| So spicy, it's almost sadistic |
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Reviewed By howie |
Apr 20, 2007 |
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szechuan
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I tried out this restaurant on my last trip to SF, and I think I actually liked it better than the famous Spices in the city. Unfortunately, I only got to try three dishes here. The chicken wings with chili peppers, spicy boiled fish, and a stir fried potato.
The spicy boiled fish was good -- the fish was tender and the sauce spicy and flavorful. It seemed to lack the complexity of my favorite renditions of this dish, maybe because there wasn't as much Szechuan peppercorn, but I still liked it.
The stir-fried potato was a new dish to me -- thin slices of potato stir-fried with green peppers. The potato is kind of undercooked (by Western standards) so that it is still a bit crisp. It gives the dish a nice texture that you don't usually associate with a potato flavor.
The chicken wings were fried along with a mountain of dried red chili peppers. These were so spicy that I was literally weeping with pain. The funny thing is that as soon as my tongue calmed down a bit, I kept going back for more. These were crisp and flavorful and addictive. Again I probably could have used more numbing Szechuan peppercorn, but I still scarfed them down despite the pain.
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