Chengdu Impression - Edgewater
Chengdu Impression - Edgewater
Pork fried rice
Shrimp shumai. Steamed beautifully.
Salt and pepper pork. Bones in every bite. Take it home because it's not good for eating in front of other people.
Sesame Balls - The most DELICIOUS!!!
Sichuan wonton aka the perfect bite!!
Top: Sichuan Wonton Bottom: Twice Cooked Pork W. Pancake
Sichuan ice jelly. Comes with a sweet syrup to adjust to your liking!
Tong Choy - aka water spinach, delicious with a subtle flavor and crunch.
food, bbq ribs, ribs
Vegetable side
Crab Rangoon. No individual dipping sauce, but works well with the duck sauce and hot mustard
outside
Big open restaurant
interior
Ye Er Ba - glutinous rice balls stuffed with spiced pork filling
food, dessert
Side of rice
interior
Good food the Chengdu Style Dry Chili Chiken was spicy
drink, soups and chowder
pancakes, food
General Tso's chicken. Too sweet. Not spicy. But great steamed broccoli.
Ma la fish, double-cooked pork, eggplant with ground pork
Sweet and sour chicken
Wayne D.
Mar 8, 2024
Excited to see chengdu impression came to edgewater. Came here for the northside restaurant week. 25$ per person for a big amount of food. Ordered xiao long bao: pretty good flavor. Not too sweet. Juicy and tender meat in it. Skin's not too thick also. Sichuan Dumpling: love this! Great flavor. Not too spicy and good amount of meat. Sichuan Boiled fish: not traditional boiled fish as it's more oily and less water. So it gets kinda mushy. I guess maybe they tried to squeeze it in a medium sized bowl. But the flavor's good. Fish is very tender. I would recommend it. Chili chicken: I asked mild spicy and it's perfect. Slightly crunchy and tight meat insideHad mochi ice cream just the right amount of chewy.Not very busy on a Friday night but they have lots of take out orders so the food does not come very fast. Staff's nice. Pretty big venue with lots of Chinese decor.
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Moose M.
Aug 7, 2024
Fantastic Szechuan food. Big selection of dishes large and small. Very good service. My favorite Chinese in Chicago for Sichuan food. Highly recommend.
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Jody S.
Jul 20, 2024
The chicken and vegetables were just ok very little flavor. The service was awful. We had 5 people and each dish came out 15 minutes after each person received their food. I was the last one served I think they forgot about me and everyone was already finished. Very expensive for small portion we got and stale cookies at the end. Will not return.
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Joseph M.
Jan 28, 2024
I ordered the dan dan noodles, spicy wontons, and a side of white rice. The food is decent and not for those who are sensitive to spicy cuisine. And these dishes are supposed to be mild! They give you a pretty generous amount of noodles for a reasonable price. And if you add a side of white rice for $1.50 then you will be end up really full. So I think it's a pretty good value. I just wish the noodles were a little thicker, though. Like I already mentioned, the food is alright and worth trying out if you are into Chinese food of the spicy variety.
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Shih C.
Apr 1, 2023
Opened six months ago, this is Chengdu's 3rd location in the Edgewater neighborhood serving Szechuan cuisine. The interior is spacious and simply decorated with a couple of pieces of art on the walls. The chairs and napkins are in popular red in Chinese culture. Depending on who you ask, red symbolizes power, celebration, luck, joy, and even happiness. My family ordered a few dishes to take home over the phone. The person who took my order was very pleasant and friendly. I enjoyed a great deal of the dishes. Here are the dishes we ordered.Garlic pork (cold appetizer) - although it was quite good, it lacked fresh garlic. The portion is large compared to other Szechuan restaurants I've been to. Fu Qi Fei Pian (cold appetizer) - a mixture of sliced beef and tendon tossed in chili oil. It was flavorful and delicious.Twice-cooked pork - tender pork cooked with leek and peppercorn. I loved the flavor of the pork. It was perfectly cooked.Dry chili chicken - unlike others I've tried before, Chengdu's version had a perfect balance of chicken and chili. I loved the crunchiness of the chicken that was deep-fried and then tossed in dry chili and chili oil. It was my favorite dish of the meal.MaPo tofu - very, very good! The thick sauce had a hint of peppercorn but not overpowering. It was perfect with steamed rice.I can't speak for other locations, however, this one is BYOB. There is parking on nearby residential streets if you are lucky. Otherwise, pay street parking on busy Broadway Street is the only option that can be challenging.Highly recommend! I'd order again.
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Hannah E.
Oct 5, 2023
This is one of those places where you really need to order right to experience what they're good at. And what they're good at (unsurprisingly given the name, and their specials list) is spicy, numbing-and-hot-peppered Sichuan style dishes. This is not the place for orange chicken or xiao long bao or basically anything that isn't accompanied by a picture under the 'specials' list on the menu (or in RED on their online menu). The things they choose to highlight, they choose to highlight for a reason.So that being said, I really enjoyed the:- diced rabbit, a cold dish covered in hot bean chili sauce and peanuts. It has bones (everywhere) so be careful.- cumin lamb. Okay, this is more of a (further) Western style Chinese dish really, but they do it justice.- green peppercorn fish. Let the bowl sit for a minute so the flavor can soak into the fillets. At some restaurants, the liquid is oil and you probably shouldn't drink it. Here it is broth, so go nuts.The classic boiled fish, Sichuan style, tasted different than it might usually, but it had kind of the same flavor as a dry chili chicken might (I'd like to try their version of that next time I go back).Their eggplant is okay but not to the level of outstanding that Sichuan places can achieve. Same with the Mapo tofu. They claim it is very spicy but it barely burns at all.
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Andrew P.
Sep 6, 2023
Not impressed with my last take out order from this place. I used to LOVE Chengdu Aroma off of Clark and Belmont, but unfortunately they closed down last year, and I've found Chengdu Impression to be the next best option when looking for Szechuan in this area. I've never found them to be quite as good as Chengdu Aroma, but good enough to return. I ordered the Fu Qi fei Pian 夫妻肺片 & dry chili chicken. The Fu Qi Fei Pian was decent. Not the best I've ever had, but it was good. The dry chili chicken on the other hand was not good at all. It tasted like it had been sitting out for a while, and not a lot of flavor. The spice level was also severely lacking. I'm not sure if this location has changed their spice levels to potentially accommodate the demographic in the area, but I was very disappointed. Since I've ordered before, and it wasn't this bad, I feel like a 3 star review is sufficient, but I may try them again in hopes that it was just a bad night that I ordered from them.
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Michele W.
Jun 23, 2024
Extremely, deeply, exaggeratedly high sodium content. Burnt tofu, greasy sauce. Had high hopes. I ate 10 percent of my dishes, told the server,no response, got fully charged. Please don't support these types of businesses... Let the better places receive our money. Really. Worst Asian food I've ever had.
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Thomas K.
Jul 23, 2024
First time I ordered from this place, the food was great. The Dan Dan noodles were perfect, the fried rice was well made and not oily. We had the egg roll that was good and the small pork dumplings. I will return soon.
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A F.
Jul 17, 2024
I ordered delivery for the first time to try out this restaurant and I loved the food so much I had to leave a review asap! I ordered the dry chili chicken, zhong's dumplings, and the Yibin flaming noodle all three dishes were outstanding. The dry chili chicken was my favorite. It was so flavorful and just the right level of spicy. Even the fortune cookies they included were delicious. I'm looking forward to trying out more dishes in the future
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