Has anyone noticed how all our favourite restaurants are going down hill? Taco bell, KFC, and alas my former fav chinese joint. Higher prices, smaller portions , disappearance of flavour. Desperate to find a new chinese fix, I tried lucky on pure impulse as I was driving by.
It has a charmingly rough looking exterior and a very simply interior, but if traveling around Asia has taught me anything, it's that the best food is often found within such rough looking restaurants. Lucky is no exception.
A dinner for four was ordered. It came with the usual suspects -chicken balls, egg rolls, rice, chop Suey, beef n broccoli and chicken wings. Price is about what you would expect so no problems there.
So firstly I'd like to say there is no MSG in anything but the chop Suey. My mother is health conscious these days and so this was important to her. One would expect this to kill the flavour-i sure did-but the food suffers very little if at all
My mother wants me to rate this place five stars but my father agrees with me that it's a 4.
Chicken balls are far too doughy and chewy. But other than that, the rice, chop Suey and broccoli have a very nice flavour to them. It reminds me of how my old go to place tasted before they stopped cooking properly. The veggies have a very poignant taste. A bit more beef in the broccoli would have been greatly appreciated.
The star is the wings. I could eat a bucket of those things. They are DYNAMITE. if only they were crispy rather than somewhat soft, these things would be an absolute knock out
In short, if ur like me and in need of a new chinese food go to, lucky may just be able to hook u up. Definitely worth trying at least . I certainly wouldn't mind ordering...
Read moreI ordered a dinner for 4 $74.00 with delivery the chicken balls were very hard warm not hot a piece of chicken the size of the end your thumb the egg rolls were cold with next to nothing in them ill the container sure got smaller. Anyway, so I called the store to ask them if they made their own chicken balls. She didn't understand a word, I was saying. I asked her again, do you make your own chicken balls? No still didn't understand then I asked her, do you make your own egg rolls? Do not understand she said, text it to me.I said, okay, so I texted it to her.And the response back was, I'm sorry that your experience was not a good one.I'm like really. I'm not a business owner but but I do run a small business. And if someone had a problem with my product didn't like it. I would certainly offer her something 10% off her next order. Would you like to try something else? Anything like that? You don't want a bad name out there for your business and? The whole dining experience.I didn't eat it in the store but the whole dinner for 4 was not what I expected.I only ordered it because my Chinese restaurant is closed on Mondays. I will definitely not be...
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The only good things were the beef and broccoli, the honey garlic spare ribs (just wish they had taken some fat off), and the chicken balls (even though they had a lot of extra dough). If you plan on ordering a lot of Chinese food, save your money and get it from...
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