Casual Chinese restaurant offering typical dim sum & hot pot, as well as Sezchuan fare.
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Address: 495 Smith St, Providence, RI 02908
Phone: (401) 729-5699
Website: https://www.chengdutasterl.com/
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Jada Chin
The food is as great as it was when we used to go to the old location! Great family friendly restaurant. Food is fantastic and the service is amazing! 10/10 would recommend! Forgot to take before photos! But as you can see we devoured everything!
… morePeiyong Chen
Authentic Sichuan food. Highly recommend as a Chinese If you stop by.
… moreChris Derecola
Happy to have found a legit Sichuan restaurant in Providence. The Chongquig chicken was light on the Sichuan peppercorn (Mala) but was plenty spicy and tasted awesome. The soup dumplings are good too. My one complaint is probably the prices – about 10% higher than I expected. Definitely going back to try more dishes.
… moreNicole B Garcia
The Fried Lamb with Cumin was spectacular.
I am picky about how lamb is done and often don’t like it but it was excellent. Lot of Sichuan flavor. Really great meal with just white rice.
We had crab Rangoon as an appetizer which paired well with the spicy from the lamb to balance it out.
The Braised Beef Noodle Soup was good but no where near as good as the lamb. Very plain noodles.
My date had Beef and OX Tripe in Chili Sauce. I didn’t try any because I am not a fan of tripe but he ate the whole thing so it must’ve been good.
I already can’t wait to get the spicy lamb again. It seems like it was probably a really nice restaurant inside before COVID maybe. They seem to do more take out now. They have Hot Pot tables and stuff which are maybe popular still on the weekends. I would like to come back and try it; it seems to be reasonable pricing for it.
… moreI am picky about how lamb is done and often don’t like it but it was excellent. Lot of Sichuan flavor. Really great meal with just white rice.
We had crab Rangoon as an appetizer which paired well with the spicy from the lamb to balance it out.
The Braised Beef Noodle Soup was good but no where near as good as the lamb. Very plain noodles.
My date had Beef and OX Tripe in Chili Sauce. I didn’t try any because I am not a fan of tripe but he ate the whole thing so it must’ve been good.
I already can’t wait to get the spicy lamb again. It seems like it was probably a really nice restaurant inside before COVID maybe. They seem to do more take out now. They have Hot Pot tables and stuff which are maybe popular still on the weekends. I would like to come back and try it; it seems to be reasonable pricing for it.
John Wang
Mediocre food with small amount. They use tomato sauce for 酸汤肥牛 and tastes sweet, not authentic Szechuan style. Also they add 3% extra service charge for credit card use unless you pay cash. Server was polite and helpful. I do not recommend this place.
… moreElizabeth
I love this place! The food is so good. A great opportunity to do family style dining and share multiple plates to try more. Every time I try something new.
… moreHoward F
Chengdu Taste 495 Smith Street Providence RI
I needed noodles. On chilly October Fridays, noodles make perfect sense. Spicy noodles even more so. Chengdu Taste hadn’t even been on my radar but thanks to quirk of Google* it was thrown onto my laptop screen.* The promise of legit, spicy Sichuan cut short the search and it was off to Providence.
No problem parking here, especially at 4:30 on a Friday. Chengdu has a lot and there’s a lot in the semi-defunct strip next to it. Won’t be too much competition because most of the cars in Smith Hill will be trying to escape it at that time.
The menu is pretty large. The first half is devoted to a very broad array of Sichuan dishes – with little chile peppers next to almost every item The back part covers standard the Chinese and American-Chinese dishes required to please less adventurous palates.
I started with Spicy Sichuan Cold Noodles. Cold food on a cold day may sound counterintuitive, but I don’t get this dish enough; it’s a favorite and I figured the spice might trick my body into feeling warmer. It worked. With little beads of sweat forming on my brow, they were perfect – just salty enough with a barely sweet soy-based sauce. Plenty of chile heat and enough Sichuan pepper to put my mouth into a high voltage tingle.
Next up – Shredded Beef with Longhorn Peppers. One of the best versions of this one I’ve eaten as well. Unlike the last heavily sauced/overcooked one I had in Cambridge, Chengdu’s take stood out. The beef had a starchy sheen & tender chewiness with tons of sliced peppers. The seeds had been removed but it was still spicy, with a crisp & bright flavor.
The Crystal Shrimp dumplings came last. Almost like a killer dessert, I was looking forward to these most. Often a dim sum offering, I wondered – just for a second – if it was kosher to get them for dinner. But, just like chili dogs, I can never turn these down. As it turns out, I probably should have steered clear. They were a little bland and extra fragile, collapsing in chopsticks and just as hard to keep on a fork. I made a note not to order Cantonese food at Sichuan restaurants. And vice versa. But it was a small glitch compared to the perfection of the first two plates.
