Sir Sun's Wok — Restaurant in Oxford

I don't want to be 'that pedant who gives restaurants one-star' but unfortunately I have to give one star here. My friend and I went to the restaurant for lunch and were the only ones in the restaurant. The staff took longer than necessary to take our order (in fact the two front of house staff were busy doing things whilst we were waiting to catch their eye which I eventually did after 10 minutes). My order came out quite quickly but my friends order didn't arrive even after I'd finished eating. The excuse was the chef couldn't read the order from the waiter (so the chef just ignored it). Regarding the food, I had a tofu dish with rice. The tofu was the consistency of off milk and had just been chucked in to the pan without searing or seasoning. There were also little black bits which when I first encoutered were the size and consistancy of small stones. These weren't peppercorns or similar but when I bit into the first one it sounded like I'd cracked a tooth (which I didn't). So after I finished with my food my friend my friends meal didn't turn up so we had to get it to take away. So bad service + bad food = 1 star...

Very good Cantonese and mainland Chinese restaurant. Firstly it's cash only, there's a fee free cashpoint in the coop local opposite. Service is brisk and friendly, the menu does have pictures for most things but you can ask the staff about any dishes. The garlic and chilli chicken was very good, the size of the chicken was more like taiwanese popcorn Chicken which is not a bad thing. The spicy aubergine on rice was good, it was more mainland style rather than Cantonese style which uses salted fish, rather than szechuan sauce. The beef ho fun was very good, not greasy, beef was tender and soft. The szechuan spicy noodles was good, the beef was very tender, like sliced beef brisket. Prices are cheap and reasonable, especially for Oxford, good portions are decent....

1 of our 3 dishes was fine (roast duck), the other 3 totally disappointing, bland and overly greasy. I was looking forward to Sichuanese specials of ma po tofu and spicy aubergines, but the dishes we got were almost bland and had zero Sichuanese pepper in them. The aubergines were coated in thick starch, and both dishes were filled with other veg (sliced carrot, mushroom, pepper), which I wasn't expecting (never had it in these dishes in other restaurants and never seen in recipes). These additions and the bland flavouring resulted in poor versions of these Sichuanese classics. Disappointing. I was looking forward to that famous Sichuanese pepper zing and chilli heat. I even asked for it specifically, but didn't get it. I probably won't...