First I just want to say that it is not necessarily expected for Chinese service staff to be really friendly or accommodating, especially to white English speaking people...not because there is any intended rudeness, but because of language or cultural differences when it comes to restaurant etiquette, etc.
Having said that, the two waitresses that were on staff today were so nice and attentive and thoughtful. We loved their vibe.
This was my first time trying proper authentic Sichuan food after doing a ton of research on what to order (years of research technically, watching tons of channels on YouTube that cover this style of food), and although not every single item was made exactly as it might be traditionally made (the Fu Qi Fei Pian didn't have tongue, heart or tripe for example...it only had the thin slices of beef flank), I found that everything was very close to how it is made in China, or exactly as it should be.
We had the following (See pics with captions), and I recommend everything besides the stir fried potatoes (maybe there is a better way to get them than we did):
1. Mao Xue Wang 2. Shao Bai 3. Stir Fried Potatoes with vinegar 4. Fish & Tofu Mala (not sure of menu name) 5. Fu Qi Fei Pian 5. Special Sweet Rice Ball Soup (Dessert)
Everything tasted high quality and truly awesome. The portions were gigantic and definitely intended to be family style. We went crazy and spent $100 for the two of us, with drinks, and still had so much food left over that they had to put everything in a big cardboard box lol.
Oh and the weird looking fish eyeballs/egg soup looking thing is so strange but so lovely. We asked for a dessert and we were thinking we would get some kind of small piece of Chinese dessert like they do in America and other countries, but instead they brought out a steaming hot bowl of something I can barely describe (see pictures), but it was genuinely awesome and such a new experience for sure. Highly recommend trying it. You'll just have to see for yourself.
Can't wait to go back and try more. They have a gigantic and intriguing menu.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Weinan Zhu
Very authentic Sichuan cuisine cooked by the real Chinese chef with traditional secret ingredients. It’s a heaven If you love spicy food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Daisy Beltran
This place genuinely blew my mind. Incredible food, fast service. Thank you you’re all amazing! Tried to call and compliment the food but im not sure the lady on the line could hear me😅
Food: 5
Service: 5
CAI (CAI)
The pickled chicken feet used to taste great, but today’s batch tasted a bit off — it was very bland, with almost no flavor. Also, the texture was quite tough and seemed undercooked. I hope it can be improved and brought back to the quality it had before.
Food: 1
Service: 2
Brian Reeves
I am vegan, and they had an amazing Spicy Tofu plate, and they made a vegan veggie fried rice. The prices were great and you get a lot of food. Two people could share just those two plates. I had to take half of both plates home to go for lunch the next day! ♥️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jason Liang
Very delicious Chinese food, it is also worth a go. Their dishes are excellent, exquisitely decorated, and there are also TVs and fish tanks. You can have a look when you are bored. What’s better is that they usually provide a bowl of candy before and after meals. For those who love Chinese food, this is definitely a must-visit place.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shrimp, Pork and Garlic Chives Dumplings, Chicken Dry Pot, Shredded Pork with Szechwan Sauce 魚香肉絲, Spicy Noodles, Walnut Shrimp 核桃蝦球, Stream Pork Ribs, Panfried Noodles with Beef Chowfun
Ashley LeBourveau-Truong
We went here for CNY and the food was excellent! The fish was phenomenal and we especially loved the dumplings.
The service was interesting - we were waiting to be seated a long time and the hostess tried to seat the people who came in after us first even though we'd already spoken to her. They nicely pointed out that we'd been waiting.
The food was worth the wait however.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 2
George Wang
Authentic sichuan cuisine
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Tao L
Visiting San Diego and found this to be one of the best things of San Diego, up there with the sea lions at La Jolla! Authentic, yummy food in generous portions. If I live here I will be patronizing this restaurant every week.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Audrey L
I’m not sure if we didn’t order right, but I did not like the food here at all. The salt and pepper fish had way too thick of breading (it wasn’t thin, cornstarch batter ), and it tasted as if it was fried with just normal batter for fish and chips! The fish quality was questionable, towards the center of the fish fillet, the fish was mushy. The pork used in the pork wontons tasted so gamey, but the sauce was good.
If you want good Chinese shi cuan food at reasonable price with large portions, this is the place to be. Everything we ordered came out quickly, piping hot and delicious. The cold plate portion was generous and delicious. Had the smoked chicken, pork stomach and spicy beef as the cold plate. Ordered fish with preserved veg and stir fry beef. The beef was tender and perfectly cooked, slightly spicy and went well with rice. Service is brisk. Very large menu. Located in mall with free parking but parking was a bit tough during peak lunch time. It's definitely worth a visit if in the area.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Bob Rood
Had the steamed fish and it was good the spice was just right, Sent back my vegetables as they were not washed well.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Fish
Voshadhi Amarasinghe
Large portions and spicy food… Perfect Szechuan restaurant.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
jianren huang
I went there three times with my wife and I liked it. The amount is big , the price is reasonable , the taster is good
I will go again.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Biren Kamdar
Food makes it worth the wait and impersonal customer service
First I just want to say that it is not necessarily expected for Chinese service staff to be really friendly or accommodating, especially to white English speaking people...not because there is any intended rudeness, but because of language or cultural differences when it comes to restaurant etiquette, etc.
