Szechuan Cuisine Restaurant has recently opened in Glendale Arizona. It’s not a fancy restaurant but they do offer wait service. They offer some American Chinese Favorites but they also offer Authentic Style Szechuan Cuisine.

Lots of interesting choices on the menu. It was hard to decide on what to try today.

We thought it was a good idea to start with what they call “Grandma Salad”

The salad is made of cabbage, roasted peanuts, garlic, onion and spicy fish sauce. The salad seems light, a little spicy but also is tasty.

We share the Casserole Style Chicken and the Chongqing Spicy Fish. Both are spicy.

You have to see it this way too.

The Casserole Style Chicken is NOT the American casserole that has cheese and a can of Campbell’s added to it this is completely something better and arrives in a metal bowl with a burning bottom that cooks the vegetables and makes a sauce. We were instructed to eat some of the meat first so the vegetables could cook. Some of the vegetables were lotus root, mushrooms, bean sprouts and celery. The chicken is extremely tender. It is spicy but not stingingly spicy.You can taste delicious flavors without the heat over powering the flavors. It’s very good.

This Chongqing Spicy Fish is very mild delicate white fish (sole) that has been dusted in corn starch, cooked and picked up heat and flavor from the chili pods. It’s very delicate and just melts in the mouth. It’s salty but for some freakish reason that I don’t understand the salt taste good here…….It’s an interesting sensation.

WOW! My first visit was Worth a Fork!

Our 2nd Visit was even better than the first visit. Had this incredible delicious complex and spicy dish called Spicy Chicken Noodle….It was Awesome. Had a super spicy Fish Hot Pot and Juicy Pork Dumplings…Soup filled where you suck the soup out and then eat….@nd visit was really great……

For our third Visit the owner wanted to pick food out for us so we let him since everything was so positive before.

We weren’t thrilled with what he picked for us…….

On the left is slightly dry duck and on the right is Americanized Jalapeño Chicken.

For our 4th visit we decided to just order off the white authentic Chinese Menu. We tried Sour Spicy Cabbage Salad and we ordered Authentic Kung Pao Chicken.

We both liked the Cabbage salad….but the Kung Pao Chicken wasn’t so spicy and was in a thick sweet sauce and wasn’t made with Szechwan Peppercorns. I was disappointed that they served me an Americanized Kung Pao when I ordered the Authentic Style….Nobody asked me how it was and the owner was absent or I would have told him…..

Seems like communication is a problem……

I haven’t found a website or Facebook page for Szechuan Cuisine. You are just going to have to visit them at 5158 W. Olive Ave. Glendale AZ. They are there 7 days a week lunch and dinner.

Everything is subject to change and your experience may or may NOT differ.