Sichuan Palace

Wanted an authentic Chinese food and this place was quite good. Started with dumplings with hot oil - good garlicky flavor. Then, West Lake beef soup - the bowl was huge; this was okay, I've had better. Then BF had the beef with broccoli, he enjoyed it and I loved the twice-cooked pork; it's the first time I tried it and I loved it, thin slices of pork belly with lots of scallions, it was full of flavor. Then the bok choy with shiitake mushrooms, it was bland. Overall, it was a good choice and the prices were reasonable. Service was attentive. We came in around 2:30 and it was nice and quiet.

We absolutely adore this place! We’ve had our fill of Chinese restaurants, and our family has crowned this one as their top pick. The real star here is the food—it’s incredibly delicious! If you’re in the mood for some spicy Chinese dishes in a cozy setting, you absolutely have to check this out; you’re sure to have a fantastic time!

The food here was amazing! We came here for Thanksgiving and every dish was really good, we got crispy La Zi chicken, spicy mung bean jelly, beef tripe with chili sauce, orange beef, and Ma la dried fried whole fish. Our favorite were La Zi chicken and the Ma la fish.

Absolutely the best Chinese restaurant in town. You can truly feel the owner’s passion and care in every detail. The rich heritage of Chinese culinary culture is thoughtfully woven into each dish — not just in flavor, but in presentation and spirit. Every plate is authentic, beautifully balanced, and incredibly delicious. The ingredients are fresh, the flavors are genuine, and nothing feels rushed or commercialized. This is more than just a meal — it’s a cultural experience. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to taste real, traditional Chinese cuisine made with heart.

This is a great restaurant that has New England style Chinese food and it has many authentic Sezchuan dishes. It has a small bar and a fairly large dining room. It was very clean. The staff were very friendly. What really shocked me was some of the prices. Soups for under $3, Shrimp Dumplings for under $6 and Soup Dumplings for under $7. Everything was amazing. Hot and Sour Soup is delicious with complex flavors and plenty of heat. I love their Soup Dumplings!! Small enough to be a one bite. This way you don't lose the delicious soup inside. If you like good Chinese food, this is it.

We got the scallion pancakes, crab rangoons, west lake beef soup, general Tao’s chicken, dry-fried shredded beef, crispy sweet & sour fish fillet, Golden silver egg pea pod leaves, vegetarian Ma Po tofu, vegetable fried rice. It was truly the best Chinese food I’ve had in the Boston area. The dry-fried shredded beef and golden silver pea pod leaves were my favorite. The general tso’s chicken was the most scrumptious I’ve had to this date. We also ordered egg custard buns and pumpkin sesame rice balls for dessert and they were a spectacular finish to our meal! Highly recommend for authentic chinese food with welcoming ambience!

Our office ordered to celebrate the Lunar New Year and ordering for large group can be difficult with everyone wanting different things and it's easy for things to get missed. Sichuan Palace made the ordering and delivery process easy and everything was perfect! Great food and nothing missed! Great Job and Happy New Year ( this is a place we will definitely order from in the future)* Nakia loves the Kung Pao Chicken!

If you are looking for Sichuan food, then this is the place for you. They have a huge menu that makes going back exiciting for those who like to try new things. But for those who stick with their favorite dish, I am sure you will be happy because they master the food across the board. They have dishes that have no spice, dishes that are super spicy, and dishes in between. The meat was rendered and tender. The tangerine beef was crispy even though it was completely covered in the delicious sauce. The spring rolls even have mushroom bits in them. What a luxury. The staff are professional and nice. You can tell they have a good familial relationship and it is welcoming. The restaurant is clean. I have no idea how they manage to have white tablecloths when I saw that a couple red/orange drops from my soup landed on it. I will definitely be going back. Edited June 2025. This place is still going strong and added more dishes to their menu. Try it out!

