Review Spicy Sichuan Restaurant - Sydney

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

Came back for a second visit and utterly disappointed. We ordered the kangaroo kebabs as we saw a few tables ordering it the first time. Although it looks pretty, once the smoke stopped to billow out, many tiny flies began to appear from the boat. We called the waitress but she didn't do much except for pressing on the flies with her bare fingers to get rid of them saying the food is delicious. I would not be coming back as the quality of dishes dropped and they have no regard for customer hygiene. Would not come back unfortunately.

Authentic spicy Chinese food. Mostly Asian clientele. It seems to have changed ownership recently, the food's similar but not as good as before. It seems more oily and more expensive. Our favourite dish was the Chilli boiled chicken entree (sounds bad but is actually great). It used to be great - but now the chicken has little bones in it. Not as good as before.

Not as good as it used to be. 2 persons with a drink is around $50+ I was away for a while and really craving for authentic dish like duck tongue. I had it before and the taste is completely different to it used to be. The one I had this time is greasy and tasteless. The other funny thing is that the drink we ordered didn’t come instead they gave us tap water and we completely forgot about the drink we ordered and we paid for the bill 🙁 Have to say that the portion is really big. Except the duck tongue which is $36 and it comes in a small plate with peanuts and veggie underneath. It is not fair with the price you paid for it. It seems like I need to find another place for the dish.

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.

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.

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.

Lively and cosy place to eat hot pot on a cold night! The menu is not too extensive but has all the hot pot favourites.<br/><br/>Much to be improved in terms of service—we waited around 20-30 minutes before our order was taken after asking two waiters, we didn’t get the ladles/cutlery/plates until another 15 minutes after the food was brought out so we couldn’t start eating until much later.<br/><br/>Note: the $29 per person hot pot buffet is not inclusive of the broth which averages around another $20.

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!

The traditional Sichuan hotpot soup was two salty and not hot enough, mushroom and chicken hot soup was ok. Service was good. I spent $50.6 for me alone. A little expensive.

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

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.

Worst place ever. Food was horrible and service was bad. On top of top we were overcharged - supposedly it's a buffet but we have to pay extra for the soup?<br/><br/>We were unable to eat anything so we had to leave and eat somewhere else after. Would never come back'

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.

First thing first, you are opening a restaurant in Sydney, where most people speak English, so please use English when you give customers a waiting number, so at least they understand what's going on after lining up for 30 minutes for dinner. The staffs kept speaking Mandarin to us when we had already spoken English to them (hinting that we don't speak Mandarin). Secondly, if we're supposed to prepare our own dipping sauce and find our own bowls for the hot pot, at least put the preparing table somewhere easy to notice, or at least inform us we are supposed to get our own stuffs. We paid more than $80 for a dinner for 2, we expected better service. The reataurant was NOT busy, there were plenty of empty tables and the staffs were walking around doing nothing. The staffs kept laughing and chatting with each other and we waited more than 30 minutes for the first dish to come. Seriously guys, don't ever come here. Worst restaurant ever!!!<br/>P/s: We all had a terrible stomache after the dinner.

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.

A great spacious restaurant for big-group functions. Service is prompt and food comes fast. The cumin lamb is delicious, and chili spicy chicken is addictive. There are plenty of mild dishes if you can't handle the chili hotness! BYO is ok!

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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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.

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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Must try: fish in the chilli oil and lamb ribs.<br/><br/>Make sure you order some rice and vegetables to offset the spice.

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!

We started with the ling fish filled with vegetable in chili oil ($29.80). OMG – look at the redness of the bowl – so many chili and so many peppercorn for that numbing effect....The fish fillets were incredibly tender, and if you carefully pick out the peppercorn it is not that spicy at all! But what would be the fun of that right? It was spicy, tiggly numbing spicy but it was good!

Spicy dishes for those who enjoy their chilli kick, Seems reasonably priced, Interesting décor, Plenty of seating, Private rooms available for more intimate setting

Step inside and it’s quasi feudal China complete with substantial wooden chairs and marble top tables, bamboo garden walls and lots of regal red and gold. At the entrance is a brass-look wishing trough filled with small denominations of Chinese coins and notes.

Everything we ate was delicious. Tea smoked duck and the fish & greens soup particularly recommended.

Great looking restaurant BUT service is lacking. Let me tell you the story of how we got to the title. <br/>Arrived early on a Tuesday afternoon straight after work, in a small group of people. We were seated right away upon arrival, and handed an ipad which had the menu in Chinese (first generation Chinese Aussie so I look the part but thats about it), and were left to our own devices to order through. Having been to several other hot pot restaurants around Sydney, it wasnt too hard to navigate as the pictures were clear. We ended up going with the Buffet option. <br/><br/>After placing the order the soup arrived, followed shortly by our drinks order. 10 minutes later our first smallish order came through consisting mainly of vegetables and tofu options. We finished this off with very little issue, so we ordered again, this time going with a more substantial option that was mainly protein based. Then we waited................. 40 minutes later, we waved down a waiter to have them check on our order. At this point the restaurant was quite busy, with all tables full and a short line forming out the front. The waiter immediately went to check in the kitchen, then came back out and resumed normal duties without speaking with. Another 30 minutes later, and soup broth had evaporated to around a quarter what had orginially come out, so they topped us up. It was at this point that the second order came through - only lacking several items (fish balls - I remember this cause I wanted them ALOT) we had ordered. We finished up and asked for the bill. It arrived and to our surprise the Buffet bill of $25 per head didnt include the cost of the soup? That was a seperate charge! <br/><br/>So at that price per head, they will give you all the food you want, but nothing to cook it in?<br/>Regardless even if that were the case, going by the time we spent waiting for the order to arrive, it wasnt worth it. Aside from that the food was good - but then again it could be cause when you hungry everything tastes good!<br/><br/>Time in - 6:15pm<br/>Time out - 8:25pm<br/>Time spent waiting - TOO LONG!

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.

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.<br/>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.<br/>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. <br/>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)<br/>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.<br/>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 cannot eat. Food has got some nice sichuan flavors but was way too oily for every food we ordered

Bad service. We went there for lunch as a large group. The food and ambience is not so bad, but the service is horrible.<br/><br/>First of all, the restaurant is obviously short of waiters. Most of the time, the waiters are disappear from the whole restaurant. They only appear to take your orders. Otherwise, it looks a really long time to find a waiter to refill the teapot or refilling rice. When you call them for too many times, they will just give you an annoyed face. In the end, we were too scared to request for any extra service.<br/><br/>After ordering, it took a really long time before first dish was servered. And when the dishes were served, they were not hot any more.<br/><br/>In addition, the restaurant has a serious shortage of spoons. We were initially not given any spoons. When we requested, they could only find a few spoons. I wonder, how the restaurant is operating without enough dinning utensils?<br/><br/>In the end, we spent two hours on waiting and couldn't finish the lunch before the restaurant closing time. They rudely asked us to pay the bill before we finish our food. They even offed the lights and started mopping the floor.<br/><br/>I hope this horrible experience can help you to decide whether to go to this restaurant or not.

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