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means A Sichuan dish of soft tofu cubes simmered in a fiery, numbing sauce of chili oil, fermented bean paste, and ground meat.

from From Chinese 麻婆豆腐 (mápó dòufu), literally 'pockmarked old woman's tofu.' The name traces to a 19th-century Chengdu legend: a dish said to have been served by a woman with a pockmarked face (má means 'pockmarked,' pó means 'old woman') at a small restaurant near a bridge, where she reportedly tossed tofu with chili oil and beef for laborers passing through. The 'má' also happens to echo málà, the mouth-numbing chili-and-Sichuan-pepper sensation the dish is famous for — a fitting coincidence, though the dish's name comes from the woman, not the tingle.