Several more visits since last time have yielded mostly excellent results. High quality Sichuan you rarely see in the 'burbs. -- Sweet Crispy Duck: A do-it-yourself duck bao arrangement with soft wheat buns, sticks of cucumber and scallion, and mostly-shredded crispy duck in a sweet and savory sauce. Think understatedly sweet pulled pork on a bun, only with duck and Chinese flavors. Looks small, but pricing is in the appetizer range, so I treat it as such. Good. -- Shredded Beef with Cayenne Pepper: Not your typical brown sauce glop, even though it might look that way. Lots of spices mixed in, and possibly tiny bits of garlic, along with a fermented, slightly salty quality. Longhorn pepper added mid-level spice. -- Spicy Lamb Dry Hot Pot: Plenty of spiciness and plenty of numbing action from the chili peppers, though no whole peppercorns I could feel. The lamb was both crisp and tender, with spices clinging. Texturally, the vegetables (broccoli, string beans, lotus root) and thin potato slices were all perfectly in the sweet spot between too firm and too wilting. Intense lamb flavor and sauce flavor. Elite. -- Fish Filet in Chili Oil Sauce: Tried this on a lunch combo after enjoying it several times as an entree and it's almost as big as the entree. Very soft, tender, unbreaded fish chunks in an oily, spicy sauce. Near-elite to elite. -- Fish Filet with Green Sichuan Pepper: A huge bowl with delicate white fish and a mostly clear broth that suggested lack of flavor, but looks can deceive; this was very spicy in a pickly, peppery, mouth-numbing way. The broth was too thin to make it suitable for rice, so best with bowl and spoon. -- Shredded Pork with Wood Ear in Hot & Sour Sauce: A new dish introduced in October 2025, this had very tender wormy-shaped pork shreds in a treatment that lived up to the name. Spicy for sure, and very tart as well, with pickled green chili peppers doing double duty. The black mushrooms were relegated mostly to textural enhancement. Clean flavors and no real sauce per se; a nice, unique dish. -- Ma Po Tofu: Pretty solid but pretty standard rendition, with a Boyardee color and consistency, but a spicy, peppery flavor. Soft tofu. Average or a tick above. -- Green Beans with Yacai: Perfectly cooked vegetables with plenty of crunch, just enough wilt, and every one of them well lubricated but not heavily sauced. I'm talking zero glop. Accented with yacai, another vegetable additive that lends some mysterious (actually fermented pickled mustard greens), addicting flavor along with salt. Not saucy, not spicy, but not the least bit lacking. Excellent. -- Sichuan Kung Pao Chicken: Tried on a whim to see how different it would be from standard. It's spicy chicken, with a bit of Sichuan peppercorn tingle, but not that spicy. Same peanuts, no celery. Slightly but not overbearingly sweet. Tender but not crisp. Nice little diversion, but prefer my Spicy Shredded Chicken (much spicier, no sweet) when in a chicken mood. -- Hot & Sour Yam Noodles: Thick, slippery glass noodles in a thick, dark brown condiment with a strong soybean flavor. A little too intense for me, like trying to down a Guinness. Whole soybeans on top. Service is solid, even with just a couple servers at most times.

Wanted an authentic Chinese food and this place was quite good. Started with dumplings with hot oil - good garlicky flavor. Then, West Lake beef soup - the bowl was huge; this was okay, I've had better. Then BF had the beef with broccoli, he enjoyed it and I loved the twice-cooked pork; it's the first time I tried it and I loved it, thin slices of pork belly with lots of scallions, it was full of flavor. Then the bok choy with shiitake mushrooms, it was bland. Overall, it was a good choice and the prices were reasonable. Service was attentive. We came in around 2:30 and it was nice and quiet.

Ordered their authentic Chinese dishes are pretty good. Knocked down one star for the staff being weirdly rude. We got take-out and realized rice wasn't included, went back and ordered some rice. Ended up getting attitude about how we should've told them ahead of time we wanted rice. In my mind, when Chinese dishes don't come with rice, it is up to the staff to ask if you want to order it. With that said, dishes were good: - Twice cooked pork: Probably one of the better versions I've had, has a really good kick. - Cumin lamb: Cumin flavor wasn't overpowering with a good amount of spiciness. - Shredded Pork with Oyster mushroom: Needed a dish for the kids that wasn't spicy. The dish had good flavor with the shredded pork being cut/cooked a little bit differently than I am use to but in a good way. Also never seen Oyster mushrooms cut into a slivers but it works! The amusing part is seeing a complete 180 in demeanor when she starts talking to customers in English and is super nice. Usually I don't care about Chinese folks being rude but usually it is to everyone and not just ones that speak Chinese.

