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    Chuan Jiang Hao Zi

    4.4 (153 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    Dogs allowed

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    Menu
    Nancy L.

    My husband ordered the Kung Pao chicken and white rice. I had a few bites of his dinner. I ordered the Crab Rangoon. All of the food was cooked perfectly and it was served quickly. The restaurant is very clean. We will be back.

    Brian K.

    We ended up at Chuan Jiang Hai Zi for Christmas dinner around 4:30 PM since most restaurants were closed, and this place was packed -- clearly a popular choice, and the strong Yelp reviews are what brought us in. After being seated, it took a bit before our server came by with menus and waters, and then another 15 minutes or so before our order was taken. I started with the egg drop soup, then ordered the shredded pork with garlic sauce. The sauce had a nice semi-spicy kick with bits of garlic, tossed with noodles and green peppers, and finished with green onions. My wife ordered the chicken with string beans, which was grilled chicken breast with stir-fried green beans, a slight charred flavor, and served with white rice. We stuck with water, though the cocktail menu did look tempting. First things first -- the food was really good. Big portions, served hot, and full of flavor. No complaints at all on the food side. Delicious and satisfying, especially on a busy holiday. Now...the service was a little strange. My pork dish and rice came out about 15-20 minutes after ordering, but my wife's food didn't arrive until another 20 minutes later. No apology, no explanation -- just dropped off. It was awkward eating separately, especially on Christmas. I'll chalk it up to being overwhelmed, understaffed, or slow in the kitchen due to the holiday rush. If you go when they aren't slammed, you'll probably have a much smoother experience and actually eat together. The flavors alone might bring me back, but if the service is the same again, I'd probably be one and done.

    Chicken with Green peppercorn
    Eve R.

    Let me preface this review as being an outlier! This review is for my experience on Christmas Day for dinner. I considered not sharing it, but want to because of transparency. We made a reservation in November for 5 for 5:30 on Christmas. They told us to come early otherwise they can't hold our table. Not really how reservations work, but we love this place and wanted to come again for this Christmas (we went last year, also). Our party arrives early and it was obvious that they were behind. A bunch of door dashers just standing around in the entry and at the desk waiting for food pickups. We get places right next to them (not ideal). We were given menus and were told she couldn't take our order yet but got us waters. After a huge wait, we placed our order and settled in for the next long wait to get our food. The problem wasn't waiting, but I had a huge issue with other people practically sitting on our table and crowding our space. It was really awkward. I think delivery pickups need to be streamlined because no one wants a bunch of strangers standing over them while trying to be patient while waiting for food. As food starts to come out, egg rolls were stone cold. We ate them anyway because we were so hungry. The rest of the food came out in waves which was fine - everything was so hot and delicious -- zero complaints there! The servers worked REALLY hard to accommodate all the people who were there. It wasn't perfect, but I'm sharing in hopes that they consider a new system for food pickup people and proper reservations. Big groups who were say after us were getting orders in and food received before us. It wasn't great, but I'm willing to try again. It could be amazing, but it's not there yet for holiday-level dining. Fan faves this year: cauliflower, calamari, green peppercorn chicken, and the beef lo mein!

    Stuffed eggplant (dim sum) - these were huge!
    Charis W.

    Super yum! There's a plethora of Szechuan restaurants in Columbus, but this place had larger portions sizes for a better price. The stuffed eggplant off if the dim sum menu was HUGE - it was an entree in itself. The dry pot cauliflower was delicious, just wish it was a little spicier. And the salt and pepper fish was nicely seasoned, just wish they left it in the deep fryer for 30 seconds more. Overall delicious food!

    Boiled fish
    Ness S.

    Chuan Jiang Hao Zi continues to impress. This time we ordered their wonton in chill oil, their dry beef, hot pot, their fish fillet with green peppercorns, and there sorted, Chinese water, spinach. Everything was excellent. The fish fillet with green peppercorns had a nice kick to it, the beef hot pot had thinly cut cauliflower which was delicious. The dry pot was very good as well, and the water spinach was delicious as usual. The wontons were my least favorite but still pretty good. We will continue to be repeat customers here :).

    Green beans and chicken
    Candice K.

    Went to this place on Christmas day. The place was nice and clean. Great lighting and very busy. I ordered chicken and green beans. It came with a side of white rice. The food came 20 minutes after my husband received his food so we didn't get to eat together. The food was just sat down on the table with no explanation for why it took so long, no apologies, nothing. Food was served very hot. The green beans were nicely sauted and crunchy. The chicken was tender and the rice was perfectly sticky. I hope the service is better next time because the food was great but if a table of 2 has to wait 20 minutes between us getting our food it will be the last time we visit.

