Spicy Sichuan Restaurant

Haymarket, Australia

4

Closed now

12 reviews

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Telephone:
+61 2 9211 4222
Website:
spicyfood.com.au
Address:
2 Cunningham St, Haymarket, New South Wales, 2000
Haymarket
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
490 ftCampbell Street
720 ftCapitol Square
790 ftSydney, Elizabeth Street nr Goulburn Street
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepted Cards
Credit, Debit
Good For
Dinner
Parking
Street
Good for Kids
No
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Noise Level
Loud
Outdoor Seating
No
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
No
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
No

Today

Today 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (Haymarket) 7:43 AM Thursday, July 3, 2025

Business hours

Monday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Tuesday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Wednesday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Thursday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Friday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Saturday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Sunday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
5:30 pm – 10:30 pm

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12 reviews of Spicy Sichuan Restaurant

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Place rating: 4
Los Angeles, CA
Large but basic dining room. Small menu for a chinese place but the dry chili chicken and the dumplings were 5 stars. The food is spicy… so spicy some amature yacked in the bathroom everywhere. Something ive never seen… if sichuan is what you want its a great spot. If not, there are better options around.
Place rating: 5
Sydney, Australia
Could this be Sydney’s best Sichuan restaurant? Do yourself a favour, go upstairs here and try the 麻辣香鍋 (malaxiangguo), a wonderfully fragrant, spiced, and flavorsome variation on hot hot with just enough heat to make things interesting. The 木耳 (black fungus) was also very good.
Staff were really friendly and helpful in pointing out how much to order and which dishes would go well together.
Place rating: 4
Darlinghurst, Australia
Guided only by one dinner guest who said «No offal» which eliminated a surprising number of dishes, I was allowed to take charge of the menu and swept through the Menu-​on-​an-​ipad, placing checkmarks on whatever looked good.
Indeed, it was very good. The lamb ribs in cumin had so much flavour, juicy, fatty and unusual. A chili chicken had the interesting addition of cubed lotus roots. A beef in cumin was not bad. The whole table loved their version of Mapo Tofu, as well as the slightly sweet eggplant hotpot, and the crispy shelled prawns. The steamed vegetables were the same as anywhere as was the fried rice. The craziest dish was a large glass baking dish filled with pieces of tofu, fish, chilis and pepper, served with two candles underneath to keep it bubbling. It had a numbing rather than spicy chili (the sichuan peppercorns, I believe), with a taste, earthy and slightly charred, that I don’t remember ever trying before. All up, we found the food really tasty and interesting, not a dud among any of the dishes. Is it authentic? I couldn’t say. But we liked it.
The service was sweet but par for the course in a Chinese restaurant, inattentive, to the point of having to wave arms wildly or just go up to ask them for things. But we didn’t mind. A rather lot of bottles of white wine went well with the food and put us all in a jolly mood and I think all of us agreed that the restaurant would be well worth trying again. All for $ 35 a head, without tip!
Place rating: 4
Topanga, CA
Amazingly spot-​on Sichuan food. My only nit is the rather lackadaisical device. Or maybe indifferent.
Had the twice cooked pork and it was nicely done — could have been a tad more crispy, but actually was more traditional the way it was prepared.
Place rating: 4
Sydney, Australia
Traditional Chinese Sichuan food like grill fish, spicy crab，hot pork, boiled blood curd are all in this restaurant ! People enjoy spicy food should absolutely come to this place and try. The dishes (especially the Sichuan spicy food) are so yummy that I want to try them more! I can’t wait to have my meal there!
Place rating: 4
Austin, TX
I have one word for this place spicy deliciousness… Not for the faint hearted this one, there are spicy Sichuan peppers and chillies floating in the broth which is as flavourful as it’s spicy. The mixed hotspot options gets you two soups and we chose the white soup and the hot soup combination. If you love spice and not the Nando’s variety mind you, you have come to the right place. Order your sides of meat, seafood, vegetables as you please and drop them in the hotpot in the centre of your table, and then blissfully watch it bubble away, with the aroma of mouth watering anticipation filling you. Oh and they do free refills of soft drinks from their machine, which you would need when downing those chillies. A big thumbs up from me for delicious hotpot fare. Go there on a cold windy Sydney night and you will come out warm to your core !
