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| - My family and I recently moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Columbia, SC. We love it here in the South, but we have discovered that really good Chinese restaurants in the Midlands are rare. Since we are only an hour away from Charlotte, NC, I decided to research Sichuan (aka Szechuan) restaurants in Charlotte. Through Yelp! we came across Lee Cafe in Fort Mill, SC, a suburb that is south of Charlotte across the state border. My wife and I decided to try it this past Easter Sunday. We ordered the Szechuan wontons, the spicy Szechuan chicken (aka Chongqing spicy chicken), twice cooked pork, and spicy eggplant. We were treated to some wonderfully prepared dishes complete with tongue-numbing Sichuan peppercorns and dried chilis. My wife and I agreed that the food here could stand up to the authentic Sichuan cuisine we enjoyed in California for so many years. It was so good, in fact, that we went back the next weekend when we picked up our son at the Charlotte airport. This time, we tried the Ma Po Tofu and Taiwanese cabbage along with the Szechuan wontons and spicy Szechuan chicken. Yes, this was definitely more food than two people could consume, but we planned to have plenty extra to bring back home to savor. I cannot speak to their sushi or more traditional Chinese-American dishes, but their Sichuan dishes are definitely on-point.
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