    House fried rice (to go)
    Kaoru M.

    I just finished eating my takeout order of house fried rice from Chuan Jiang Hao Zi. I was really excited to try them since my fellow Yelpers have given them a 4.5 star average. Maybe fried rice isn't their strong point... but it was only okay. It tasted fine, but the rice was overcooked and too mushy for my liking. One order of this fried rice is $14 plus $1 online ordering convenience fee. For $15, I could get the same sized container full of meat with a side of rice at other Chinese restaurants. My fried rice had chicken, beef, and shrimp but they weren't particularly generous with the meats. So I don't think the value is good either. Maybe I'll get a chance to try their other dishes somewhere down the line, but best I can give them at this time is 3 stars.

    Fried rice
    Jada H.

    The cabbage is a must try! It taste so good and healthy plus has a little spicy kick to it! Also loved the fried rice! Will be eating here again!

    DIM SUM: Stuffed Eggplant
    Berinda H.

    This spot's super convenient -- right on Ackerman near campus and around the corner from Tous les Jours. We walked in and got seated right away, which was nice. We've got a go-to dim sum place in Columbus, but since we were around OSU, we figured we'd give this one a shot. Ordered a few things off the dim sum menu and a couple from the regular menu. For dim sum, we got the Pork Shumai, Chicken Feet, Beef Omasum, Shanghai Soup Dumplings, and Stuffed Eggplant. The Soup Dumplings and Stuffed Eggplant were definitely the winners. The Shumai was massive but kinda fell apart -- the wrapper didn't hold up. The Chicken Feet weren't cooked long enough, so they were hard to eat, and the Beef Omasum didn't really have any flavor -- pretty bland. From the regular menu, we tried the Spicy Pig's Large Intestine in Dry Pot and the Porcini & Pork Short Rib Soup. The Intestine had good texture but was super numbing from all the Sichuan peppercorns -- spicy for sure, just a bit too much. The Soup though? Amazing. Simple, flavorful, and the porcini mushrooms really made it shine. Would totally get that again. Service was quick and friendly, no complaints there. It did get a little loud -- we could hear other tables' convos pretty clearly.

    Special grilled lamb
    Smeeth W.

    This is the best food I had in Columbus. The foods are very authentic and foods all come with white or fried rice. We ordered special grilled cumin lamb and deep fried chicken. The chicken isn't super spicy but my favorite was the cumin lamb. The food portion was large and we had leftover good enough for another meal! They also have a great beverage selection.

    Green beans Salt and pepper fish Black pepper beef
    Molly M.

    This place is genuinely amazing. I haven't tried one item from here that isn't full of flavor. Serving sizes are very large, so it is a very nice place to go with a large group to try everything. The staff are very sweet and attentive. The restaurant is also very very clean.

    Laura F.

    We liked this place so much that when my friend from China was in town we showed him the menu and he got SO happy. We were all at a dog show at the fair grounds so we placed a LARGE takeout order for six people, planning to share everything... which is what we did. I want to start with my friend from China says this is one of the most authentic Chinese restaurants he has been to in the Mid West and would definitely order again from it.... High praise. Lol. What we ordered: Chive bun dim sum: four pieces. Each a great size. Shrimp was fresh and had a great texture. Probably one of our favorite things we ordered that night. If you like shrimp.... Get this for sure. Delicious. Egg rolls: come in sets of two. Very fresh. Pot stickers : steamed. No complaints. i didnt sample but there were no left overs so thats a good sign with this group! They must be good as they sometimes sell out of these. House fried rice. We got two orders of This for six people. We probably only needed one... the sizing is generous and they dont skimp on ingredients. We all were very pleasantly pleased. It had pork, beef, shrimp and maybe some chicken along with ample veggies. Delicious. Not Greasy Beef with broccoli. The beef was surprisingly tender and had that buttery melt in your mouth texture. I hate beef and I found this dish to be very good. I would even have eaten it if I was served it as it was quite good. And I dont usually voluntarily eat a meal containing beef. Lol. General tso chicken. Keep in mind this is an authentic chinese restaurants and gen tso is American food trying to be chinese. This was okay. It had big pieces of super fresh brocoli but the chicken didnt have that rich american brown sauce. It was more traditional and cooked into it. Sweet and sour chicken: another americanized dish. Not the greatest. By the time we got back to thebfairgrounds this was the only dish that was straight up cold. It needed to be coated in sweet and sour sauce which warm whichbit didnt get the opportunity to do. This was a dud. Disliked it strongly. Hometown braised pork: big chunks of braised pork with orka? I didnt have any but there wasnt hardly any left. They said it was good. Garlic eggplant: Show stealer. This was the winning dish. The eggplant is the asian style bright purple eggplant. It was so flavorful and not mushy. There wasnt any left. We all tried it and each loved it - this we would get multiple orders next time. Heck I am getting some either today or tomorrow, as I cant stop obsessing about it. My friend from China said that and the chive bun were his favs. I strongly recommend this place. This is the second trip in and both times it has been excellent, food fresh, nice sized portions and ready in a reasonable time. For all that food it was about 145 bucks (remember there was 6 adults who hadn't eaten all day, we ordered a lot) It was a lot of food and felt the pricing was appropriate actually- it was more on the good value side for the portion sizing. :) Le

