Szechuan Palace — Restaurant in Winston-Salem

I have an issue about non-Asians professing their knowledge about Chinese food when they 1) haven't been to Asia 2) haven't had real Chinese food 3) pretend that they know a lot about Chinese food. I am sorry, but the people who know about Chinese food are people who have had significant interaction with Chinese food, people who grew up in China and Chinese Americans. To get to the point, Szechuan Palace is one of the most authentic and best places to eat considering that the owners aren't born in China. The owner is a Chinese man who was born in Calcutta, India, so it is different from the restaurants that have Chinese owners. Even so, I really like the dumplings and the roast pork there. The dumplings are very solid because the pork they use is very tender and soft. I have an issue with the skin because I find it a little bit too hard: I think it's because they put too much water when they made the dumplings. The roast pork was well cooked, very tasty and soft. However, this is nothing compared to what you see in the roasted pork restaurants of Hong Kong, when the roasted pork is literally roasted for hours and days and they are displayed by the doors. To ordinary people who want to get Chinese food, I highly recommend you go to this. To the people who want authentic Chinese food, you can go to this place and try it out, but be aware it isn't 100 % authentic so don't be disappointed. Unfortunately Google doesn't allow me to do 4.3 stars, because I think they...

I wanted to love Szechuan with so many positive reviews. First of all, it is quite dark inside with very little atmosphere. That's really no big deal if the food is incredible. I ordered the Kung Pao chicken and an order of dumplings as an appetizer. The Kung Pao arrived first and I asked about the dumplings and the server apologized and said they would be out soon. The Kung Pao was good, but not great. The peanuts looked like they were just sprinkled on top. They were not covered in a sauce. The sauce was lacking a bit in heat or taste. Or both. The chicken at least didn't look like the weird chicken you get in some restaurants. Then the dumplings came out. I guess I'm more used to Dim Sum dumplings that have a thicker dough. Of course there are many many variations of dumplings/potstickers that have different names based on regions. These were very thin and tasted a bit watery and I couldn't really taste the filling. They were more like Gyoza to me. I guess I have been spoiled by dim sum dumplings. There was only one server for the restaurant and that is hard on the server during lunch time. All in all, okay. Not bad, but it...

I am a longgggg time customer of Szechuan. Introduced by my parents probably around age 4 and I’m 28 now. I’m very familiar with the owners as well but they have stepped away from the mainstream operations of the restaurant. This is literally the ONLY Chinese restaurant that I will ever eat from and their fried rice is my absolute favorite you never really need soy sauce. It’s always flavorful. However, last Tuesday I ordered an array of things and wasn’t completely satisfied. I know this was not the usual love that is put into the food. While I wasn’t a fan of the Triple Delight, everything else was good. (Shrimp and broccoli, chicken wings, and the Mongolian beef, egg rolls) My fried rice was not colorful (almost white) and the rice was very crunchy. My order was almost $80. All of the orders came with a fried rice (which I was told I couldn’t add egg to) was also poorly cooked the same way. I also got no fortune cookies. :( Szechuan I absolutely adore you, and hope you stay open forever. However, a couple of changes to make sure food is always consistent is very...