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| - I am wavering between a three or a four star because although the food is very good, the experience wasn't the best.
The chinese name of the restaurant is called "ma la tang" which literally translate to "numb spicy boil" and usually what it means is to have food cooked in a broth that's really hot and spicy. But rather than picking your own food to be cooked, they have a dish called exactly that but without any explanations of what is in the dish. We flagged down someone who is working there and given the attitude and his age and the way he was dressed, he seemed to be the owner. He had no interest in telling us what is inside the dish. He listed two items followed by, "and stuff".
We didn't order the dish.
We decided that we wanted to order this hot and spicy dish that we recognize the name of, which is a hot and spicy broth with pig's blood and intestines and my mom asked me what else i wanted, and I said i wanted something with vermicelli in it. we flagged down another waitress, made our orders, and asked for a dish that had vermicelli in it. She named one dish that we didn't want, and she was about to walk away when we asked her if that was the only dish that had vermicelli, she said no, and named one more dish. People there seriously were not interested in helping you.
The worst part? The first dish we ordered already had vermicelli in it and she didn't bother to tell us. We ended up ordering two dishes that had the exactly same ingredients but one was more sour and less spicy than the other.
Our third dish was a spicy vegetable that had no salt, so we asked them to add salt.
The total was $35 for the three dishes, not too bad.
I probably will come back, just because the actual spicy stuff were really good.
Oh, and beef noodle soup isn't really a szechuan specialty; I really wouldn't order it here.
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