I'd be surprised if you could find this dish in any other Chinese restaurant in the Coachella Valley. When I ordered it, the lady asked me if I'd had duck tongue before, and when I said no, she advised me that the tongues have bones in them. Undeterred, I went through with it and got what I thought of as the Chinese version of buffalo chicken wings. Like the wings, you have to nibble around the bones, and the dish came with lots of hot dried chilies for flavoring as well as celery sticks. Only the carrot sticks and the blue cheese crumble were missing. There were more than a dozen of the tongues, but they are quite a bit smaller than chicken wings. Because they are stir fried, the tongues and the celery were coated with a flavorful oil. The tongues had concentrated duck flavor, and I gnawed the meat off every last one of them. The dish was not too spicy, but it did leave my tongue tingling.
Location: Cie Sichuan Cuisine, 45682 Towne Street, Indio, California. Date: February 20, 2021.
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