China Chili Restaurant is located in Central Phoenix Arizona. They offer a lot of the usual American Chinese and Hong Kong Style Chinese Foods (that means Cantonese inspired). They offer a variety of appetizers like boiled won tons, fried prawns, and crab puffs. They offer several varieties of soups, duck, and the usual chicken, beef, some tofu, and vegetarian dishes. They happen to offer many choices of seafood such as shrimp, calamari, flounder, scallops, mussels, striped bass, live seafood, and a surprise dish that I’ve found on their Grub Hub Menu but I didn’t find on their in-house menu. A dish called French Style Beef with macadamia nuts…..

It looks like a nice Chinese Restaurant when you walk in….. The take out and cashier area is up in front by the door.

Inside is a nice big dining room.

The tables are set with paper linen and lots of paper Chinese placemats. Tables also include condiments.

As soon as we were seated……Even before we ordered….Someone ran out two cups of soup to us.

The soup taste like egg drop soup and has kernels of fresh corn in it.

I looked at the menu and noticed that it differs slightly from on-line menus. I didn’t notice the hot pots or French Style beef on the menu but maybe it was my bad and maybe I just missed them?

I go with the flounder in white sauce with snow peas….accented with some carrots and scallions.

It’s a large portion of fish and vegetables. It’s in a mild chicken based sauce lightly accented with ginger. It’s very easy to eat because it’s so light in the stomach…Nothing heavy here. Steamed rice is on the side.

My husband went with the Szechwan beef.

It’s very good but not what either of us were expecting. The beef is very tender and has this very light fried coating that is UNIQUE and also easy to eat. The sauce is actually spicy hot but not too sweet and is sort of beef gravy flavored Asian sauce. No vegetables here but a few crisp noodles are in there. I would enjoy this more if I could add vegetables to this dish or order it as an appetizer for a larger table. We both think that it is very good but we like some vegetables with our meat dishes.

Not recently but I did previously enjoy take out from China Chili. This restaurant isn’t close to where I live or I would have been here more often.

I did enjoy the flounder in black bean sauce but I do like the flounder in white sauce more with the snow peas.

I do like the chicken tomato dish with egg flowers but it does run slightly sweeter than I like but the tomatoes did have a good tomato flavor and the chicken was tender.

Service was speedy and efficient.

That was a little taste of China Chili.

China Chili Phoenix AZ

302 E Flower St PHX AZ

602-266-4463

www.ChinaChiliRestaurant.com

Everything is subject to change.