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Chilli Daddy, Perry Road – restaurant review
They are only open on a Sunday and serve their food in plastic tubs.
But a small certificate on one wall, not quite in a frame that fits, shows that the standard of the food in Chilli Daddy has already received national recognition.
They were finalists in the Street Food category of this year’s BBC Food & Farming Awards, beaten by a man who sells seafood from a beach shack in Pembrokeshire.
Still found at the Corn Street market every Friday, the new premises may be inside but this is still very much street food style.
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17 Perry Road, a former shop, is now Chilli Daddy’s “street food market” according to the sign outside, but for all intents and purposes this is a restaurant, with wooden bench seating and chilli plant as decorations.
Szechuan recipes that have been passed down through generations of the Weng family are cooked in a temporary kitchen at the back, huge saucepans bubbling away on electric hot plates.
My pork saozi hot pot was a hearty broth, the noodles that give the dish its name served with succulent lamb on the bone, corriander and peanuts.
The small restaurant was almost standing room only over lunchtime on Sunday last week, with a mostly Chinese crowd another indication that the food here is the real deal.
Queues have long been the norm at the original Chilli Daddy market stall since it was founded in 2011, and the favourite dishes remain the same, based around wheat noodles, potato noodles and cold noodles, and “snacks” including a garlic pork salad and spicy chicken gizzards.
Two people can eat very well here with change from a tenner, with nothing costing more than £5 – an absolute bargain for hefty portions of food.
For sensitive English palettes, all the dishes’ spiciness can also be adjusted to individual tastes.
Next Sunday can’t come soon enough for the doors to open again, and it can’t be too long before Chilli Daddy becomes an all-week operation.
Chilli Daddy, 17 Perry Road, Bristol, BS1 5BG
07914 538539
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