Sichuan Jin River - Rockville

A surprisingly wide variety of authentic sichuan dishes. Go with a group so you can order a variety of different dishes. One visit could not taste all the menu items you may need 10. It is that many. Most of dishes are unique, ie not the typical Americanized ones. Best to bring someone who can read chinese for best choices. If you are into internal organs n lamb dishes, it has many choices. Chongqing Spicy Chicken highly recommended by my non veggie friends.

Flounder fish soup chengdu chicken are good. Large portion

An authentic Sichuan experience they serve a variety of well cooked dishes, all properly spicy and numbing as you'd expect out of Sichuan cuisine. I came here with a friend group a few days ago and we ordered a number of staples double cooked pork, cumin lamb, chengdu spicy chicken, and hotpot boiled beef (I'm not sure how else to translate it). Every dish was high quality and tasted good, and the overall price for the meal was quite reasonable. The dishes I listed above are all recommended, though anyone who orders them should be wary as they're all spicy! Of course, if you're coming to a Sichuan restaurant missing out on the spice would be a shame.

Perhaps, I found the only Szechuan restaurant that truly serves very hot food. I ordered a Hunan beef and it was so hot. I could not eat it. I am used to very spicy food. My poor waiter was the only one working the entire restaurant with several large parties. I couldn’t blame him for not attending to me for the water I most desperately needed. the food quality was overall good, but they did used canned mushrooms instead of fresh mushrooms in the dish, egg drop soup was good the eggrolls average. .

Just when I thought sichuan numbing spicy food was growing out of style and getting pushed out by the all too convenient gimmicky restaurants serving processed food disguised with natural ingredients, I am introduced to this diamond in the rough restaurant called Sichuan Jin River. I truly mean diamond in the rough because one wouldn 't know there would be a restaurant here unless you look hard for this one story place nestled among multi story apartment buildings. What 's more amusing is that Jin River 's sichuan food taste like they are on another level compared to Peter Chang 's tourist driven (aka dissappointing and soul crushing) sichuan food served right across the street. Unlike any other sichuan restaurants I 've reviewed over the past 6 years, the entrees here sport quite a bit of exquisite wok hay . The main reason for my 5 star rating is that I actually found an entree to add to my death row meal list which is a coveted list to make if I might say so myself. My new all time fav Sichuan entree is the 'sichuan dry fried salt pepper intestines with peppers ' and I cannot find any other Chinese restaurants that serve this unless you drive all the way to NE DC. I 'm quite relieved to see Jin River a covid19 survivor as I would have never discovered a new death row meal hiding in the middle of Rockville. And I couldn 't be more enthused when I see the clientele packing in and eating all the other entrees that I started to crave as our table finished our meals. I 've been to Jin River a long time ago and it 's obvious I just ordered the wrong items am told the rule of thumb here is to talk to the staff or owner and tell them what kind of food you like and they 'll order it for you. So if you decide to visit Jin River, please see my previous sentence to aid your sichuan food journey.