Eat Out London!Ma La Sichuan
Má Là Sichuan
Sichuan cuisine, is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province in southwestern China.
It has bold flavours, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavor of the Sichuan pepper.
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Má Là Sichuan
Sichuan cuisine, is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province in southwestern China.
It has bold flavours, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavor of the Sichuan pepper.
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Chinese cuisine has a long and rich history, Sichuan can boast to be one of the ‘Four Great Taste of China’.
There is a misconception that Sichuan food is simply numbing hot, made famous by the tingling sensation of the Sichuan Pepper.
Sichuan food is not just about the taste of chilli heat, there are complex and contrasting flavours of sweet and sour, spicy and sour, spicy and sweet, fermented sweetness and mellow spiceness.
You will come across strangely named flavours such as ‘fish fragrant’, ‘home style flavour’, ‘numbing and hot’, ‘red oil flavour (chilli oil)’, ‘sour and hot’, and ‘spicy salt and Sichuan pepper’.
There are some 23 flavours within the arsenal of a Sichuan chef in addition to the over 50 different types of culinary techniques.
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If your reservation is within the next 24 hours, please call us directly to confirm your reservation.
All reservations made online will be confirmed via email.
If you do not receive an email confirmation then your reservation is not confirmed, please give us a call on +44 (0)20 7222 2218 to check your booking.
Monday – Friday: Lunch 12noon to 3pm – Dinner 5pm to 11pm Saturday: 12noon to 11pm Sunday: 4.00pm to 10.00pm PLEASE NOTE: If your reservation is within the next 24 hours, please give us a call directly.
Ma La Sichuan (London) | My Annoying Opinions
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Here now, a scant 8.5 months after our first meal there and a mere 5.5 months after we returned from the UK, is a writeup of the first restaurant we ate at in London: Ma La Sichuan, a hop, skip and jump from the door of our flat in Westminster.
When we were flat-hunting a few months earlier, long-distance via the help of a friend on the ground, one of the things that had caught our eye about the one we ended up taking was that it was about a 45 second walk from one of London’s better-reviewed Sichuan restaurants.
It’s just that we have very good Sichuan food here in the Twin Cities—to say nothing of Los Angeles—and so spending a lot of money on Sichuan food was not a priority in London; especially given the alternatives and the ease of getting to them.
What we ate across our two meals (names of dishes as presented on the menu): Our first meal (with the boys) Our second meal (a quick lunch, just the two of us): For pictures of these dishes and the restaurant, launch the slideshow below.
As for price, my credit card statements tell me that the first came to £72 all-in—our meal at Baiwei which generated a lot of leftovers, despite involving one less dish, came to less than £60 all-in.
Ma La Sichuan, 37 Monck Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 2BL ...
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Ma La Sichuan, located in the heart of Westminster, offers you the best in authentic Sichuan cuisine.
Award-winning chef Zhang Xiaozhong, former head chef of Barshu and The Shard's Hutong, has created an exquisite menu with truly epicurean flavours designed to stimulate and excite the senses.
“Ma la” means the distinctive “numbing and hot” spicy sensation created by pungency of fiery Sichuan peppers and chillies that has made Sichuan food one of the most popular cuisines in the world.
Whilst some of our offerings are spicy, our diverse range of traditional banquet dishes to sumptuous street snacks has plenty of subtleties for those with a gentler palette, each artfully crafted to capture the sweet, sour, bitter and aromatic tastes that make Sichuan cuisine so unique.At Ma La Sichuan, the heart and soul of our cooking is in our intricate alchemy of the complex Sichuan flavours to create a balance of modern, refreshing and irresistible dishes.