Exceeded my expectations for a hotpot in Sydney. I have eaten hotpot in China and China chilli hotpot was as authentic as it could be and the good things was they also speak and understand English. The buffet spread is amazing, sauce condiments spread is vast, complementary water and fruits to cut down on the spiciness of the broth is a good idea. Addition of fresh meat balls, prawn and fish balls(fresh) would be a good idea. Hygiene can be improved and some of the ingredients on the buffet could get better like the prawns but overall it was good. Staff are as efficient as they can be even if the restaurant is busy.
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Chinese cuisine always holds a special place with me given my stay for a good part of an year in the country. Simple yet tasty food. The experience is unique and always starts with unlimited refills of green tea. It is different from place to place, but always worth trying it. We tried this place close to town hall for lunch and found it enjoyable. The decor and seating takes you right back to any relatable place in China. We tried stir fried string beans with vegetables minus the pork. It was blanched and fried with spices which was really good. Slightly crunchy but well cooked. We had tofu dish which was actually really spicy but well balanced with the lemongrass in it. Might not be liked by everyone as the Sichuan pepper leaves an aftertaste but it is definitely worth the try if you are into spicy food. The oily sauce goes so well with the jasmine rice. We had smoked duck (half) which was good as well. It was a little bland, but the meat was cooked really good. Skin was crispy and salty. Since it is a half portion you would find lot of bones along with it. This is one of the places that I would try for lunch or dinner as long as everyone wouldn’t mind the spicy food.
Hot and spicy Sichuan cooking is always a big hit in the winter months to battle the cold. Spicy Sichuan was an old favourite during my stay at Haymarket. Loved the chicken and prawns with lots of peppercorns!
There is nothing better than hot pot during cold winter night. I visited this restaurant to celebrate my birthday with my friends and had a great time here. The food is great and service is friendly and equally fast. They have vast variety of food to choose from and very flexible with the amount of heat you like for your soup. We got the spiciest soup and everyone was sweating from the heat. Truly enjoyable. I also love the dumplings, dipped it into soup and let it cook for a bit. They taste amazing! The price is worth it and I will come back again.
All you can eat hotpot, can't really go wrong with it! Sauce bar is good, massive selection of items of the menu to choose from and their chicken broth is amazing enough to drink as soup. Couple of months ago this place had terrible service. They seem have finally caught on which is awesome!
Authentic Sichuan food! Have tried a few Sichuan food restaurants in Sydney I’d say this is the best. Btw it will be great to see Spicy Sichuan Restaurant open in London
Sir And Mlady Dine Out
+3.5
Wanting something with spice for dinner, we popped into China Chilli which is upstairs and part of Spicy Sichuan. . What we ordered certainly lived up to the restaurants name - it was spicy and hot (chilli hot). To order you use a "touch screen" and to start with for drinks we both chose Coke Zero as we were heading on elsewhere afterwards for a bigger night and wanted to start slowly. As an entree we ordered dumplings - we both love our dumplings and these chicken ones were tasty and they certainly had a hot kick to them.
Can't wait for another cold Winter's night with nothing to do because this is where you'll probably find me! Absolutely adorable Sichuan hotpots with incredible flavours that haven't been replicated anywhere else in Sydney. Price is very reasonable and the portion sizes on each refill are very generous. Try the spicy soup (Medium to hot if you dare), and get a healthy serving of the fish fillet, the dumplings, and whatever else finds your fancy. Best visited in groups of 4 or more and expect to queue for a spot on cold Winter nights.
The Dear Luncher was in Sydney town conducting Dear Luncher business and was staying in the apartment complex right next door to Spicy Sichuan. Ordered for take away were the lamb ribs with spicy sauce. One picture of a chilli appeared next to this menu item. As a result The Dear Luncher was all like "I got this". The spice blew Your Dear Luncher sideways. It was tremendously hot. But The Dear Luncher loves living on the edge (sh1t Aerosmith song), so this was a challenge The Dear Luncher relished. Head sweats galore, even back sweats. It was like a battle, not dinner. But a good battle because The Dear Luncher won.
i am never a fan for spicy food, but this place wow me. dont expect any service in a chinese restaurant, coz you wouldnt get it. but the food is amazing.
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Dec 17th, 5days before back to China. Bro Liu go to the Spicy restaurant by GPS. Tasting the yummy foods, there is a good memory about the foods and aftertaste hidden in the bottom of the heart. Appetites accompany with Coke is cool, of course zero is the first choice. Bro Liu enjoys the impacts of the ice and thumb up👍！ With the 🐟, changtan 12, tanxiaofengsheng, qibumei?
