Non-spicy options at Sichuan Garden

[drb]

Going to Sichuan Garden in Brookline with spouse and friends with delicate sensibilities. I plan on getting my usual Chonqin Chicken - any recs for my dining companions?

[hargau]

Sichuan meatballs are a must (lions head)
Chicken with Asparagus with chengdu sauce
Shredded pork with fresh bamboo shoots
Zha Jiang noodle soup with pork (we always get the spicy one but im sure its great nonspicy too)

[emannths]

Tea-smoked duck is a classic, not-spicy dish.

I've had the bacon + leeks dish in a not-spicy rendition before. Even when "spicy," it doesn't seem too spicy if you don't eat the large chunks of green chilis. It's either 57 (Double Cooked Fresh Bacon with Spicy Capsicum, 四川回鍋肉) or 58 (Stir Fried Fresh Bacon with Spicy Capsicum, 爆鹽煎肉). Actually, can someone tell me the difference between these two? My usual method of using Google image search seems to indicate they're the same!

[kobuta]

I haven't eaten at Sichuan Garden, so I can't do a offer a visual or taste comparison. I found an interesting comparison on a Chinese blog that wrote these two dishes are like "twins". Ingredients are very similar, but the main difference being that the #58 features raw pork stir fried with the other ingredients. The classic double-cooked pork, of course features pork that is cooked first, and then sliced and stir-fried from there. The writer says that in the #58 dish, there's additional preparation for the pork before stir frying, but it all seems to boil down to the prep and cooking technique that results in some texture differences.