Szechuan Restaurant

The buffet is mediocre at best. Lots of fried food and entrees heavily coated with sauces. Perfect for BIG eaters. There were lots of heavies feeding like it was their last supper. Asian Fast Food without the bun and fries. Don’t waste your time unless you’re a junk food lover.

I’m not going to beat around the bush about this place. I have lived all over the United States and always try Chinese food in the area in which I live. By far the worst Chinese food I have ever tasted. I tried their dine in service and the setting was not bad but the service was awful. The food didn’t have any flavor and was very generic. As if they pulled it out of a freezer and threw it in the microwave. I thought I would try again to see if the first experience was a fluke because I heard many good reviews… but the same. Don’t waste your time or money. Overpriced crap I wouldn’t feed to my dog.

I was hesitated to go to Szechuan restaurant because of the reviews. Craving for some ducks, and one of my coworker have said some good things about the restaurant, my fiancé and I went there to try.
The restaurant seems pretty clean and fancier than the average Chinese restaurant, and I guess of course that comes with the price, I agree with everyone’s rating on that, it’s definitely a $$ restaurant.
Service was very good. As soon as we walked in, a staff greet us, and before ordering anything (not even order a drink yet), they already poured us water, and offer us carry out plastic bag after noticing I am carrying a box for leftovers.
We ordered a half order of Peking duck, and an order of beef lo mein.
The Peking duck looks fancy! Have some fancy flowers made with vegetables for decoration. And most of all, it tastes pretty good, skin is crunchy, with some meat under, sliced just like it supposed to be, with green onion, some sauce and steamed pancake on the side. Yummmmm! Taste pretty good, similar to what I remember when I had it in Hong Kong! However, I would prefer my duck abit fatter
Oh and the Peking duck comes with a huge bowl of rice too. The server even offer to wrap the Peking duck with the pancake for you!
The lo mein was pretty good as well, give you plenty of beef, and it was tender. The lo mein noodles seems to be smaller in circumference than I used to have, and I actually like that better!
Good portion!
Will definitely come back again! :)

Service was excellent, food was on point. All the staff there were very friendly and nice. The service was quick and professional. The food portions were very well worth the price (may look expensive but is considered cheap for the portion and the type/​quality of the dish). I ordered 3 dishes for myself and another to share and it was enough the feed the both of us for another meal. The quality of the food was very presentable and can only have positive words said about it. This restaurant is very unique in a way that it does not feel like the typical Chinese restaurant where the looks and feels of the restaurant seems to be «run-​down». This restaurant looks very clean and modern with Chinese designs. Overall, there were no negatives to comment on this restaurant and the only thing I would say is that I wish I found out about this place earlier and that I would definitely be coming back.

I was visiting family at Lewis Gale Hospital across the street and thought this would be a good quick meal. I could not have been more wrong. To start I ordered a tea which never showed up and only had water for the whole meal. I wanted to get general Tso shrimp for lunch and was told I could only get it in a dinner portion. I went ahead and got the dinner portion, thinking it was usually big enough for me to split into two meals. When it arrived it was smaller than the lunch portions that the rest of my party ordered. The shrimp were small and tough, the sauce was flavorless and the rice was mushy.
If you ever find yourself at Lewis Gale and want something close to eat, I would recommend going to the hospital cafeteria and getting the $ 4 cup of cottage cheese.

Oh my, what a decline and what a horrid place. While I can’t imagine Chinese food being interpreted worse than this I can attest that what I ate was no where near Chinese but most importantly it was no where near food.
We came and found that they had a buffet. While usually not a problem, this buffet was a cold one even for the supposed hot foods.
Do not bother trying this place. Enough said!

I came to Roanoke for a business trip, and was craving some good Chinese. Unfortunately, there isn’t much choice around these parts. I just asked the front desk for a recommendation and crossed my fingers. Well, TL;DR, this place is probably good for people who don’t know what real Chinese food is or those who prefer Americanized Chinese food, but it’s extremely disappointing otherwise.
There is 0% Real Sichuan food here. They don’t even use the characteristic tongue numbing lemony Sichuan peppercorn that is characteristic of the cuisine. Also Sichuan food is supposed to be spicy. I even specifically asked for extra spicy and told them to underline «MAKE-​ME-​CRY-​AND-​SWEAT-​EXTRA SPICY» on the order a lot of times so the kitchen gets the point. It didn’t even tingle my tongue… I was so sad. I got shrimp, which was the best out of the lot I ordered. The broccoli with garlic was sweet like candy… Chinese food isn’t supposed to be sweet. The soup tasted like it was made with water, boiled veggies and tofu, and thickened with cornstarch. There was steamed rice too. I guess that was pretty good. It’s hard to mess up rice.

Steer away!
Steer away!
I am not one to usually write reviews but this place pushed me to do so!!! I went to place a carry out and after feeling rushed to place my order I was told they don’t have any sauces or salt to hand out for carry out. Food tasted sweet when it was suppose to be salty and they gave me 1 rice for 2 different entrees small quantities of meat that costed me $ 13.95 per dish and it was all mushy. Also once I arrived to the hospital I realized they didn’t put any cutlery with my meal is it not standard to not place cutlery with carry out order ??? I def would not recommend this place to anyone!!! Pooooor Choice!

It seems that the consensus is correct on this one! I certainly would eat here again! The food is awful!

Positives: inexpensive lunch buffet, fast refills, tasy garlic potatoes, buddhists delight, and a good variety of dishes and soup in the buffet. Negatives: Every hot dish in the buffet included MSG, per management, nothing spectacular in the buffet, same ‘ol atmosphere, only iceberg lettuce for salad.

This was the second time I have eaten here and it was better this time although underwelming. The first time I went to Szechuan the server was a little odd and the food was king of boring. I had the duck and I LOVE duck but it was very so-​so. This time around I had ordered the Scechuan pork with an indication that it was a spicey dish so I had my hopes up to break out into a sweat on a cold Virginia night. To my disapointment it was very mild. Taste was okay and service was better this time around. The one good thing I have to say about them is they are affordable (so I don’t feel so bad about having a not so great meal, twice). I guess I should venture out further from the hotel next time I’m in Salem.