Tastebud : Lilla Kina (2nd time)

8 April 2025

Second time in Lilla Kina today. Chinese food today which has spicy sichuan pepper. I am finding it difficult to enjoy Chinese food now when there is sichuan involved. I don't understand how the food is enjoyed when it is spicy and tongue-numbing. I don't think I will be visiting a Chinese restaurant for some time after this visit. 

During my first time in 2022, I found the food yummy as it was new to me and I had Chinese food rarely. Today, we had starters - Small portion of marinated beef and tripe (cow's stomach) in Sichuan chili oil SEK99, and two main dishes - Braised pork and bean sprouts in a strong Sichuan soup SEK188 and Wok with tofu and marinated egg yolk SEK188. A bowl of rice costs SEK20 each. In 2022, it costed SEK15. I had a glass of hot water and it costed me SEK15! I was shocked. I have never paid for a glass of water, cold or hot, before in any Chinese restaurant. So, I will not be coming back here again. 

The small portion of starters. It was a really small portion. I put my fingers to show how small the plate is. This dish has one chilli on the menu and it was not spicy. It is a cold dish.

Braised pork and bean sprouts in Sichuan soup. The menu showed two chillis and my boyfriend was adamant to have it. So, he sweated a lot eating it. I took a front view of the dish as I always find it deceiving that the bowl is wide at the top but narrowed down sharply. It does not look like the portion is a lot.

The tofu with egg yolk balanced out the spicyness of the spicy Sichuan soup.

Tastebud : Winner House

6 April 2025

Lunch at Winner House. We chose this place because my boyfriend was so hungry from the day before and I suggested a Chinese restaurant as we can share several dishes. I saw Winner House on the map and asked him what it served. Yay - Chinese food, he said! So, we walked there. We were in luck as many Chinese and other Chinese-looking customers started to roll in 30 minutes later. I took it as a good sign that the food here was good. We received menu in Chinese as I am the Chinese-looking customer while my boyfriend received a similar menu with English translation. Unfortunately, I cannot read Chinese so I relied on my boyfriend's menu. 

We received complimentary starters - 5 small fried vegetarian spring rolls, and a basket of prawn chips (finished it before I took a photo! Haha!). We ordered honey roasted pork SEK198, scallion chicken SEK168 and pork bao SEK68. It includes rice. 

The food was DELICIOUS! And the price is affordable too. I could taste the smokiness from the roasted pork and the pork was served on bean sprouts. The scallion in the scallion chicken dish was mixed with ginger and garlic paste. Yummy! The chicken reminded me of Hainanese chicken rice with its white flesh. The pork in the pork bao was nothing exceptional compared to the other dishes. I enjoyed thoroughly all the dishes. 

We received complimentary dessert too - chrysanthemum tea, a small bowl of red bean syrup, fried bread with custard sauce as dip. They are so generous. How lovely to get a nutritious cup of chrysanthemum tea. It was my first time having red bean syrup in Stockholm! 

When I got home, I researched on the restaurant and found out it was a Cantonese restaurant which explains why there was no sichuan dish in the menu.