Unbelievable. Just the best! Very good service, and the waiters are so friendly and attentive. High quality, wildly fresh food, and very large portions.
Had a great meal for lunch. The spicy beef was so tender. It basically melted in my mouth. Great tingly spice too. The Dan Dan noodles in spicy sauce was also really tasty. But my favorite part was definitely the dumplings in spicy sauce. It's one of my favorite things when I am getting this style of food and they knocked it out of the dark. I could have drank the sauce. The staff was very nice. Definitely a spot worth supporting.
This place has recently taken the heavyweight title of BEST Sichuan cuisine in the Bay Area and is now my favorite Chinese restaurant followed by Hunan Impression in San Jose and Royal Feast in Millbrae. I had been going to Sichuan Cuisine out in the Sunset district in SF since I live in the city but I now make the drive to Millbrae just for this place. The food is incredibly flavorful - you get that intense smoked wok flavor clinging to most dishes. Also, I believe that this restaurant uses higher quality ingredients than most other restaurants, which would explain why their Dan Dan Mein is actually tasty (the noodles they use are on point and appear to be marinated, the peanuts have been pre-smoked before making the sauce, etc.) as opposed to the drab, dull noodles sloshed around in cheap peanut oil that most restaurants serve. The eggplant dishes and Lotus root dishes here are all out of sight - if you want lotus root done right, this is the place.If I ask this place to make my food spicy...and I always do, the food is so @#[email protected] SPICY that I joyfully suffer for days afterward (fellow white folk: as long as you order ahead and write in Chinese, they will make it spicy...it's true, getting spicy food as a white person in authentic Chinese restaurants still proves to be a difficult endeavor, even when I plead with them in Mandarin to add spice...it only works if I order ahead on a faceless app). What can I say - eating this food is akin to some sort of painfully therapeutic massage complete with whimpering and long bouts of sobbing....but purely tears of joy and delight, friends. They use a good balance of szechuan peppercorn to dehydrated red pepper - good balance of numbing spice and an undercurrent of potent pepper spice.The only dish here that is mediocre is the beef chow mein...it's just ok, but that may be by power of comparison to the other delicious dishes that I've eaten it alongside. Lotus root, eggplant, frog, chicken hooves, chong ching chicken, pig ear...you can't go wrong with any of it. I continue to order new things and am blown away each time. The chef at this restaurant is an artist who takes his/her craft seriously and one of the best in the entire Bay Area IMHO.
I would rate 0 if possible. I ordered two dishes for delivery. One dish tasted sour when arrived. I had stomach pains after eating the food. I would never order from this place again. So disappointed……..
Their Dan Dan noodles are to me, a piece of art, above everything else I was privileged to taste, including 3 stars, e ricette della nonna
Absolutely terrible service. They serve for Mandarin/Cantonese speaking customers only and mainly working for take out orders. They don't reply my question and dropped the dishes on the table without any words. They gave Chinese speaking customer extra desert. When I asked them why I don't have the treat, they told me because you are not asking.I'd never want to come back and warn any non-Chinese customer be careful.
The spicy food here is delicious and authentic, and the spicy fish fillet is so delicious that it is worth recommending! But not spicy home-cooked dishes, steamed buns and fried dumplings are too ordinary, and there is no aftertaste. The serving speed is quite fast, and the hygiene is not bad.
Very good foods here???
Best ma la (numbing/tingling/salivating/hot) flavor outside of SF's China Town. Casual dining, superior Szechuan food.
Food is delicious - spicy and flavourful. Fast service. Every time we pass by Millbrae, we try and pick up food to.go.