Avaliações de Dear Chengdu

First time at this restaurant. I really love the food. I ordered Mapo Tofu and Kong Pao Chicken and they made it extremely authentic. As a fan of Mapo Tofu, i will say this place make the best so far. The only problem is that the food is a very salty. Other than that, the portion is great for its price. I will definitely return and i highly recommend to give this resturant a try.

Let me explain the wildly different reviews of Dear Chengdu. The excitement starts when you make a reservation on the web page and then find out via a phone call that whoever does the online reservation can't really reserve at the restaurant. (They were nice and called me to let me know that). As you walk in you notice that the place has all the ambiance of a clean garage with picnic tables, but the food on the tables looks interesting. The waitress doesn't really speak English, so I suppose it's authentic, but most menu items have nice big pictures and she make us point to each item. She doesn't seem to know that the restaurant serves beer (which I like with hot food) but her male partners seem happy to bring some. The cumin lamb was a big hit. Unlike some other restaurant's cumin lamb / toothpick lamb, the chunks of lamb were big enough and cooked perfectly so you were eating meat with a charred exterior rather than pure crispyness. Pepper steak was OK, but something I could do at home. The boiled fish was nice and spicy but somehow the fish fillets seemed very soft and fell apart, and didn't impress. Maybe frozen fish? We had a vegetarian with us, so we ordered something like "sauteed vegetables". What came wasn't what we expected - under a crepe or maybe just a very flat disc of scrambled egg, there were a lot of noodles and very few vegetables. It could be that we had an ESL problem with the waitress here and didn't get what we thought we ordered? So in summary, the food is OK, and if I lived in Irvine, I'd probably go there or order takeout/delivery. But as I live further away, I'll probably be checking Google maps to see whether driving to Alhambra to Chengdu Taste is worth the extra drive time.

A good place to try some Sichuan food. The servers don't really speak English, so have someone that speaks Mandarin in your group. There are pictures, but some things can't be explained (like spicy levels) with just pictures. The interior of the restaurant is like a concrete parking garage that someone gutted out and cleaned up with tables. The food tasted pretty good and my favorite was a dish with cauliflower

This place is small and very good. The food comes in large servings and everything is quite pricey. The food however is very good and you can always take it home for later. Don't over order here. Everything is very unique and generally very delicious. I've been a few times and have not once regretted it. I'll be coming by in the future.