Great food and with reasonable prices compared to other places I have been to. It's definitely a place that I will order from again!

Exceptional Food absolutely amazing Eggplant & pork noodles soup Best service too I go there at least once a week

The scallion pancake / beef roll was pretty good. Everything else was quite average. My friend said the food (crispy duck) was a step down from previous experience: not as crispy or tender as previous visits. He also said they had a little "shrinkflation" Nothing we ate was bad but nothing would make me need to come back. The thing that really stuck out was the service. Once we got our food, the waitress did not come back: no refills, no follow ups, and we went to the counter to pay. My friend tried to get her attention several times to get another drink. She did not acknowledge we existed. I had some stomach issues the next day, but I cannot blame them.

Great, authentic food. Attentive service. Feels like a real family run spot!! In a strip mall so not fancy but real.

Food - the quality and freshness of their dishes is superb and excellent flavors. The Chicken wings seem expensive, but they are large whole wings, (easily enough for two). Only positive critique we'd add for consideration is to increase shrimp size in house dishes (lo mein or fried rice) to make it stand out more but flavor is excellent, like traditional fresh cook Chinatown restaurant! Service - excellent and accommodating. Ambiance- has a small bar that locals regularly gather. We are not into that, but the sound is not bad and nice people all round.

Wow - this place has gone down hill. I ordered egg rolls and the beef broccoli lunch special with hot and sour soup, crab rangoon, and white rice. The beef was so tough I only ate half of it. The crab rangoon, instead of being crispy were soggy, and the egg rolls were slightly burnt. Won't go back there again!

The food was amazing! I got a variety of dishes which were all so good. The spicy mung bean jelly was my favorite! It was cold and refreshing while being flavorful and the perfect amount of spice. The workers are extremely kind and the food came out quickly. The restaurant itself is decorated nicely and clean. Good vibes from the bar!

Tried this place on the recommendation of one of our friends. They said it reminded them of home. I can see why. I've been here multiple times and all of my orders have been absolutely delicious. The service is fast and efficient. It is also not very loud. So you can actually have your meals in peace.

Service is great dim sum was as expected nothing spectacular. Food brought hot which I very much like. Ambiance is nice and quiet restaurant was very clean even windows are immaculate. However some food fell short on taste and presentation. Salt and pepper shrimp was coated in sweet cake batter not very much salt and pepper or jalapeños. Very different from traditional salt and pepper shrimp. If you're looking for average Chinese food with great service and ambiance this is it.

Their food and service is always consistent and top notch! I usually get the fish fillet in chilli sauce and dried chicken.

Sadly, it appears that this restaurant has changed hands - same name, completely different food. The hot dry fish is now tiny heavily breaded pieces that are bland and taste like they're dipped in a cornmeal batter then fried in oil that's not hot enough, resulting in a heavy, greasy, tough bite. It was enough of a decline in quality and taste to not try another dish there. Time to look for a new go-to in the area.

We had a great time at a banquet with 10 people. It was clean, and the service was excellent. We enjoyed every dish, and they were all healthy.

The food is very delicious and authentic. The restaurant is very clean and homie. The two waitresses are super friendly!

If you love authentic Chinese food, or anything spicy, I highly recommend coming here! It's definitely a hole in the wall restaurant. The servers are friendly and very attentive. The portion of food for the price is great! You definitely get your moneys worth. Everything tastes amazing, and comes out quick!

I've never been so disappointed. I ordered chicken lo mein and I kid you not the pieces were so tiny and so few that it probably equaled out to less than an 1/8 cup of chicken. That's not chicken and spending $12 for no chicken and no flavor is not fun. Avoid it until they improve.

