Maison Szechuan - Gatineau, Quebec

Ordered through Uber. Extremely basic Chinese food. 2 stars if you’re comparing to Ottawa Chinese food and 3 stars for Gatineau . Chicken balls half the size they usually are. almond guy ding 2 pieces of chicken and no sauce and lastly the fried rice was not fried very basic.

Was a very delicious experience, they have 3 menus, one may say, too many. One is the typical Westernize Chinese with Sechuan influences. A Second is a more authentic menu all in Chinese. All you can eat menu is a more limited selection of the westernized Chinese menu of smaller plates in an ... all you can eat format. 3 to 4 dishes will usually satisfy me and an other but appetites vary, start small and reorder. Everything was very tasty and freshly made, the lemon chicken surprised me, I often see that it's one dish with many diffrent sauces but not here. One chicken dish is dark meat while an other might be white, General Toa chicken might be cubes and lemon chicken more matchstick, this added to the crispiness and was not too sweet if that makes sense considering. The service was on point and bilingual English/French on arrival but also Mandarin as soon as we showed any sense of fluency. We really enjoyed our experience and instead of ordering, might drive down next time. The price was about the same with a larger choice of dishes. Read more

I like it so much ☺️ the food and service are very good. The waitress and the waiter Gullaume are nice and polite.

Pretty nice Chinese cuisine! Staff were super friendly and politely. We had a great time dining here.

We traveled from Ottawa here in hope trying some authentic Sichuan food. We were not disappointed. The food was good as well as the service. I am really happy to see that there are still chefs who are passionate about introducing authentic Sichuan food to everyone. Some notes for the owner: I ... did find the food way too oily though. I am no stranger to Sichuan food, by the very contrast, I grew up eating Chengdu food. But even for me the oil in every dish we ordered can suffocated me. I didn’t feel well after finishing the meal. I walked in the neighbourhood trying to digest the heaviness in my stomach right after the meal, but I felt that I needed at least 2 hours of workout to get fully “recovered”. Other than that, as a person who always prefers food with less salt, I surprisingly found my dishes were lack of salt. I am not sure if it was just for that day or it has always been like that. The waitress served us with salt right after we asked, it is just a tiny detail that a chef might pay more attention to though. And I think the cucumbers in our dish Suanni Bairou would taste much yummy if they were buried underneath the meat. Last but not least, compared with Sichuan restaurants in Ottawa, it’s much pricey. We ordered two dishes and it cost us nearly 70 bucks, which almost doubled what we paid in other Sichuan restaurants in Ottawa. We feel it’s still worth it. Just a note here for others who are curious about the cost. In general, it’s a quite a good experience for us. We didn’t drive 40 mins here for nothing. I am told the chef is a Cantonese, and he did a decent job cooking Sichuan food. I also hope there can be more options, at least including some really classical Sichuan dishes like salad chicken and Fuqi Feipian, which are both missing from the menu. How could that be possible?!?! Read more