Chen Mapo
Chen Mapo was a pioneering chef from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, renowned for inventing the iconic dish mapo tofu in the mid-19th century. Known for her smallpox scars, which inspired the dish's name, she originally served the dish with pork mince before adapting it to beef in the 1920s, leading to its rise in popularity and status as a beloved culinary classic.
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Mapo tofu was invented in Chengdu in the mid 19th-century by Chen Mapo, a woman known for her smallpox scars as well as the quality of the dish she and her husband had begun selling at their modest eatery.
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