Reviews for Lao Sze Chuan in Katy, TX
Ordered the beef schezuan noodle soup and the house special lamb tofu. Food was really good. Prices were reasonable for... quantity served and flavor. Service is a little slow but if you catch their eyes they come quickly. Will be returning to tryall the interesting food we didn't get to eat this time Read more
We have been here a handful of times now and we must say that its become one of our favorite Chinese restaurants. The food has... been consistently delicious. Always comes out hot and fresh. Fair warning to call ahead for duck- they run out fairly early inthe evening. Service has been hit or miss. The staff has always been very nice, but they always seem to be short staffed. Theywork hard and are always busy, so sometimes you have to put in effort to get attention. We recently had a large group gatheringof 20+ people and called 20 minutes ahead... they did an excellent job accommodating us. Everyone in our group said food wasdelicious (most of us are Chinese- if that gives any credibility) Our favorite dish is the salted egg tofu- it has such aunique taste- can't find it anywhere else around here. Read more
Ordered spicy dry pot beef and tender tofu fish fillet. Both dishes are very authentic Szechuan dishes and very tasty.... Especially liked the lotus root, sea weed knots and taishan cauliflower in the spicy dry pot. Will definitely go back again totry other dishes. Read more
The exterior and interior make the place feel like an upscale restaurant. However, the single-use chopstick, the inadequate... napkin and the plastic sheet over the table cloth say otherwise. I visited about 11:15, fifteen minutes into opening and yet themopped floor was still wet. It felt the a/c was not fully turned on until about 11:40. I sweated a lot when eating Sze Chuancuisines. More comments can be found in the captions of the added photos. Read more
Peking duck is your here. However we waited for an extremely long time before it came. After we had finished eating all the... other dishes. Lemon prawns was delicious. The Szechuan fish was good too as it’s not swimming in too much chili oil like inmany other restaurants. The doubled boiled pork is not very good here too unfortunately. Service was rather slow and serverswere not very attentive. But it was just 2 days after Christmas hence perhaps they were still in the holiday mood. Read more
I have to say that food is really authentic Szechuan and really tasty!!! Still think is kind of pricey.and the potions that... they serve are not according with price for sure, The service was terrible and when we ask for dinner plates ; they say “we don’t have big plates, but only snack little dishes; which it was strange! We were having a full dinner in tiny dishes. Ohwell, we made it work, but little plates are not ideal setting for a full course meal!!! Hope they notice this. Is good food!!! Read more
My friend + I arrived an hour half prior to close to this Chicago Szechuan favourite. No duck available BUT we did see the last... one get cut + it smelled absolutely amazing as it was walked by. Every chili oil dish was fabulous! Explosive flavours + numbingsensations!!! Great spice levels. The peppercorns were fabulous. We especially loved the Dan Dan + Mapu .. but the way theycreated the sauce for their dumplings, whoa! Felt the dumplings were a bit on the thickish side, which I didn’t personallymind too much but my preference is a softer bite on the folds. Same for the xiaolongbao but the freshness of the dumplings werethere + equally delicious. The fresh chilies spice level in the squid dish was a great welcomed feeling of amazement. Smilesbalanced our table with every bite. One of the best salt + pepper prawns to date purely for the spicy. We ate enough to enjoyleftovers the next day to really see how well the food settled. So good. Day two didn’t disappoint. Looking forward toreturning for the duck + new selections. Everyone was super friendly, kind + sincere with their recommendations + assistance.Great service! We were unexpectedly given 10% off coupons for our next visit. Shall definitely be returning. The flavours of theoil as well as the salt + pepper shrimp has permanently plagued my mind. The leftovers were so good the next day btw! Thank youLao Sze Chuan! ***Also, FB adverts offer free dumplings w/ purchase over $20 once you do a search it should pop up on your newsfeed to message. May take a try or two. Was not instant for my friend + I Our bounty: ??Chef special duck soup (cabbage +cellophane noodles) ??Mapo (tofu) ??Dan Dan (noodles) ??Spicy sour squid (cold) ??Red chili oil dumplings ??Xiaolongbao (soupdumplings) ??Twice cooked pork ??Salt + pepper prawns Read more
I've been waiting for a few months to try this location because they have the Peking Duck but the Bellaire location does not. ... Luckily, I found a promotion on their Instagram page that if you spend $50 you can get a half duck for $5 or spend $100 and getwhole duck for $5. We had 7 people with us so it was easy to get to the $100 mark. The first dish to come out was the Pekingduck and it was delicious, very Crispy. Only issue I had was the wrappers that come with it came out 15 minutes later and thatthe skin was not cut as thin so there is still a large amount of fat on the skin. I've had it where the skin is so thin that itcan dip it in sugar and it will dissolve in your mouth! Other plates were the fish fragrance eggplant but with no meat, Chungdu fried green beans, salted egg tofu, salt and pepper shrimp, crispy fried Sichuan chicken, beef flat fried noodles, shrimpSingapore noodles, and the whole special "grilled" fish. The whole "grilled" fish was my least favorite dish, and it wasactually FRIED, not grilled. It was EXTREMELY spicy. I love spicy but this was too much. Stick to the spicy boiled fishwith tofu or dry fried fish dishes (haven't had them here but at other Sichuan restaurants). The servers were all nice but theywere not attentive at all... they looked like they were running around and I had to stop them every time for any little thinglike napkins, water refills, utensils. Seeing some of the other reviews. This is not an isolated event... they seem to bechronically under staffed. Read more