Spring Restaurant

Head down Mill Road towards Petersfield and you'll find Spring doing the kind of Chinese cooking that makes you question every other place you've eaten. This isn't fusion nonsense or chicken chow mein for the timid; it's authentic Sichuan heat and Cantonese technique executed with real skill. The dining room is unpretentious—formica tables, strip lighting, the works—but that's exactly where you want to be when the food arrives properly spiced and alive. Locals keep coming back because Spring doesn't compromise. Expect fiery mapo tofu, silky hand-pulled noodles, and the kind of flavour intensity that lingers in the best way.