Authentic Sichuan & Taiwanese fusion: mapo tofu, hot pot, dan dan noodles


























"For Chinese fusion, head to Hu’s Cooking, where Medical Center-area diners are met with bubbling seafood hot pots full of shrimp and squid and giant meatballs with cabbage. The restaurant also offers some hard-to-find dishes, like its stir-fried rice cake entrees and Three Cups Chicken, a Chinese and Taiwanese favorite." - Lane Gillespie

"For Chinese fusion, head to Hu’s Cooking, where Medical Center-area diners are met with bubbling seafood hot pots full of shrimp and squid and giant meatballs with cabbage. The restaurant also offers some hard-to-find dishes, like its stir-fried rice cake entrees and Three Cups Chicken, a Chinese and Taiwanese favorite." - Brittany Britto Garley, Lane Gillespie

"This West University restaurant features a robust menu of Taiwanese dishes like dan dan noodles, garlic pork ribs, poached fish in spicy Szechuan oil, and spicy popcorn chicken, along with beer and wine. If you prefer to bring your own, the corkage fee is $10 for wine and $3 for beer." - Minh Truong

"As one of the best places in Rice Village to revel in Sichuan food, I found the uncommonly robust mapo tofu delivers a steady burn and the complex seafood hot pot unravels a fiery, numbing tingle thanks to Sichuan peppercorn." - Alice Levitt

"Sweet-skinned duck, perfect mapo tofu, and more excellent dishes await at Hu's Cooking, Houston's Newest Chinese Hotspot. John Hu was an architect and contractor, which explains the slick but playful aesthetic of his restaurant, Hu's Cooking. His partners in the business are a real estate agent and a banker. Hu was opening manager at the Cooking Girl just down Holcombe Boulevard from his three-month-old restaurant. It was there that he met chef Wang Yu, the secret to the eatery’s runaway success." - Alice Levitt