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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Houston City Councilwoman Abbie Kamin graced the grand opening of a Chinese culinary import by way of Chicago, Lao Sze Chuan Restaurant, on Wednesday.
The new restaurant is located at 3407 Montrose Blvd., which is in the district Kamin represents.
“[District C] just gained another delicious restaurant,” Kamin said in a tweet. “[Mayor Sylvester Turner] and I joined community partners to welcome the latest Chinese spot to the neighborhood. Delicious food, great service and reflective of the delectable diversity of our city.”
The councilwoman’s tweet included pictures from the event, including those of her and the mayor posing with restaurant management and other special guests.
The eatery’s sign shows that it has been in business for approximately 25 years.
According to Lao Sze Chuan’s website, the Windy City-based establishment is the brainchild of celebrity chef Tony Hu.
A native of Sichuan Province in China who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1990s, the website said, Hu introduced Chicagoans who were already fans of Cantonese cuisine to the fiery food of where he grew up.
Per the website, the original Lao Sze Chuan opened for business in Chicago’s Chinatown in 1998, and since then, Hu’s restaurant empire has expanded toward other parts of the city and the outlying suburbs and eventually California, Connecticut and Nevada.
Diners who visit a Lao Sze Chuan will have their fill of the spicy Sichuan cuisine Hu has championed since his arrival in Chicago about 30 years ago, with items such as spicy crispy tofu and shredded pork with spicy garlic sauce in addition to an in-house concoction that’s smoked with black tea and 52 degrees Celsius, or 126 degrees Fahrenheit wine, according to a report from Community Impact.
Hu told the publication that Lao Sze Chuan is “thrilled” to open for business in Texas’s largest city.