I come here every now and then. One of best food I like so far in this place is their spicy beef hot pot and mushoo pork stir fry that come in wrap burrito like.

First off - it's ridiculous that some have given 1 star because they had to close their doors for awhile to get the kitchen fixed. Also, if you rate this food as 1 star due to the quality/taste, sorry but you really have no idea what you're eating. While people rave about Sichuan Gourmet in Billerica, Sichuan Palace is just as good and does a much better job with the americanized fried food type items. The food is always piping hot and delicious and the service is great, esp. for takeout. I can highly recommend the hot and sour, as well as, egg drop soup, the spicy beef and peppers (amazing), the garlic pork, moo shu pork, cayenne chicken, ma po tofu, twice cooked pork, chinese kung bao chicken, singapore noodles, udon noodles, the aforementioned fried food and really pretty much anything they make. Support this great restaurant!

10/10 recommend coming here for authentic and delicious food. I've been here multiple times and the service is phenomenal also the vibes in the restaurant are top tier.

Love this place!!! The food never disappoints! And the owners always have their eyes on everything! Favorite dishes... Steamed dumplings, jumbo shrimp and vegetables, teriyaki beef, four happiness meatballs, spicy lamb, cold sesame noodles, everything we've ever gotten! We bring everyone there we can... Thanks for the great food!

Try the authentic Sichuan dishes. Every dish we've tried has been very good and it emboldened is to try other dishes we otherwise would never have tried. Bawang chicken is spicy and tasty, whole Fried filet of fish was awesome. Have had several of the sizzling dishes and hot pots and all have been excellent. I find it curious that many of the negative reviews are from out of state reviewers.

Excellent authentic cuisine served with management that continuously looks to improve their menu and dishes

Delicious and fresh food! The food doesn't taste old or oily and the portion size was great! Will be coming back again!

I'm so sad I can't eat here anymore, and I'm taken with grief as I try to find anything even close to this godly place. I am now in Austin, TX and have not found anything even near as good as this place. Our go-to's were: hot dried fish, hot dried chicken, crispy duck, Dan Dan noodles, kung pao chicken (Chinese style), sichuan green beans, or Peapod stems. All so amazingly delicious (the first 3 are very spicy so don't order if you can't handle the spice)! Staff are friendly and bartenders are awesome. Miss you guys!

Pretty authentic Sichuan cuisine. Im from Sichuan my self, and I'm so glad that I can find a place that makes legit 川菜 at a reasonable price.

It's ok. Pretty interior. Soup, fried rice, some appetizers- not much flavor. There's 8 other restaurants in this strip mall.

Most of the one-star reviews are just people asking why the restaurant is closed (construction, if anyone was wondering), so that's awkward. Anyway, in short, the food here is god-tier. I come here with my parents pretty much whenever we eat out. It's also entirely legitimate Sichuan food (some dishes are technically more from other places, but they're the ones you usually find at Chinese restaurants so it's not a big deal). Personally, my top three are the following, but pretty much anything is a safe bet: -水煮鱼 (fish filet in chili oil), a salty-spicy dish with the most tender and fresh fish you've put in your mouth. -担担面 (tan tan noodles), a hot, spicy noodle dish with ground meat. I've had a lot of tan tan noodles, and theirs is among the best. -凉面 (cold noodles), a sweet-and-sour (and a little spicy) noodle dish. Yes, you eat the cucumbers and green onions too. Most portions are very large family-sized, with only a few appetizers and noodle dishes being smaller (but easily sufficient for one). For the quality, the price is honestly ridiculously low.

We love this place and so happy they reopened! The staff is so friendly. The wontons in chili oil is so tasty. 谢谢你们！

Wanted to try this place but when I arrived on 5/17/19 there was a sign on the door saying closed due to kitchen equipment failure. What does that mean?

Wasn't able to eat here because we had a service animal with us. The place was empty and now we know why.

Ribs are so dry and small ,Not fresh at all, fish no taste, I won't recommend to eat here!

