Talk:Mapo tofu

message: Whether Ma was pockmarked or not, Mapou only means "Old Lady Ma" and not "Pockmarked Ma" as was indicated. Also the "numb"ness explaination is not more commonly accepted. It is merely another guess. I have fixed this.
:i think you've made it worse.  pockmark is from MA, not PO.  so the question is whether it is "old lady ma" or "old lady POCKMARK".  i'm with you that it is the latter.
:and isn't "ma" the same kanji as SESAME?  i assumed all these sichuan names like mapo, mala, and ma(r)fa(r) were building off of THAT? 209.172.23.71 (talk) 22:09, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The 'ma' is the same as used in "numbing" or "paralysis", which just so happens to be what the spice used in the dish is known for 147.192.35.129 (talk) 15:02, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mapo Dofu 

message: this is the primary variant i have seen in both china and japan.  the way it's worded now sounds like onions, water chestnuts, etc., are a variant for the TOFU.  not at all true.  the choice is between tofu and eggplant.  what ends up atop those is then a separate matter, perhaps better addressed under a "sauce" section.
article should either be reworded to reflect this, or "mapo eggplant" ("mapo qiezi" seems a bit much for english wiki) split off to its own page. 209.172.23.27 (talk) 02:14, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eggplant 

message: This is the first time I've seen the name of this dish rendered in Pinyin. In the English sources where I've encountered it, it's been spelled "mapo tofu" or "ma-po tofu"--which is reasonable enough, since we already write "tofu" in English, not "doufu". Do others find, as I do, that "mapo tofu" is the predominant spelling in English sources? If so, the article should be under that spelling. Largoplazo (talk) 01:14, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering that a lot of the actual sourced links spell the dish with a "T" instead of a "D", and it is on the EN* site, the native spelling--while important from a novel factual perspective--ignores the common reference. Deign to put in an alternate spelling redirect and alternate spelling reference in the entry, lest a completely separate page show up to contest merely the spelling. 71.221.99.153 (talk) 23:26, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The spelling 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Consensus to move page.  (non-admin closure)  — YoungForever(talk)  14:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Mapo doufu →  – The spelling in the title struck me as very strange, so I performed a search engine test. "mapo tofu" -wikipedia returns 924,000 results, while the current "mapo doufu" -wikipedia returns 71,500. I think the page should be moved under WP:COMMONNAME. — Goszei (talk)  10:26, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 29 May 2020 

message: How is it possible for the dish to exist since 1254 when chili was imported to China only starting with the 16th century? 2.39.114.5 (talk) 11:00, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it was made without chili peppers before they were introduced and then it became common to add them once they were available? Largoplazo (talk) 11:14, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it is also made with Szechuan peppers, which grow endemically in the region around Chengdu. Despite its name, these are not true peppers, but rather related to citrus. It is also related to Japanese sanshō, which has been used for culinary purposes prior to the discovery of the Americas. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 17:42, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age of the dish