The first dish is an appetiser Sichuan mouthwatering chicken or koushuiji (口水鸡) . It is basically a boiled chicken that has the traditional spicy sauce consisting of peppers and chilli oil and a mix of other condiments garnished with a leaf of lettuce and a generous sprinkling of fried peanuts. The chicken arrived warm and tender which was a surprise since I usually have this dish served cold. But no matter, this is much better than cold chicken. The sauce was appropriately fragrant although it was quite spicy.
The main courses arrived. I selected the Sichuan chili oil dumplings or hongyouchaoshou (红油抄手). The sauce is the same as what you get in the chicken dish earlier sans garnishing of lettuce and peanuts. The dumplings are hand made and they were well done. This dish has to be eaten quickly while it is hot as if you leave it for too long, the dumpling skin will get soggy and expand. Then it would lose most of its texture and not taste as good. An excellent meal for me.
The second main dish we ordered is the Sichuan mouth tomato and egg noodles in soup (西红柿炒蛋挂面) and one of the signature dishes at the restaurant. Contrary to popular belief, Sichuan food is not all spicy and numbing. This is like the Sichuan equivalent of a bowl of rice noodles and the soup tasted fragrant and pleasant.
The final main meal we ordered was the chili oil noodles (红汤杂酱面), another specialty of the restaurant. It consists of noodles soaked in the spicy chili oil soup base and topped off with minced pork. Quite excellent as a meal since it came from the same spice base as the other dishes that we ordered.
In all, it was an excellent meal that was quick to serve and light on the pocket. Well worth trying if you happen to be in the neighbourhoood.
The address:
Xexun Noodle House, JinHui Furniture Mall, Nanhai Road (opposite Nanyou Building), Nanshan District, Shenzhen 和旭面吧 深圳南山南海大道金辉广场(南油大厦对面)
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