Restaurant: Szechuan Delicious
Location: 8921 Valley Blvd, Rosemead, CA 91770. (626) 559-9017
Date: December 29, 2023
Cuisine: Szechuan Chinese
Rating: Very tasty
It’s been like 6 months since I was able to get out to an AFF, but the holidays provided a decent openning.
Szechuan Delicious is a relatively new addition to the profusion of often excellent SGV Szechuan restaurants.
Straightforward interior.
Good sized menu.
Salty / sweet peanuts.
Hot & Sour Jelly. Excellent version of this dish — which is always a favorite of mine.
Sliced Beef & Ox Tongue in Chili Sauce. This dish is known as Couples Sliced Offal in Chinese and delivers a very solid chili/salt flavor profile. There were some nice onions and celery underneath.
Szechuan Style Marinated Duck. Very solid duck with nice ducky flavor. Lots of bone of course.
It also came with this random Duck Fried Rice.
Szechuan Pork Slices with Preserved Vegetable. Super soft and fatty with great mustard greens underneath. This avoided either the mushy quality or over salting that some versions suffer from and instead had a lovely fat and savory quality.
Rattan pepper Live Fish. Great chili mala broth with delicate soft fish and plenty of bones. Not as hot as SI.
Sour & Spicy Shredded Eel & Vermicelli. This was a newish dish for me. I’ve had what was essentially the same without the veggies or eel, but I loved this sour/spicy sauce and the eel was soft and delicious.
Griddle Chicken. Lots of bones, but awesome depth of flavor. Really delicious.
MaPo Tofu. Very solid version of the classic. Some mala.
Dan Dan Mein. This is the soupy version. Pleasant, but I like the nuttier more intense variant.
OMG was this a deal. $35/pp all in. Szechuan Delicious is one of the better Szechuan places I’ve been to recently. Big menu and every dish was quite good. A bit on the rustic side, but very nice kitchen.