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Sweet Yummy House

3.5 (91 reviews)
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Good for groups
Good for kids

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Zack G.

Small, no-frills, Chinese spot in an area where Chinese restaurants make up the majority of the real estate. The place specializes in Szechuan Chinese foods, but they have a massive menu so there are plenty of options if you don't like spice The food is very authentic, which means that there are a bunch of entrees with strange ingredients including pigs feet & intestines, so double check what you're getting with your server before you order Their was one woman working there when I went, but she was very friendly and my food was prepared quickly I got noodles with beef and it was delicious. As many others have mentioned they don't use a ton of protein (probably to save money), but I didn't mind since the noodles were very tasty Complimentary tea Very affordable Bib Gourmand 2018 9

Tyler L.

Sweet Yummy House is a typical mom and pop restaurant you would see in any Chinatown. Keep in mind that this is a Szechuan restaurant. They specialize in dishes like mapo tofu and dan dan noodles. If you are not a fan of spicy food, this is not the place for you. I came with two friends and we ordered a few different dishes. We did have some Cantonese food though (chow fun) to mix it up. The food here was just okay for us. This place is a little stingy with meat and the dishes tend to be filled mostly with vegetables and noodles. Everything we had was also too greasy and oily. Taste wise, everything tasted fine though. However, there are better Chinese places in Elmhurst.

Beef on rice noodles
Yukang C.

Lovely fresh made dinners in real time I bought my dinner and tomorrow breakfast Convenient location not far from subway stations I will be back again

Shrimp over crispy rice

This review is written by my son. The Food. OMG. This was an amazing experience Especially the food. My family's favorite was the sesame rice balls. Amazing. My favorite was the shrimp over Crispy rice. The Spice in some of the food was AMAZING!!! Apart from that, the service was great, fast and amazing overall! It is a small Well deserved Michelin Bib Gorman place. So Peaceful!

String beans, eggplant in garlic sauce, fish fillet in hot red pepper sauce, chili oil wontons, mapo tofu - all DELICIOUS!! Came with rice

Favorite place in the neighborhood. Great prices and I have enjoyed every dish I've ever gotten here. I take any friend who visits here to get take out. My go-tos are A19 Fish Fillet in Hot Red Pepper Sauce (it's like a dry fried spicy fish almost like in dry hot pot) and fish fillet, beef or pork in fresh hot pepper. I've also enjoyed their vegetarian dishes like the eggplant (!!) and string beans. Basics like general gao's chicken or beef with broccoli I've also been told by visiting friends were good. Honestly I feel like it's hard to go wrong here, but definitely don't miss one of the "in fresh hot pepper" dishes. Ooo the wontons in chili oil are also actively very tasty. Love love love this place!! Bring cash, it's a little cheaper!

Ong choi
Coty S.

This is not the type of restaurant that you come to and order Chinese American style dishes. You must come here for the Szechuan food, and that is all. Don't even bother ordering anything here that is not spicy! This place was slammed with customers on a Saturday afternoon, there were people sharing tables and rearranging chairs to get seated. You will be seated quickly, but be prepared to wait a while for them to take your order. This place is small and there was food sharing and drink sharing even across tables. A man ordered a massive pile of spicy crabs and BYOB wine and was sharing with another person that he just met because the guy asked about the crabs. They did look really good, but I was not going to eat his food as well. You are given a complimentary dish of boiled peanuts with spicy and five spice flavor on them. Fun to eat with chopsticks. The Spicy Wontons were perfect with that smokey garlic and chili flavor. Some places make them too sweet, but here they are just perfect! We ordered the Ong Choi with garlic sauce as we always do, and it was delicious. Ate the whole thing. The Sliced Fish Filets with Chili Peppers is so tender and aromatic with the crunch of peanuts, hot pepper spice, and mild wine flavor. I could do without the bell pepper, so I picked that out. They have a fresh chili section of the menu, and we ordered the Sliced Pork with Fresh Chili. The sliced pork was fatty marbled shoulder, sliced super thin, and was very tender. Underneath was a large amount of cabbage. The chili flavor was out of this world. We probably ordered one dish too many, so it was a little pricey for us. There is so much on this menu left to discover, too bad we are not going to live in the area anymore.

Glenn V.

