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| - I'm not really big on spicy Sichuan cuisine, but this restaurant was surprisingly good. Service could really be a bit better, but considering that this is a Chinese restaurant and we went in during the weekend, I'll just let that slide.
When we got there, there was already a line up, but we had a reservation, so no biggie. After waiting at the door for a few minutes, I basically realized that no one is going to show me to my table, so I basically just walked right up to the cashier and told her which table I should take.
We picked out our dishes via iPad (seems like a lot of places are starting to do this) and food came reasonably fast. We ordered a three cold dish combo to start, and they were surprisingly good, but the one complaint I have is that a lot of our dishes were basically flavoured with spicy oil so, as other Yelpers pointed out, the food was pretty much swimming in oil.
Overall, the food was authentic, but can be rather greasy. The dining experience, well, just imagine yourself in a bustling Chinese market and you're there. Maybe it's just me (I like my dining experience be quiet and subdued), but when I have to practically shout so that the person across the table can hear me, that's just too loud in my books. Perhaps I'm just not Chinese enough, my Chinese companions from China all said this is pretty much how things are back home, so I suppose they are more used to it than I am. All in all, a pretty authentic Chinese/Sichuan experience, though I likely won't go back again on purpose unless invited by others.
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