Double Li

Szechuan

The setting is humble, but the black pepper tenderloin beef --- sticky, spicy, caramelized nubs of battered meat --- is the kind of thing that is capable of bringing a person to tears. It’s that good. The dry chili chicken, stippled with singeing red peppers, is addictive, too, but even as such it still gets relegated to second place. This is real Chinese food, courtesy of Ben Li, and it’s...

The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, is on the South Side (located in the Armour Square community area), centered on Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood. By the 2000 Census, Chicago Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas has 68,021 Chinese. Chicago is the second oldest settlement of Chinese in America after the...