Ed Yu
Google
We visited SoCal specifically because a friend told us that they have the grilled frog in copper pot dish. We drove down in 6 hours to try it so why only 3 stars? Well, first of all, let's talk about false advertisement. The grilled frog in copper pot has three key ingredients: frogs, grilled, copper pot. However, we got a spicy frog in Sichuan sauce in an aluminum pan. The lame excuse is that it's due to covid but there is no way the frogs are grilled. They are not even breaded properly. It's so different not only from the real deal it's a completely different dish. The frogs are at least fresh which is all I will say. For about $80 it's a huge letdown. The services were good as we were offered free coconut juice but I couldn't add more stars because the other dishes weren't anything special either. The 小炒肉 or stir-fried sliced pork is my judge of how good a restaurant is and it's only so so. It's not bad but not worth driving more than 30 minutes for. The Sichuan fried pork also is not crispy enough to be any special as even Haidilao has better version. It's not a bad restaurant but not special enough to warrant a return visit when there are so many choices in SoCal.