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| - This place is awesome. I've eaten here lots, and it's where we bring all our visitors to Montreal who enjoy those amazing Szechuan flavours.
I've been out of town for a while and admit I was a bit worried when I saw some of those recent one star reviews. Maybe things had changed? But when all those one-star reviewers admit that they are there for General Tao chicken, or surprised when rice doesn't come in an ice cream scoop ball on the plate with your meal - well, you know how seriously to consider those comments.
If you want to experience Szechuan tastes, why don't you try something you've never had, like pork in home garlic sauce (find this in the list of cold appetizers). Over to the vegetable dishes, isn't it interesting to find potatoes on the menu? Give the hot and sour potatoes with chili a try, you will be surprised - they are grated into small sticks with the mandolin and barely cooked, so retain their crunch, and while the sauce is vinegary, oily and mildly spicy, the dish remains light and delicate. The green beans with pork are better than anywhere. Lastly, the thing we were astounded by on our first visit - either one of the two fish dishes in Szechuan peppercorn broth. The fish comes floating in an enormous bowl of broth covered with chopped red chilis. You'll want to avoid eating these. The peppercorns themselves can be overwhelming if you eat too many (hot and aromatic), but dig around for the fish and other goodies in the bowl (tofu / bean sprouts / peanuts), and let the broth infuse your rice and gobble that up afterwards. The special plus of this dish is you can pull out a hunk of fish at the end of your meal and it's still burning hot from the broth. We always want to get cumin chicken, too, but feel like we are overdoing it if we get more than four dishes for two people.
Glad this place is still around, still busy, still delicious.
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