Sichuan Bang Bang - Kenmore — Restaurant in Brisbane City

So we decided to give this local restaurant a go, only to be greatly disappointed. Very pricey, the price unfortunately doesn’t reflect the serving & quality of the food they served. We were given a very unsturdy table on the slope (just outside of the front door), after 5 minutes of ordering, the waitress comes back out to ask us to order another dish as one of the dishes we ordered have sold out. After some hesitation, my partner has order the fried beef to replace the twice cooked pork belly. To our disgust, the beef was super dried, tasted somewhat like poorly made beef jerky, well deep fried food what do we expect? 😬The prawns wre also overcooked!! The fragrant eggplants were ok on flavour, but mushy & overcooked, definitely not worth $24.95. What worst is that the sauce on the eggplants appears to be someone else’s left over Mapo Tofu as it has pieces of broken tofu though it. The fried rice, oh so little… such a small serving & hardly any chicken or anything in it except rice, onion & spring onion, we just couldn’t believe they charged $19 for that small plate of fried rice. Would we go back there again, we would have to think twice… to be honest, never felt so ripped off going out for dinner until we’ve been to this...

Great food but not super kid friendly. We sat in here when we first moved into the area a few months ago. Our child is a little picky, and we’re very aware and apologetic about it and make up for it with our “over-ordering.” However, the service and clientele felt a bit strange towards us on the Friday night we went to dinner, around 6:30pm. The service didn’t give our 5 year old an entree plate/bowl or water glass until we had to finally ask once our mains were delivered. I don’t mean to sound rude with this review, it’s a great establishment, but it’s not like it’s a 3, or 2, or 1 hat venue. The layout feels very open to families. We were made to feel as though our 5 year old was not welcomed to eat with us. I’m a big fan of spicy food, and everything we ordered was great. It’s possible it was my and my partner’s perception, but we felt very unwelcome and ended up getting everything to take away a few minutes after it was finally served so we could eat in the comfort and non-judgement space of our own home. Whether it was intentional or not, we left with our perception of this establishment as having fantastic food, but only go if you’re on a date or without younger children…or just have it delivered. It was pretty...

📍Location - located in Kenmore at a relatively quiet street. There are few other restaurants on the same street.

🪑Seating/Ambience - we sat near the kitchen area. It was steaming hot sitting there with staff constantly walked in and out with narrow passage. Seating was uncomfortable - wooden chairs with no back support.

👩🏼‍💼Service - average.

🍽️ Food - 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 Do not recommend for anyone who do not eat hot/spicy food. Extremely limited food options for people cannot eat spicy food.

In general all the dishes were very salty, spicy and oily. We ordered Nanjing shredded pork which is deep fried with minimal pork wrapping in the flour. Steamed scallops was quite oily and the scallops were overcooked and extremely chewy. Vegetables with garlic sauce was again heavily salted. My kidneys were screaming for help...