The Dragon House — Restaurant in Sacramento

Dragon House is a complete whole in the wall to-go lunch place serving up Chinese and Vietnamese Americanized food. Greasy, hot food that is served in large quantities. The kind of food that fills your belly but not necessarily satiate your culinary taste buds.

I recently ordered the wor wonton soup. It was a cold day, and I wanted something hot. From my past experience, I was not expecting a ton of wontons. I would be stoked if I got more than three (like Abby with at least one in Ghostbusters). But hey this time around, the soup was swimming with wontons. There were shrimp, decent amount of thin slices of light chicken meat, and some slices of char sui (bbq pork) with a spattering of bean sprouts, broccoli, and sliced cabbage. But no noodles, last time (a few months ago) it had thin soup noodles with hardly any or none of the above mentioned items. The broth had way more flavor than the last time as well.

The call in ordering process is wonky. I called to place my order. Right after I told her what I wanted, she hung up. Not telling me anything more such as the wait time or price. 22 minutes later, I am physically in the shop waiting in line. I get to the front and tell her I called in an order for wor wonton soup. She is a woman of few words and says "wait". So I stand and wait. A few minutes later, she shouts out "wor wonton soup". I go up to the counter and she waves at a lady sitting down, the lady shakes her head no. I said I called in an order ( as I did before). She does not give me the order even though no one else is claiming it. I am in a stand off now. I realize that I have not paid yet and can walk my sad self somewhere else. As I internally ponder my next move, she provides me the order and rings me up. Not sure if the place changed ownership. I always dealt with another...

The minute I step foot in Dragon House I said to myself, “Oh great, another Panda.” But wait, the food is freshly cook, has many variety of food to choose from, the service is good, and some foods are cook the minute you order. Like Burger King, “they make it your way.” In the other hand, Panda food are too greasy, defrosted, almost edible, and not fresh at all. If you ever go there, I recommend trying their wonton soup, chow fun, shrimp with lobster sauce, general chicken, orange chicken...what am I saying, try all, is...

Dragon House has a large and varied menu - something for everyone. I ordered Garlic Shrimp and chow mein. I called it in and the lady was super friendly. My food was ready when I got there. The restaurant is very clean, but definitely looks like a quick, take-out type place with some seating outside. But the food was fresh and flavorful (large portions for the price - two people could have eaten the dish I purchased). The shrimp were large and not overcooked. I'm definitely going back for some...