China Sichuan Restaurant — Restaurant in Vienna

SUCH A SHAME THIS PLACE ISN'T THE SAME ANYMORE. Been coming here since I was a child. It used to be a restaurant everyone used to look forward to, and brought international visitors to. Therefore, we gladly got excited to eat there as a returning Wiener group!

Service: Much snappier than was necessary for a slow Sunday dinner crowd. But that can be excused if the food were good.

FOOD: Here is where my heart breaks- I have always; since I can remember; have gotten the Tiger prawns in the spicy pork sauce. THAT WAS THE ONLY EATABLE DISH IT TURNS OUT. Sub-par from memory and too salty for my liking- but like I said- it was the only thing we could eat.

We ordered their authentic style Beef stir fry- and even now- two days later I'm afraid that taste will come back into my mouth. It tasted like someone accidentally spilled Jaegermeister (or whatever medical root they use to make it) on my food. The taste kept building up, and it was quite disgusting, I don't know if a bug fell into their food, or if they got the recipe wrong. Everyone at the table deemed it as inedible. Therefore we asked the waiter what was special in it; and even picked out as many of the dry spices we could find- THIS IS WHERE THE LACK IN CAPABILITY WAS TRANSPARENT.

First excuse from the waiter: Its just too spicy for you! (NO SIR WE EAT SPICIER- and even ask for extra chilis) Second excuse: You are not used to the Szechuan peppers (NO SIR- we've grown up with the Chinese our entire lives- and we cook their food) Third excuse: its late when you arrived, so the cooks cooked in a hurry (REALLY SIR?? REALLY??) Fourth excuse: The standard cook is sick, and we have interns cooking today... (NOT SOLD SIR)

HMMMMM that is when we decided to look around at the other tables. The same waiter was apologising to our neighbouring table- saying "I'm so sorry for the issue. I hope you will still return". A visit to the Loo was proof that someone had gotten violently ill the same day already (or their cleaning personnel is also out sick).

Ambience: Same as always, no complaints. But I rather not get sick from my food, or be deemed crazy when I know the dish was not prepared like it was supposed to.

All in all. We will not be returning any time soon. The entire evening we kept swishing our mouthes out, dreading this horrible taste will crawl...

Es ist das erste Restaurant, wo ich in drei Sprachen kommentieren muss. Falls ich doch nicht so faul wäre, werde ich die Kommentare ebenfalls in Social Medien weiterleiten.

Wir waren vor c.a. 2 Stunden da. Schon vor der Zahlung habe ich entschieden, die Kommentare mit einem Stern zu geben ---- Der Stern geht an das schöne Design des Gartens sowie 2 nette Kellnerinnen.

Kurz zusammengefasst: dieses Restaurant ist niemals für chinesische Gäste. Es gibt extra eine Seite im Menü für chinesische Gäste, was andeutet, dass die Gerichte authentisch wären. Für einige bekannten Sichuan Gerichte muss man sogar extra zuzahlen, falls man "authentisch" wünscht. Ich kenne viele "China Imbiss" o.Ä. in Europa. Die sind gar nicht authentisch, aber sie täuschen auch nicht so vor. Viele kalte Gerichte schmecken einfach identisch, egal wie sie im Menü heißen. Sie haben immer "rotes Öl" drin, was salzig, scharf und nach Glutamat schmeckt.

Noch schlimmer ist, die Gerichte auf der Seite für chinesische Gäste sind teuer, und haben mehr als Hälfte Gemüse drin, obwohl sie aus gewöhnlichen chinesischen Namen im Menü mehr Fleisch etc. haben sollen.

Ein älterer Kellner hat wohl keine Ahnung von Service. Naja, Ihr könntet sogar ihn nett finden, solange Ihr westliche Gesichte habt. Dieser Zufällige ist nur ein Inbegriff des gesamten Restaurants. Es ist denen egal, wie sich chinesische Gäste fühlen. Ich wundere mich nur, wie die geschafft haben, in Wien 30 Jahre zu halten. Falls es in Düsseldorf oder Berlin wäre, bezweifele ich, ob es einen Monat schaffen kann.