Service is on point, but don’t expect a ton of warmth. The folks on staff do the job right; they don’t rush you and they don’t keep you waiting either. Perfect balance. Perfectly happy not to be cuddled myself, and never a fan of the chit-chatty /forced joy server style, it’s just the way I like things. Smiles may not be frequently on display, but when they are they are genuine & sincere.
*It probably says more about RI’s diversity of Asian restaurants than search algorithms. Punch in “Best Lao Food in Providence” or “Cambodian Restaurants” and most of the results will be Thai places. Type “Best Thai” and the first 4 hits will actually be Thai…followed by 13 Chinese joints.
… moreI needed noodles. On chilly October Fridays, noodles make perfect sense. Spicy noodles even more so. Chengdu Taste hadn’t even been on my radar but thanks to quirk of Google* it was thrown onto my laptop screen.* The promise of legit, spicy Sichuan cut short the search and it was off to Providence.
No problem parking here, especially at 4:30 on a Friday. Chengdu has a lot and there’s a lot in the semi-defunct strip next to it. Won’t be too much competition because most of the cars in Smith Hill will be trying to escape it at that time.
The menu is pretty large. The first half is devoted to a very broad array of Sichuan dishes – with little chile peppers next to almost every item The back part covers standard the Chinese and American-Chinese dishes required to please less adventurous palates.
I started with Spicy Sichuan Cold Noodles. Cold food on a cold day may sound counterintuitive, but I don’t get this dish enough; it’s a favorite and I figured the spice might trick my body into feeling warmer. It worked. With little beads of sweat forming on my brow, they were perfect – just salty enough with a barely sweet soy-based sauce. Plenty of chile heat and enough Sichuan pepper to put my mouth into a high voltage tingle.
Next up – Shredded Beef with Longhorn Peppers. One of the best versions of this one I’ve eaten as well. Unlike the last heavily sauced/overcooked one I had in Cambridge, Chengdu’s take stood out. The beef had a starchy sheen & tender chewiness with tons of sliced peppers. The seeds had been removed but it was still spicy, with a crisp & bright flavor.
The Crystal Shrimp dumplings came last. Almost like a killer dessert, I was looking forward to these most. Often a dim sum offering, I wondered – just for a second – if it was kosher to get them for dinner. But, just like chili dogs, I can never turn these down. As it turns out, I probably should have steered clear. They were a little bland and extra fragile, collapsing in chopsticks and just as hard to keep on a fork. I made a note not to order Cantonese food at Sichuan restaurants. And vice versa. But it was a small glitch compared to the perfection of the first two plates.
Service is on point, but don’t expect a ton of warmth. The folks on staff do the job right; they don’t rush you and they don’t keep you waiting either. Perfect balance. Perfectly happy not to be cuddled myself, and never a fan of the chit-chatty /forced joy server style, it’s just the way I like things. Smiles may not be frequently on display, but when they are they are genuine & sincere.
*It probably says more about RI’s diversity of Asian restaurants than search algorithms. Punch in “Best Lao Food in Providence” or “Cambodian Restaurants” and most of the results will be Thai places. Type “Best Thai” and the first 4 hits will actually be Thai…followed by 13 Chinese joints.
Sam
Ordered the chong qing chicken last night and it was so spicy it was inedible. I can tolerate spice and have had this dish multiple times before at different restaurants and this felt like someone made a mistake somehow. For how expensive it was I’m not coming back here again.
… moreThe RI Food Dude
Food was okay, nothing special. I got their Spicy Hunan beef off the lunch menu ($11 w/ tax). Small portion of beef and the food didn’t have a crazy amount of taste – generic Asian takeout vibe.
Vegetable fried rice was pretty good with a big portion.
I wanted to get their Crispy Spicy Beef I saw on Yelp but they said it was $21!!! Hell no!
… moreVegetable fried rice was pretty good with a big portion.
I wanted to get their Crispy Spicy Beef I saw on Yelp but they said it was $21!!! Hell no!
David
I wanted to give this place 5 stars for serving authentic Sichuan food, but there were a couple problems. First, we ordered the duck cooked in beer. There were a few pieces of duck bone and a few small pieces of meat, and this was not a cheap dish, priced around $17. When we got the bill and wanted pay by credit card, they told us there would be a 4% fee. Wow, the owner seriously needs to rethink his business practice. He/she should also get rid of the American Chinese dishes on the menu, such as sweet and sour chicken, as they really distract from an otherwise good menu. On a positive note, the classic Sichuan spicy chicken dish, laziji, was superb, one of the best I’ve had.
… more