If you didn’t have fish while dining at a Sichuan restaurant, did you even have any Sichuan food? Fish in a spicy and sour broth is a cornerstone of Sichuan cuisine, and Chuan Wei Xuan’s Fish Filet in Hot Chili Oil ($24.90++) is a solid ass cornerstone.⠀
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The chili oil isn’t purely chili oil. Instead, it’s a chili oil powered sour broth similar to a tom yum, but oilier and spicier. The supple boneless fish filets floating in the spicy broth have hoovered up an incredible amount of spice & sapidity from the chili broth, and each bite of fish is absolutely bursting with spicy, feisty peppery notes. The inexplicably addictive spicy soup is bulked up by the inclusion of tofu slices & glass noodles, giving you more excuses to experience pain & pleasure from this savoury soup.⠀
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Spicy, peppery, tongue numbing and supremely satisfying, Chuan Wei Xuan’s Fish Filet in Chili Oil is simply irresistible.