Sze-Chuan House 四川楼 — Restaurant in Manila

I'm getting in love with spicy food soo sze chuan cuisine are a must for me now and this place did not disappoint.

It was recommended by a chinese friend so there's authenticity ahhahaha

Place: very accessible around roxas blvd, and it was easy to get here. Inside was super quite and totally screams old chinese place,you know the ancient chinese restaurants.

Service: there were tons of waiters and few customers that time (since there was a typhoon 😅) but its so hard to call a waiter to request water, utensils etc.

Food: ok we had the jellyfish, which we made into a pallette cleanser with all the spicy foods 😅 I always love the texture but honestly tasted nothing for me, lacking seasoning for my taste.

Sliced beef loin boiled in special spicy sauce- i did not find this spicy but comforting instead, the sauce is not for sabaw its too oily like the usual chinese cuisine it has an herby taste and the meat was super tender.

Spicy fried chicken cutlet- the crowds favourite (my crowd 😅) it was super tender but the chicken were cut into small pieces which most of them had bones. It was salty and a little spicy but super yummy (thank you msg)

Steamed fish in tauso sauce- My favorite I don't know what fish it was but that tauso sauce is absolutely delicious! It was garlicy and spicy and just pure mouthfeel!

Over all I didn't find the food that spicy, but my sister did, so depends on the person I guess. There's a complimentary tea which was nice. And for the love of god DO NOT DRINK WATER IF YOU EAT SPICY herbs or something because water will just intensify that spiciness in your mouth.

This is such a good place for those craving chinese food and some spiciness in this...

Entering this place is like stepping in a time warp...the place is old, the tables and chairs too bulky, the menus are quite old (our waiter mentioned that they would be updating this soon!) heck...even the waiters are old ( not complaining though...they seem to compliment the place). So I was expecting the tongue numbing spiciness of szechuan dishes but instead I got a taste of a typical Binondo resto Again, I am not complaining as a typical Binondo resto can serve the most authentic Chinese food this side of town...disappointed, yes because my expectations were not satisfied (i bet everyone of us had experienced eating too much but never getting satisfied because it's not the food you've been expecting to eat..confusing?) but not totally disappointed because, again, the food was good. Lapulapu drizzled with lotsa toasted garlic, pata tim with those glorious cuapaos, that hot and sour soup (though not that hot for me) and that szechuan style chicken (yes that was tongue numbing but really not that spicy!)... Stay away from the siomai though...you can get something bettee than this somewhere.... The experience was good...the price is good...the...

Very disappointing. We ordered aubergine (鱼香茄子) - taste okay ish but no Sichuan pepper at all, fried dumplings some of which were burst and burnt while others were soggy and all of them didn’t have much flavour, vegetarian tofu that tasted of nothing, gong bao chicken (够宫保鸡丁）that was sweet and gloopy. No Sichuan pepper anywhere in the dishes. When I complained the waiter said the vegetarian dishes (the tofu) were generally without any salt or other flavours ‘because they’re vegetarian’ - which is bizarre. If that was truthfully the case it should say so on the menu. There was no explanation as to why the rest of the dishes didn’t taste good. They didn’t offer to take anything of the bill so we paid more than 1600 for a bad meal that we didn’t eat most of. They did offer to recook the tofu but as the other dishes didn’t taste good we just asked to get the bill. This place is very far away from the deliciousness that is Sichuan food. The waiter was friendly and apologised, it’s obviously not his fault but one star for service because management should make some...