Sweet? I can not imagine Anything coming out of that kitchen that has any sweetness to it. Beginning with the Spicy Rabbit appetizer, which was flavorful, but very bony experience, heat was the theme.. The bold flavors were in your face with every mouthful. In particular I found the the pungency and spiciness in the entree's like the Xong King Fish (I may have gotten the 1st word incorrect) and the Spicy Beef with vegetables, were a direct result of quite loose handed & liberal use of garlic and chili peppers. Sweet Yummy House fits a wonderful niche serving up Szechwan style cooking, right in the middle of busy Elmhurst. Typically to have the opportunity to enjoy such particular and regional cooking, one would need to venture to Manhattan or the Flushing area. The fish dish was served in a bowl that literally held just under 3/4 of a gallon of liquid, with many Yummy items waiting below the surface of the spicy red liquid and was close to impossible to finish. I am still a touched perplexed as to all the ingredients. The Beef dish was not particularly to my liking, as the vegetables were only onions and peppers and thee beef really only made up less than 1/4 of the dish. The beef did taste like it was a little on the old side. Priced at $17.50, it was a poor choice and the service was haphazard. My table was not level and I did not think I was outwardly making a noticeable motions to that effect. Immediately 3 people were under the table tinkering, within a few minutes, my table could have withstood a Cat5.

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Ven H.

Overall rating Atmosphere/cleanliness - 4 Service - 3 Menu options - 4 Food - 3 Price - 3 Total - 17/5 = 3.4 If you're into mega spicy, with half a plate of chili pepper, this is your Sichuan style restaurant. They have a wide variety of authentic dishes, with a handful of non spicy food. Food was ok, on the oiler, saucy side.

I spend $42 for nothing ,  worst food service ever. Too much of "oil" and "salt".  It took 3 min to bring food on table, doe
Arun S.

Worst place to eat. Too much oily and salty on food. We order 3 item, the guys bring out in table in 3 min. "That's too quick to be true"...food was too bad" Don't spend time/ money to go...

Golden salted crabs with sou
Jimmy W.

My family is picky and I wanted to try somewhere new. We ended up here at this sweet yummy place. We purchased turnip& pork soup, crispy fried duck, vegetable with black mushroom, scallion and egg rice, golden salty egg with crab and I must say it was all good. I couldn't believe how much I ate that night. I kept going and going. The turnip and pork soup was a really good mix for a soup. The golden salty egg with crab was salted just the right amount with all the shell edible. The duck was amazing too. The green scallion rice was mediocre but the vegetables with black mushroom were also great too!

Slice pork garlic sauce ($7.50)
Misty W.

It's terrible! The service was terrible , and most of all the food. I had a feeling of gagging after eating in this restaurant. I first walked into the restaurant, total of 9 tables and only 1 table of occupied at 3:47pm on a Tuesday. The menu just sat on the table and no one greeted me to ask me if I want water or tea. I sat there for a good 5 minute waiting for the waiter to come to me and take my order and he never came. So when I had enough of waiting, I turned to them and raised my hand so I could order. The waiter said "okay" to me but never had eye contact with me. It was straight out rude of how they treat their customers. Now the food part.. I got their changdu jelly noodle and slice pork garlic sauce and a drink called "coffee and tea". The two dishes used the same sauce... tasted completely the same and it only took them lesss than 5minutes to prepared the food and brought it to my table. The jelly noodle, honestly looks pretty tasty on picture, did taste good on the first few bite but it's really easy to get tired of it because that's all they have in the dish, just jelly noodle and the sauce!!! The milk tea just taste like water added with brown color dye.. doesn't taste like anything, super duper diluted. You might even find water taste better than this drink. I'm sincerely disappointed of this restaurant bc it's one of the restaurant recommend by ny.eater.com. The way they treat customers and their food just didn't live up to the standard.

Spencer L.

This fish filet in fresh hot pepper was so stunning and super spicy. The taste was authentic. Plain rice balls w/ rice wine sauce soup was yummy. The dish has too much oil. And all the Chinese dishes have MSG, and I have ok with it. I gave one star off because the restaurant name. Actually it was not sweet but Szechuan authentic spicy.

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Lo mein, and dumplings are the best around! On Mt life!!! I'm sooo picky! It's just so full of flavor.

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Meat not fresh, beef and shrimp very slimey. The pictures on menu are very misleading and it's overpriced! DONT COME HERE!

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This Sichuan restaurant, but the food isn't have any of Sichuan taste isn't spicy like Sichuan food. And the dishes are small.

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