Savour Sichuan
“The Xiao Long Bao has been hit and miss, but mostly good (and it's not Sichuan food anyway).”
“As for food, we ordered spicy bamboo shoot, shrimp with carrots and celery, west lake chowder with minced beef, sautéed pig's kidney and tofu with preserved eggs.”
“Midtown has a decent place to get super spicy food that numbs your lips.”
Savour Sichuan
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Came for the lunch special and was pretty impressed, not only with the menu, but also with the atmosphere. Sit down service with white table cloths and the wait staff is very pleasant. So refreshing from all the other quick Chinese food spots in the area.
What a discovery! It's probably one of the best in midtown, this is actually a second location under a different name, but they use different chefs and possibly slightly different recipe, the experience was spectacular.
We ordered a beef dry pot, spicy fish filet in a spicy broth, stir-fried potato slices and a spicy chicken appetizer, I have to say the fish filet was so authentic, my friend from Sichuan couldn't stop eating it, and we ended up talking to the chef who happened to come by our table. It was fun listening to them converse in the Sichuan dialect.
Excellent service! I always respect when the chef could come out and greet his customers. I can't wait to go back to try some lunch specials.
When I'm in the area, this restaurant is always one I will reach out for if I need a low key meal with Sichuan food. The menu is not massive, but it's not small either. There's a number of authentic dishes on this menu and it's all pretty good. The Xiao Long Bao has been hit and miss, but mostly good (and it's not Sichuan food anyway).
Recommended if you are in the area and need something low key and pretty good. They serve alcohol too.
I don't eat Chinese food in New York very often. Usually I desire Chinese food when my body needs some flavor satisfaction for sure and my own food has the lowest risks. However, I feel like the food at this place is kind of tasteless and lacks of that flavor I miss. I ordered ginger scallion fish fillets and eggplant with garlic source, and didn't get satisfied at all.
Funny thing is that this place has two different lunch special menus with the same dishes but different prices.
We ordered the dan dan noodles and the xiao long bao for delivery. The xiao long bao arrived–every single one broken. Aside from that, the skin was thick and the meat very sweet. The dan dan noodles were okay. It did not have a lot of ground meat but it wasn't super oily. I felt like it could have been spicier as well. Maybe eating in the actual physical restaurant would have resulted in a better dining experience but as delivery goes–unsuccessful.
After reading some great reviews, I decided to give this place a try since it's right by my office. I was here with a couple other friends and we ordered kongbao chicken, shredded pork with pepper, spicy fish pot, fuqi feipian and a veggie dish. Kongbao chicken was probably the best one out of everything I tried here. The shredded pork dish was a bit sweet, the spicy fish pot was way too oily on the top, there's also bones in the fish so be careful when you're eating that. Not the best chinese place I've been to, but I also live in Flushing so my standards could be higher. Prices are also higher than most Chinese places I've been to, with so many other options around I wouldn't recommend this place.
The food is not as spicy-delicious as Hot Kitchen, and the water-boiled fish (水煮鱼) was a goopy, oily tangle of chili peppers and paper-thin sheets of fish, but the service was just – I have no other way of describing it – a delight. Our waiter was happy to bring brown rice instead of white, another waitress helped box up the soupy leftovers, and the manager(/owner) even got in on the fun of taking a group photo. I would have never expected such cheerful, happy service from one of the many Szechuan restaurants in midtown (Szechuan Gourmet and Lan Sheng are only a block away), but there you go.
The good:
(+) Crispy cucumbers. Great for a summer appetizer. A little on the sweet side but I love all things sweet.
(+) Stir fried beef with scallion.
(+) Rice dumplings with black sesame stuffing in sweet rice soup (汤圆).
The not-so-good:
(-) The aforementioned water-boiled fish. Maybe I'm just used to heartier chunks of fish but there just wasn't that much fish in a $27 fish dish.
(-) Mapo tofu. Way too oily.
Another note for the sodium-averse: almost every dish but the dessert was doused in salt. I'm sure that if you ask, they can adjust the sodium level, but I forgot to say anything while ordering. I had to guzzle water for the rest of the night and, in the morning, my face resembled the most bloated pufferfish that ever lived. My dad, who needs to carefully monitor his sodium intake, couldn't eat a lot of the dishes.
NEXT TIME: noodles in fried egg and tomato soup; fish maw and pumpkin soup; sauteed beef with tofu pudding
A solid five star Szechuan food place, opened by the same owner as La Vie En Szechuan.; especially good for group dining.
The place was empty during lunch time, so no need to make reservation (I did though…). They also carry the same menu, only lack of picture so I guess imagination is strongly needed…
As for food, we ordered spicy bamboo shoot, shrimp with carrots and celery, west lake chowder with minced beef, sautéed pig's kidney and tofu with preserved eggs. Believe everything has a touch of spiciness so make sure everyone in your group has no problem handling that. Expect for the shrimp, which seemed to be American Chinese food, everything else was authentic.
Strongly recommend.