Message from Grand Sichuan International

Fine Chinese Sichuan Cuisine
  • Mao Jia Cai
  • Hunan food
  • Traditional Chinese

We would like to introduce Mao Jia Cai(Mao's home cooking) to our fellow New Yorkers. A number of Chinese restaurants in Beijing, China, are named after Mao and cook Mao's favorite dishes. Mao Jia Ca'?s dishes are very popular and famous in whole China today. Almost every Chinese knows them; even he or she doesn't eat them. If everybody knows these dishes in China, why don't we tell these dishes to our fellows in New York? We offer spicy peppers, pork, fish, crab, chicken. On our menu are some dishes listed below:te dishes: 1. Braised pork and chestnut in brown sauce. 2. Sauteed duck and bitter melon. 3. Sauteed whole spicy red or green pepper. 4. Steamed river fish. 5. Sauteed Chinese vegetables

MarkerGrand Sichuan Intl Inc

(212) 620-5200

229 9th Ave # 1
New York, NY 10001

Editorial Description by Citysearch
Delicious, fiery Sichuan specialties draw loyal crowds from all corners of the city.
Rated 9.1 out of 10 by Citysearch.
5 Reviews by Citysearch: (read all 25 reviews on Citysearch)

famously RUDE 1 Star Rating - Unsatisfactory

I've had 3 meals in the dining room of Grand Sichuan, and ordered delivery once. Fine as the food has been (I do like the well-known soup dumplings), the service has been the RUDEST I've had anywhere. Servers expect you to order immediately, don't appreciate add-ons, and act as though there is a minimum order. Our delivery person complained about our 5-floor walk-up (sorry, that's part of the job), and took his 20%+ tip with a sneer. Well, it does feel like being in China, anyway. Be warned.

Pros: pretty cheap, some love the dumplings
Cons: rude, rude, rude. some don't care for the dumplings
Posted 07/04/08 at 7:17am

It's all about the Fresh Auzhou Chicken 5 Star Rating - World class

It's all about the Fresh Chicken and the Soup Dumplings - complain all you want about the other dishes, but those two alone will have me coming back time and time again to this no-frills no-nonsense eatery that has to be the best Szechuan this side of Spicy and Tasty out in Flushing. Make sure you find the Fresh Chicken section, and you will know how fresh a chicken can taste.

Pros: Good value, Fresh Chicken
Cons: Ambience, Service
Posted 02/29/08 at 12:01pm

24th Street location still open, but 50th Street location closed 3 Star Rating - Satisfactory

I studied abroad in Beijing last spring for 5 months and I would describe this restaurant as between "american chinese" food and authentic chinese food. They speak mandarin, not cantonese, so I could practice the language.

Also, to explain the confusion about the restaurant being closed: there were two locations both on 9th ave (one between 50th and 51st and a second at 24th) and the first closed sometime in the fall of 2007. The woman who answered the phone at the 24th street location told me something about a lease running out.

Pros: good food, nice staff, speak mandarin, moderately priced
Posted 02/26/08 at 2:27pm

Sichuan food is good 4 Star Rating - Very good

The Sichuan food here is good, suitble for most customers, even Chinese torist groups who enjoy eating here. However, the restaurant is still open and why city search marks it "close?"

Posted 01/31/08 at 9:03pm

Not What It Used To Be 1 Star Rating - Unsatisfactory

Went there for dinner Friday night and ordered a few traditional Sichuan dishes. First were two appetizers - spicy beef & tripes; sliced conch w/hot oil. The sliced beef was tough (should be tender) and the dish was too salty. The conch on the other hand was superbly bland! Then the three entrees we had: Chicken w/chili pepper; spicy "water" cooked fish; string beans. The string beans were okay, hard to go wrong there. The chicken again was overly salty but otherwise was okay.

The fish was the dish we went for and was the dish we were most disppointed in. It was totally cooked the wrong way. As the waitress put it down on the table, we all looked in awed and she was quick to say this is "how we do it here." I said this is not how it's cooked [authentically] and you should've told us when we ordered [in Chinese]. She said "I don't know what kind you had before" but yet she was quick to tell us that this is how THEY do this dish! It was as if we ordered a beef stew and was presented with chunks of burger patties [no sauce] instead. A total disappointment.

I had the same dish at the sichuan restaurant on St. Mark's in June and it was made the authentic way.

Cons: Long line and not authentic
Posted 07/16/07 at 1:51pm