Super Three Restaurant 巴山蜀水 @ All Saints, London - Genuine Sichuan Cuisine

If you think that Sichuan cuisine is Kong Pow Chicken and anything with a lot of chillies, then Super Three restaurant, 巴山蜀水 might be able to teach you a thing or two. Their genuine Sichuan chef dished out some exotic combinations I had never seen before.

碧绿肉松卷 Dark Green Meat Floss Rolls: The cucumber rolls topped with a thin slice of omelette filled with shredded pork meat remind you a lot of sushi in form and taste, in my case a full success, since I am a sushiholic. I would live off the stuff, if my wallet could take it. Anyway, I digress. The rolls were a succulent combination of sweet and savoury, crunchy and soft, a very light dish. 

Dark Green Meatfloss Rolls

冷锅鱼 Cold Pot Fish: This dish is very easily confused with Sichuan poached sliced fish in hot chili oil 水煮鱼. As the chef will tell you, there is a difference in spices in addition to the preparation. This dish is brought to the table cold. The flame is switched on at the table and it slowly cooks the fish in front of your eyes. It also has many more of the infamous Sichuan peppercorns than its brother. There is no way you can get through this meal without getting a numb mouth. I did find the taste slighlty different to my surprise, it tasted more fragrant and diverse compared to the hot chili oil fish, which does tend to be slighty overpowered by the taste of chili. 

Cold Pot Fish

橙汁冬瓜 Wintermelon with Orange Juice: Super Three has this special dish on offer, an unexpected combination of cold winter melon soaked in orange juice is sweet and tangy, crunchy and juicy. Definitely a surprising combination of ingredients, I could not quite make my mind up about this dish.

Wintermelon with Orange Juice

白灵菇扒菜心 Mushrooms with Chinese Cabbage: This was probably the most unspectacular dish ingredient- wise but the taste was truly exceptional. It just stood out from the spicy dishes and the oily ones. The mushrooms we were told are from Tibet, I am still not sure whether that was what made the whole ensemble so delicious. Seasoned perfectly it was light and fresh but not bland. 

Mushrooms with Chinese Cabbage

This is just a small selection of Super Three's offer. If you are of the more adventurous type you can get beef tripe and tongue. I can also recommend the pumpkin cakes 南瓜饼 with evaporated milk dip as dessert.

Pumpkin Cake

Beef Tongue

A visit to Super Three 巴山蜀水 will leave you around £20 poorer, which is a little cheaper than Chinatown. However, the problem with this restaurant is getting there. Located at All Saints DLR there is no direct tube connection and a lot of changing lines involved, unless you live there already. Still, I found it worth a visit. Just book a table, I have heard it can get quite busy.

Super Three 巴山蜀水

207 East India Dock Road

London E14 0ED

Tel: 02075158700