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| - I have lived in Phoenix for about 18 months now. My first six months I had plenty of chances to eat out. The whole time I was looking for more authentic Chinese food. Not the overly sweet sauces of americanized Chinese food, but edgier stuff.
While living in the Netherlands (where Chinese food is even worse than Phoenix) we learned that good Chinese restaurants have two menus, one for the casual Chinese eater looking for a step up from Panda Express and Chinese buffets and one menu for the die hards, native Chinese food eaters. Often these menus are not even in English (or Dutch as it were).
Well, my looking in Phoenix has come to an end. Szechwan Palance has such a menu. Granted, theirs is not so seret, they share the same menu, but in different sections.
I have been here twice and I have found the food to be quite good. there are some edgier dishes that we have not braved yet (i.e. kidney, brains, intestines, odd seafood etc.) but the ones we have tried have been quite tasty.
Dan Dan Noodle, simple and right on, small bowl, but rather cheap.
Chinese egglplant in spicy bean sauce - very good, ordered it twice, and I do not even like eggplant.
Beef boiled soup - I have grown to love this dish over the last few years (starting in netherlands), There are so many flavors and interesting items included. We love to get rice with it to sop up as much juice as we can. though we have been told by friends that broth is simply there to cook the meat and veggies, not to eat as a soup.
We have Chinese national friends and they all claim it is a great place for authentic Chinese Szechwan.
The Service - many comment on the service - OK it is only so so. Last time we were there they never even asked us if we wanted anything to drink. Had to ask them to clear dishes etc. Not really rude, just not what we are used to in restaurants. I wont let this curtain our dinning there, I count it as part of the experience.
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