Hunan Style Restaurant

This place has closed and replace another new spicy RESTURANT. Anyone know where they move?

Have been to this place couple of times but the most recent visit was a bit disappointing. Food was still ok tasty, thus so many mini flies would come around and try to share the food with you. The plastic cup smells like detergent. According to the waitress, all of their cups are like that because they clean the cups very hard, lol…

this is my second time here after couple of years. we always said if a restaurant can keep opening for a year, then it can keep running its business.
So, it looks like they are actually a pretty good business. I ordered two dishes, which I post one photo for the one I like. I don’t know how they name it in English. But it is recommended by their manager or owner. I like it very much. But i did not like the other one and will write a deeper review next time.
btw, i think they charged drink over price. they do know their food are very spicy and people would like to order more drink, but i don’t like this strategy to make your money.

Here is the thing: they not only recycle the rice, also recycle EVERYTHING they can!!!
Me and my brother went there for dinner tonight. We ordered the pork rib & yam soup and some other food. I asked for packing box after we finished, but the female server said she would pack for us. At first i thought she was nice so i gave more tips than i needed to. HOWEVER, once i got home, i opened the containers and wanted to eat some more ribs, and what i found was: there were only two ribs!!! I was pretty sure that there were at least 10 ribs before she packed the food for us.
After that, the only thing came up to mine mind was: they took our food for «recycling», and what I ate might be (should say 90%) the left over from other people!!!
If I can rate a negative five star, I’ll definitely do it.
I have to inhibit my feeling for throwing out while writing this review, but now I think I gotta go for that cuz it’s rly disgusting to think about…

I got the snack Togo, pickled chicken Feet and spicy beef tender. Small portion (2 small togo box) but cost me 15.25dollar. I could get a double of size from other places. I paid 16 but they try to put $.75 to the tip box without asking me. I know is only .75 but … Feel weird. For the taste, the chicken feet is tasteless compare to other places’s … I will not come back!

I’m a huge fan of spicy food, especially Hunan cuisine. I’ve had Hunan food for years now, and have always enjoyed the thrill of the hot and spicy dining experience.
I’ve only been to Hunan Style twice, but I’d say the food is pretty good. Compared to other Hunan restaurants (such as Hunan Mao Restaurant), some dishes here are probably a tad more salty than normal. The only complaint here is that service is lacking at times… you have to literally wave down a waiter or waitress for something. Sometimes, they clearly see you, but just walk past you. Due to the slow speed, you may find yourself in here a lot longer than you’d like.
The TV probably has horrible reception, too. The channel flicks to a grey screen every 30 seconds or so.
Other than those minor mentionings, Hunan Style is a good place for Hunan food. It’s located in Sunny Plaza. The front lot can get packed at any time, so you may have to venture to the back lot or even to the underground level to park, but it’s really no big deal.

We came here randomly as the Ai Ri Rang KBBQ place in the same mini mall was packed. They had a separate room that could fit the 14 in our party so it seemed like a natural choice.
I can’t help but feel taken advantage of; I don’t believe rice cost $ 1 per person as the server vowed. So we had two servings each and it cost a whopping $ 28! WTF? Also, I asked repeatedly if this place served «FAMILY STYLE» and the waitress, whom I thought understood me, said NO so we ordered 14 dishes that were truly family style fare. WAY TOO MUCH FOOD, and this, coming from me, an eater of the old school style. Also, they kept running out of stuff so we kept having to refer to the highly undecipherable menu to get backups. GRRRR!
Here’s the lesson I learned: while the food was good, hot, and spicy, the service was hackneyed simply because we didn’t speak the language. My mistake; this will not happen again. You think after having been to over a hundred places in the Valley, I would learn my lesson about stepping into a place with only Chinese characters on the walls, but no, apparently, my belly makes me do stupid things.
As I said, the food was delicious and per above, we ordered way too much. The fish head is all the rave and lived up to that but expect burning mouth sensation the moment you enter. Nothing is NOT spicy, except maybe the water.
But for us non-​Chinese, it was just way too expensive for what we got. I don’t mind expensive (read my other reviews) but I’d like to know what I’m getting into in advance. That phenomenal fish dish was a whopping $ 18; something I haven’t paid in a hole-​in-​a-​wall joint ever.
So, suffice it to say, we won’t be coming back. But thanks for the experience and the $ 200 cultural lesson. I’m no fool.

Overall is good. But the bacon doesn’t have the flavor I tried in Hunan.

This place is like most other Hunan restaurants. Their dishes are written in Chinese, taped to the walls on the side. The food is alright. We ordered the beancurd and celery and bamboo with beef. Both tasted kind of weird. Not the usual Hunan style that you would expect. Don’t think we’ll be coming back for a while but who knows, maybe they’ll improve later on.

Love this place! Very tasty and spicy. Small portion though compared to other Chinese restaurants around this area.

This restaurant is located just opposite to a similar style restaurant, Chilli King.
Both of them are good, spicy, Hunan style.
As a Chinese who know the details, I can tell you that this restaurant is more like formal Hunan style, and the Chilli King is country style. It is hard to tell which one is better.

