Szechuan Express

Every time I’m visiting the Eaton Center, I always stop for some Szechuan Express. I love the cheap price, yet sophisticated taste. I would recommend asking for takeout, in my opinion you get more bang for your buck.

I ordered the chicken and veggie noodle soup with spicy broth, thinking it would be a light and delicious meal. The option of wheat noodles lured me.
I’m an idiot. Come and open the soup bowl in office and oil starts oozing out because of the vaccuum the hot soup created inside. Ruined my nice new skirt forever (I’ll try not to let that influence my review).
The taste would have been ok if I could see and taste anything other than oil. Veggies were 2 pieces of broccoli and 1 piece of bok choi. Chicken was, well, fried, soaked in oil (even though I didn’t get the crispy option). I removed 7 soup spoons of oil from the top, but still plenty sticking to my palate.
A few bites and I was done till the evening. Take your health and taste buds somewhere else! Never again.

I eat here at least once a week. Their chicken with vegetables, wheat noodles and spicy broth soup is my «go-​to» when I neglect, forget or am just too darn lazy to brown bag it. For less than $ 7.50 it’s a large portion, very filling and flavourful.
I have to say that I tend to stick to their soup offerings, as having tried their buffet options, I’ve found them to be overly salty, greasy and not particularly healthy. The portions for their buffet offerings are good and the prices are okay, but still a little steep for a quick lunch.

Why the hell does lunch at a fast food court cost $ 16?
I had some lemon chicken, Singapore noodles and an iced tea. Apparently it is an outlet of the Szechuan Szechuan restaurant, but I couldnt tell. It tasted like any other fast food chinese place, but with an expensive price tag.
If it was 10 $ I would give it 3 stars, but 16 $, omg, it taught me a lesson in watching what you order at a food court in the financial district.

New renovated food court in the Royal Bank tower. Szechuan Express is one of the many food places repeated thorugh the PATH with many locations. Ordered Fried rice and Crispy Beef. Wow. the food was worse than Manchu Wok, for the money you pay there are much better options in the PATH.

First, let me say I am VERY picky about my Chinese food (and by Chinese, I mean, the Americanized version of Chinese food).
The great thing about Szechuan Express, is that they are related to the delicious but horribly busy Szechuan Szechuan in First Canadian Place.
I love that they have lots of tasty options, like General Tso chicken or Tofu, about 5 kinds of chicken, crispy beef, many kinds of noodles and rice, as well as chicken balls and egg rolls.
The best part however, is that the meat is MEAT, and not battered, gamey cartilage or unidentifiable chewy stuff. Its white breast meat. And it is GOOD!
I’ve really enjoyed the Singapore noodles here, as well as the lemon chicken, crispy ginger beef, and sweet and sour chicken. All were very good.
A meat and side of rice will run you about $ 7 with tax.