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| - This place is so Americanized that even the ma po tofu is mediocre. That's usually a safe order at Americanized Chinese restaurants that specialize in cloyingly sweet dishes in heavy sauces, even when it's not on the menu. But, here, the mapo tofu comes in a thick sauce that's merely somewhat spicy. Even more strangely, the sauce was sweetened by Hoisin sauce, instead of being pure szeuchuan chili oil (or, for that matter, having any szechuan chili oil at all). The tofu was larger, harder, and firmer than you normally get in ma po tofu and, instead of being topped with ground pork, they use a frozen vegetable mix of peas and carrots.
It's always a bad sign when a Chinese place serves sushi, or branches out into Korean or Japanese. This place does all of the above. I should have known better.
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