Kung Fu 12 Szechuan (Rockville) 功夫十二 — Restaurant in Rockville

This is a new restaurant in Fallsgrove, taking over Tapai Tokyo's location. The new decor is nice, clean, and comfortable. The manager and waiter were very nice and helpful! The food was good including the shrimp dumplings, cucumbers in chili, egg fu young, and kung pao chicken. Good flavor, generous portions!

The one thing that could be greatly improved is the content of the kung pao chicken. We like simple and normally kung pao is protein and peanuts, sometimes a few peppers. The current version here had a ton of celery, which was very unexpected and unfortunately unwelcome. it also had some green peppers and fewer red with a relatively small portion of chicken. Suggest removing the celery all together, it is filler, and allot at that, and it only detracts from what is otherwise a great dish. Please replace it with more chicken and a few more peanuts. As for the peppers, suggest sticking with the sweeter red bell vs green. The sauce is great!

We hope you take these suggestions as intended to improve and listen to your new customers. Once these tweaks are made, it will be a great dish that we look forward to ordering for many years to come!

We'll be back! It's really nice to see a focused Chinese restaurant vs the previous one which was never consistent or exceptional at anything nor did they listen to customers which is so important. So surprising they were here soooooo long.

Welcome to Fallsgrove, wishing you great success!

Update 11/25: I returned with a coworker for lunch and requested NO Celery. The dish still came with celery but smaller pieces and this time it was loaded with green peppers instead of just a few. I live nearby and will possibly give them 1 more try. This is about listening to customers. Will the 3rd try...

Me and friends had a very good experience years ago in Kung Fu 12 at the Baltimore/Timonium location. I am happy that a new restaurant is opened in Rockville.

I read some of the reviewing saying the price is expensive. It is not. Currently restaurant food price has almost doubled. A stir-fry rice take out could easily cost $20. For what I see on the menu, Kung Fu 12 Szechuan’s price is reasonable for the region. The portion size of the dishes is on the bigger side. We actually packed almost every dish back home and the remaining portion is enough for another meal (we ate a lot at the restaurant already).

The dishes are not authentic Sichuan, but rather Americanized Sichuan food, which captured some of the essence of the Sichuan cuisine. The spicy fish dish is surprisingly good. The difference between this and the real dish that you find in China is the type of fish and processing, where it is impossible to do in an American restaurant. The pork kidney is tender, clean, tastes good (it is easy to have strange bad tastes in Kidney dishes if not done right).

I am pretty critical on reviews of Chinese restaurants as I grow up in the City of Chengdu (famous for good food culture and the center of Sichuan cuisine), I feel that there is not truly good Sichuan food or Chinese food restaurant in the entire DMV area.

I think King Fu 12 Szechuan is a good addition to the Chinese food scene in the Rockville. There might not be a “wow” factor in your dining experience, but you’ll find a solid good meal in a clean, beautifully decorated space. Not like many restaurants that are only serving fast food like dishes or premade dishes, which probably is the only way to...

Feb 2025 My parents had heard about this place and decided to check it out for lunch. The place was dimly lit with soft instrumental music in the background. The staff were polite, friendly, and good about refilling our waters. Note they seem to default to speaking Chinese to Chinese customers.

They had 4 person booths around the edges. There were 2-10 person rectangular tables and 6 person round tables (without lazy susans). There was also one 6 person round booth in the back left corner. I also saw 2 private rooms in the back.

The food was tasty, if light in flavor. The general tso chicken was apparently not sour enough. Note the golden crispy chicken has a sweet & sour sauce. The chicken for both was tender and moist, with an average amount of breading. The Beijing duck was yummy, coming with a generous amount of shredded cucumber and spring onion. The duck bones were also served, cooked with some additional veggies.

One very negative note was the spring roll. It looked good, a nice golden brown, but tasted like it had been cooked in rancid oil. Be wary.

Overall, decent service and decent food. We may or may...