Bashu is a Sichuan restaurant located in Mississauga in a plaza at the corner of Hurontario and Eglinton Ave. It's considered one of the best restaurants in the city that specializes in Sichuan style Chinese food. Sichuan food is known for being very spicy with the use of Sichuan peppercorns and lots of red chilies.
I have been to this restaurant quite a few times in the past year and we went on a recent Sunday afternoon and got seated pretty quickly. If you go there around dinner time, the place is a mad house, usually not enough staff and they don't seem to have a good system of seating people. This is probably the worse thing about eating at Bashu but the food is authentic and pretty good.
Bashu uses iPad technology for customers to order, really great idea especially if you can't read Chinese. The iPad shows the picture and price of the dish, you enter the quantity of each item you want to order and hit finish, then give a waiter/waitresses the iPad.
We ordered the stir fried diced chicken with chili ($14.50 plus tax), snowpea shoots with mixed mushrooms ($14.50 plus tax), mixed beef with hot sauce ($11.25 plus tax) and two steam rice ($1.75 each plus tax).
The stir fried diced chicken, perfectly cooked and tender with a good amount of heat due to the red chilies and Sichuan peppercorns. The snowpea shoots with mixed mushrooms, really good flavour and nice wok hay that you would find in a good Canton restaurant. My favourite dish at this restaurant is the mixed beef with hot sauce ($11.25 plus tax) also known as fuqi feipian, Bashu probably does the best version of this dish in the city. It's essentially beef, oxtripe, peanuts soaked in a chili oil. Nice tender beef which you would soak in the chili oil and a really good authentic spicy flavour.
If you are looking for really good authentic Sichuan food at a reasonable price in a nice modern decor then you should definitely try out Bashu. Service is just average and it can be a mad house around dinner time but it's very busy for a reason and very popular with the mainland Chinese community.