Krys P.
Yelp
This restaurant opened on Christmas Eve, and according to my friend was totally packed during the holidays. To avoid the crowd I waited a bit before my visit.
In the last few years, several Szechuan cuisine restaurants have opened up in Miami, giving us choices beyond the regular Cantonese cooking. The beautiful menu (the prettiest in Miami, I'd say!!) listed lots of the classic dishes from Szechuan, such as tea-smoked duck, twice-cooked pork, fuqi feipian, "water cooked" fish, chili chicken, dry pepper saute in pot, hot pot, and more. There are traditional dishes using rabbit, pig intestines, blood and so on.
The dishes are good, though for the ones we tried, I would say it's not as good as the other ones in Miami. I love Szechuan food for the addictive mala: the heat (la) is evident, but it's missing the tingling numbness (ma) from the Sichuan peppercorn. So, this is good, but the others are *addictively* good - that masochistic, suicidal craving to keep eating that spicy food as your mouth numbs and you drench in sweat. Also, the heat level is not consistent among its "one pepper" dishes. Nonetheless, if you want to try Szechuan food in this neighborhood, this is a pretty good choice.
The service, when we visited, was a big miss though. The jelly salad, supposedly an appetizer, was the second to last dish to show up. After we finished eating, no waitstaff came by for over half an hour. We went from "let's try the sweet potato dessert" to "let's get the bill and get out of here!" which was a shame. However, as this place was barely a week into opening at our visit, I didn't deduct any star, in hope that it will improve in the future.