Excellent Sichuan Food – Upper East Side
We have written about Wu Liang Ye before, the Lexington Ave. location.
Last Friday, we walked to the 86th Street & 3rd Avenue location for a meal at the Wu Liang Ye, 3rd … it is up-town and I was fearful that the meal would not be as good as the mid-town location …
Good news … the dishes we ordered were very competently prepared in the Chinese manner …
we started with three dishes … Poached razor clams with Sichuan peppercorn and scallion vinaigrette … Ox tongue and tripe with roasted chili and peanut vinaigrette .. Jelly fish julienne with scallion pesto … yummy, yummy, yummy! … the three dishes can be ordered as a combination for $20.95 … worth every penny … the sauces were delicious with the right strength of chili and green scallion …
next … we ate an order of Chengdu wonton with Sichuan peppercorn vinaigrette … swallowing clouds! $4.95 …
finally, we ate sauteed spinach with garlic $8.95 … so very delicate … with a bowl of steamed rice …
a perfect meal …
I had a glass of Wu-Liang-Ye, a colorless grain alcohol … similar to vodka … taste of lemon and lichi … drink chilled … can be considered as their house wine … very smooth with the hot Sichuan peppercorns … $6.00 with the meal …
very good service, too … I will be back to try other dishes.
And we got in some exercise … walking twenty blocks each way on a Friday evening …
215 East 86th Street, 212-534-6032
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