Lucky Joy BBQ Restaurant

This place has great food at a great value!!! The customer service is questionable. I am Caucasian and coming to this restaurant makes me feel like a minority. I order take out most of the time if not all the time and they do not treat me equally. When other people come in, that are Asian, they get priority and I’m left in the dust. They keep in telling me «10 min» or «15−20 min» but I’ve actually waited for my food for an hour and a half and I was sitting in the restaurant the whole time… This is absolutely unacceptable!

Fair price, good portion, good taste. Absolutely love this place. Please don’t flood over here to jack price up. Thanks for reading and goodbye.

As an American Chinese foodie, I’ve had my fair share of family-​run restaurants. Yes, the décor is usually outdated. Yes, more cleaning would help. And yes, if you don’t know what to order, you might not like what you get. This place is a solid Chinese restaurant if you like seafood. The lobster braised yeemein is delicious. It has a creamy sauce that isn’t too heavy and the lobster is very fresh. The scrambled eggs with prawns is really good, though a tad salty. The stir fried string bean with minced pork is also delicious, extra crispy and flavorful. The Japanese style diced beef and eggplant is also really good. The eggplant is perfectly cooked, the beef is tender, and I love the edamame (which explains the dish’s name?). Did I forget how affordable this place is? After the Canadian/​US conversion, I’m even more surprised with the bill. Will bring those looking for authentic Chinese food without breaking the bank.

Came to visit during lunch because coworker felt like having Hk Café style food, and this was the closest. He has been multiple times and likes the pork chop on rice, but my first visit. The place is absolutely horrible. Everything is dirty. I ordered Singapore style noodles and I have no idea what meat it was, but it was red and didn’t taste of bbq pork. I asked for a to-​go box and they gave me the tiniest box ever, that I couldn’t even fit the noodles in. And the worst, I was sitting on the can for the whole afternoon. Ugh!!! Will never come back!!!

Typical Chinese restaurant with excellent lobster dinner combo. The food is so good and the size is huge. With the dinner combo, they also come with a daily soup and dessert. If you are coming with a party of 4 or more, I highly recommend you guys make a reservation in order to avoid the line up. Very nice restaurant for friends and family gathering. I will definitely come back again!

FOOD: excellent lunch noodles! Great flavour, not too salty, not too oily, good noodle texture, fresh meat, overall very satisfying.
DISH OF CHOICE: «chicken with vermicelli noodle in herb soup» & «sliced beef with rice noodle in satay soup»
NOTE: have not tried other menu items, nor dinner items
SERVICE: 3/​5, typical hk café. Be ready to be angry here and there, but wait-​time not a problem.
AMBIANCE: bright windows, typical congee-​house style, 20-​yr build
PARKING: shares parking lot with LA CHICKEN… So it’s a «time of day» thing. Lunch is fine.

A small joint that gets packed. Quite an interesting place because of that actually.
We ordered the 2 dishes set meal. Comes with a watercress soup, tapioca soup dessert and 4 fried chicken wings. Why chicken wings? No idea. But a 5 course meal is a 5 course meal.
The water cress soup was nice light and balanced.
The fried chicken wings are nothing special. But hey… 5 course meal… What do you want right?
We ordered 2 hot pots. You have the option of upgrading the dishes to a lobster dish. But we kept it simple.
Halibut hot pot has pork in it. Vegetarians beware. Fish was nice. Some tofu. Some cabbage. Halibut plentiful. Decent.
Chicken hot pot. Comes with Chinese sausages and onion. Hmmm… I think the halibut one is just a little better.
Tapioca soup was thick and filling. Sweet but not over done. It works.
The place is affordable but could benefit from a nice cleaning. 90s Chinese restaurant décor appreciated regardless.
Parking is dismal. Consider take out.
I’d come back.

Super good authentic Chinese food for a good price! All the locals come here.
MAKE RESERVATION though or else you’re not going to get a seat.