It’s hard to really mess up Hunan food, mainly because it’s so darn spicy you can’t taste anything else. We got the fish head, pickled long bean, and the cumin lamb. The three dishes costed a total of $ 43.
The fish head was pretty good, very spicy and very big. My favorite is the pickled long bean. I’ve only had it at one other Hunan place and they are always sold out. It’s hard to find.
All in all the food was pretty good. I would come back and try their lunch specials. As you know dinner is a bit on the pricier side ranging from $ 8 – 16 a dish. I guess those prices are pretty standard.

This is definitely a local spot that I only stumbled upon because I was staying at the hotel right next door. And this is the type of spot that it definitely helps if you can read the language and speak the language much much better than my broken ass Chinese.
But that’s why I loved it. My friend and I struggled through the menu, but we somehow made some great choices. I can’t totally remember what we ordered, but there was some lamb, some wild chicken, some veggies… and being a Hunan place, definitely some spice. Which was perfectly smothered by the bottles of Taiwan beer we downed with dinner.
To you LA locals thinking about moving away to a place where awesome, authentic, got-​to-​speak-​the-​language type of ethnic restaurant, be sure you know what you’re giving up because this transplant is definitely missing me some solid eating out here in DC.

There’s nothing I dislike more than bone-​in chicken leg hacked up into pieces then cooked, because then it becomes shrapnel in your mouth. It was very inconvenient and painful to eat when shards of chicken bone are digging into your gums and between your teeth. In addition to that entrée, we ordered 2 more different items off of their lunch special menu (because it would be a little ridiculous to pay $ 10 – 15 for an entrée in the 626 area for lunch) and all three items came out to taste very similar. They were all cooked with the same fillers: jalapenos, black beans, and ginger. The only major difference between all three dishes was the type of protein. They also charged $ 1 per person for white rice, which is a tad unusual for Chinese food especially around this area.

OK. My bf and I are crazy about the spicy fish head soup (Duo Jiao Yu Tou) and we were trying that all over the place. Considering flavor, price and the waiting time. This place currently ranks the first on our list.
This place makes the fish yummy instead of salty as in other places. And the fish is fresh (unlike other places you can smell i hint of weird flavor, and you know spice and salts covers those bad flavor, bu you can still find out if you pay attention.). And it has enough portion, having enough fish from the body going with the dish, unlike other places which really only offers the head.
And if you order in store. It’s a 20 – 40 minutes wait. And if you call in advance, it’ll just be ready when you arrive.
Other than the fish, the Dried Tofu (xiang gan) is good. Lamb good. Pork rind good. hmm… and we love the pumpkin chow as a free dessert in the end. The sweetness is just right, it compromises the spice we took in earlier, so we looove the place.
It’s sort of our regular dining place now: D

Wow. Best Hunan food i’ve ever had in America. Food was very spicy and well done. Ok. it is not as good as a Hunan restaurant in Shanghai or Beijing (and of course hunan itself) but overall this place was great. Hui guo rou was good, si ji dou, and fried lamb all tasty. My favorite was a small «bao» with intestines (not for those who can’t deal with exotica). My friends thought the food was too spicy… I thought it was perfect. So sad I live on the other side of the city.

It is a very pleasant place to eat. I felt welcom instantly.
Their menu had a lot of different dishes to choose from.
I was very satisfied with the food and the service. Later I found out it is the resurection of the great hunan restaurant that burned down.
I had such a nice experience there!

This is a seriously good place. I’m happy this place is back in action!
The menu is great. There is a wide variety of dishes, not just different veggies, tofu, or meats cooked with hot peppers.
The staff were all really nice. It was an overall great experience.

Appetite arisen easily by the spicy-​food and your focus will only be on how to get used to it. Bear with me one more second if you do not eat spicy food — Don’t worry as you will love it as quickly as unbelievably to yourself!!! Frankly speaking, the hotness here is fairly acceptable compared to those in Sichuan cuisine.
Price is friendly and there are a great selection of authentic Hunan Style cuisine for choices. This is not another Take-​out in San Gabriel Valley, but somewhere that you want to sit down and may ask more to the waiters «What do you recommend?». Eventually, the best way to really learn a culture is to immerse yourself into their FOOD.
The service is nice and well done. There is also a private room for a party of 10 ~ 15 people.

A search for Hunan restaurant from the area will yield quite a few results so be sure you’re at the right one. I believe a restaurant with the same name burned down a few blocks away but I haven’t confirmed if it’s the same people.
Now that I have sufficiently bored you with needless information and the likelihood of you still actually reading this review has diminished substantially, I will now begin my review of the actual food.
Get the fish head. Everybody will have one on their table. A large head of what I believe to be a cod fish is halved and slowly simmered in a spicy, aromatic oil broth of deliciousness. The tender white meat is extremely delicate from the long, hot bath and the melted innards of the head have contributed to the rich, unctuous taste of the resulting fish-​infused stock.
As Yao Ming would say, «Eat the head! Eat the head!»
Probably not something I’d gorge on everyday but the first of it’s kind that I’ve tried and I’m eager to see what other delicacies the Hunan region of China has to offer.