My friend is a Hot N Sour Soup fan, he said that the soup, while it's good- it's not really hot n sour. He did say that there are red pepper that make it hot but that's it. I had the cashew shrimp and pot stickers(dumplings). The dumplings are tasty and the sauce has red pepper flakes in it and possibly a little bit of red pepper oil? I'm not big on super heat, so I was guarded about trying it. It was very tasty. The Cashew Shrimp has more veges in it than other restaurants and I LOVE IT! There were bits of carrots, water chestnuts, greens and nice amount of shrimp to boot!