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Gem Bistro

4.5 (41 reviews)
ModerateSzechuan
Closed 11:30 am - 9:30 pm

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Gummy noodles and cold chicken very chewy !!!

I am not sure what happened to this restaurant . The last year has not been good. i have not left a review but i need to now The cold chicken app was terrible . Don't know what kind of chicken it was or if it was . Drunken noodles with pork was a gummy mess . The owners are sweet but i can't continue to eat this food . Please do better and give the customers better quality ! Sorry

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Lynette P.

Affordable Szechuan restaurants More like a takeout place Solid flavor and reasonable price Will come back whenever I crave for some spicy food

The inside. I waiting for my food on a small table for 2
Chris L.

Got take out for dinner in a Friday. It's on the corner of a busy intersection. The small parking lot is convenient but I zoomed passed it at my first drive through. The owner,chef, father is the only worker. 1.5 if you count his son who is very young. The inside will make you want to get your food to-go. The food is legit. The spiciness and numbing peppercorn is throughout the sauces. The food we got was $40 but he could easily charge for more. The food is that good.

Fish flavored Pork? Slippery? Hmmmm
David B.

My kind of place. A hole in the wall off the beaten track. Learned about this place on Yelp. Good thing. I rarely take Schuyler to I 280 and unless you know about the place or are stopped at the light, you would never know it was there. We stopped in recently following our walk at Dekorte in the Meadowlands. We ate in but this is more of a take out place. About three tables and the only heat to be found was in the food and probably by the stove. We love Sichuan food. Spicier the better. You get that here. Owners, husband and wife, handle the orders and cooking. No english is spoken. We pointed at both menus provided and the gentleman headed back to the kitchen and prepared everything to order. Spicy short rib potatoes, cumin lamb and dry fried string beans. The short rib dish and string beans were outstanding! Very flavorful in addition to the mouth numbing heat of Sichuan peppercorns we enjoy. The lamb dish was just ok. Lots of chilies, onions and cumin but the lamb didn't taste like or look like lamb. We've had much better versions of this dish elsewhere. Again, there are two menus here. Be sure to look at both. An excellent first meal here. Looking forward to trying more dishes.

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Sonia C.

Careful - if you blink you might miss this place. It was cold afternoon, and my PIC and I wanted something spicy. After checking out Yelp, we found out about Gem Bistro. This is a very small business - cash only. 99% of their business is take out. Walking in, I noticed toys scattered on the floor; they belong to the owners youngest child, who was playing on one of the tables. We were quickly attended to. This was some of the best Szechuan we have had in a long time. Very authentic! Not much to look at, but amazing food.

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9 years ago

Love this place! The owner is really nice with great customer service and ....AWESOME spicy food! Must come to try if you want sth spicy!!

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Tried their cumin lamb, spicy chicken and fried rice and I must say, they are the best this side of town!

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Had the pork fried rice. Good arbiter of the food. Not bad but not my cup of tea. New to try the…read moreother offerings and maybe the stars will increase. Also no snark odd large size rice. Just one size.

You definitely don't go here for the atmosphere-you go for the food. It was a cold night and I was…read morein the mood for some ma la flavors to get warm. I had seen this restaurant a couple of times so decided to give them a try. It is a small place, with four tables that seat four people, and a couple that seat two. One of the side walls is covered with printouts of a number of the dishes, which can be helpful for those that don't know what some of the dishes look like. There is only one person working both the register and the tables, so patience is appreciated here. Did I mention earlier that I was cold? We walked over from the parking lot under the highway (free on Saturday nights) and was very chilled by the time we entered. Cold and hungry, we ordered lamb with cumin and ma la pot chicken. My companion ordered snow pea tips and vegetable mei fun. To start, we split an order of pan fried vegetable dumplings. The waitress checked to be sure that we wanted all that food for two people-the ma la pot chicken alone is big enough to split between two people (or one VERY hungry person). Reassuring her that we wanted all that food, we settled down to wait. The dumplings came out first, and we are still trying to decide what the filling was comprised of. Carrots, cabbage and....daikon? Not sure, but it was delicious and increased our expectation for the rest of the meal. Next came the ma la pot chicken and I immediately understood why she wanted to confirm our order. I definitely was not finishing all of that in one sitting. The chicken had some lovely crunchy bits around the edges and while the dish itself is dry, the chicken was not. The ma la flavor filled my mouth and warmed my stomach. Lamb with cumin is a great dish to pair with rice, and half a bowl of rice was gone before I even blinked. My companion noted that their vegetable mei fun was flavorful and not oily although the snow pea tips could have been more tender. Overall, the meal was flavorful and a prefect choice on a cold night. I need to come back here and try out a couple more dishes that I usually order, and try a new one or two (spicy and sour potato, shredded???). Yes please!!

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