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February 2024 by James Zhong
We went during weekend for lunch. The restaurant was quite empty. The waitress was very friendly and checked on us a few times during the meal. I’d say great service.The food was however not really to my liking. The Chingqing spicy chicken 辣子鸡 was made with chicken wings cut in half. The wings didn’t taste fresh, but preprocessed somewhere. The dish also had chunks of undiscovered sugar clumps. The fish-flavored eggplant 鱼香茄子 was served with huge eggplant pieces, but the flavor was pretty good from the sauce. The cumin ribs 孜然排骨 also didn’t taste fresh, but flavor was good as well.Overall, it was ok. Price was pretty good. Maybe I didn’t order the right dishes, but I probably won’t return in the future.
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January 2024 by Jiarui Sun
At noon, I ordered a piece of boiled fish and stir-fried kidneys. Because I was in a hurry, I called my boss to help him fry it first. When we arrived, the dishes were all neatly placed on the table. Moreover, it tastes delicious and the beef is very tender! Good review!
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January 2024 by Dan Mueller
When they have it, best plum juice around, and top notch szechuan food.
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December 2023 by Lisa Montague
When my friend and I inquired about a certain dish, the hostess was very rude and kept repeating if we wanted our dish to be prepared a certain way, that we should do business elsewhere. We were ONLY INQUIRING about a specific dish... not committing some type of crime or attempting to insult these people. Her attitude was very DEFENSIVE and way out of line.Perhaps we came across as insulting, but we did not mean to. She must be very supportive of RETURN CLIENTS... Just "got off on the wrong foot." I will never make that mistake again.
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November 2023 by Marcela S (MA)
I’ve been here a few times and the food is pretty consistent. I have tried a few different things and some of my favorites like the chicken wings and cumin spareribs The service is good they are very kind and accommodating. The food is delicious and pretty authentic for San Mateo area.Parking: After 6pm is free
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November 2023 by Thomas Martin
We had Susi, salmon bellie was outstanding, great service, friendly staff.
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October 2023 by Jennifer Sun
Pleasant experience every time I get take out here. Favorite dish is 过桥豆花牛! Food is always ready within 15min, the lady in the front desk is super nice.
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September 2023 by Byron H.
Went here on the advice of Kenji Lopez-Alt and suffice to say, extremely happy. Hands down the best chicken wings I've had. They only use the middle part of the wing, and chop it in half so they can get just that extra bit of batter on it. Perfect amount of heat and mala, with just the barest hint of sweetness made this dish worth the 30 minute drive. The cold spicy jelly noodles had wonderful flavor, definitely will reorder.the mapo tofu - flavor was on point, again, the perfect amount of heat and numbing. my only complaint was that tofu cubes are a bit larger than I personally like (I tend to mix everything with white rice, and the larger cubes makes it just a tad longer.The leaf tripe - I didn't have it, but the wife loved it.Scallion pancake - perfectly crispy, and thin.It's not a fancy place, but for authentic Sichuan taste, this is so far the best in the bay we've had.
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September 2023 by Christine L.
I come here for meals or order takeouts all the time. This is a very authentic Sichuan restaurant. The prices have gradually gone up during the past few years but so is everything else everywhere else due to inflation. I guess it doesn't particularly bother us because it is still a relatively good value. There was usually only one waitress or waiter at the time when we visited but the person was very capable and was very attentive. We feel that we were taken care off really well despite she or he had a lot of other customers. The food is typically good but sometimes the amount of salt in my favorite dish "水煮牛肉" is somewhat inconsistent. Sometimes, it is just right and sometimes it doesn't have enough salt. I am always curious what could have caused it. Maybe they have two chefs? The restaurant has a clean and nice environment. We have enjoy it a lot. Highly recommend!
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September 2023 by yn w.
If you don't want to cook on Friday go grab some food at this place. Overall a good place
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August 2023 by J S.
La Zi Ji & Ma Po Tofu are stunning! I ordered them twice in this shop! In Bay Area. This is my top 2 spot to go for La Zi Ji. They did a good job!! Thanks.
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June 2023 by Patrick ll
Overall good food and service. Had Numbing chicken wings, MaPo Tofu, beef chowfu because had kids couln't eat to spicy. Kids love the Numing wings, went for second order. Food got to the table quick. One thing is that seems most smaller restaurants all usually phone menu now day. I miss the real menu, it is easier to read and look. Still reasonable price for today high prices everwhere.Kid-friendliness: Kids can order non spicy foodParking: Parking around the block
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June 2023 by Conrad Joseph
Food is fine and fairly cheap comparing to other similar Chinese restaurants. However some of the dishes are really salty. We got the tofu with stir fried beef and only managed to finish half way.
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June 2023 by Helen W.
We had high hopes for chef Zhao but some of the food items were not up to standard.Interior is very clean and service is fast.Parking might be hard to find during busy dining hours.Food that we got:Stir fried pork kidney - this is really well done, well flavoured and kidney is tender with no weird tasteSichuan style spicy wonton - the wonton skin is so chewy and it didn’t feel fresh. The filling was also kind of flavourless and we had to really dip the sauce to get any savoury tastePea shoot - pretty good, garlic stir fried and tastes similar to other placesGlutinous rice cake - definitely would not recommend this. Instead of using glutinous rice flour which is where most places do, they just squished together a lot of glutinous rice and fried it. The texture and the syrup both are not greatFish filet and tofu in preserved pickle - I don’t understand why they added tofu in it besides to cut cost. I’ve never seen tofu added to this dish before. Makes it feel like they’re being cheapThere are better Chinese places around here, we are a bit disappointed at the experience here.
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May 2023 by Helen
We had high hopes for chef Zhao but some of the food items were not up to standard.Interior is very clean and service is fast.Parking might be hard to find during busy dining hours.Food that we got:Stir fried pork kidney - this is really well done, well flavoured and kidney is tender with no weird tasteSichuan style spicy wonton - the wonton skin is so chewy and it didn’t feel fresh. The filling was also kind of flavourless and we had to really dip the sauce to get any savoury tastePea shoot - pretty good, garlic stir fried and tastes similar to other placesGlutinous rice cake - definitely would not recommend this. Instead of using glutinous rice flour which is where most places do, they just squished together a lot of glutinous rice and fried it. The texture and the syrup both are not greatFish filet and tofu in preserved pickle - I don’t understand why they added tofu in it besides to cut cost. I’ve never seen tofu added to this dish before. Makes it feel like they’re being cheapThere are better Chinese places around here, we are a bit disappointed at the experience here.
