{"id":3210,"date":"2014-12-08T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2017-06-17T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T01:57:08","slug":"2014-best-bite-8-mapo-tofu-lao-sze-chuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/08\/2014-best-bite-8-mapo-tofu-lao-sze-chuan\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Best Bite #8: Mapo tofu, Lao Sze Chuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the third year in a row, I&#8217;m using each day in December to celebrate the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2014, posted in chronological order. <a title=\"Best Bites\" href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/category\/best-bites-2\/\">Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites<\/a>, or look back at year-end Best Bites from <a title=\"2012 Best Bites recap\" href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/2012\/12\/31\/recap-30-best-bites-of-2012\/\">2012<\/a> and <a title=2013 Best Bites recap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/recap-30-more-best-bites-of-2013\/\">2013<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3254\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/laoszechuanmapotofu.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/laoszechuanmapotofu.jpeg\" alt=\"Mapo tofu, Lao Sze Chuan\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3254\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/laoszechuanmapotofu.jpeg 554w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/laoszechuanmapotofu-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/laoszechuanmapotofu-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mapo tofu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why it&#8217;s another 2014 Best Bite<\/strong>: This silky tofu, bathed in a fiery sauce flecked with green onions and lots of chiles, is my go-to tofu dish. It&#8217;s available at any of Lao Sze Chuan&#8217;s locations \u2013 perhaps the best Chinese food franchise in Chicago \u2013 but I was especially happy to try it out at the relatively new location in my college town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The details<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evanstonlaoszechuan.com\/\" title=\"Lao Sze Chuan\">Lao Sze Chuan<\/a>, 1633 Orrington Ave., Evanston.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[googlemaps width=300 height=300]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row, I&#8217;m using each day in December to celebrate the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2014, posted in chronological order. Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites, or look back at year-end Best Bites from 2012 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2179],"tags":[454,1532,724],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-bites-2","category-chicago","tag-evanston","tag-lao-sze-chuan","tag-mapo-tofu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}