Reviews Chengdu Szechuan Chinese Cuisine

Amazing! Hot pot is amazing, lunch specials are wonderful and well priced! We have had the same waitress, Kathy twice and she is incredibly informative and an excellent server. Went twice in one week and can’t wait to go back again.

Traditional Chinese! Excellent customer service. My family will be back.

Great clean large restaurant. We got the Hot Pot for 2 and they bring you a huge bowl of broth with all kinds of toppings to put in there. I definitely recommend getting it spicy. More than enough food for two with enough for left overs. The fresh vegetables were great.

Tonight, I ordered the Seafood Crispy Noodle (I forgot the exact menu name) and the Salt and Pepper Shrimp. These two items have been my metric in the quality of Chinese restaurants. The Seafood Crispy Noodle was above par for many reasons. I love the way the crunchy noodles soften up gradually as they are soaked in the sauce. Speaking of the sauce, it was perfectly seasoned so that after cleaning the plate, I didn't have that heavy feeling from overly seasoned food. I find it impressive that the seafood to vegetables ratio is more than other restaurants which means..... More seafood! The shrimps are plump, the scallops are large and the squid is the usual size. If you look closely, the vegetables are so green and fresh too. The Salt and Pepper Shrimp is impressively plenty for the price that we paid. Nothing speaks of a great deal than plenty of large shrimps for a good price. I really love how crunchy the shells were and how moist the shrimp meats are. It's good.

Excellent service, delicious food. Very beginners friendly for anyone who hasn't tried hot pot before. I am recommending this far and wide.

A restaurant you would want to visit for the experience at least once if not more. When you are seated, you are given a big menu to choose your hot pot ingredients. Veggies, meats, more - waited on by extremely friendly and personal servers. Soon after, a gas-powered hot pot is delivered to your table with your choice of broth that will lightly come to a boil as all of your choices are delivered on individual plates and small bowls for you to cook in your own hot pot. You decide how to cook your meal. It's a treat and considered traditionally to be a lengthy, casual opportunity to eat in a relaxed fashion without rushing while conversing with your meal mates. You should really be into authentic Chinese cuisine when you visit. It's what you're going to get from start to finish. The atmosphere is sparsely decorated but staff is so helpful if you are a newcomer. You'll feel genuinely greeted when you arrive and as you leave. Reasonably priced, it's a nice experience.

The best hot pot place! Very impressed with quality of their food(Noodle is must try). Their chicken fried rice and fried dumplings are so good too. Little pricey but they give you a lot of food. Drove here from Yorktown to check it out. It was totally worth it. A waitress(I am sorry didn't ask your name) is excellent. 5 start is not enough!

Decided to eat here since we were in the shopping center and man, I'm glad we did. What a great little place. They have a 6.99 lunch special menu as well as an extensive full menu. All of the food we had was delicious, the service was prompt and the staff were welcoming and courteous. If you have the hankering for great Szechuan food, give it a go.

Went with 25 of my closest family members the other night & I have to say I was beyond impressed. Everything was super fresh and large portions. I wish this place was closer to home because I would be here all the time. Do yourself a favor & ignore the reviews from the folks that are comparing this to the food they had in Asia.

I arrived not long after they opened to peruse their menu before deciding to stay for lunch. The owner was @ the front counter area & came to greet me. We had a pleasant chat as we discussed the various menu options. I finally settled on a braised lamb dish but what was served was a different lamb dish. I had already taken a few bites from the serving dish when i realized the wood ears were missing. Its not often i come across it in a dish so i was looking forward to it & asked that the ears & the ginger be added to the dish they served up (which had multicolored peppers & was not part of the dish i ordered). The owner was gracious & what came back was a delicious blend of two different dishes with a generous portion of lamb & wood ears. 😋

My outlook on my first visit: This place is one for the money! Love that the Hampton Roads area is becoming more diverse in Chinese cuisine. There is very little options to choose from in our area, and very little competition. Most know Peter Chang to have spicy Szechuan dishes but it lacks the authenticity that this place has! You will be amazed of how different Cheng du restaurant is compared to the others. I'm one to embrace a wide variety of food and open to trying new things. We started with the Duck Blood dry pot... Duck Blood dry pot is for the adventurous of heart! You would think BLOOD.. but why?! My Chinese foreign exchange students are originally from the Szechuan province, one particularly is from Cheng du. This is a dish that is known in their area. It typically wouldn't be a dish I would choose first hand but for me i really enjoyed it. The duck blood are cut into squares and you can choose to eat it or put it to the side. If you can stomach coagulated blood and like the iron flavor, it would be a dish worth trying. My exchange students absolutely loved it. In my opinion, one block of the duck blood was good enough for me to get my iron vitamins in. The rest everyone else demolished. It's similar to having a hot pot dish and I loved that they had noodles in addition to the dish. I would request for extra noodles. It's very fragrant. I could do the chili oiled sauce with rice. On to the fried pork intestines. This one was crispy and is similar to having spicy pork skin. I requested to have a side of hot pot garlic sesame sauce and red vinegar and soy sauce for dipping. You can also try it with chili oil and red vinegar. It was my favorite between the two. Second visit: I had the opportunity to come back. This time It was so nice that I got to come with my exchange students parents. They are from the same region in Chengdu. They tried the place and said that it was the best and authentic. We met the owner who came from their same town. He spoke the same language as they did and had told us he originally owned Judy's then sold it to the latest owner. My exchange students says it's better than Judy's. I guess it's because there is more authenticity and the options here are a taste of home. For appetizer we had the braised beef and tendon, Wood ear mushroom salad, and lettuce wrap. All were good. The marinaded black ear salad is a popular cold dish. It has a good consistency of vinegar and sesame oil flavor. The braised beef and tendon are thinly sliced. The beef and tendon slices are served cold with a chili marinade which sat on top of two romaine lettuce leaves. For some people who don't like cold meat it can be different at first. I think some may not like the chewy, slightly gelatinous texture of the the beef cuts and it can take a little getting used to if you are not accustomed to tendon. As for me it was good. The best appetizer was the bean sauce flavored meat that I ate with the lettuce. It is thinly sliced, and hot, perfect for lettuce wrap. This is recommend and it was a hit with the kids, and great for those who don't like spice. Their lobsters came in today and so we were not going to pass off on the lobster dish they recommended. I guess it is only offered once in a while, but it was a hit. It came freshly cooked, and hot. It was already prepared so that we can just get the meat easily of the lobster shell. Yes, it was yummy! My favorite was the chili oil fish. It has the same flavors as hot pot sauce but it worked well with the spicy peppercorn flavor, chili's and napa cabbage. I highly recommend this! This place is not your typical Chinese place.This is a must try to broaden your perspective and taste palette in authentic Szechuan style flavors.