Awful! They even managed to screw up beef and broccoli! Broccoli was overcooked and meat had a strange color. My husband got crispy chicken and felt sick after eating.

Disappointed in our order from this evening. The chicken fingers were greasy and stale and felt as though they were made a day earlier. Chicken fried rice was tasteless and again felt as though had been made a day earlier. Our chicken dish said medium spicy and turned out to be extremely spicy and inedible. Paid over $115 for a family meal and was very disappointed to have 3 major dishes inedible, stale and clearly not made fresh to order.

It was definitely not what we like. It was expensive and we left most of it on the table due to the taste. No water refills, keep driving.

I used to love this place. The staff is still friendly and nice but I can no longer recommend it because the quality of the food just isn't there anymore. I'm giving it 2 stars because my husband liked the fried rice. I ordered a pork and eggplant dish that was awful, the only seasoning I detected was a surplus of salt. I told them to dump it when they came to pack up the food because it was awful. The right thing to do would have been to take it off the bill. My husband ordered the garlic chicken, and even with the spicy part, it was cloyingly sweet. Their pork dumplings that were advertised as pan fried, were deep fried. Won't be returning.

If you are looking for some authentic Sichuan food, here is the place to get it. Of course knowing what to order though. I frequently come here about 1 -2 times a month just because I crave for that one thing that they make very well here. That is called "fei-tang-yue" (I am very sorry as I do not know the English name and I am not Chinese but will pronounce this and they understand). It is served in a hot pot bowl with flames below. Very spicy flounder fish with tofu and bean sprouts. When I say spicy, I am telling you it is VERY spicy. The only problem with this dish is, it is very oily and some people do not like all that oil. I enjoy it with a Tsingtao beer to settle the spice. If you are a fan of pork, definitely order the appetizer pork and garlic. (another warning is do not plan on going on a date after to the movies because your breathe will be kicking of garlic). Pea pod stems, dandan noodles, spicy wonton, spicy beef noodles, ohhh the goodness!

Do not pay attention to the bad reviews on this page. Most of the people who wrote them seemed to order very Americanized Chinese food. Please judge those dishes if you're at a takeout place or at the mall because here specializes in traditional Sichuan dishes. If you're in the area and craving some authentic sichuan food, this is your place to go and it's very comparable to Sichuan Gourmet in Billerica without the wait and crowds. I came for dinner on a Thursday and it was not crowded at all. Because of this, service was extremely fast. We were served hot tea right away and once we put in our orders, our food came out surprisingly quick... it seemed like it took less than 10 minutes! We ordered wontons in chili sauce, sichuan braised fish fillet, and crab rangoons (yes it's not authentic but I just love crab rangoons and the cream cheese filling is good for negating some of the spice). Everything was really tasty! The wontons were on the smaller side but there were quite a few in the bowl and the chili sauce wasn't too spicy but it was pretty flavorful. The best part was the sichuan braised fish! It is similar to fish fillet in chili sauce (another similar item on the menu) but I like how it comes in the hot pot to stay warm and has veggies and tofu in dish as well. The portion was also large and didn't skimp on the fish so the price of the dish was definitely worth it which I can't say for a lot of other places. However, if you're not used to eating a lot of spicy food I would beware with this dish. Our waitress even warned us beforehand! Even if you don't like spicy food, there are other options as well. I can't say for the other dishes but what I had was great. I look forward to coming back and trying other things on the menu!

Went here again today for a lunch meeting. I had the following: Crispy boneless duck lunch special w/ Hot & Sour Soup Pork Fried Rice Crab Rangoon Everything was very good...especially the boneless duck which was phenomenal. The PFR was OK but it had a nice clean flavor...mostly rice...not much pork. The rangoon & H&S soup were VERY good as well....probably some of the best H&S I've had over the years.

