Lucky Bowl — Restaurant in Sandy

Lucky bowl, unlucky stomach. If you want a plate of slop with no discernible flavors except for red glucose, this is the place for you. Ate there this evening and my whole family is already sick. It's never a good sign when your toddler remarks "why was our food cooked so fast?" We ordered 3 meals and the food came out 3 minutes later. They clearly had all of it deep breaded, fried, and sitting under a warmer slathered in sauce, waiting for someone to walk in----nothing was cooked to order, which makes you wonder how long it has been sitting there. Apparently beyond Heath Department recommendations, as we are now all feeling very sick. We asked for General Tsos extra spicy and this had no spice whatsoever. It even had the spiciness annotated on the menu, so it must be "Utah spicy" (aka people who think a green bell pepper has heat). We though requesting extra spice would mean something, but I think they just put extra sugar on it instead. The General Tsos tasted the same as the sweet and sour chicken. Not just Americanized, but completely devoid of any flavor. No ambiance in the restaurant and it was eerily quiet because they were not playing any music and had no background sounds whatsoever. We were looking for good local Chinese food and this is not it. All of the positive reviews must be from Utahns with no palate, the kind of people who think umami is the name of a Pokemon. We realized this as we were leaving, disappointed and confused as to all of the optimistic online feedback, and noticed the entire clientele were middle-aged Caucasians, all...

I'm type II diabetic, so I NEED to eliminate sugars & refined carbohydrates. It is true I have not tried my TRUE favs (the sweet n sour, sesame chicken, lemon chicken, etc) from here, but I am finding NEW favs here!!! Many dishes, in fact! Just find a meat or seafood dish here that has veggies and a nice low/no sugar sauce. I don't eat the rice either, so just meats & veggies & sauce!!

I have an idea to pass on to the owner. Make a keto menu from my "true favs" list and if you need to sweeten anything use "Allulose" as a sweetener instead of sugar, & CHARGE ME MORE FOR THIS, and I'll HAPPILY PAY and perhaps I could enjoy my tru favs again in a restaurant? As it is now, I don't go to restaurants much because of the keto needs. Also, please please please DONT use artificial sweeteners, because it lowers healthy pH in our bodies & and increases acidosis. (I've been hospitalized in ICU because of too much acid in my blood, called EuDKA). I've learned to NEVER use artificial sweeteners (I use 100% monk fruit no erythritol, stevia, and now ALLULOSE my fav!

Allulose as a sweetener actually LOWERS my blood sugar a little bit , sugar makes my blood sugar go sky high like a rocket. (I wear CGM so I see this happening).

So anyway the diabetics who are trying to control blood sugars using diet, and the WHOLE HUGE Keto community... well, we need restaurants who will help us! The word would get out!

Thank you very much!!!...

I really wanted to like this place. I did. Seemed like it could have been a special spot - generous portions, and friendly service. However the problem lies somewhere in the kitchen,l somewhere between the floor and the wok

Had the kung pao chicken, orange chick n, general tsao chicken and sweet and sour chicken (two different times). The only thing I could taste was pure sugar in the sweet chicken sauces. No soy sauce, so salt, no peppers, no Xiaosing wine, no spices whatsoever. Just straight sugar with a La Croix level flavoring of Orange/General. Which okay fine if you want the Chinese flavor equivalent of a saltine.

The stir fry dishes wasn't any better. I feel like the sauce literally had water thrown in it to make it last longer, washing out any possible spices or herbs that could have complimented the dish. So a lot of the stir fry was drippy and wet.

Also, not a bad thing for some, but it was for me - the veggies in the stir fry were very clearly not stir-fried. They were thrown in as almost an afterthought. I like a fresh crunchy veg as much as any normal person, but these were still very much raw, which made for a less than great experience. Again, different strokes for different folks, but I didn't like that. Disappointed because I really wanted to...