Chengdu Taste Seattle

I have visited this restaurant a few times and each time I visit it’s such an exciting experience. Sichuan is a relatively new flavor for me so I definitely gotta take it slow but I highly recommend the dish that has French fries and shrimp 🦐 its literally amazing and crunchy I highly recommend. I’ve always had great service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Loved the food. Not a fan of the lighting. Reels like a Wearhouse. Would go back for the food!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

Good Szechuan from Kenji Lopez’Lets Eat. We had Cumin Pork and Smoked Duck, delicious in big servings.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Unfortunately, no bueno, way too americanized

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

This restaurant is VERY SALTY. Be careful as you can bite into a whole bump of salt in every dishes. When giving feedback to server, their attitude is very salty too. Super not recommend.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Mapo tofu is supposed to be salty and meaty, but even with pork, theirs had no flavor other than a hint of mala. Service good, would have been 1 star otherwise.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 5

Honestly I was super hungry and when the food arrived it was sooo salty we couldn't eat it
I have eaten Asian food all my life but this was the first that was inedible

Big portions and tasty

Came here for dinner in May recently after reaching King Street station from Vancouver.
The food is quite good, the soup we had was not too spicy.

We were in a hurry to have our meal, only to be very disappointed by the “Ginger Bullfrog” dish. The quality was extremely poor, and when we brought this to the staff’s attention, there was no proper follow-up or satisfactory handling of the issue. The staff kept repeating that the bullfrog was not fresh-caught, which we understand and can accept. However, the real problem was that the bullfrog had an overwhelming fishy smell, which made it unpleasant and unacceptable to eat.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 3

No customer service in this place! Use your phone and order online. We had young people in our group that understood. The food was excellent but being older thier customer service is dry and lacking.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 5

Service: 2

Wait 1hour

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Toothpick lamb was pretty good. The mapo tofu was just okay.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

The food is authentic, the restaurant is small

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

I knew this restaurant would serve authentic Sichuan cuisine, but it ended up being a little too authentic for me

I got the Mapo Tofu here, which is a popular Sichuanese dish of tofu in a spicy oil-based sauce, and minced meat (pork in this case)
I've had mapo tofu before, in a place designed to cater more to Western audiences. This is absolutely not that. The flavor in this dish explodes at you - it's fiery,
unafraid, and strong. It just takes one bite for it to hit you over the head with its mouthfeel. The rice is barely able to slow it down; it just provides temporary relief
from the marauding conquest that this dish has over your mouth.

While the sauce and peppercorns provide the immense depth of flavor, my favorite part of this mapo tofu has to be the namesake tofu. It's probably the best tofu I've ever had.
So unbelievably soft that it collapses upon itself while bringing it from the bowl to the plate. I've never had softer tofu before, and it felt like cutting into a dessert more than anything.
It also acted as an excellent sponge for the rice. The dish came absolutely loaded with tofu as well, which was fantastic
I also liked the pork as well, but I thought there could've been more of it

This dish is spicy. Like really spicy. I can usually handle spicy food pretty well, but the amount of Sichuan peppercorns put in here is crazy.
It really is that numbing spice which makes your mouth unable to process anything else. Eating with rice helped slightly, but at the midway point through this massive bowl, I had to call it
as it was just getting too spicy.

This raises an interesting philosophical question on how to judge this dish. Usually I look for enjoyable experiences when going out, and due to the spiciness, I can't say this was very enjoyable -
it was in fact a bit painful to eat towards the end. On the contrary, I can recognize the quality of this dish, and the effort that went into creating it.
I guess I'd have to judge it as a mix of the both sides. There's a balance I need to strike with how much *I* liked something, versus how good I think it is objectively.
Usually, both of those are in harmony, but it's cases like this where they split apart a bit

Anyway, the portion size is pretty incredible. A single bowl of tofu could easily be shared by two people with no problem. It's a little weird that you have to pay extra for the rice,
since no sane person is just going to have this tofu bowl by itself, but the overall cost of around $22 in total was really not that expensive

Overall, I can't say this was the most enjoyable dish in the world, but I know when there's exceptional quality, and this has it. 8.75/10

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4