Lucky Kitchen (ALL DAY DIMSUM) Restaurant 美味小厨 — Restaurant in Edmonton

(see update below) What a wonderful find this little gem of a restaurant is! My spouse and I were in the mood for dim sum in the late afternoon on a Thursday… Traditionally not the best time for dim sum! I looked over a number of options, but we had never tried out Lucky Kitchen, so we gave it a try. We are always a little apprehensive trying a new place, but this restaurant exceeded all expectations. The food was tasty, the portions were generous, every dish was brought piping hot out of the kitchen, and the seafood was so fresh and succulent it was a pleasure to finish every last bite. The service was friendly and attentive, even though we were there on off-hours. Finally, it was an excellent value, as the prices were very reasonable. This may have been the first time we dined at this restaurant, it certainly won’t be the last.

UPDATE

I am revising my review from a five star rating to a two star rating. My spouse and I attended this restaurant numerous times since my last review was posted and the quality has just crashed. The food is no longer fresh, and the kitchen has completely transformed into a passionless, corner-cutting rip-off to the customer, and the whole place seems to have deteriorated from its original quality throughout. The last time we ate there, we were served some dim sum that was clearly old and just reheated in the microwave. We complained that it was dried out and lacked any flavour. The server took it back to the kitchen and reappeared a few minutes later with the same dish (including one of the pieces of dim sum that had a bite out of it), and a little dish of salt. We were instructed to sprinkle more salt on the dish to give it flavour! What a cynical, arrogant, and completely unacceptable response! It was such a great restaurant up until a few months ago and now it’s just a rip off dive that’s overpriced. Thinking they may have just had some bad days, we went back numerous times to give it an ample number of chances to redeem itself, but the place isn’t worth recommending anymore. So sad! We won’t...

All I can say is, wow. This place is a diem sum specialist.

I was going to pick up my son from the school nearby when I saw this big banner “diem sum all day”. Small shack of a business that had gone through a few owners in the past but I was intrigued. I was craving some diem sum and figured, “how bad can it be?”. There was parking in the back. Okay since I had time, I’d try it out. Well walking in, I was shell shocked, the interior looked nothing like the exterior, fully renovated Hong Kong style cafe was what I saw. Neat and super clean.

The menu was precise and the service was awesome. The food was unbelievable. I ordered some standard fare and got knocked off my socks. In terms of quality, I have to say it was the best diem sum I’ve had for a very very long time. This little place is going to be packed and hopping in the future and won’t have seats available on the weekend, guaranteed. The price was really good considering what you got.

I think the drawback to this place is that it’s too small and you’ll end up waiting, they should have opened a much bigger place. Try it out, I dare anyone to give them a bad review based on the food. I’m pretty sure I’m going to...

Lucky Kitchen located off of 10346 University Ave was our dinner spot tonight! @mike.slikes had made a recent post about them as well as some notable food bloggers calling it a hidden gem. Known for their all day dimsum and delicious looking pictures - we had to try them out! Our server was saying how crazy it was this past weekend once news got out about their tiktok.

We were so excited to see salted egg yolk buns, shrimp and pepper in a garlic black bean sauce, and lotus leaf rice parcels. Our favorites were the BBQ pork steamed rice noodles and the mango pudding. You could tell the rice noodles were good quality because they melted in your mouth and they put so much good quality pork in there. The mango pudding had sweetness and tartness to it! Tea was a must! When they are available we will have to try their egg tarts. Our full itemized receipt is near the end of the pictures. Thank you for great service and good food, Lucky Kitchen!

Disclaimer: If the photos look like they're missing some product (dumplings, rice noodle etc...) it's because I was hungry and put it in my mouth before I remembered to...