I'm not sure if my sister was just being weird or what, but when she sent me some recipes she likes for my birthday... she omitted all of the quantities from the ingredients list. It just says "Tofu, oil, corn starch,..."

Still, I wanted to try to make one of them, so I found a similar recipe for "Ma Po Tofu" on the jar of chili bean sauce she sent and another similar recipe for "Mah Paw Dau Fu" in the cookbook she sent. Both of these recipes and the one on the index card (for "Ma Pu Tofu") that my sister wrote are all different. But I was able to cobble together something that turned out pretty well. I used the ingredients from my sister's recipe card, and got approximate quantities from the other recipes. There were only one or two ingredients that were on Jen's recipe that weren't in either of the other two... so I had to guess on the number of mushrooms, etc.

Anyway, check it out.