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Great food, we did the menu and the lamb ribs , twice baked pork, and deep fried chicken in Chili were great. The restaurant service is terrible however. Menu is only electronic and one per table, plus mostly in Chinese and our server was no help for recomendations. On the plus side everything Feels very Chinese so I guess that's kinda cool and authentic. Gotta try hot pot next time.
This restaurant has always been a favourite of mine during the winter hotpot season. The food is always very fresh and service is always very quick. You have a choice of a buffet option (which excludes the premium items) or just per menu item order.
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It's a cold winter night so we're craving hot pot and I decide I want to try this place out. It was pretty good!! The vegetable soup base was particular nice with great sour flavours that were different and so you wouldn't get sick of your meal as quickly. It was quite packed on a Saturday night with many waiting outside. We had a booking and were seated quite quickly at the back of the restaurant. However I think the ceiling was leaking some water - perhaps because it was raining quite a bit the night before. But we didn't let that bother us. The ordering of the soup on the iPad and then choosing your meats vegetables noodles etc on pen and paper seemed odd to me. Not sure why it isn't just one or the other. The selection was good in terms of what to put in the hot pot and what sauces you could get. The fish fillet was really tender and the beef rolls were a favourite among us. The all you can eat style is nice too - we were full after our second serving. At $29.8 per person plus $16 for the vegetable soup base, the price is quite reasonable in my opinion.
A great Sichuan restaurant hidden away in the CBD. For those who like spicy foods, this is the place to go. First step through the door and the chilli aroma hits you. Restaurant consists of two floors; the first for hotpot and the second is the ala cart restaurant.
Went here for the ala cart menu. Notable dishes include the lamb, fried chicken, spicy jelly fish, fish in chilli oil and salt and pepper prawns. Fantastic flavours and mostly generous portions. The chicken dish could have had more chicken.
Must try: fish in the chilli oil and lamb ribs.
Make sure you order some rice and vegetables to offset the spice.
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I’ve wanted to try this restaurant for ages, but it’s not the type of place to just go with your partner. Finally, with my pal’s rent-a-crowd of 8, a great number for a Chinese meal, we got to head down on the night of the Chinese New Year parade. Before we went, I looked at various reviews, including Terry Durack’s, and was a little confused. Expect bad service, I knew. Durack recommended having the hotpot downstairs instead (a suggestion we’ll take up another time). And I got the overall impression that it was pretty good but you might not know how to order the right dishes. Guided only by one dinner guest who said “No offal” which eliminated a surprising number of dishes, I was allowed to take charge of the menu and swept through the Menu-on-an-ipad, placing checkmarks on whatever looked good. Indeed, it was very good. The lamb ribs in cumin had so much flavour, juicy, fatty and unusual. A chili chicken had the interesting addition of cubed lotus roots. A beef in cumin was not bad. The whole table loved their version of Mapo Tofu, as well as the slightly sweet eggplant hotpot, and the crispy shelled prawns. The steamed vegetables were the same as anywhere as was the fried rice. The craziest dish was a large glass baking dish filled with pieces of tofu, fish, chilis and pepper, served with two candles underneath to keep it bubbling. It had a numbing rather than spicy chili (the sichuan peppercorns, I believe), with a taste, earthy and slightly charred, that I don’t remember ever trying before. All up, we found the food really tasty and interesting, not a dud among any of the dishes. The service was sweet but par for the course in a Chinese restaurant, inattentive, to the point of having to wave arms wildly or just go up to ask them for things. But we didn’t mind. A rather lot of bottles of white wine went well with the food and put us all in a jolly mood and I think all of us agreed that the restaur
Not a dud. Wanted to try this place for ages. All up, we found the food really tasty and interesting, not a dud among any of the dishes. The lamb ribs in cumin had so much flavour, juicy, fatty and unusual. A chili chicken had the interesting addition of cubed lotus roots. A beef in cumin was not bad. The whole table loved their version of Mapo Tofu, as well as the slightly sweet eggplant hotpot, and the crispy shelled prawns. The craziest dish was a large glass baking dish filled with pieces of tofu, fish, chilis and pepper, served with two candles underneath to keep it bubbling. It had a numbing rather than spicy chili (the sichuan peppercorns, I believe), with a taste, earthy and slightly charred, that I don’t remember ever trying before. We all agreed that it's well worth trying again!
Everything we ate was delicious. Tea smoked duck and the fish & greens soup particularly recommended.
