This was the best Chinese in Minneapolis. Double chili pepper chicken was spicy. Real spicy, not Minnesota spicy. Pan fried pkrk dumplings....yum.

Awesome and authentic sichuan food with or without spice. I would suggest try different dishes off the menu. Many of them are unique and tasty.

The greater Uptown/Whitter/Wedge area of Minneapolis doesn't have many Chinese restaurants and, with the loss of Evergreen on Nicollet a few years back, I've struggled to find a place to satisfy my cravings for Chinese and/or Taiwanese food. Enter Szechuan Spice, which has been around for a while, and now easily takes the mantle of being THE affordable, above-average, friendly, bulletproof Chinese spot in the area. You can't go wrong with anything you order, though the bamboo tips in spicy sauce ($8) and the Szechuan dan dan noodles (made vegan without pork) ($5.75) both suffer from too much vinegar, in my opinion. The family tofu without pork ($11) is savory and nicely done with scallions and bamboo; the kung pao tofu ($11) and chung king tofu ($11) are both good, spicy and colorful, but don't travel well, as they're fried. The broccoli in garlic sauce ($11) and Szechuan green bean ($11) are highly respectable vegetable dishes; they also sometimes have pea tips when in season, so make sure to ask. Lastly, their vegetable chao fun ($10) and vegetable egg rolls ($1.50) are fine. The portion sizes are large; expect a few meals out of each dish. The service is really friendly and fast. I usually call my order in over the phone, as the staff is good at making suggestions or modifying dishes when I want something custom. They're also extremely vegan-friendly and vegan-aware, so just ask and they'll set you up. Delivery is only $1.50 and they use their own staff for the deliveries, which I've consistently found to produce faster, cheaper and better results than GrubHub/DoorDash/etc.

I feel honored to eat this as my potential Last Supper before this spooky scary election night. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to eat before my possible impending death and my partner wanted this so I went along with it. First of all this place knocked it out of the park with the covid precautions. I attached pics of what the pickup situation looks like. Who in the heck handy person made that setup? So smart and convenient and safe!! Safety first always. And the woman on the other side put on new gloves when she took my debit card, grabbed my food, etc. So many other restaurants are just acting like I trust they wash their hands....Szechuan Spice leaves me with no doubts about safety or cleanliness. and one of my worst fears in life is eating unsanitary food. No joke I am chilled to the bone by that. So honestly 5 stars for this alone. Plus the woman was so friendly she just made me feel good and safe. However it gets Even better. I tried some new stuff tonight. Vegetable dumpling (I always get these but not this style), scallion pancake??? , and then the usual lo mein. Oh and we also got a little cream cheese wonton too mm. Well the scallion pancake was completely out of this world. A little oily but I Loved It. It is salty and cut In triangles which is one of my favorite shapes. Honestly I feel reborn eating that. And the vegetable dumpling,, well it wasn't what I was used to (thicker dough part sorry I don't know what that is called ) but it was good. I got the steamed version to try to act like i'm healthy Lol but next time I'd probably get pan fried because I looked at some pics and it looks hot as hell. Lo mein great. Wish the cream cheese wonton had a little more cream cheese in it but that's just my personal preference and absolutely no reason to remove a star. Adequate sauces which are the best part of any meal in my humble opinion. Thank you so much Szechuan Spice absolutely incredible especially for my last supper thank you thank you thank you

My four stars for Szechuan Spice are slightly generous, and it's mainly because a Szechuan joint deserves kudos for pulling off a Shanghainese dish -- soup dumplings in this case. It seems like we've hankered for soup dumplings -- Xiao Long Bao -- since a visit to New York's Chinatown almost a year ago. Some are better than others, but we've yet to find a version that we didn't like. And that includes the version served here. If you're familiar with soup dumplings, you know that they are a Shanghai thing. That a Szechuan restaurant even attempts it is pretty darn cool. These are a little thicker than most that I've had, but were toothsome in an al dente sort of way ... almost like Southern chicken & dumplings. The broth on the inside was an ounce less than most, but it was a delicious slurp nonetheless. The pork morsel on the inside was tasty as well, if not toned down with easy going garlic and ginger. I'm also a huge fan of Ma La Dumplings, which is a legit Szechuan dish. Here they call it Won Ton in Hot Sauce (or Chile Oil ... I can't recall). Either way, the dish is essentially pork dumplings that are drenched in spicy oil with a garnish of toasted sesame seeds. While this version is good, the ginger seemed overpowering. Also, these are served warm. Most authentic Szechuan joints serve it cold. We're starch freaks, so scallion pancakes are a must any time we can get them. The ones here don't disappoint. Unlike so many other places out there, Szechuan Spice actually pan-fries its scallion pancakes. The result is a crispy chewy flatbread with onion-sweet deliciousness. Some folks dip them; I prefer them on their own. Service here is outstanding. While the place wasn't crawling with customers during our visit, I got the feeling that we would have been waited on just the same. Our glasses were never empty and we never ran out of napkins. The atmosphere is rather plain, if not slightly shabby chic. Parking is on the street or across the street in a lot that sits caddy corner to the restaurant. (We parked in a lot adjacent to the restaurant near a hair salon and didn't get towed.) Bottom line: The food here is good, and the menu is extensive. If I lived here, I would likely be a regular.