Hunan House
“Great …the braised sliced fish and cumin lamb were again not what we were used to but fantastic in their own Hunan right.”
“I must say, if you think you have savored all the types of Chinese cuisine spices, Hunan Spice has a category all to its own.”
“And the spicy and crispy whole fish (from the daily specials menu) was also on the small side, but delivered in flavor.”
Hunan House
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Food is on the extra salty side, portions are not that generous, and the restaurant smells a little bad (something like moldy, I guess). Peanuts for table snacks was a turn off for me as well. Prices are kind of expensive for what you get, so I can't recommend this place.
Are other reviews fake or we ordered some wrong dishes? The whole fish head was even raw in the middle, and we asked for sending back and being cooked more. The waiting time was very long. The three dishes we tried were all tasteless. Even the fish head was not salty or spicy enough.I am usually not picky to any spicy food. This time it really let me down. Disappointed and don't recommend.
I ate here with my leadership dev't team this past week. Yes there were probably more than 30 people, but it should not have taken over 45 minutes for the food to come out. This is not an exaggeration.
As a pescatarian, I was not impressed by the food choices. Although we ate "family-style" and rotated the spinning table top, I was only able to taste a few veg options and the spicy shrimp that I ordered.
The veg spicy cauliflower was decent. The veg eggplant dish was nasty. The stir-fried prawns with hot spicy sauce were neither stir-fried nor spicy. Instead, prawns with shells were doused in oil and a ton of red chillis. By the time you got the meat out of the shells, the flavor was bland. Plus, the chillis were not sauteed or anything… there were just about 20 chili peppers cut in half and scattered on that plate.
There is no way that this place should be Michelin guide recommended. Someone paid a bribe for that. Clearly.
I was coming from a massage session at the Sun Spa (great massage) only a few doors down and was super hungry as I'd not eaten all day. I asked the receptionist where I could find really good Hunan Style food. She recommended this place.
So I looked for it on my trusty YELP! and sure enough it was there with a 4 star rating. When you look at it from outside it looks like nothing special but when you go inside its nice. Seems like a family style restaurant. Zagats gave it a B rating and I would agree not quite an A status.
The staff was polite enough. They offered me a fork which I promptly refused because I've been eating with chopsticks since I was 13yrs old!!! Now I'm 50 and still eat with chopsticks!!
Anyway, I ordered the slightly fried Spinach w Garlic, Rice and Crispy Duck. So much food!! No way I could eat it all!! I had to take the rest home!!! I wasn't a fan of the brown sauce that came with the dish though…ugh! So, I had them bring me the spicy chili sauce, which to me was not that spicy (I'm Caribbean so I'm used to REAL SPICED food…JERK IT!! Oops wrong culture, lol).
Very tasty food though. If I was in the area ever again I'd probably come back. SURPRISE!!! The food was served right away right after I had ordered!
Overall I have no complaints, besides the restroom was a bit disheveled.
I love it whenever I'm in Flushing! Always fresh food. Always great service.
This place is bomb – I'm so glad our friend picked this place to have the big family dinner. We were a party of 12, and was sat super comfortable at a huge table.
The service was good. The restaurant decor was Asian themed and well done. The Food – perfectly well executed. We ordered many dishes since we were a big group – my favorite was the eggplant with salty yolk. I like egg plant + I like salty yolk – so super awesome. I've had salty yolk shrimp before, but never with eggplant.
I'm surprised there aren't more reviews, but it could be because this restaurant is off Main Street. It is all the way at the end at northern blvd. Guess means shorter lines for me – at least for now lol
I'm no expert on Hunan cuisine, but I do love me some spicy food and Hunan House definitely delivers on spicy. From what I've noticed, Hunan cuisine differs from Sichuan cuisine in that their dishes don't require Chinese peppercorns and thus are not ma la (numbing spicy). Instead they seem to rely more on chili oil, chili peppers, and garlic to pack their punch. While Sichuan spicy creeps up on you, Hunan spicy hits you right away.
So far I've visited twice and I've liked or loved all the dishes we ordered. Everything has been executed perfectly and there hasn't been one single dud. My absolute faves were the spicy sliced tendons (perfect flavor/texture and coated with just enough chili oil), spicy intestine casserole (so pungently spicy!), and the spicy lotus roots (great crunch, very spicy with no oil). Though the lotus roots were my favorite veggie, the spicy potato strips come in at a close second; these flavors/textures definitely overlap though so I'd recommend just picking one. Their rendition of sliced fish in chili oil is quite good, though perhaps a little stingy on the fish. And the spicy and crispy whole fish (from the daily specials menu) was also on the small side, but delivered in flavor.
If you need a couple of non-spicy options, I recommend the braised pork belly which was perfectly tender, the cumin lamb which isn't completely non-spicy but it was very mildly spicy, and the fried green beans. All of the soups are non-spicy as well; both the house special soup and the seaweed spare rib soup I tried were solid. The menu is picture heavy and really easy to navigate, and don't forget to check out what's on their daily specials menu. The portions here are meant to be shared family style, so I highly recommend going in a group of 4 or more so you can try a good variety of dishes.
The only reason why they get 4 stars and not 5 is because their service can be a bit spotty. It's not terrible but it's far from good, and for a restaurant whose decor suggests that they're aiming for a better-than-just-your-neighborhood-Chinese-restaurant experience, they could really do with some better training for their waitstaff.
The food is good most of the time, but the quantity is terrible. Every time we order string beans for take out, it only half container full. We keep ordering from their restaurant because the taste is pretty good. Last time we asked them please to add more string beans, because not even fill up half container. They said it would be extra charge for that….(however, we got more string beans without being extra charged. Appreciated!)
Then, we order string beans again this afternoon. I was very disppointed. That's why I feel like I need to write something to let other customers know about that.