Szechuan Cuisine Restaurant is a casual restaurant in Glendale that serves a mix of American/Chinese Favorites and Szechuan Cuisine. They offer two menus but many items offered are on both menus…..BUT THEY ARE NOT THE SAME…….when you order Kung Pao off the regular menu it’s Americanized…….and when you order it off the White Menu it’s Szechuan……Just Chicken and lots of heat………This is  not a fancy restaurant but it’s certified clean with a grade “A” health inspection at this time August 2018.

The food I tried last week was pretty darn interesting, especially the Casserole Style Chicken.

This food was way better than other Chinese Food I tried in Glendale and so many other dishes were calling my name so I had to come back and try some other things.

We started with an unusual dish called Pork Juicy Dumplings.

This is a hard to find dish that even people in New York are looking for.

You don’t just eat the dumplings.

You give them a little dip in the ginger/soy sauce.

Then you bite a little hole in the top and suck out the soup.

Now you can eat them.

The dumpling wrapper is very delicate so I recommend diving in there before the soup leaks out.

We shared two dishes and one was Water Boil Style Fish. The owner Paul was very hesitant  about me ordering this dish. He didn’t know if I knew what it was. I assured him that I was familiar with water boil and told him a few places I tried water boil at. He felt very relieved when I mentioned Szechwan Palace because he told me that he opened Szechwan Palace and also the other Chinese Restaurant at the Cultural Center but left to open Szechuan Cuisine when the Cultural Center got sold.

This dish was a big jolt of fire and very mouth numbing. The heat becomes fun and isn’t painful. For some reason it makes you happy when you eat it. The fish was very tender and this dish also contained bean sprouts and cabbage.

The dish that we both enjoyed most on this visit was another “New to us Dish we never had before”……It was the Spicy Chicken Noodle. This dish has no description on the menu…I thought it might be a soup but it was more than that.

This dish contains tender chunks of chicken leg meat on the bone, potatoes, peppers and noodles in an aromatic spicy and mouth numbing sauce. This dish had much more going on with it than the Water Boil Dish. Don’t get the wrong idea….The Water Boil was good but this dish was Special….It was a Magical Bowl of Yumminess!!!!! They didn’t make this dish as fiery as the Water Boil but it had more flavors and sensations going on.  We both thought it was delicious….Everything tasted different…when I got to the onions for some reason they tasted extra sweet to me. We were told that you need to wait to eat the noodles last….so we did. If you wait maybe 20 minutes to eat the noodles they pick up all these great extra flavors……This dish was really Forking Good!…….Maybe the best Szechuan Dish we tried so far….

Last week we tried-

We know the owner a little better now and his name is Paul. He told us that he opened Szechuan Palace and another restaurant in the Cultural Center called Beijing House. He said he left and opened this restaurant when the Cultural Center got sold. Now that Paul knows us he said that he wants to order for us when we come back………This is sort of Deja vu…….The former restaurant owner of Lucky’s King Wah Hong Kong Cantonese Restaurant used to do that too…………..

I think it’s really GREAT that Szechuan Cuisine is in Glendale AZ!

This visit was even better! Worth a Fork!

3rd and 4th visits did differ……

For my third visit the owner wanted to pick for me and my my husband. I thought he’d pick out special plates for us…

We received.

Americanized Jalapeño Chicken and Duck that was on the dry side…..oh well. I guess he meant well. The plates weren’t horrible but not great enough to recommend.

For our 4th visit we tried Sour Spicy Cabbage Salad and Kung Pao of the Authentic Chinese White Menu.

The Sour Spicy Cabbage Salad was good and was made with some Szechwan Peppercorns. The Kung Pao was on the mild side in a thick sweet sauce and was made without Szechwan peppercorns. I was displeased that I got an Americanized Kung Pao Chicken..that is not what I ordered but nobody checked on us so I didn’t say anything…..

Seems like communication is a problem here………

I didn’t find a website or Facebook page for Szechuan Cuisine so you just have to visit them at 5158 W.Olive Ave. in Glendale AZ -7 days a week Lunch and Dinner.

EVERY THING is subject to change and YOUR experience may or may NOT differ.