Friday, April 16, 2010

The Szechwan House

     The Szechwan House has a wonderful style and feel along with some amazing food. My personal opinion is that almost anyone who eats here would enjoy the food.
     For people like a bit of spice the menu offers a large choice of spicy foods. Those that can’t handle exceedingly spicy foods there is a rating scale of one to three peppers.
                         One pepper means the food is mildly spicy.
                         Two peppers means the food moderately spicy.
                         Three peppers means the food is HOT!!
     If there is no pepper rating next to the menu item it has no spice to it.
     The restaurant left a wonderful impression while I was there and the servers were polite, served food that had been cooked to the proper temperatures, and served one dish at a time.
     The first dish was called Sizzling Rice Shrimp soup and was brought to the table in a large bowl that was ladled into a smaller bowl making sure that you received the all of the ingredients.
     The soup was interesting but it left a fishy taste in my mouth that lingered before rinsing the taste away with two cups of tea. The rice in the soup reminded me of Rice Crispies® when water was poured over the rice. The soup also contained crisp green beans and one other vegetable that I was unable to identify. While others might enjoy this soup I didn’t care for it.
     Next came the appetizer of deep fried prawns. I was not overly fond of these but dipping them in the sweet sauce made them bearable. Both the soup and appetizer were clear reminders my dislike of most seafood.
       The first half of the entrĂ©e was steamed rice and was very good. Next came Cashew Chicken (this is where I would put the hyperlink using the hyperlink icon in live writer). This dish had an assortment of vegetables, a lot of cashews with the same amount of chicken in a thin mild tasting brown sauce.
   Those with nut allergies should stay away from this dish it contains cashews.

     The last dish I had was spicy beef with vegetables with a pepper rating of one. There was a lot of beef and vegetables, one was a leek, and there were also peanuts in this dish.
Those with nut allergies should stay away from this dish.
     I enjoyed my meal here and would return to try some of this restaurants other dishes.
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Jacob W. Reppert