"With five restaurants opened in a little over a decade, Mala Sichuan Bistro has established itself as Houston’s favorite for numbing-inducing mala prawns with crispy rice crackers, dan dan noodles, and mapo tofu. Though Mala Sichuan’s first location opened in Asiatown, owners Cori Xiong and Heng Chen now have locations throughout the city, including its most recent expansion to the M-K-T development in the Heights." - Brittany Britto Garley, Lane Gillespie