We were staying in the hotel next to this restaurant, being big fans of Sichuan house in melbourne we thought we'd give this one a go. The menu is on an iPad, a little clunky to use however the options on the menu is quite extensive with good pics and in English. We needed help placing an order on the iPad as the order page was in Chinese. We ordered the spicy lamb ribs, crab and vermicelli noodles and mushroom in duck liver sauce. The spicy lamb ribs were very tasty - not quite as good as cumin pork ribs from Sichuan house Melbs - but almost. The mushroom dish was piping hot and full of flavour. I love offal and enjoyed the liver sauce, my partner doesn't and gave me her bits of liver, she enjoyed the mushrooms and capsicum however. The crab and vermicelli was texturely interesting and also tasty. Chew the bits of crab and spit the shell onto the plate. Overall a great Sichuan dining experience for those who like spicy food.
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Good enough.. As soon as you walk into this restaurant, the overwhelming scent of spices fills the air. Personally I think it smells amazing, though some may beg to differ. The restaurant is actually two seperate restaurants. Ground level is for 'hot pot', and up stairs is a la carte menu. I went upstairs and was quickly seated. Almost immediately a pot of chinese tea was placed on my table. They actually charge you a dollar for this. A pittance, for sure, and it was actually quite nice, but they should have the decency to at least ask if you'd like the tea.
The ipad-based ordering system is incredibly counterintuitive. Poorly designed and buggy, and the worst part is although the initial menu is in English, when you get to the next screen (where you order the food), it's all in Chinese. Absolutely useless for people such as myself who cannot read Chinese. I flagged down a waitress who helped me to order my food.
I ordered the dry fried chilli chicken, a dish I have twice consumed in Melbourne which consists of small bite size pieces of fried chicken served on a place full of chillies and peanuts. These are basically just for presentation purposes and add flavour to the dish when cooked. Wouldn't really recommend eating them.
The dish arrived in good time and looked great. It tasted nice, but having had the same thing at other restaurants as previously mentioned, I know it can be quite a lot better. Not to say it was bad in any way, just not on par with the others I've had (for reference the other places were Spicy Fish and Hutong Dumpling Bar, both in Melbourne)
There is an obvious language barrier with the waitresses, most of which speak little English and can seem quite rude, not smiling and so on.
This is the only place I know of in Sydney that serves this particular dish, therefore I will more than likely return when I am next in Sydney.
I deeply love spicy food and this restaurant is so good for my stomach! Awesome food, febulous ambience! Recommend it for sure!
Good Chinese stylish food. Lamb rib and kong pao chicken are my favourite. nice place to go!
Had excellent lunch. Combination of subtle and spicy flavored. Duck liver with eggplant a stand out. Five dishes for around 100 well worth it.
A diner's delight. Well decorated, Polite service and great sishuan style gourmet.
Great food. Good service. Well worth it. Could have done with the air con on a bit higher. Overall 6.2 out of 7.41
Get a fresh live fish to swim in this chilli oil bath, then devour the pair to your greatest satisfaction. It is usually accompanied with rice so you won't feel like you are drinking oil. The ordering device provided is pretty useless, it is just a menu.
This is the most authentic, Chinese (Cantonese) food I have ever had in my life. Even the 2 Chinese people I was there with were impressed. The flavours, the dishes were truly exotic and each one was splendid.
The service was commendable too. There was an old lady (probably the owner) who was more than kind and courteous in her service and demeanour. Very sweet and gentle with her serving and explaining of the dishes and how to eat them.
Service was quick and the food was delicious. Presentation was flawless and it is the only restaurant that I have ever been to where the food looked exactly like it did in the pictures on the menu.
Definitely going back for more! :D
Staff don't seem to speak English? (Or they just ignored me as Chinese is easier). The design of the store is great, the menu has English and Chinese
The food tasted great, it's not too spicy, however the portions are somewhat small for the price. I'd recommend getting rice with the food to help fill you up.
The staff weren't around much, they didn't fill the water until we asked them, they didn't give us time to record the food when they broke the sugar shell.
The wait between the meals was quiet long, it took about 15 minutes for the second meal to arrive and another 15 for the third meal, if we were waiting for everything it would be cold by then.
I would recommend this store, the food was really good
Warren Tate Speaker Coach
+4
A fabulous restaurant with traditional Sichuan cuisine. Expect awesome flavours and lots of spice / chilli as you would expect. Hot pot and wok fried dishes available. Don’t expect great service.
Upgraded menu. Recently renovated. Much better atmosphere than previous. Tastes great as expected for Sichuan food. Authentic with fusion elements. Worth visiting always.
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