Spices 3 - Oakland

CASH ONLY! Average dish is $13, and the serving sizes are huge. My boyfriend and I got the crispy duck and the szechuan fish. If you like spicy food, def recommend this szechuan restaurant! good portion size, very filling.

Great affordable food in a nice place. They are now inside hot pot house. The mapo tofu is delicious and the beef and broccoli is great. The couples delight is a great app or the scallion pancake is delicious.

Things are getting too spicy for the pepper! Spices 3 has a great variety of meals and they are reasonably priced and perfect for sharing! I tried the chicken wings with explosive chili sauce and the diced string beans. The chicken wings were spicy, but definitely not an unbearable spicy level. There was so much of the explosive chili sauce which is just dried peppers, which made it a bit difficult to eat along with the chicken. Also the wings are pretty small, like half the size of a typical wing. The string beans were very tasty, and I 've never seen them chopped so small! The inside of the restaurant is super cozy and I LOVE all the artwork! Very unique. They are cash only, but our server accepted Venmo which is nice because I didn 't have cash. Also the service wasn 't that great, we pretty much had to get the servers attention for everything. Overall the food was great and I loved the inside of the restaurant! I wish they had a little better service and they really need to get a card reader...

Spices 3 used to be my all-time favorite Chinese restaurant, but in the past year or so the quality has changed a lot. I can only guess they got a different chef, or something, because at one point, the quality suddenly nose-dived. I typically get the kiss of fire orange chicken, and it used to be my favorite dish at any Chinese place, and for whatever reason, it's completely different now. I can only describe it as a slop, with very bland and mediocre chicken and breading. The flavor profile definitely leaves something to be desired. I would much rather order from another Chinese restaurant at this point, and don't really order from here anymore. Too bad.

As a person born and raised in China, I can tell them that the sharp Chinese cuisine here is really amazing. her la zi ji is my favorite — please try it out!