They have mantis shrimp right now as a wall special, either in a salt and pepper version or a spicy mala version.
I’ve never had mantis shrimp before, but it’s mention on another thread piqued my curiosity. I got the spicy version.
The meat was super juicy and absorbed charred chili and Sichuan peppercorns flavor—- I’d order this over Chongqing Chicken any day. For a non-Sichuan restaurant, they continue to impress me with their use of high quality Sichuan ingredients, Sichuan peppercorns in this case, ya cai in their admirable Dan Dan noodles.
Do people eat the whole mantis shrimp head to tail, Shell and all? I needed to suck and scavenge for meat in the tail, which I found to have too thick/pointy a shell to swallow.
