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Overview of Sichuan House
Sichuan House is a new restaurant, taken over from Dainty Sichuan Restaurant.
Grand opening on 19 August 2009.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 comments
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Food 3 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 3 |
Value 8 |
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I've been here a few times with my work colleagues to enjoy cheap spicy food.
Unfortunately, today I found a piece of steel wool in my lunch time special Black Pepper Beef. Upon highlighting this to my waitress, she showed the piece of steel wool to her apparent supervisor.
After waiting approximately 5-10 minutes to see what response we would have, (none forthcoming), we raised the issue again with the manager, who offered me either a new dish, a 30% discount or a free drink.
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yourfather -
See my reviews 1 , 09 August 2010
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Highly Recommended |
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Food 9 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 7 |
Value 10 |
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This place really is Dainty Sichuan under another name. And thank God. The city has been a much poorer place since Dainty moved to South Yarra.
The room is functional and generally full of students after a big cheap feed. The new menu is the most lavish menu I have ever seen in a restaurant, it is like a very expensive coffeetable book with all the glossy pictures to match.
Food is amazingly good and you will get items on the menu here that you won't see elsewhere in Melbourne. Sizes are ridiculously large, 4 of us could not get through half of the 3 mains we ordered.
Again a word to the wise. Take note of the chilli ratings here. Mild rated dishes here would be rated seriously hot elsewhere. Only chilli freaks should go near anything with the "3 Chilli" rating.
But this place is not all about seriously spicey dishes. There is lots of variety and just about every dish looks like it would be worth trying. Service is functional and no fuss. Be warned that they take cash only, there are no credit card facilities.
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melrich -
See my reviews 102, 01 July 2010
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Food 10 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 8 |
Value 10 |
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First of all, I'm a massive Szechuan fanatic so I was really excited to hear that Dainty was replaced by another Szechuan restaurant after they moved to South Yarra.
On a weekday lunch, for $8.50, I had fantastic tea tree mushrooms with pork shreds, and all the flavours were absolutely perfect. My companions had classic Szechuan dishes kung po chicken and dry-fried green beans with minced pork, which were both spot on. I really can't fault the food at this place, and on a taste-per-dollar basis, it's probably my favourite lunch in the city. For those who are worried about spice, there are plenty of dishes here that are mild but still big on flavour, like the tea tree mushrooms I had.
The dinner menu is more substantial and pricey, and it has heaps of excitement on it, as well as many classic Szechuan dishes. It's funny, I ate somewhere else a couple of weeks ago, and despite the great service, I found the food technically competent but unexciting, and wrote off the whole experience as demonstrating very poor value for money. It turns out Sichuan House does Chinese cuisine far more favours, and at 1/10th of the price it's pretty much unsurpassed in Melbourne. Highly recommended.
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hotandnumbing -
See my reviews 1, 22 June 2010
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Highly Recommended |
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Food 10 |
Ambience 9 |
Service 9 |
Value 9 |
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The food was amazing, I truly enjoyed it. This restaurant was recommended to me via a tv show called no reservations. Heres the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU5Zl_0CI3g
I thought the food was exactly as described in the show, it was so spicy I just kept wanting more. So delicious! I loved the cumin pork ribs. Service was pretty good as well, and the wait for the food wasn't long. Overall it was a wonderful experience!
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ricksays -
See my reviews 1, 13 February 2010
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Highly Recommended |
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Food 10 |
Ambience 10 |
Service 7 |
Value 7 |
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The food at this place is so mouth-wateringly spicy I broke down in tears. Of joy.
Whilst the spice can be incredible, its perfectly balanced by flavoursome dishes.
My personal favorite: Cumin Pork Ribs. Spicy and dry on the outside, juicy and delicious on the inside. Perfectly balanced!
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chadnickbok -
See my reviews 1, 22 January 2010
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Food 10 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 7 |
Value 9 |
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I went to sichuan house a few days ago with a few friends and the food was great. The food was very spicy, it's the place to go if you need that spicy hit. The sichuan food was authentic. It was quite different from other sichuan restaurants, the taste was the closest you could get to real sichuan food. I loved the Chongqing Chicken and the spicy cumin pork ribs, it really got my lips numb.
The dishes were served in large quantities, there was no way we were going to finish our food. So yeah, it was great for value. Overall, I had a great experience at Sichuan House, and I will definitely go there more often, just to challenge my taste buds and taste real sichuan food.
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katherine22 -
See my reviews 1, 15 September 2009
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