Shawn Cafe

(4 Reviews)
1220 S Baldwin Ave. Arcadia, CA 91007, USA

我们的故事 Our Story
Sichuan cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China. It originated in Sichuan and Chongqing and features numbing, spicy, fresh and fragrant.

Sichuan cuisine makes good use of cooking techniques such as frying, drying, roasting, and braising. It is known for its bold flavors and rich variations.

我们的餐厅 Our Restaurant
Our chefs have more than 20 years of chef experience and continuously improving skills from the selection of ingredients to the cooking techniques.

Our chefs not only inherited the essence of traditional Sichuan cuisine, but also absorbed and borrowed from other cooking techniques, focusing on combining the market, constantly working on innovative research and development of dishes, and launched many new dishes that were well received by guests.

Fresh ingredients always have an irresistible temptation, with a lush smell and bright color, before cooking, the sound is crisp, or full of tenacity ... It is a space full of imagination for its finished style (ie gourmet). In order to bring customers the most delicious and healthy Sichuan cuisine, many of our raw materials are shipped by air. We perfectly balance the freshness and taste of the ingredients and retain the natural gifts to the maximum.
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Contacts

Category: Restaurant,
Address: 1220 S Baldwin Ave. Arcadia, CA 91007, USA
Zip code: 91007
Email: shawncafe2012@gmail.com
Website: https://www.sichuanweiusa.com/
Opening hours (Edit)
Monday:11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Tuesday:11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Wednesday:11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Thursday:11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday:11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Saturday:11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Sunday:11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Customer Ratings and Reviews

  • Ethel Stokes on Google

    (February 19, 2019, 9:03 am)

    After coming consistently to this place almost everyday and sometimes everyday this review is a long time coming! So where do I start? Amazing hot tea selection from dark to light to complement any meal! Attentive customer service and you can blind pick any item on the menu and it would be tasty and consistent! Sometime there is a long line outside but that makes food more delicious! From a world traveler picky hairdresser foodie to you! Enjoy!

  • Liao Eric on Google

    (January 15, 2018, 3:30 am)

    Highly recommend

  • Sean Yang on Google

    (November 25, 2017, 8:48 pm)

    Great experience, deserves more customers

  • Ron Quan on Google

    (February 26, 2016, 11:24 am)

    This is your typical Taiwanese style eatery with a few other styles thrown in. They've been running a promo (10% off dinner or buy 3 get 1 free for lunch) to celebrate their third year in business since December 2015. Parking is in the rear of the building for all the businesses along this row. There's a big banner hanging over the rear entrance with the promo details.

    Service was prompt and attentive which was expected since we were the only patrons at 12:30pm on a Thursday. The only time we had to wave the server down was for the check.

    We ordered the fried stinky tofu, beef noodle soup, a vegetarian dish, and oyster pancake. I believe the dishes came out in that order too. We were served the usual starch-thickened appetizer soup. It took a while for the orders to come out but once they did they came out in quick succession.

    The stinky tofu was decent. The cubes were slightly crispy on the outside, moderately dense on the inside, and weren't dripping with oil. The odor was on the milder side.

    The beef noodle soup used a thin noodle in a mala-spiced broth that was numbing but not very spicy. It was odd seeing all that chili oil but not registering much heat in my mouth. The meat was gristlier and sparser than I would care for. Some people like that jaw-popping chewiness but I prefer larger chunks of meat.

    The vegetarian dish was solid. It wasn't heavy on salt and oil and had a lot of black fungus and mixed vegetables.

    The oyster pancake was decent. The potato starch to egg balance was different from what I'm used to. It turned out very flat, chewy, and hard to cut but thankfully not very slimy.

    Overall not wow'ed by our selections but we may be back to try out other dishes if they survive into their fourth year. The amount of competition in the area leaves few customers willing to put up with mediocre food.

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