这是首家让我认为必须用三语点评的饭馆。——如果我不是那么懒，肯定还会出现在我穷游帖子里面。

我们大约在两小时前在这家饭馆用餐，我饭还没吃完就已经决定给一颗星——这颗星是给这家店的装修以及两位女服务生的。

菜单上面专门有一页是给中国客人的——我理解为是比较正宗，另外还有不少菜，如果希望“正宗”，是需要加一两块钱的。在点菜的时候，一位穿着看起来像跑堂总管的有一些年纪的男士为我们服务。我询问菜单上面的夫妻牛肉片是否并非夫妻肺片，我得到的回答是“菜单上写的什么就是什么”。于是我决定把这个凉菜换成蒜泥白肉（“正宗”需要加钱），这位服务生的问题让我有了不详的预感：他问是要瘦肉还是五花肉。我回答要五花肉，看他欲言又止的意思我突然明白了，说是要正宗的。

后来仔细想想，我的不详的预感大概就是——这家店所谓的正宗与否，不在口味，而是食材……

我从来没有吃过底下满满的红油、红色的蒜泥白肉。红油抄手除了浓重的酱油、甜辣和味精味，根本尝不出什么味道——好吧，事实上这家点的大多数菜都是这个路数。还比如一道叫做怪味鸡丝的凉菜，菜单上显示不辣，实际上……这么说吧，我认为这两个菜应该叫红油白肉和红油鸡棍，为什么是鸡棍，见图

如果只是够辣就是川菜，就是正宗，我简直可以去做轻奢川菜馆的大厨了。最令人发指的是从中国客人那一页点的三个热菜，价格不菲不说，各种偷梁换柱：干锅肥肠可能叫干锅洋葱更贴切，红焖牛筋略好一点，豌豆只有一半左右。酸汤牛肉里面的蔬菜还不错，但是一个牛肉酸汤能做出那么大的油腻感，也是人才。

一餐下来，比昨晚在市中心的网红肋骨店多了十几欧。两餐我们都没吃完，昨晚是分量太大只好打包，今晚是实在难以下咽。

在欧洲生活多年，吃过很多按欧洲人口味改良的中餐馆，完全可以理解。对外国客人满脸堆笑对中国客人就另一种脸色的小丑也见多不怪了。但是真没见过像这家这样不在意中国客人还舔着脸自称正宗还加钱的店。出门外发现这家点竟然在维也纳开了30年了，维也纳人真是没见过什么。这样的店如果在杜塞尔多夫或者柏林，我严重怀疑能不能撑一个月……

强烈不建议所有路过维也纳的华人游客去这家店。

This is the first restaurant which I have to comment in three languages. ---- The comment will also appear in my social media sites, if I was not that lazy.

We had dinner there about 2 hours ago. I decided to give one star before finishing the dinner ---- this star is for the design of buildings and two ladies who served us.

Shortly summarized, this restaurant is noway for Chinese guests. There is one page on the menu for Chinese guests, which indicantes that those dishes would be authentic. For some special dishes (well-known Sichuan dishes) people have to pay extra if you want them authentic. ---- I know many "Chinese imbiss" or something like that in Europe. They are not authentic at all, but they don't pretend to be either. A lot of cold dishes taste just the same, no matter what they are called in the menu. Just red oil and salty and spicy, that's all.

Even worse is, the dishes for Chinese guests are expensive but filled with mor than half vegetables, although they should mean more meat etc. from their Chinese names in the menu.

An elder waiter definately knows nothing about service. Well, you might feel nice from him, if you have a western face. This random is just an epitome of this restaurant overall. They care nothing about the Chinese guests. I just wonder how they managed to have 30 years in Vienna. If it were in Düsseldorf or Berlin, for example, I doubt it would make it for one month.

An absolutely NO, specially for Chinese tourists who visit Vienna. Try to spend your (less) money somewhere else, for example...

This is the first review I write, which says a lot. We came here because we saw some good reviews, good prices ánd that it was authentic Sichuan. We were looking forward to it because my girlfriend (she is from Sichuan province) wanted to try some authentic Sichuan food. Our two main dishes were nice, but the side dishes were not at all authentic (fried bread and guo tie) they are way too expensive portion/quality wise (4 dumplings for 4.8 and 4 slices of bread 2.8 excuse me??) really a let down. We don't mind paying for quality, but this was not the case!

Two of the waiters (elderly guys) were REALLY rude and rushed from the beginning. He asked me to order drinks twice and said one person one drink and refused to give me one more cup for tea. He was impatient, pushy and unfriendly to us when we were a bit slow to order. His attitude destroyed the whole experience to be honest. We did not even want to eat anymore, but stayed because we expected good food. Which was sadly not fully the case ... The garden was nice though, but we will certainly...