This is the best Jamaican food in the city. Everytime I eat at another Jamaican place I always say "It's good but it ain't no Sansimian".
It's a hole in the wall kind of place and the decor is non existent. There's 1 table with two chairs for eating. Basically don't bring your first date here. Save Sansimian for later when they're sleeping over and you grab something from Sansimian and bring it back and blow them away. Then after they've sucked the last bit of meat off their jerk chicken bone. They turn to you and say "I love you," and you say "Pffft, you don't love me, you just love my take-out."
Jerk chicken is great. It straddles the line between wet and dry perfectly. The rice and peas are done right, I like mix the coleslaw into it.
White people like me usually go for jerk chicken when they go for Jamaican food because it's safe. Who doesn't like chicken?
You need to try other items on the menu here. You need to try their soups. They have a different soup of the day every day and every one of them I've tried feels like its renewing my life force. If you have to travel through a blizzard to get the medicine to the children, eat Sansimian's soup before you go. You'll make it.
Their curry chicken with rice and peas is exactly what I wanted when I ordered it. Stewy and thick and spicy but not over powering.
Most places oxtail is expensive and Sansimian is no exception to this. However at Sansimian the oxtail is actually worth the price because it's done right.
Finally the fried chicken. You'll see other reviews talking about the fried chicken at Sansimian and there's a reason for this.
It's because the chicken is the fried chicken your mother never made. Their fried chicken is so powerful when you eat it you'll remember a childhood you should have had where your mom would effortlessly made this chicken instead of drinking and yelling all the time.
It's a homemade style fried chicken, made with love. Then they squirt a little bit a BBQ sauce on top. The sauce is perfect with the chicken and you realize "Oh my god, they only do fried chicken Tuesdays and Fridays. How am I going to arrange my schedule and life around this?"