Mediocre food with ok service. What you can taste is the owner/cook/chef don’t care about the food quality. The suggested tip on check is calculated on after-tax price, smh.Picture 1: I have never eaten hairtail without scaling or trimming the fins. The fishy smell can already be smelled before the dish is even served.Picture 2: The seasoning of Di Sanxian is quite good, it is simple and straightforward to taste salty and fresh with a little garlic flavor. It's just that your heat and basic frying skills are too weak, the eggplants are all stuck in a pile.Figure 3: 18% tip: 48*0.18=8.64 instead of 51.98*0.18=9.36. Is this all for a few bucks? Why not focus on improving service and rearranging the layout of tables and chairs in the restaurant, which can most directly improve the dining experience?
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
DuanMooMoo Texas
Very good quality and best is the kitchen sizzling flavor. Price is good. In Jusgo Center on Bellaire. We ordered the ginger scallion beef, pepper pork kidneys, and sautéed shrimp & fish. When you ordered three dishes, the house will give a free dish depending on the daily pick of the restaurant. Great value!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Beef
T ao
Sufficient and delicious?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Chelsea
Really good/authentic Northeastern Chinese food. I love the sweet and sour pork! They had delicious cold noodles dish as well. I wish I remembered the name. My friend and I ordered so much food that they even gave us a complimentary dish of fried shrimp (also super delicious--definitely eat it with the shell on).
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fried Prawns with Special Sauce, Sweet Sour Pork
Alice
Sauced eggplant is deliciousThe blood sausage of the butcher's cabbage is a bit coldThe portion is large
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Leminal
Tried their 锅包肉，delicious！ The wait for the take out took longer than I expected. Will come back to try more!
Lou C.
I came to check out Lucky Bento V.I.P. Cuisine 小沈阳 when it first opened 4 years ago. That was a completely different restaurant. My original review said the restaurant served Fuzhou Cuisine. According to a Chinese news site in 2021, a new Northeastern Chinese restaurant just opened. (dealmoon.com/guide/959837)To be precise, Shen-Yang is a city in Liaoning Province in the northeastern region of China, which is closer to Korea than to Beijing. The Shenyang Cuisine has similar dishes in Northeastern Cuisine but taste different. Due to the colder climate, the food is often served temperature hot and spicy. I ordered the traditional Malatang Pick 2. There was no English name for this dish. In Chinese, it's 水煮两样 under Delicious and Healthy part of menu. I picked Duck Blood Pudding and Tendon. The flavor was... oh my gawd, yeah. Other than picking out those toasted peppers, there were lots of meat in the bowl. A lot of reviewers complained about it charges extra for rice. Technically, rice is for southern Chinese. Northeasterners eat wheat breads and pancakes. I wanted more authentic. So, I ordered Scallion Pancake. This tasted authentic to me. Layers of goodness with crispy outside and fluffy inside while piping hot. Pancakes from this region normally don't have strong scallion flavor.Overall, this was a well-spent dinner. I got so much leftovers to serve many lunches thereafter. Oh, this place can get loud as customers happy to enjoy the food.
zilla
Terrible service can ruin
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Ye J.
Hole in the wall Chinese restaurant focusing on Northeastern Chinese cuisine, which is hard to come by with all the trendy Sichuan Chinese food taking over H-town. Although not quite hit the spot for authentic Northeastern cuisine, the dishes are solid for the non-BS Chinatown home cook style and portion is decent for the price point. The owner also offered a free stir fried cabbage dish which turned out really good. However this place does charge for steam rice for $1/bowl, which is very uncommon for Chinese restaurants, we also saw a cockroach roaming around...
Jason Z.
This is a no holds bar, authentic Chinese spot. No frills, and it doesn't look like much from the outside. The interior is decently clean. We ordered a bunch of dishes and they're Northeast Chinese cuisine. All pretty good and it's decent portion size as well. Service is very minimal as per old school Chinese spots but it's reminiscent of the old fashioned style of dining out before Chinese cuisine got hipster. The sweet and sour pork is a solid dish and the the small intestine is cooked deliciously as well. The cumin lamb is another decent dish. Note: this is ridiculous but they charge you $1 per bowl of steamed rice. This is very atypical of any Chinese restaurant and also the rice is a bit soft/too much water added.Also note: we did spot a cockroach scurrying around the dining room.Nothing Michelin starred or fancy but it'll be home cooked Chinese food that will fill you up.
