Exactly @chandavkl
I grew up in NY in the 60’s and 70’s and we LOVED what we (naively) thought was Hunan and Szechuan food (from places like Hunan Balcony, Empire Szechuan West/East etc).
It wasn’t Mom and Dad’s Chinese food and it had some heat (unlike egg rolls, chop suey, chow mein, fried rice, shrimp w/ lobster sauce). Even though what we thought was heat really had nothing to do with real Hunan/Sichuan heat, it was all the rage.
Hu’s in Palms and Hunan Taste (not Tasty @J_L) on San Vicente were both very much in the same vein of those places.
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