can be said to be the best dessert to relieve the spiciness. The crispy bamboo shoots and kidneys are the most unsightly of the dishes I ordered. They are not bamboo shoots like wild bamboo shoots, but more like the taste of square bamboo shoots used for cold salad. The fried kidneys are tender and delicious, and there is no smell of mutton. This is a treasure dish, I will order it next time. The stir-fried yellow beef is still very delicious, a dish that meets the standard. The lotus leaf steamed pork is more ordinary, meeting the standard. The health-preserving bone soup is a super large pot, and 14 people didn’t really finish it... I tried to add soup for free a second time, but I didn’t finish the first pot. Sichuan cold noodles, this tastes good, but ordering it really overwhelmed the meal. While we were waiting for the meal, there was a tea art performance. The waiter with a super long teapot made sure to pour a cup of tea for every customer at every table. He had too many tricks, such as white crane wings, sword-drawing style, and sword-carrying style. I think it's super fun, haha. 14 dishes, 1 soup, plus dry food, the actual price is 670 yuan. We ordered a pot of chrysanthemum tea for 68, which is really not worth it. I knew I would drink soup or a bowl of long wonton for each person. But seeing that the average cost per person is less than 60, I think it is really cost-effective. It is not convenient to park here. You can park in the underground parking lot of Huanhuaxi Park opposite

I really like Chen Mapo Tofu Qinghua Road Branch. The decoration inside the store is very special, reflecting the characteristics of the western Sichuan basin and the strong Chengdu flavor: various lanterns, bamboo bird cages, wooden boats hanging in the air, sculptures of tofu pudding, etc. All of these are unforgettable. Of course, the dishes here are cheap and delicious, attracting countless diners. Every day until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, there are still many people queuing here waiting for meals. It's amazing that the restaurant has such a hot business!