Szechuan Bean Flower

MOVED TO ISSAQUAH!!! Still a great place — just opened up today

Gone, but not forgotten. Anybody know if owners went somewhere else?

So long szechuan bean flower! you were appreciated in a neighborhood full of mediocre chinese food.

This place is closed :(SO sad. I tried to go the other day and it has been replaced. Couldn’t bring myself to try the food since I would feel like a complete traitor.

**** RESTAURANT CLOSED ****
Phone not working at least… seems closed.

this is a place you dont go for the atmoshpere, but you stay for the crispy smoked duck. my girlfriend is fanatical about there fish and tofu dish that comes out in a large glass pie dish all hot and bubbly. the past few times she has asked for a veg too they have had simple suateed pea vines and garlic that rock. there handmade noodles are a bit chewt but still very tasty. oh and there chun king chicken is freakin awesome.
the prices are very cheap and the wait staff friendly.

Holy hangover food.
I am super picky about my chinese food. So when I got their flyer in the mail in val-​pak I was intrigued. They claim to use no MSG or canned food so for me this is a plus. Usually I say screw it, I’m eating chinese food so all bets for health are off, but this place actually seems to make an effort to now slowly poison you.
I called on a sunday morning after a night of partying fairly hard. Their family dinner for 2 was exactly what I wanted. Fried rice, bbq pork, sweet and sour chicken, chow mein, soup, fortune cookies, and… fried crab and cream cheese won-​tons. How did they know these were my favorite?
The lady on the phone was nice, and so was the delivery driver. They are also located on aurora and me near golden gardens, and they took only about 35 – 40 minutes. Love.

This is a restaurant you go with a several other people because the likelihood that you don’t like your dish but you like theirs is higher than usual. Hit or miss dishes really but when there’s a hit… you’re on the floor worshiping the cook.
Therefore…the hits (hopefully the names are correct): eggplant in sweet sauce, stir fried green beans, spicy fish, & seaweed appetizer.

make it spicy please…
so here is how it started. I took aurora and thought to myself… hmmmm I remember reading a review about this place and have been meaning to go try it out. since I don’t eat meat on Fridays for personal reasons…. so that limits me… hmmm interesting… what to eat. so I thought to myself let me ask the lady. so I did. I got hand shaven noodles with shrimp, and hot and spicy shrimp. again. not spicy enough with too much chili peppers… where did the flavor go? maybe it’s the area and they didn’t want to overload me with too much spice. but i wanted it to be a little bit more flavorful with a little bit of burn… :(sad. but the portions were pretty good and it tasted a little bit too americanized for me. and I wish that it more authentic. :(sad sad sad… why do you tease me with authentic type menu but not authentic flavors???

This place started out a 4 star for me. Large portions of great authentic cuisine at incredible prices. The wait staff was friendly and once they realized we were adventurous eaters, made lots of excellent recommendations for dishes we might not have known about otherwise (from the secret written in Chinese section of the menu).
However, sometime this year we started noticing that the dishes we did order frequently which were usually rock solid were starting to fluctuate in quality. My girlfriend was ready to give up on them 3 or 4 meals back but I kept insisting we give them another chance. The take out meal we got tonight, unfortunately, will be the last meal I eat from Szechuan Bean Flower.
I asked the waiter about what seasonal vegetables they had. He offered Chinese broccoli in oyster sauce, which I happen to love. So we ordered that, large Hot & Sour Soup, Hand Shaved Noodles with Pork, and from the special board: Szechuan Pickled Pepper Chicken. The Hand Shaved Noodles were the only dish they got right.
The Hot & Sour soup was way under-​seasoned needing either a decent broth or salt and soy sauce. The peppers in the Szechuan Pickled Pepper chicken were not pickled at all, just stir fried julienned jalapeos. And lastly, the Chinese broccoli I was so looking forward to turned out to be regular old broccoli with carrots swimming in a container of super salty dark garlic sauce.
Thanks to Ben B. for posting where the original owners moved. Looks like it’s Lynnwood or the ID next time I get a craving for Szechuan.

So my two favorite places in Seattle are Sichuanese Cuisine (lao sichuan) in Chinatown and this place. They both cook really authentic Sichuan food. Sichuanese cuisine has better Hui Guo Ro (twice cooked pork) and Kong Xin Cai (hollow heart vegetable). This place has better Fu Qi Fei Pian (cold beef dish) and Dou Hua (bean curd). I highly recommend this place. Also, the original owners of bean flower have moved to Lynnwood and opened Sichuan 99. I haven’t been there yet but I’d be willing to be the food is awesome.

Bean Flour has a great hot pot offering that evokes memories of a trip to Hong Kong. You get heaps of vegetables and shaved meat to dip in «standard» (and slightly bland) broth and a much spicier and preferred kettle of fire. Other Chinese standard dishes are HUGE. All of their food is quite cheap for what you get. Lunch is pretty standard and a bit overcooked, albeit still cheap. Dinner is the vastly preferred meal here.
They win no points or lots of points for the décor: a mix of utilitarian and diner. In other words, there is no atmosphere here at all to distract you from your food and/​or company.