    Soup dumpling
    Arisa L.

    The place is nice and clean with a lot of seatings. The server was friendly but the person who brought the food just slammed the plates on the table. Service is fast. The best thing I had was the shredded pork in garlic sauce. It said it was spicy on the menu but it wasn't. It was really flavorful with tender pieces of pork with nice crunch from the veggies and mushroom, but if you like it spicy, you might want to ask for extra spice. The fish soup was interesting-I didn't care for it but the tingly sensation you get from the peppercorn was something I never experienced and am still happy I tried it. Soup dumpling was a huge disappointment. It was cold and tasted frozen. The sauce that came with it was so so salty with no vinegar or ginger. Wonton in spicy sauce and the hot and sour soup were just ok. I would go back to try other things as they do offer interesting and different items, but i wasn't super impressed by the food I had that day.

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    The chicken and white rice is good but the general so's sauce is really watered down!!

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    Food is so fresh and delicious. Authentic Asian food. Great customer service ladies are always pleasant and welcoming.

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    Tiger + Lily

    Tiger + Lily

    4.2
    (529 reviews)
    4.0 mi
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    Came here for a quick dinner before a show at A&R Music BarZ. Fast, casual service…read more Get the SZECHUAN NUMBING BEEF! It was absolutely wonderful and I can't stop thinking about it since going yesterday. Reminded me of Mapu Beef stew but with noodles instead of rice. Don't skip on the fried dumplings either! Both our servers were lovely. We enjoyed the window seating next to the sidewalk. It made for excellent people watching. A lovely experience overall.

    Right downtown, Tiger+Lily is close by to the Palace Theater and works for pre-show dinner as it…read moredid for us on our first visit. Hip informal vib with ample but not big dining room. Quick and attentive service. We started with crispy dumplings (6), crispy egg rolls (2), and a scallion pancake. Bing, their crepe, wasn't available our night. My dining companions loved the pancake - for me perhaps a bit too much drizzled sauce. It was helpfully quartered when brought to the table so sharing was easy. The dumplings were indeed crispy and probably my favorite with a standard dark dipping sauce. The egg rolls were standard and perhaps a bit undersized and over fried, but a good creamy dipping sauce was a pivot away from the sweet chili sauce that usually accompanies such apps. Ramen is clearly the focus of the menu and three of us had ramen with chicken and one with pork. They spoke favorably of the broth and the combos of mushrooms, boiled egg, greens. I had the rice vermicelli with chicken that they called a salad. I was expecting the classic Vietnamese staple but this one had some adaptations, perhaps to a fusion or one might say less ethnic nod. Small things but the ample portion served in a small bowl made it hard to mix the rice noodles, lettuce, carrot, cucumber and chicken that is a common approach to the dish after drowning all the ingredients in both sweet sauce (nuoc cham), siracha and/or hoisin sauce. It only came with the nuoc cham. They brought Siracha when I asked for it, but I'm a fan of having these condiments on the table standard. Again, had the sense that the business lunch crowd that is probably the primary audience isn't likely to be as focused on the more authentic ingredients. The chicken was also not grilled and sliced but had a pleasant preparation. Just know it won't be the charred flavor that is so common. Finally, not to obsess on this one dish, but cutting the lettuce leaves more would enable easier chop sticks combos of the ingredients in single bites. Overall it worked for us. I am definitely the most focused on (my companions would say obsessed) on connection to what these dishes should be. If adaptations work well for you, Tiger+Lily likely will as well.

