"I lived in China for five years and enjoy Sichuan food as a favorite cuisine. I've given up finding an authentic Sichuan restaurant in the Boston area but I have to give Sichuan Garden an A for effort. The food is generally too salty but some of the dishes are quite right. For for the most part, the spices and flavors are spot on. Here is what I ordered:

1) Sichuan wontons in spicy soup: flavor was perfect but wontons were too doughy

2) Dandan noodles: A bit too dry and the serving was too large but the taste was excellent

3) Shui zhu rou: Water pork which was not on the menu but they made it for me, substituting pork instead of meat. I think they called it Braised beef with cabbage. It was excellent.

4) Laziji: off the special Sichuan menu. In China, its a plate of chilies with diced chicken bones. You chew a bit of meat off the bone and spit the bone onto the table. In Brookline, its pieces of deep fried chicken with a fair amount of peppers around it. BTW, you do NOT eat the peppers. They are there during cooking to flavor the chicken. Anyway, I am not a big deep fry person but I recognized that it is impossible to serve a plate of bones in the USA. They did a fair job to create a dish that has many of the same characteristics.

5) I wanted Gan niu rou or Dry Beef but they didn't have it. The waiter suggested some beef dish with lots of peppers. Spicy green ones, not the deadly kind in the Laziji. The dish, whatever it was, was excellent. Never had it in China but very good in Brookline.

And my son ordered: Brocolli with garlic sauce which he liked a lot.

This was a guys night out. My 12-year-old who grew up in China and me. We both blew our noses about a half a dozen times each. Other than too salty, the meal was excellent.

The owner said to ask for less salt, so I'll definitely go back."