Shu is a small, friendly restaurant in the same shopping plaza as A-Dong Market and Pho Boston, at 160 Shield Street. Reservations recommended, particularly if you go with a party larger than 4 people. The dishes are reasonably priced but the portions are a bit smaller than at other places, so order some appetizers or another entree to share with the table. This is a Szechuan restaurant so they take their spice seriously: a one-pepper rating here would be a two-pepper rating almost anywhere else, and even the no-pepper ratings have a bit of zip to them.
We went there with family and had a marvelous dinner.
For appetizers, we ordered the fried pork dumplings (very juicy and tasty), the Cheng-du potatoes (just French Fries with Szechuan pepper powder dusted over them but so, so good), and scallion pancakes (literally the best I have ever eaten.)
For the main course, we had tea smoked duck (very good), crispy beef with coconut sauce (too sweet for me, but the kids loved it), sauteed string beans (tasty and perfectly cooked), young pea greens with garlic (divine, as always), lobster with scallion and ginger (tasty, but very hard to eat with just chopsticks!), and steamed pork belly with preserved pickled vegetables (melt-in-your-mouth good).
I left to pick up some groceries from A-Dong Market before they closed, but the rest of the family stayed to eat dessert. I believe they ordered one of everything (it's not a long menu) and thoroughly enjoyed them.
Went there again last weekend. We had the Pork with 5-spice Tofu and Chinese Celery (so good), the Corn Pancake (very good, very filling, a good appetizer if the kids are ravenous), and the Chicken Lo Mein (also very good) in addition to our usual standards.
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