Great food, great value! It was under $ 100 for a 5 dish set menu: lobster with noodles, steamed fish, sweet & sour pork, pot of rice, pot of soup, eggplants & tofu, and broccoli & chicken.
This place does get line ups on the weekends since it gets super busy. The food is great and the price is extremely at a great value. Parking is hard though, since the lot is small.
I would have given this 4 stars, but I knocked down 1 star for a rude waitress. We started our dinner at 6:30pm, and at about 7:20pm, she says to our table with a slightly irritated tone, «Excuse me, are you finished yet?» Wow, we can’t even sit for an hour? We were a group table with 5 plates of food out + pot of rice + pot of soup. She kept looking over at our table to see when we were finished, so we left at about 8pm. I guess the waitresses are under pressure to drive diners out when they’re half done or nearly done to get the line up at their door moving.
I recommend coming here on weekdays instead then. I’m sure the meal would be more enjoyable without a waitress constantly looking over your shoulder and huffily asking if you are finished when you are clearly not even finished.
Don’t expect a pretty place, the restaurant is pretty old and slightly run down looking. It’s noisy, crowded, and with somewhat rude waitresses. You’re there for the excellent food and amazing price.

Bad service!!! Wait for so long to be seated even have reservation!!! Dont come here…

Came here for dinner on a busy Friday night! Luckily we came before 7pm and got a table quickly! The line started to form right when we got seated!
The food was surprisingly delicious and a very good deal! My party of 4 ordered the 3 dish set meal + lobster =$ 60+tax&tip; came with soup as well. The dishes we ordered included prawn&3 kinda of onions, beef cubes with eggplant & edamame, and Szechuan beef. Big portions and tasty! A must come of you’re in the area!

We decided to eat here on a Sunday night. Arrived around 6pm and sat down. Ordered the 2 dish course with comes with a free dish of fried chicken wings. First came the soup which appeared to be the house special, nothing fancy just your regular broth with seaweed and meat. We ordered the squid with spicy salt which was probably the best dish we ordered.
We also ordered the singing chicken hot pot boneless, you have the opportunity to either go bone in or bone out. Last dish we selected was the chicken chow mein. Not bad, good size portion, could have used a few more ingredients but for $ 8.50 can’t complain.
For dessert we got their tapioca with taro which was nice. Not too many places gives you that particular dessert, most of the time a red bean soup.
The not so nice thing was that we were rushed to leave, not having quite been there 1hr, as soon as we got dessert and the bill they were quickly picking up the plates saying someone was waiting for the table. For that I gave them a lower rating.

My experience was terrible and ridiculous!
I usually receive great food and decent service but they completely forgot about my order today. When inquired after half an hour they told me baked foods take 20 minutes in the oven and that my food was «baking»; 15 minutes later there was still nothing! They were too preoccupied with preparing their own lunch.
I waited a WHOLE hour for my food.
When it came out, it was crusty and the sauce was thick and slow… as if it had been sitting there for a while.
Disappointing…

Hideaway place next to LA Chicken behind Cambie Street. Stree parking ok.
Went for group dinner which was a great value. We had set dinner for 4 around $ 56, add $ 10 for lobster.
Started with chinese soup. Dinner also comes with a bucket of rice
Salt and chilie fried calamari… yumm
Pea shoot stir fried, good flavour big dish (regular restaurant price $ 18 at least)
Chicken steamed with lotus leaf with various salted meat, black fungus. Very moist and chicken well flavored
Tiger prawns dish also good
Considering the price we paid we had pretty good food. I was pleasantly surprised.
Bad: Extremely busy restaurant, make a reservation or go early. Seating very tight.

Parking is always a challenge here, so either come before lunch rush or after.
Today I did take out. Noticed on the flatscreen TV behind the Cashier there was a special combo A for $ 7.95. Szechuan Fried rice with drink.
So I ordered it and some dumplings. The problem for me is I keep getting stuff that they say is Szechuan in a Cantonese restaurant and keep getting disapointed. Why? Cause it’s not Szechuan…
After I ordered it, I realized that I actually couldn’t eat it cause of the carbs and the oils and so on. I ate it anyways and it wasn’t bad. It definately wasn’t spicy. The dumplings, boiled veggie dumplings for $ 6 were decent. Nothing to write home about.
What I should have tried was their Wuntun. That’s what this place is really about. Next time. I’ll have to do that.