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| - Every time we head to Calgary, we have to stop here at least once.
Why?
Because the food here is delicious and my wife loves Szechuan cuisine.
We went over the long weekend and ordered a few dishes - Spicy Jelly Bean Curd, Sweet & Sour chicken and Bok Choi & Mushrooms. The Jelly Bean curd resembles rice noodles and it is a fiery little dish that is served cold. I can't handle it, but my wife loves it.
The Sweet & Sour Chicken was great - and different from almost every other place I've ever had it. Instead of putting a tiny piece of chicken inside a lump of dough, they lightly flour it and then fry it. Then after it's cooked, they add pineapples, peppers and onions and a sauce that is more tart than sweet. The result is a dish of crispy chicken that stimulates your taste buds with both sweet and sour, instead of the usual soggy lumps in sickeningly sweet sauce.
The Bok Choi & Mushrooms was just okay for a vegetable dish. They left the bok choi quite crispy. I would have preferred it cooked for another minute or two, as well as a bit more flavour in the sauce. Still, for a plain veggie dish, it wasn't bad.
All in all, the food here is great, the service is quick and the place is almost always busy (a sign that the food is great).
WARNING: If you cannot handle spicy food, don't bother going. Spicy food here will literally blow your roof off. It is not for those with meek palates!
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