Mediocre food with ok service. What you can taste is the owner/cook/chef don’t care about the food quality. The suggested tip on check is calculated on after-tax price, smh.Picture 1: I have never eaten hairtail without scaling or trimming the fins. The fishy smell can already be smelled before the dish is even served.Picture 2: The seasoning of Di Sanxian is quite good, it is simple and straightforward to taste salty and fresh with a little garlic flavor. It's just that your heat and basic frying skills are too weak, the eggplants are all stuck in a pile.Figure 3: 18% tip: 48*0.18=8.64 instead of 51.98*0.18=9.36. Is this all for a few bucks? Why not focus on improving service and rearranging the layout of tables and chairs in the restaurant, which can most directly improve the dining experience?
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Very good quality and best is the kitchen sizzling flavor. Price is good. In Jusgo Center on Bellaire. We ordered the ginger scallion beef, pepper pork kidneys, and sautéed shrimp & fish. When you ordered three dishes, the house will give a free dish depending on the daily pick of the restaurant. Great value!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Beef
Sufficient and delicious?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Really good/authentic Northeastern Chinese food. I love the sweet and sour pork! They had delicious cold noodles dish as well. I wish I remembered the name. My friend and I ordered so much food that they even gave us a complimentary dish of fried shrimp (also super delicious--definitely eat it with the shell on).
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fried Prawns with Special Sauce, Sweet Sour Pork
Sauced eggplant is deliciousThe blood sausage of the butcher's cabbage is a bit coldThe portion is large
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tried their 锅包肉，delicious！ The wait for the take out took longer than I expected. Will come back to try more!
I came to check out Lucky Bento V.I.P. Cuisine 小沈阳 when it first opened 4 years ago. That was a completely different restaurant. My original review said the restaurant served Fuzhou Cuisine. According to a Chinese news site in 2021, a new Northeastern Chinese restaurant just opened. (dealmoon.com/guide/959837)To be precise, Shen-Yang is a city in Liaoning Province in the northeastern region of China, which is closer to Korea than to Beijing. The Shenyang Cuisine has similar dishes in Northeastern Cuisine but taste different. Due to the colder climate, the food is often served temperature hot and spicy. I ordered the traditional Malatang Pick 2. There was no English name for this dish. In Chinese, it's 水煮两样 under Delicious and Healthy part of menu. I picked Duck Blood Pudding and Tendon. The flavor was... oh my gawd, yeah. Other than picking out those toasted peppers, there were lots of meat in the bowl. A lot of reviewers complained about it charges extra for rice. Technically, rice is for southern Chinese. Northeasterners eat wheat breads and pancakes. I wanted more authentic. So, I ordered Scallion Pancake. This tasted authentic to me. Layers of goodness with crispy outside and fluffy inside while piping hot. Pancakes from this region normally don't have strong scallion flavor.Overall, this was a well-spent dinner. I got so much leftovers to serve many lunches thereafter. Oh, this place can get loud as customers happy to enjoy the food.
Terrible service can ruin
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Hole in the wall Chinese restaurant focusing on Northeastern Chinese cuisine, which is hard to come by with all the trendy Sichuan Chinese food taking over H-town. Although not quite hit the spot for authentic Northeastern cuisine, the dishes are solid for the non-BS Chinatown home cook style and portion is decent for the price point. The owner also offered a free stir fried cabbage dish which turned out really good. However this place does charge for steam rice for $1/bowl, which is very uncommon for Chinese restaurants, we also saw a cockroach roaming around...
This is a no holds bar, authentic Chinese spot. No frills, and it doesn't look like much from the outside. The interior is decently clean. We ordered a bunch of dishes and they're Northeast Chinese cuisine. All pretty good and it's decent portion size as well. Service is very minimal as per old school Chinese spots but it's reminiscent of the old fashioned style of dining out before Chinese cuisine got hipster. The sweet and sour pork is a solid dish and the the small intestine is cooked deliciously as well. The cumin lamb is another decent dish. Note: this is ridiculous but they charge you $1 per bowl of steamed rice. This is very atypical of any Chinese restaurant and also the rice is a bit soft/too much water added.Also note: we did spot a cockroach scurrying around the dining room.Nothing Michelin starred or fancy but it'll be home cooked Chinese food that will fill you up.
Restaurantji Recommends
Awesome food tastes like heaven! Nice Services! Fast and easy! Say no more!!!Pork Belly
Love the food here! Real Chinese food that remind me of my hometown! Service is excellent and will definitely come back next time!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hot Pot
I would rate 0 star if I could. There is a cockroach inside of the dish. Unbelievable, it is a huge one!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Food is good but BEWARE that they will CHARGE for steam white rice !!!!!!!For a Chinese cuisine and charge for steam rice!
I would rate 0 star if I could. There is a cockroach inside of the dish. Unbelievable, it is a huge one!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1