Sichuan – Comfortably Numb

The other day we visited Sichuan in HSR to celebrate the first day of 2022. The restaurant is around 10 years old and it’s very surprising how I have missed this all these years. It was full and bustling. The staff was quick in serving as well as clearing and cleaning the table for the next set of customers. We thankfully had a 10 min wait only.
Good interiors and a cozy restaurant
As the name suggests, most of the dishes have the Sichuan peppers as the hero of the dishes and almost all of them have the spicy chilli symbol in the menu 😃

What we wolfed at Sichuan?

Dragon soup – a lovely thick tangy broth with chicken and vegetables. I usually add my own set of condiments to the soup everytime. This was just perfect as it came.
Spicy pork black bean – an exquisite preparation that did complete justice to the meat and brought out the best flavors. The meat was melt in the mouth and so was the fat and skin. Absolutely brilliant.
Prawn black pepper – they killed the prawns with the spices and overcooked the meat too. Avoidable.
Qinchai chicken – one of the few non spicy ones with excellent flavor of sake and crisp stir fried vegetables along with the chicken.
Chicken bamboo rice – though traditionally made in bamboo, this was made the regular way but had bamboo shoots, veggies and made with sake in it so the flavors were excellent.
Chicken Ma La Zi – lovely gravy that paired well with the rice.
Chicken hakka noodles for the kid – well made and flavored. Probably the only thing along with the chicken starter we ordered for the kid that wasn’t spicy.
Qinchai Chicken
Qinchai Chicken

Dragon Soup
Dragon Soup

Pork Black Bean
Pork Black Bean

Qinchai Chicken
Qinchai Chicken

Chicken Bamboo Rice
Chicken Bamboo Rice

Chicken  Ma La Zi
Chicken Qinchai

Chicken Hakka Noodles
Chicken Hakka Noodles

All in all a lovely place which will become our go to place going forward. Very good speedy service.

Location

https://goo.gl/maps/tqpj6nbbzQmtGhB59

About The Author

Pravin Menon aka PhenoMenon is a corporate junkie by day and a food experiencer when he is not working (which he usually is most of the time). He is into adventure sports, food experimentations and when he is not carrying out explosions in the kitchen, he usually is eating (or drinking!) Contact him at pravs@phenomenalworld.in

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