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If you love mapo tofu, order dan dan noodles next (77/100 flavor match), then curry laksa and tonkotsu ramen. Mapo tofu is deeply savory, spicy and rich, and these dishes share that profile.
Dan dan noodles: rich and spicy, like mapo tofu, but crunchier.
Chinese · shared plate
Scores on this page compare flavor profiles between dishes. They are the same for everyone. In the Palytt app, your match score comes from your own taste and your friends’ verdicts.
Mapo tofu is soft tofu and ground beef or pork in a fiery Sichuan sauce of chili bean paste, chili oil and numbing Sichuan pepper.
Order plenty of steamed rice; the sauce is the point.
If you like mapo tofu, try dan dan noodles, curry laksa and tonkotsu ramen. Dan dan noodles is the closest flavor match (77/100): rich and spicy, like mapo tofu, but crunchier.
Mapo tofu is soft tofu and ground beef or pork in a fiery Sichuan sauce of chili bean paste, chili oil and numbing Sichuan pepper. Its strongest traits: deeply savory, spicy, rich.
Try curry laksa: rich and spicy, like mapo tofu. It scores 67/100 against mapo tofu on flavor.
Each dish has a flavor profile rated 0 to 5 on richness, savoriness, heat, tang, sweetness, freshness, smoke and crunch. The match score compares two profiles and gives a small boost to dishes eaten the same way, like two noodle soups. In the Palytt app, your match score uses your own taste instead.