Place rating: 3
Livermore, CA
I’m not a big stickler over service normally… bring me what I want… if I ask for something bring it and that’s all I expect. I ordered 2 dishes, Kung Pao checken and the dumplings. The food was decent but I asked for rice three times from two different waiters. Nothing. It wasn’t busy either with only two other tables occupied. There are certain things you need to eat with rice and Kung Pao chicken is one of them.
Probably would have given them 4 stars if the service was a tad bit better. I finally after sitting there for 45 minutes frustrated, finished my food, paid and left.
Place rating: 3
Sydney, Australia
Despite making a reservation online through their website, my name was not on the list. Thankfully, the restaurant was pretty empty (7.30pm on a Friday… hmmm), they seated 7 of us at a big table in a corner.
FOOD –
One can choose either the buffet ($ 25pp) or the ala carte menu. Note that the buffet does not include the soup base (ranging from $ 12-​$ 16) or sauces (about $ 1.20 per type of sauce). We (bunch of finance geeks) spent over 15 mins debating if it was cheaper to do the buffet. In the end we chose not to. It turned out to be a good decision, cause the meal cost each of us around $ 21pp (excluding softdrinks).
We ordered about 20 – 22 plates of veggies/​meat. The food was pretty good, everything was quite fresh. My favourites are probably the spam & beef rolls. Who knew spam tasted so good when boiled in spicy broth? :)
SERVICE –
A.R.G.H. This is the only reason why Im giving this restaurant a 3 star instead of a 4. Ordering through the iPad is a stupid idea because you can only see 2 – 3 items per «page», so it was time consuming to «go-​through» the menu. (especially when i am HUNGRY, A.R.G.H)
Getting the attention of a waitress/​waiter was the worst. Maybe because we were sitting in a corner but it was almost impossible to catch their attention. We gave up and took turns to walk over to the cashier counter each time we needed something from them. A.R.G.H
They should consider doing what some korean restaurants do — putting an alert/​bell system on each table.
Lastly, I heard from my guy friends that the male bathroom was NASTY ! (boo!!)
Place rating: 3
Australia
Sadly, I have to downgrade this to 3 stars. I went for hotpot again and noticed the following things:
— instead of having the usual pen and paper where you tick off the items you want, now they use iPads. It actually makes it harder to see what you can get (you have to scroll through all the photos, there’s only 2 – 3 options per page so you have to keep swiping) vs. just reading through a list. Also, the last few steps are all in Chinese! The app isn’t the best either so we had to ask one of the waiters for help
— service seems slower… and less attentive compared to last time. We ordered unlimited drinks for two and they didn’t give us the glasses… had to explain to the lady that we had indeed ordered them and weren’t just trying to get free drinks!
— the non-​spicy hotpot base is chicken and fish, and the fish has a LOT of bones in it. I dunno. I’ve eaten here several times already and never had this problem… but last week, there were just too many bones. It’s kinda hard to keep eating when you have to pick bones out every now and then.
Now I’m looking for a new hotpot place… not so happy with this one anymore.
Place rating: 4
Fremont, CA
Serious Chinese food. We’re a family of Chow Mein lovers. But of course the Minced Pork, Shrimp Dumplings, and Duck to the succulent side were key complimentary dishes. Audacious and strange dishes are available that consist of Tripe, Tongue, Blood Jelly, and I believe, Pig’s Ear (or some kind of ear). All you need to know is that they know what they’re doing. Now, as for service… fairly adequate.
Place rating: 5
Maroubra, Australia
Oh My GOD !
Love their white soup, it’s so yummy.
The price is pretty fair comparing with other restaurant doing all you can eat hot pot.
Place rating: 5
中環, Hong Kong
Can’t comment on the service (other than a few unique things) because we came when it was during its quieter times (Tuesday night) so it was as expected but as a hotpot lover I found the food to be very good compared to the other buffet hotpots around the city.
The unique thing about this place is that they gave protective sleeves for your jackets because hotpot smells tend to stay with clothing for some time.
Average spend is around $ 30 for the all you can eat menu (and also unlimited softdrink, but don’t fill up on soft drink) which is very fair when there are other places which charge about $ 35 (without the drink thing).