Chef-owner Aishan 'Damao' Zhong built the menu around her hometown of Chengdu — bold chili heat, Szechuan peppercorn numbness, pork dumplings, and hand-cut noodles done the way she grew up eating them, not the Americanized version most menus default to.
It's worth seeking out specifically for Chengdu street food that's genuinely hard to find elsewhere in Chicago.
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