Hunan Bistro

January 2025 Great values but with limited seating. Pretty flavorful selection and a small but busy place. This restaurant is a destination for many thus serve up some great food. We ordered the lamb and fish soup which was a great comfort meal for a January cool day. The hot soup warm our spirit and enhance our appetite. However, the authentic 宫保鸡usually don’t served with vegetable. Regardless, we enjoyed our large portion meals with attentive front servers even though they were quite busy. Recommended highly and will revisit if we are in town.

This is easily one of the best Chinese restaurants in town. I really enjoyed the food here. While Americanized Chinese food is common across the U.S., finding high-quality, authentic, and spicy Chinese cuisine is rare. I noticed a lot of Asian diners, which is always a good sign that the place serves genuinely appealing food. The restaurant specializes in Sichuan and Hunan cuisine. I ordered a pepper chicken dish, lamb on a toothpick, and mapo tofu, along with house chicken fried rice. Everything was outstanding—highly recommended. Honestly, I found it even better than Three Gorges. The interior was nicer than expected for what I thought would be more of a takeout spot. While they could improve the aesthetics, the food is so good that it really doesn’t matter.

Very authentic food and friendly service! Everything we tried was delicious, including the eggplant, the noodles and green onion, ginger chicken, egg drop corn soup, mapo tofu (I asked for it to be mild since I’m not good with spicy food) and it was all fantastic. Nice drink options also, including a sweet bean drink I enjoyed. Will definitely be going back!

Ning, the owner and Wendy our server were very welcoming and attentive. The food was delicious, they respected our spice tolerance level, it was flavorful but not unbearably too hot. Loved the eggplant and minced pork, the mapo tofu was top notch and the green beans with garlic were scrumptious. Will be back soon with more friends.

This is our go-to place for authentic Chinese food. We've tried many different places in searching for a good Chinese restaurant and this is the only place we keep coming back whenever we are craving for some Chinese dishes in the entire Austin metropolitan area. The price is very reasonable and it is very easy to order food here using the iPad that they provide because you can see the picture of each dish on the iPad when you order.