Sichuan Folk (Brick Lane)

• I had a beef with cashew nuts take away (my favourite) and I was very disappointed
• The first time I was unable to finish it
• The rice is not included in the meal and in the end it is pricey for the quality of what you are going to get
• We're glad we did as it turned out to be one of the best sichuan restaurants we've visited
• Especially the traditional boiled fish was great but it's not for you if you can't handle your spices
• Sichuan Folk are well deserving of their place amongst these illustrious restaurants
• The dish of spicy and lip tingling beef is quite similar to others I've had but the twice cooked pork was a new one to me and featured the steamed buns everyone loves so much these days
• All of this came with really friendly
• The chili flavored scallops with beanthread noodles
• The were all good but the scallops were exceptional
• The mains we ordered the twice cooked pork (but they were all out of the buns they serve with it) and a bowl of the special fried rice
• It was good but the chicken pieces were filled with bones with not much meat on it
• The Ma Po tofu was really tasty
• Everything one would want with a ma po tofu
• I really enjoyed the atmosphere as it was full of young people
• They'll come back to life Think these are fairly standard
• The subject of getting a Chinese is a funny thing in our household
• I know that Chinatown is full of Chinese restaurants but many tend to be Cantonese rather than the Sichuan food I craved
• The problem though is my boyfriend
• He doesn't eat meat and has remained adamant that Chinese food is not a cuisine for non meat eaters (he's not a big tofu person either)
• Cater much better for the fish eaters but I have tried to reason with him that China does have a coastline and so there will be good fish dishes
• One of the best dishes I had when I visited China was Squirrelfish
• Claiming that it is my contrary nature that makes me claim I like Chinese food so much
• Back in May I finished my Postgraduate Diploma exam and came back home to an empty flat as my boyfriend was away on holiday with his family
• Until I lobbed the rubbish bag in and the bottle opener keyring that is attached to my keys got caught on the bag (they were also in my hand) and sailed into the dumpster with the bag of rubbish
• By this point I was super tired and smelled of rubbish
• It was one of those great days when I realised that I was a year off being 30 and had been defeated by a very small every day task
• Then my food arrived and everything was made better
• It's a tiny looking place from the front but really is Tardis like inside
• It turns out that most of the dishes we were considering were ones that he recommended
• The sweets and sour ribs are little nuggets of chewy but not tough meat covered in a wonderfully sticky marinade
• Vegetable dumplings might not look like much from the picture below but as they were tossed through some sauce practically right under my nose
• They were the first of the main dishes to arrive and so we sat picking at them and both agreed that they were the nicest beans we'd had
• Toned it down here and went with the fish in Sichuan style
• Why didn't I convince him this was a good idea much sooner
• I always have and so I loved my trip to China in 2011 when I was able to sample the real deal (or at least the most Western of their dishes &ndash
• You leave Sichuan Folk with a very satisfying chilli induced endorphin hit
• We sampled wood ear mushrooms with Sichuan peppers
• Green beans with spicy minced pork and my favourite the boiled fish in ridiculously spicy broth
• The spicy soup is full of Chillies
• I went because I was in the area and had seen the good reviews
• We had the ma po tofu and Szechuan fish which were both full of flavour
• I always find it a good sign when a Chinese restaurant is full of Chinese people
• A little pricier than most Sichuan's I frequent but the ambiance is much better than those hole in the wall Chinese places
• Dark woody decor is thought through
• I was a little disoriented that some standard regional dishes were not on the menu
• One of my favorites is stir fried aubergine
• Also there was a surprisingly large array of seafood dishes for landlocked Sichuan
• Stir fried pea shoots were the highlight of our order
• The variation here was hotter than normal and a touch bitter with the heavy spicing
• Nice touch that it was served with fluffy bao buns
• Spicy lamb stuffed into slightly sweet bao was a lovely contrast
• This restaurant was a great find
• I love Sichuan food and so to discover Sichuan Folk (Brick Lane) in Brick Lane was a must try
• The ambiance is very busy full of life
• In this occasion I tried the boiled traditional fish and saliva chicken which were both full of flavour and very enjoyable to eat

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