"About ten seconds after you take your first bite of this thick-style Flushing spot’s mapo tofu, a buzz of mala spice will creep through your upper body, as if you’ve swallowed a bluetooth speaker. But the difference between this mapo tofu and other versions that also blackmail your senses for thirty minutes, is that there’s plenty of salt, garlic, and ground pork to cut the heat. Szechuan Absolute is located right above Szechuan Mountain House and Guan Fu in Flushing’s One Fulton Square - in case you’re planning a mapo tofu crawl." - hannah albertine