Category: | Restaurant, |
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Address: | 1220 S Baldwin Ave. Arcadia, CA 91007, USA |
Zip code: | 91007 |
Email: | shawncafe2012@gmail.com |
Website: | https://www.sichuanweiusa.com/ |
Opening hours (Edit) | |
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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 |
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!
Highly recommend
Great experience, deserves more customers
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.