We ate here mid-afternoon on a sleepy Sunday; as the only customers we had our choice of table as well as attentive service from the friendly waitress. We ordered a pot of jasmine tea while we worked our way through the long, colourful menu - and eventually came up with a list of four dishes to try; Ma Po bean curd with minced pork (the tofu needed the salty pork as it was a touch under seasoned) green peppers with fermented black beans (piping hot, pungent) spicy (a slight understatement) shredded (deep fried) squid (buried within the accompanying mountain of dried red chilies we discovered all manner of tasty treasures, including crunchy Sichuan peppercorns and slivers of ginger) and a cooling salad of slithery black fungus (fragrant with fresh coriander).
Of course it turned out we'd ordered way too much - and we came away with leftovers for Monday's breakfast.
Came for a friend's birthday meal and we all enjoyed our food. The service, like the decor, was kind of old school where they're dashing over to refill drinks etc.
For two mains, a shared starter and a beer each we paid around £40.
The whole place feels a bit outdated but the selection of dishes, service and quality of the food are good.
We had a fantastic meal - the food was really authentic with a rich and varied menu. We were also lucky enough to be there on a Saturday night and were entertained with martial arts and traditional live music. The service was excellent- a really great evening!
We came here at lunchtime and it was delicious! We got the fish head soup which was really delicate in taste and reminded me of my grandmother's soup! Also got the jellyfish salad and double cooked pork, would recommend.
Friendly staff, would go again.
Great. Food lovely and the service is very warm and helpful. Made a huge difference to get friendly advice since many of what turned out to be the more interesting dishes were unfamiliar to me. Highly recommended. I'll be back to try out more dishes.
Fantastic...had my birthday dinner here and Moon arranged everything beautifully. Johnny served the food, such a nice, enthusiastic guy. Food superb as usual, highly recommend the beef dry pot and pork chop in tomato sauce. We were also allowed to bring a cake. Thanks Sanxia Deptford team, especially Moon and Johnny.
Tasty authentic Szechuan cuisine with friendly service at a decent price. Highly recommended
I had the, salt and pepper squid, sweet and sour King prawns and egg fried rice. All were delicious.
I'll definitely be going back.
Dangerous as its round the corner from work.
I would recommend!
The food is amazing, trust me. Some of the bad reviews are simply due to the poor service (which hasn’t been my experience honestly). But if you can look past that I promise you’ll find some of the best and most authentic chinese food in London (Jay Rayner from the Guardian reviewed it outstandingly). My favourites are the Mao Braised Pork, Lion’s Head Meatball, twiced cook pork, the aubergine and dan dan noodles. Give it a try!
Food here is really good. Get the spicy crab
While on a visit from Liverpool we decided on going here for my partners birthday. . The staff are friendly and the food is delicious and the portions plentiful. .if we were ever over this way again we'd definitely give it another visit 😊
Great authentic Sichuan food! Reasonably priced and excellent service too. Decor/lighting is not great but don't let that put you off!
Very very good!! Proper traditional food! Highly recommended. Be adventurous with your choices, don't order the obvious dishes. You won't regret it 😁
Lovely food from the Szechuan and Hubei regions of China. Expect hot pots, lots of roasted chilli, which here is used to add an aromatic smokiness rather than heat, and a zingy freshness.
We had cumin marinated beef which came with chilli and lashings of green, plump, fresh coriander. We also devoured the Ma Po Tofu in minced pork which had lots of smoky roasted chilli and black bean, and a side dish of cabbage in vinegar. Universally delicious.
This is Deptford so don't expect frills, you're here for the food, and it's a star, well, five actually.
Great regional food, go for the Sichuan dishes not the bland Cantonese. Friendly staff. The restaurant even put on some dancing entertainment last week
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