Having said that, the two waitresses that were on staff today were so nice and attentive and thoughtful. We loved their vibe.
This was my first time trying proper authentic Sichuan food after doing a ton of research on what to order (years of research technically, watching tons of channels on YouTube that cover this style of food), and although not every single item was made exactly as it might be traditionally made (the Fu Qi Fei Pian didn't have tongue, heart or tripe for example...it only had the thin slices of beef flank), I found that everything was very close to how it is made in China, or exactly as it should be.
We had the following (See pics with captions), and I recommend everything besides the stir fried potatoes (maybe there is a better way to get them than we did):
1. Mao Xue Wang
2. Shao Bai
3. Stir Fried Potatoes with vinegar
4. Fish & Tofu Mala (not sure of menu name)
5. Fu Qi Fei Pian
5. Special Sweet Rice Ball Soup (Dessert)
Everything tasted high quality and truly awesome. The portions were gigantic and definitely intended to be family style. We went crazy and spent $100 for the two of us, with drinks, and still had so much food left over that they had to put everything in a big cardboard box lol.
Oh and the weird looking fish eyeballs/egg soup looking thing is so strange but so lovely. We asked for a dessert and we were thinking we would get some kind of small piece of Chinese dessert like they do in America and other countries, but instead they brought out a steaming hot bowl of something I can barely describe (see pictures), but it was genuinely awesome and such a new experience for sure. Highly recommend trying it. You'll just have to see for yourself.
Can't wait to go back and try more. They have a gigantic and intriguing menu.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Very authentic Sichuan cuisine cooked by the real Chinese chef with traditional secret ingredients. It’s a heaven If you love spicy food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place genuinely blew my mind. Incredible food, fast service. Thank you you’re all amazing! Tried to call and compliment the food but im not sure the lady on the line could hear me😅
Food: 5
Service: 5
The pickled chicken feet used to taste great, but today’s batch tasted a bit off — it was very bland, with almost no flavor. Also, the texture was quite tough and seemed undercooked. I hope it can be improved and brought back to the quality it had before.
Food: 1
Service: 2
I am vegan, and they had an amazing Spicy Tofu plate, and they made a vegan veggie fried rice. The prices were great and you get a lot of food. Two people could share just those two plates. I had to take half of both plates home to go for lunch the next day! ♥️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very delicious Chinese food, it is also worth a go. Their dishes are excellent, exquisitely decorated, and there are also TVs and fish tanks. You can have a look when you are bored. What’s better is that they usually provide a bowl of candy before and after meals. For those who love Chinese food, this is definitely a must-visit place.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shrimp, Pork and Garlic Chives Dumplings, Chicken Dry Pot, Shredded Pork with Szechwan Sauce 魚香肉絲, Spicy Noodles, Walnut Shrimp 核桃蝦球, Stream Pork Ribs, Panfried Noodles with Beef Chowfun
We went here for CNY and the food was excellent! The fish was phenomenal and we especially loved the dumplings.
The service was interesting - we were waiting to be seated a long time and the hostess tried to seat the people who came in after us first even though we'd already spoken to her. They nicely pointed out that we'd been waiting.
The food was worth the wait however.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 2
Authentic sichuan cuisine
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Visiting San Diego and found this to be one of the best things of San Diego, up there with the sea lions at La Jolla! Authentic, yummy food in generous portions. If I live here I will be patronizing this restaurant every week.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
I’m not sure if we didn’t order right, but I did not like the food here at all. The salt and pepper fish had way too thick of breading (it wasn’t thin, cornstarch batter ), and it tasted as if it was fried with just normal batter for fish and chips! The fish quality was questionable, towards the center of the fish fillet, the fish was mushy. The pork used in the pork wontons tasted so gamey, but the sauce was good.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 4
Restaurantji Recommends
If you want good Chinese shi cuan food at reasonable price with large portions, this is the place to be. Everything we ordered came out quickly, piping hot and delicious. The cold plate portion was generous and delicious. Had the smoked chicken, pork stomach and spicy beef as the cold plate. Ordered fish with preserved veg and stir fry beef. The beef was tender and perfectly cooked, slightly spicy and went well with rice. Service is brisk. Very large menu. Located in mall with free parking but parking was a bit tough during peak lunch time. It's definitely worth a visit if in the area.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Had the steamed fish and it was good the spice was just right, Sent back my vegetables as they were not washed well.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Fish
Large portions and spicy food… Perfect Szechuan restaurant.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I went there three times with my wife and I liked it.
The amount is big
, the price is reasonable
, the taster is good
I will go again.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food makes it worth the wait and impersonal customer service
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
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