Gourmet Sichuan comes to Harvard Square

Tom Meek The smoked crispy duck at Too Hot in Cambridge’s Harvard Square.

So it’s a thing. We’ve been through the fine Italian rage (Giulia, Gufo , Bar Enza among the good and the many), but now with Darling newly open in Central Square and Too Hot in Harvard Square alongside Wusong Road , it seems fine Chinese has made its case. And a tasty one to dig into, too. In a subterranean nook in the same building as the Ihop on Eliot Street, Too Hot has an elegant village vibe to it with thickly hewn tabletops, shoji walls (paper partitions) and split wood benches. Simple yet transportive.

The menu at Too Hot lives up to its name – three chilis come stamped on most of the house specials – and there’s exotic victuals you won’t find every day, if ever, elsewhere in the Boston area, inclu