Chinese Cooking
Mapo Dofu - Step 7

Prepare Rice Cooker

A rice cooker will greatly assist you in your Chinese cooking. It means that the timing can be left to the automatic cooker and the results will be constant. Read the instructions in the book that came with the machine. Ours shows that you put the two cups of rice in the black pan in the middle. Put two cups of water in the middle well of the right section. Also put two cups of water in with the rice. You then plug in the cooker. Two cups of rice will take about 40 minutes. Just sit back and wait. It will turn itself off when done. We start it about 40 minutes before the guests will arrive.