Spice Spirit at Sanlitun

Friends living in Beijing brought me to Spice Spirit, which is a Sichuan restaurant at the Village at Sanlitun. The place was packed although it was fairly early in the evening.

They had lots of spicy dishes!

Since the Singaporeans ordered, we had kong bak with mui choy (not very Sichuan, I know)

Since my friends also had 2 kids, not everything could be spicy. This tofu with salted egg yolk was not very visually appealing, but it was WONDERFUL with steamed rice. Until now I still have dreams of the tofu. It's a must try.

Again, another non-spicy dish for the kids. This dish was called wa wa cai (I think wa wa means doll). Decent, standard, unexciting.

The ma po to fu was good! Spicy, but not overly so, and tasty. Very good with steamed rice, but just a tad oily.

The best dish was the chicken wings with dried chilli, which is a variation of La Zi Ji. The chicken wings were chopped up into half and fried with the dried chilli/sichuan peppercorns mixture. It wasn't overly hot, and was really tasty. Again, good with steamed rice.

Including drinks (a jug of sour plum tea), the entire bill came up to about RMB 180 (which is about S$40) - really good value for money, in a nice restaurant and really good food.

Spice Spirit S2-30, The Village at Sanlitun, Sanlitun Lu, Chaoyang district

Tel: 86-10-6413 2903

Open 11am-11pm daily.