Name: Chengdu Spicy Restaurant ³É¶¼²Ë¹Ý
Add.: 2150-8391 Alexandra Rd, Richmond, BC V6X 3W5
Introduction:
Chengdu Spicy Restaurant is located at Richmond. The whole staff has continued to improve the dining experience at Chengdu Spicy Restaurant. Our passion for providing authentic Szechuan cuisine, using only the best and seasonal ingredients, is now the hot topic mentioned in reviews.
Please visit us to experience our authentic cuisine with much improved customer service at Chengdu Spicy Restaurant.
Reviews:
We are three out-of-towners staying for a weekend on Eat Street so we thought we would try this new (to us) Sichuan place for a late lunch. The wait person was very helpful in helping us understand the menu. There were four cold chicken dishes so we asked her for the most popular an she recommended the "Chilled Mouth Watering Chicken," so we went with that. We confirmed that the "Twice Cooked Pork with Cabbages" was pork belly. For a veg we ordered the "Eggplants in Chili Garlic Sauce." We also ordered the Tan-Tan dumplings. Our food came out with surprising speed. Our favorite was the pork which was made with garlic stems, not cabbage as advertised. But that was a plus in our book. The chicken was good, but a little boney. The eggplant dish was just average. The dumplings were very spicy and intensely flavored ¡ª maybe a little too much so. Overall it was a fine Sichuan meal, and reasonably priced. There were some specials on a card at our table, but only in Chinese. There are probably some real gems to be had here if you were to be able to come back a few times and get deeper into the menu.
My wife and I ate at Chengdu Spicy Restaurant because it was highly recommended by the desk clerk at our hotel down the street. My wife is a native New Mexican who spells that state's official vegetable chile. She likes hot food and I spent enough time in the state to develop a taste for it.
She ordered the spicy pork with bamboo shoots, but conscious of the two chiles on the sign outside the restaurant, asked for medium. The pork was juicy and tender, cooked just right, and the bamboo shoots were the best we have eaten. Her other dish was pork won ton soup. It was not at all spicy, but the won tons were flavorable and there was not a hint of grease in the excellent broth.
The above dishes were perfect foils for the two I ordered. Since the helpful waitress didn't even ask how spicy I wanted them, I knew it was buyer - or diner - beware. I always try new things when visiting Richmond, so ordered two dishes containing animal parts I had never eaten - beef trachea and pig's ears.
The first was billed as cow's throat in chile, and that pretty much described it. A mound of trachea, very thinly sliced crosswise so that it looked like a plate of tiny eels with a sauce that appeared to be mostly chile oil. It started out very hot and stayed that way, but the heat was manageable when eaten with rice I liked it and will order it again after I have tried some of the other unusual - to me - animal parts on the menu.
The spicy pig's ears were nothing like I expected. They were white, cut into bite-sized pieces, and 2-5 millimeters thick. Must have come from small pigs. The rest of the dish consisted of onions, green peppers and two kinds of chiles, a red one and a pale green one that we thought was pickled. The pig's ears were close to neutral in flavor; the dish started out spicy and the heat built with each mouthful, but through it all we could taste the new flavor of the pale green chile.
The next day we met a woman who was born in Chengdu. She was very familiar with both the trachea and pig's ears dishes as we described them, even using the term "trachea" instead of "throat". However, she told us that the pale-green chiles, very well-known to her, were not pickled. She expressed disappointment that she was leaving Richmond and would not have the chance to eat at Chengdu Spicy Restaurant.
All in all, an excellent meal with which we found no fault.
They weren't kidding when they named it "spicy restaurant", for over half the items on the menu are designated as spicy (at least for average Canadian tastebuds). However if you'd love it here if you are a true spicy-fanatic. The food tastes authentic Sichuan: not the burning type of overpowering spicy but contains quite balanced flavors. Plus the deco looks like the inside of a giant red chili.
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