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Ambiance: 1
Service: 3
We eat at the Squirrel Hill location all the time to get our spicy fix. It's great food that keeps us coming back!
Ms Beffrey loves melt-your-face-off spicy, whereas Mr Beffrey likes it a tad more on the human level. The menu has items that spans the spectrum. Our new favorites are the Snow Pea Shoots, which are tender greens quickly sautéed and salted. Tasty but on the expensive side given its simple preparation. The spicy chicken in chili peppers is a must try if you can tolerate it. The chicken is fried and crispy, though beware the dish looks like it's 90% chili pepper (edible though!). We highly recommend the Mongolian need, which is a different more numb-y kind of spicy. Packed with flavor.
Ambiance is a typical Chinatown-y feel -- pleather booths, unflattering lighting, loud, really nothing to set any sort of mood. Pretty on par with 99% of Chinese restaurants. Service is similarly Chinatownesque: fast, erring on the side of brusque, sometimes you get a little overlooked in the hustle and bustle, but (in true Asian fashion) generally very efficient. Don't come expecting to have a pampering experience.
Love the food here, which is what prompts us to come back time and again, though we do almost only takeout now.
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