Yummy Sichuan Is Worth the Drive to Flower Mound

Comfortable elegance. Casual formality. Familiar and foreign. It's difficult to situate Yummy Sichuan. On the surface, it's like any other Chinese restaurant that sits at the corner of busy intersections in the North Texas suburbs. The menu has plenty of popular Chinese dishes, like orange chicken, fried rice and lo mein with a variety of meat options. It mainly serves the diverse population of the surrounding communities, which, in this case, are the neighborhoods of Flower Mound, Lewisville and Highland Village. A huge rush of takeout orders around lunch and dinner time outpaces the dine-in orders. This is a familiar story for neighborhood Chinese eateries.

Most Chinese restaurants scattered throughout the broader North Texas area provide little reason for diners to go out of the way to visit them. However, let’s make one thing clear: it would be a mistake not to drive to Flower Mound to eat at Yummy Sichuan. The kitchen here undoubtedly serves some of the best Sichuan (or Szechuan) dishes in North Texas.

Yummy Sichuan does not have the caché that some of the more popular Dallas-area Chinese restaurants have: it doesn’t advertise hand-pulled noodles or specialize in dumplings (though the dumplings and pot stickers are delicious); it isn't dedicated to hot pot or dim sum.
What is here is a large menu of damn good Sichuan Chinese entrées. Alongside plates of fried rice, sweet and sour chicken and eggrolls are authentic dishes like sweet roast duck, spicy garlic pork feet, dried pork intestine hot pot, Sichuan cumin lamb and pepper and salt squid.

On our most recent visit, we fell somewhere between the standard and the adventurous. We tried the mushrooms in an iron wok, a dried hot pot with lamb, dried chili fish fillets and the Yu Shan eggplant. In prior visits, we’ve tried a range of other entries. Whether you order the mapo tofu, boiled fish in hot Sichuan sauce, dried chilli chicken or Sichuan cumin lamb, we can confidently say that you will not leave Yummy Sichuan disappointed or with an empty stomach.
Everything we have tried from Yummy Sichuan has excited our taste buds, our mouthfeel and our sense of smell. The aromas are alluring. The textures of individual components are just right. The flavors are robust.

The décor of Yummy Sichuan can be confusing. The walls are white, as are the tablecloths, and the dining area may seem a little bare at first glance. However, there is more than what meets the uncareful eye. The dining area is exceptionally clean and tidy, the flowers are well placed, the walls are adorned with impressionist and abstract art. The clientele is similarly filled with contradictions: from sports t-shirts and jerseys to pressed button-ups and slacks, and everything in between. You can also hear a variety of languages on busy nights.

People gather at Yummy Sichuan for a comfortable night out, as well as for large, formal family dinners. Whatever your reason, just go try Yummy Sichuan. Make up an excuse if you truly need one.

2221 Cross Timbers Rd, Suite 129. Daily, 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.