Neo Szechuan

We are from California and just got to Albuquerque for the 2024 balloon festival. We were craving Chinese before all the Mexican we are going to eat. We found this place and are very very happy with the delicious fresh hot food. The restaurant is clean and well lit and the owner server was so friendly and efficient. We wish this place was in our home town. Definitely will come back here if in town again. All six dishes were spicy hot and seasoned perfectly. Loved it. Please try this family owned business

The food was meh. Gloppy and uninspired. The smoke from the next door BBQ place was unappealing.

Went back for another try, left quite disappointed.Nanjing Salted Duck - 2/5 I was able to eat a few pieces of this, but it seemed like quite a poor representation of the dish. This dish is supposed to be salted with Chinese pepper corns, anise and other spices. This one tasted solely of salt. No one else in my party wanted a second piece after trying it.Wor Wonton Soup - 1/5 Wor wonton soup is a wonton soup with "everything" in it. This one contained extra chicken, broccoli, cabbage, and a bit of shrimp. Unfortunately the broth was rather unpleasant. My partner, who did not have any of the chicken, found it unpleasantly salty as well.Seafood Bean Curd Soup - 3/5 A thickened soup with a seafood base, egg, and small bits of tofu. Plain and hearty. I enjoyed this one, but also found it slightly too salty.Beef Chow Fun - 3/5 A fairly standard representation of this dish. Thick flat noodles in brown sauce. Good, but my party also found this too salty.Although we didn't even come close to finishing the duck, the amount of salt in the food hit us so hard that we took a 4 hour nap afterwards and woke up still tasting salt. Not a good sign.

Love this place. Deliciousness served in a friendly efficient way. So much flavor.

Love the food they serve. Staff is always attentive to their customers. Only downside is the BBQ smell from next door. Makes it a little difficult to sit down and eat sometimes.

Food was very good, service was pretty good, prices were a little high. The thing that I didn't like was a fly that bothered us throughout the meal with no acknowledgement by the server. Also there was loud shouting in the kitchen. The food alone would be 4.5 stars.

Wow ! Short review: Outstanding real Szechuan dishes as well as amazingly prepared Chinese family favorites! Long review/love letter to NEO: We use DoorDash a lot! Last night's DoorDash's algorithm served up NEO Szechuan to us. We'd never heard of the place. So I take a menu peek. I have been searching ABQ for my husband's & my 2 fave Szechuan dishes and WOW Neo had them & perfectly Szechuan spicy! The 2 Szechuan dishes we could never findDouble Cooked Pork(Neo lists as 25. Double Cooked Pork with Cabbage / 回鍋肉 Dry Cooked Chicken(Neo lists as 38. Spicy Fried Chicken / 辣辣子鸡)PERFECTION! Tasted just like everytime we ate these 2 dishes in some tiny restaurant in a big city Chinatown (with friends who could read the non-English menus) AMAZING! As for the traditional Chinese takeout family faves I can say Neo's were prolly the best I've had in ABQ in my "whoa I order waaaaaaay too much takeout" humble opinion. 37. Orange Chicken / 陳皮雞 was the best I've had in years! And I have tried a lot here in ABQ! Big serving (not sure if the spice level is a bit too hot for kiddos but we loved it) 4. Fried Dumplings / 鍋貼 (potstickers) were among the best in town but the BEST find for us was 5. Spicy Chili Shrimp Pork Wonton / 紅油炒手 Insanely awesome! Like a happy steamed floppy potsticker mixing pork & shrimp in some incredible chili oil sauce! Droooool Perfectly super spicy And yes. This was a Doordash order DELIVERED! On a Wednesday night. SPECTACULAR! Neo is now our go-to place! Who knows maybe we'll actual visit the amazing NEO in person sometime. psSorry I only got a pic of the OUTSTANDING Orange Chicken (we snarfed so much fast )

Service was nice kind and respectful owners, restaurant was clean and well lit, unfortunately the food left a lot to be desired as it was bland and the meat was chewy on my pepper steak, my Partners kung pao chicken looked gray and tasted awful. The egg drop soup tasted foul like it was cooked with city water! Would not recommend.

I like Neo Szechuan! It' one of the very few places in ABQ that I can count that actually offer authentic Chinese food! Sure, I can always have American Chinese food...but..once in a while...a spot deep inside of me..calls for something not super sweet ..and actually flavorful! That's where Neo Szechuan can come in.You can tell it's authentic by the fact that some of the specials on the menu are written in Chinese language. Now, that's confidence.beacuse only people familiar witth Chinese food would know how to read/what to expect!I had their Salt and Pepper Shrimp and Singapore noodles (sidetrack...which...actually originated in Hong Kong..not Singapore) and thought both dishes tasted wonderful! Full of spices that I had been wanting! I would have them again in a heartbeat..but maybe..next time..to try some other dishes like the dry szechuan hot pot,etc!Overall, great places for sure. It takes a while to get your food..but it's worth waiting. The only thing is...the prices aren't low either. It's definitely more expensive than what I was expecting. However, given the quality + taste...I give them a thumbs up! I can't think of many places that can do better authentic Chinese people than they do at Neo Szechuan!

This is me and my man's favorite spot! Especially after the gym. Everything we get is always super delicious! Also the service is always amazing and everyone is so attentive and sweet. Super chill place but they also have a karaoke room which looks super fun! Can't go wrong with this place.