This place was incredible! Tried them for the first time today. Pretty adventurous eater myself and have traveled around in search of authentic cuisine. I read another reviewer on here that compared this place to Szechuan Gourmet but even better. (Sichuan Palace has photos of their dishes online which makes it extremely useful during the ordering process. After reading that and many other positive reviews, I decided to take the plunge and try them out. Dan Dan Noodles didn't disappoint. Thin vermicelli noodles lightly seasoned in soy, perhaps also sesame oil, and definitely a peppercorn oil or flake. It was delicious. Not spicy at all just flavorful. Lao Dzi Chicken (Hot Spicy Chicken), this one is a must-try. It's breaded chicken stir fried in chili peppers, there is no sauce to this dish which is expected. Spicy Dry Pot Beef - I was excited to read in the description that there was lotus and potato in there. I only wish that there was more lotus in there as I easily counted only 4 pieces in there. I do plan on coming back and trying other things on the menu. For now, this will be my go-to Chinese takeout place. Not sure how I missed this place for so long but I'm glad I discovered it today. I only wished they opened later, even on the weekends they close at 9PM.

We were out for a Sunday drive looking for adventure... our intended destination was closed, so we searched for "chinese food" and the GPS brought us to Sichuan Palace. Located in a strip mall, we were skeptical at first. However, we were pleasantly surprised by the food. Service at the bar was a little slow, but it was a Sunday afternoon so we cut them a little slack. Scorpion bowl for one was.... WOW. Let's just say I didn't drive home. Because we had plans for dinner, we just ordered an appetizer to tide us over. The wontons with chili paste were delicious, and just like they sound (the wontons used in soup, with some chili oil and flavorings.) We looked over the menu and were amazing by the variety of both American-style Chinese food and the authentic dishes that were available. We will definitely be back next time we're in the area.

Authentic Sichuan food! Love this place. My favorite place for weekend dinner. If you love Sichuan food, this is the right place for you.

Still love this place! They were closed for a few months but are open again now. When I went this time I tried the mala tong, and Singapore noodles! They were both delicious and the mala tong was served with a flame below to keep it warm and had, meat, tofu, pig blood, glass noodles, spam, and a lot more. It was really good and the food arrived quickly!

Food was cooked in too much oil and dishes were bland / flavorless.

I'm reading the reviews for this and I can't help but laugh hysterically. Every 4+ star review is written by their own employee to boost business. Honestly the worst Chinese food I've had in a while. I'm Chinese. I know what I'm talking about. Anyone who thinks otherwise must either be a smoker with no taste buds or simply a liar. A few years ago, this place was not bad. But obvious nickle and diming by the owner has resulted in this unpalatable mess. We had one of the traditional Szechuan dishes. A spicy hot pot of offal. Not only is it a quarter of the size it used to be, it has no depth of flavor. Just spicy....and not in the sexy lingerie way....but in the most boring way. My mom had a noodle bowl. They literally used water to make the soup not broth. Again no flavor. Put some flour in water and boil it...that's what it tasted like. We got a pork shoulder dish. It was like eating candy. No balance no flavor just sweet. The pork was tough. You could tell they pre cooked it and then reheated it. Worst of all was the service. We were seated and the menu was all but chucked at us. Didn't know this place was also a dodgeball arena. Then we waited ten minutes until I finally said...are they working today? Then out of the corner of my eye I saw the waitress put her phone down to come and take out order. My mom asked for three glasses of water....she stared at us creepily like a human colored version of the monster from The Grudge. We asked her about a dish and she said two words in Chinese that meant nothing...we speak Chinese. I'm not sure if the restaurant is a good enough employer to provide her with an employee assistance program but girl got issues.

Not what it used to be. Food was very, very heavy on batter. Not sure how hard it is to make a chicken wing but they were almost inedible.

It is the best restaurant which I have been to, I was born in Sichuan, the food is very close to what I ate in hometown.

Unlike Lowell and Billerica, Chelmsford doesn't have good Chinese food unless you to Drumhill. Maybe it's lowered expectations but I like this place. Do not pay attention to the bad reviews on this page. I am obviously not Chinese but my guess is this place has traditional Sichuan dishes. The food is hot so if you like that, I think you will like it. Everything was really tasty! The wontons were on the smaller side. Typical drinks. I look forward to coming back!