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    Chilispot

    Chilispot

    4.4
    (184 reviews)
    2.6 mi
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    This place came highly recommended based on reviews, and since I lived in China, I always look for…read moreauthentic restaurants. Unfortunately, this experience was quite disappointing. We ordered the dry pot lamb spine, but the portion was very small, and the lamb was extremely fatty to the point that it was barely edible, especially for $22.99. The shredded Potato was $12.99 and also a very small portion. The boiled fish was okay, but honestly the only dish we were truly satisfied with was the fried noodles we ordered for the kids. Overall, it was not what I hoped for, and I would not come back again.

    It's been a little while since my last Chilispot visit and I'm happy to report it's just as good!…read more We came on a Friday early dinner and it wasn't busy at all - zero wait to be seated and very quiet. We were greeted and seated quickly and service was very friendly. As we were hungry, we took a mi Ute to decide what to order. We had planned on storm fish, but made a last minute decision to Sichuan sliced beef (we loveeee a numbing pepper!) with starts of egg roll and spicy wontons. Seriously those wontons are one of the best things in the whole city. They're SO good I could eat a few orders of those alone and be happy. Egg rolls are nice, but just a simple egg roll. Nicely crispy and tasty with the spicy mustard. The Sichuan sliced beef was the perfect thing for a chilly rainy dinner. We love spicy so I'm a bad judge of heat level, but this is spicy but a numbing spicy. Lovely spooned over steamed rice. The cabbage and bean sprouts were my favorite bits in this dish because they added a crunch. Might ask for extra next time!

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    Blasian Grill

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    4.3
    (32 reviews)
    5.4 mi

    I keep hearing good things about this, and I've been meaning to come for a while, but it's out of…read moremy way. Plus, I figured hibachi can take awhile, and I usually don't have a long time for lunch. Today I had a little more time, and I made a point to head over. It is a bit out of the commercial sprawl at the corner. Look for the food truck, that's the first thing I saw, and it helped me find where to turn in. I wasn't sure if there would be dine in, but there is, plenty of seating inside and out. Inside there are seats at the counter, plus booths, plus I think a couple tables. Menu is pretty basic: hibachi and a few sides. I got steak and chicken, with fried rice, and you pick two vegetables so I picked cabbage and bean sprouts. You get a Yum Yum sauce, and you can add others, but I didn't need them. And the sauce container they gave me was plenty big. The steak was tender and perfectly cooked, the chicken was tender and flavorful, cooked in a nice sauce. The fried rice was great. The vegetables were perfectly cooked. And it all came out in about five minutes. They had a steady stream of carry out customers, but they still got mine on the grill, apparently as soon as I ordered it. Fast and good, and competitively priced for hibachi. A big portion, but not a huge, two days' worth of leftovers portion. But I was stuffed and couldn't finish it all. When I saw the drink cooler with just water and a few juices, I figured I'd have to go with those, but they do have fountain drinks. And they actually have a pretty good variety, cola, diet cola, cream soda, blueberry, cherry I think, and a few others. Anyway, several pleasant surprises, the food lived up to its reputation, I was in and out fast, and for not a whole lot of money in this day and age. I will be back.

    Worst 12 dollars I spent on food ,Nobody notified me when my food was done and had my food was…read moresitting for 10mins smh

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    Jiu Thai Asian Cafe

    Jiu Thai Asian Cafe

    4.3
    (421 reviews)
    3.1 mi
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    Biang biang noodles might be my favorite dish in Columbus. I've never had a bad meal here and…read moretakeout is always packaged well.

    The family stopped in on a rainy Saturday morning for lunch. It's an open layout with plenty of…read moreseating and some traditional decorations. We were greeted and told to sit wherever we like. We were the only patrons at this time. With it being our first time, we took awhile to go thru the menu. So many choices to choose from and so many appealing entrees. We ended up getting the diving chicken and braised lamb stretch noodle accompanied by some chicken wings to try. My diving chicken blew my socks off. It was beautifully presented, aromatic, and warm. It was accompanied by white rice. With Plenty of tasty marinated chicken, bok choy, green onions and bean sprouts in a semi spicy broth. Super fulfilling and a nice portion. I shared my bowl with a hungry 6 year old and still had leftovers! Fiance got the braised lamb and stretch noodles, he admitted he had no clue what he was getting or what to expect. Nevertheless he received a nice hearty bowl of lamb and hand stretch noodle in a nice and hot lamb broth. Also accompanied by white rice. He finished majority of his bowl only leaving some broth behind. We both tried each others and both agreed on the diving chicken having a better taste but I think it's because it's spicier. The chicken wings were on the dry side but they were still tasty and completely devoured. Service was standard and immediate. I didn't see a kids menu. Buy we Really enjoyed the food. Can't wait to try more!!

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