Chengdu Gourmet is a staple in squirrel hill. I order "Diced Chicken with Dried Pepper Chongqing Style" every time I want to eat tiny pieces of crispy chicken in dozens of tiny peppers, I love it for some reason like a guilty pleasure.

I need to try more of their traditional menu.

It's been nationally recognized a few times as one of the best Sichuan restaurants in the US, and makes almost every Pittsburgh top 25 list that there is since it opened.

Their general tso's sauce is correct, but the meat they use for it is a bit weird sometimes for me.

Just goto giant eagle, buy the islays sauce (should be in a jar that says buy 1.25lbs of their islays chip chopped ham), ask for the islays meat at the deli counter chip chopped, they'll cut it Bible paper thin if they do it right.

Layer it meat then a little sauce in a container then heat it, then transfer to a bun. Bun is gonna get soggy so don't try to heat it on the bun or it's gonna be mushy as hell before you even eat it.

It's referred to as "ham barbecue", I don't think you'll find it at any restuaunt. It was Def an at home meal.

What's hilarious is that this actually works most of the time in Pittsburgh.

When I moved to Virginia Beach previously, I saw people unevenly stack into lanes at a stop light (7 cars in left lane, 1 car in right lane, no major turns for the next 2 miles) regularly for no reason at all, and I had to get out of this habit.

That being said, I do believe the old light rail service used to run that far in the past.

This was the CVS at 6100 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA