Made some homemade Mapo Tofu from scratch. Find a flaw.

>>8735818
>tofu

What did you use the leftover Okara for?

>>8735842
Found a good place for it in the waste bin

>>8735844
>goes through the trouble of making tofu

>doesn't even make unohana or tempeh

>>8735818
more brown than red.

>>8735860
And?

>>8735818
Looks a bit brown, but I'd still eat it.

>>8735818
mapo tofu is literally my favourite meal

How difficult is it to make from scratch?

>>8735818
>Find a flaw.
you're underage ban

>>8735906
I wouldn't know. I got this from a restaurant. I lied about making it myself.

>>8735912
you son of a bitch

tell me how to get that delicious Mapo flavour without a packet, TELL ME

>>8735818
>mabo-doufu
too much sauce, not enough rice, learn to cook it right.

>>8735937
Ok I will

>>8735818
Too much sauce.

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>>8735818
Here's what it ought to look like. I love having an Asian grocery store next to my house.

>>8735971
OP's pic doesn't look like it has pork in it desu

>>8735869
Lightweight aka baby's first mapo

>>8735975
Yep, it looks like dishwater soup with some tofu floating about.

>>8735906
I really hope this doesn't become the next big Asian dish. When I lived in Japan a lot of people liked it, I got taken to a lot of nice places that specialized in it. It was decent, but never more than just fine. If this shit comes to America its going to be worse and hipsters are going to suck it up.

>>8736067
There are lots of varieties of mapo, I lived in china and fell in love with the sort made at a sichuan restaurant. I've never had mapo as good as it was there, I got it all the time.

I had mapo in japan as well, it was ok but not spicy enough for me.

>>8736078
Seems strange unless you're the masochist type that gets the barely edible extreme spice level wings in the US.

Tokyo is extremely spice averse which sucks for someone who likes spicy food but at most of the decent places even the 2nd to the top level was usually very spicy. Usually at the curry places you can safely order the one with five flames but I was disappointed more than once getting something basically inedible at the mabo dofu places.

>>8736067
It's a nice, inoffensive lunch or dinner dish kind of like Japanese curry on rice.

>>8736097
If you're talking about restaurant style I agree, if you're talking about homestyle, especially with a fatty beef or pork and lots of veggies, I vehemently disagaree

>>8736104
Restaurant style of course.

>>8736078
you dont say nigga, not like its a szechuan dish or something

>>8735818
>pork isn't visible
0/10

>>8736078
Well it is a sichuan/szechuan/whateverthefuckuan dish and so most other replications are going to suck comparitively. It also NEEDS sichuan peppercorns in addition to chiles.

>>8735818
color is off

wrong grade tofu

bad sauce to tofu ratio

no meat

no fermented black beans

3/10, you can do better. it honestly looks like a bowl of shitty hot and sour soup with a bunch of tofu cubes in it.

>>8736387
there are no fermented black beans in og mapo tofu, its semifermented longbean+chilipaste, rest i agree

>>8735818
too much sauce
too brown, did you poo in it?
tofu looks too firm

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>>8735818

This is my mapo tofu

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>>8736492

This is my second mapo tofu attempt

>>8735818

S O Y M A L E

>>8735818
I watched this anime Chuuka ichiban and the main character made mapo tofu using soybeans instead of pork. is that what you did?

>>8735906
Ezpz, just need the proper ingredients: http://thewoksoflife.com/2014/03/ma-po-tofu-real-deal/
>>8735818
Too much sauce.

>>8735818
your sauce is way too goopy, tofu chunks too large and where the fuck is the meat 5/10
>>8735971
looks decent but overly westernized 7/10
>>8736492
this looks like fucking spaghetti sauce 3/10.
>>8736497
this looks like some retarded version of minestrone 3/10

>>8736627
Fuck off and take your gay animu obsession with you, weeb.

which one would you say is the best mapo tofu recipe online? I have seen many recipes by chinese were the end result looks like

>>8735971
>>8736492
>>8736497

but never like OPs

>>8737388
>8736645

The one posted in >>8736645 is legit.

>>8737411

thanks, didn't notice that link

>>8736728

Where I live it's impossible to find the black bean paste so it's missing that, and that's why it looks so watery. I will make my own black bean paste next time and see how its turns out.

I added red bell pepper because I had some lying around.

>>8737488
>Where I live it's impossible to find the black bean paste

So? mail-order it. you have the internet.

>>8737488
just order chunjang from hmart it's the same thing

>>8735818
It has tofu in it.