Sichuan Chili

This is my go-to for authentic Sichuan food. The portions are large and great to share. I recommend ordering from the Chinese menu if you are looking for a more authentic dinner. The staff is always friendly and makes you feel like you are a regular. My favorite dishes are the Dan dan noodles, kung pao chicken, and noodles w/ Beef sirloin. Some of them menu items can get spicy, but the flavor is really amazing. If you are a spice lover, this is the place for you.

One of my favorite authentic Chinese restaurants in Cincinnati. Order off the Chinese menu and not the American menu. Food is spicy and sichuan spice is a numbing kind of spice, so be careful if you don’t like spicy food. Portions are large and I always have leftovers. I like the Spicy Sizzling Lamb and Spicy Boiled Fish Filets. And do some shopping at CAM International Market which is close by.

We visit this restaurant from time to time. Sichuan cuisine is one of the eight main regional cuisines of China and is highly regarded for its complex and bold flavors. The cuisine has a history of more than 2,000 years and has evolved over time with influences from neighboring regions and countries. The restaurant is clean and well-maintained, and the staff is always welcoming and attentive. Food is fine! Check out pics what we ordered during our most recent visit! Overall, if you're looking for a Chinese restaurant, I would recommend checking out this place.

This place was so good and so authentic. It's the largest menu I've ever seen. We ordered so much food they moved us to a bigger table. The mandarin pork was so tender I would have thought it was pork belly. The dandan noodles were amazing and a perfect balance of spicy and umami. Potstickers were pretty good and you could tell we're handmade. Fried rice was basic but everything else blew me away. We had the garlic chicken and the sizzling Szechuan beef. That dish came out sizzling like a fajita. It was fun. Great service. Huge portions and lots of leftovers that still tasted good after reheating.

I highly recommend this restaurant - it's carry out or delivery only at the moment, but it's worth the drive to pick up an order. This was by far the best Sichuan food I've had in the Cincinnati area, and I've tried multiple Sichuan restaurants in this area before, but at every other restaurant I felt the food wasn't even close to spicy, and was even bland or flavorless, and there was a complete absence of Sichuan peppercorn and other traditional spices. However, at Sichuan Chili all of the food tasted awesome, the flavor itself was excellent (not bland) and it was appropriately spicy, with Sichuan peppercorn. Honestly, this was some of the best Chinese food I've had in this area, period. I drove about 30 minutes to get to Sichuan Chili and it was worth the drive - I will definitely be back. I ordered the Dan Dan Noodles, which were great. Other Dan Dan noodles can be bland and flavorless, but these were awesome! Even after a 30 minute drive home, the noodles were still chewy and bouncy, not overly soft at all. Perfect texture and flavor - salty and slightly sweet, with numbing spices. I also ordered the dumplings in chili oil, which were also some of the best I've had - they seemed homemade to me, with very fresh pork filling, and what appeared to be handmade dough, and again, the flavor was awesome - not bland and overly oily with zero spice, the way they are often served at other Sichuan places. Moreover, the dumplings were huge! You get a lot of dumplings for around $7.00 at this place. Finally, I ordered the Prawns in Oil and the Red Dried Chili Fish Fillets, and I could not have made a better choice. They were both awesome, especially the Dried Chili Fish. I was also surprised by the quality of the prawns - served in a sweet and sour sauce with chili oil, they came with shells on, and as a result, they were very juicy and delicious. There were 15 or more prawns in my order, which I was very happy with - at other places, you might pay $12 for prawns and end up with 99% vegetables or sauce and 1% prawns - not at this place. My order was loaded with prawns. The Fried Fish was the best dish I ordered - I will be ordering that fish again very soon. It was sort of MaLa in flavor, and a perfect pairing with white rice. Salty, Spicy and Numbing - seriously awesome. the recipes for the food at this place, or the skill of the chef, is leaps and bounds better than other Chinese restaurants. I can't speak for the American 'Chinese' menu, because I ordered from the Sichuan Chinese menu (which I highly recommend), but I can tell you this - the Sichuan menu items aren't just good, they're great.