Gonna add on to this and be a shill for Corner 21, but I’ve been there about 15 times now and every time it has been great. It’s a 4 hour round trip drive for me to go there, but it’s easily the best Sichuan restaurant within a 5 hour radius of NWA.

We took my mother in law there twice now and she also agrees, even by Chengdu standards it’s on the better side of places.

My only complaint is I wish they had a different variety of dishes, most of their plates are standard fare for a Sichuan restaurant in the US. That said, they do those dishes extremely well and stay authentic, and they are consistently good, I haven’t had a bad dish there ever.

Bao Bao does some traditional dishes as well, but it's more just a little corner of the menu on top of the Americanized stuff.

Gonna have to give Corner 21 a try, though.

Agreed. Corner 21 is wonderful. I've tried almost everything on the menu and haven't had a bad thing yet.

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