眷湘Easterly Santa Clara

Traditional hunan cuisine from China, the steamed fish head is pretty good.

A.decent Chinese restaurant in the Rivermark featuring Hunan cuisine, a type of spicy and savory Chinese regional cuisine. Hunan cuisine differs from Sichuan in that the latter also uses the Sichuan peppercorns that makes your tongue tingle and numb. I remember going to this restaurant several years ago when they first opened in the Bay Area (now they have expanded to four locations) and the food was spicy and memorable. This time it seemed to me the quality of their foods have gone downhill. We ordered pork stirfry with chili peppers, Chinese yam and wood ear fungus stir fry, a new dish the waitress recommended with bony duck pieces stir fired with duck blood and chili peppers, and a sheep tripe mushroom soup. The pork in the stirfry was too dry (did not seem fresh) and they used bell peppers instead of the authentic green chili peppers. This dish, unfortunately, did not taste like authentic Hunan food at all. The duck blood dish was very unusual, but it had too many bones and very little duck meat. The mushroom soup, not enough wild mushrooms, but too much bamboo shoots that seemed to have come from a can. For better spicy Chinese foods, in the future I will go to other restaurants in Cupertino instead.

Good taste and service

食物好吃，辣度可以客製化調整。 服務親切，環境乾淨。 非常推薦的餐廳！

Vegetarian options: Griddle fried tofu - spicy, vegetable fried rice.

Too salty and spicy for me. Always feel thirsty after eating Hunan dishes.