This Szechuan restaurant is known for its chilly dishes.
We went there for the first time and ordered deep fried chicken and pork intestine in chilli pepper. To complement the experience, we also ordered braised pork belly marinated with preserved vegetables. The food is delicious especially if you enjoy hot food. The prices are reasonable.
The ambience is moderate.
Plenty of seating available.
Alvin Garden's been on my "to eat" list for 2 years!! Who else has a "to eat" list? Priorities people, priorities!! ;) . So after much anticipation, we finally made it to Alvin Garden for lunch (and then dinner) the other day!! Being a Hunan restaurant, almost everything on the menu is super spicy! If you think you can handle the heat, ask for "da la" which literally translates into: big spicy (but don't say I didn't warn you!) My dad asked for medium spicy "zhong la" and it turned out to be way spicier than we were expecting. My mom was like "Why didn't you ask for mild??!!" My parents stopped eating halfway into the meal because they just couldn't take it anymore harhar. We actually "washed" the cauliflower with tea to tone down the spice ;)
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This is hunan cuisine, and again it's hunan it's not szechuan, there's a resemblance in spice but totally different in taste in my opinion. Most of the food are spicy over here, choosing mild for me is always the best option as i'm not a big fan of sweating and gulping down water while eating if possible. usually i let my friend order in this place, because she likes eating over here, however the items that she choose most of the times even though it's mild/medium, i have a challenging time downing the spicyness without a big chunk of rice mixed with the food.
overall the food is good i'll say, above average, however what i don't really like is the part of the cuisine is that it's a little bit sour, not sure what it's from but there's a very mild taste of sour beside from spicyness and saltiness.
overall i don't recommend the restaurant, this is just a personal preference of mine, but at the same time i have found many of my friends like this place. the pic is taken during dec of 2013 ish with spicy diced chicken dish. as you can see it's all spicy spice on top of the chicken :D
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