Le Nove Scodelle — Restaurant in Milan

For two people we ordered spaghetti tirati a mano, puntine di maiale, manzo cinque spezie and fagiolini rosolati. As someone who is familiar with Sichuan cuisine, I wanted to try it upon the recommendation of my friends. I can say that I have eaten neither delicious nor tasteless food. My expectations were high, but they fell short. The spaghetti was delicious, but the sauce was too sweet for my boyfriend (more on the teriyaki side than soy). Puntine di maiale was not a plate that appealed to my taste and they were lacking a little salt in mh opinion. Manzo cinque spezie is a plate served cold, we liked this the most, it was very fresh. and lastly, we ordered fagiolini, asking for the spicy content to be reduced. It was the one that caught our attention the most among the plates we ordered, it had a good range of flavors but the sichuan pepper was a covering them a bit. I know a lot of people like this place, I also came with a recommendation. Considering that so many people gave it high scores, I think either more traditional Sichuan cuisine suits my taste or I made the...

I’m not going to lie it was one of the worst experience i’ve had for asian food in Milan. We had 2 Pollo Kongbao for 2 people + 1 raviolo di Gamberoni. The portions were tiny for 50 euros spent on delivery overall.

Pollo Kongbao: very surprised of the highly sour taste of it which was basically not edible. I had a couple of bites then had to leave it away. Same for my girlfriend who almost died of thirst. The vegetables were grossly chunked off and seemed like it was done in a rush. (Restaurant closed a few minutes after we got delivered of course 22:00)

ravioli di gamberini were a complete disaster. I mean it’s been 20 minutes and can still feel the taste of the salt from leaky ravioli in Soya sauce.

All in all, it’s a complete rip off for 50 euros and 3 items (rice not included). Would advise to avoid at all cost if that’s your vision of Chinese Cuisine.

1 star is very very...

Overpriced and overestimated. Coming here is a waste of money considering there are so many great Chinese restaurants around the city. None of us liked any of the dishes, made exception from the dumplings (they were ok, but still not comparable to the original ones from la Ravioleria). What really bothered us was that we had the feeling the waitresses kept on teying to sell us more dishes. At every step of our dinner they kept on coming and asking “why don’t you order something more?”. Surely not coming back.

Some extra info: The dishes were not spicy at all if you are used to Chinese food. One bowl goes from 10€ to 16€ a person (some are for 2 people and go from 22 to 25€), dumplings are 6-9€ (according to...