Good Fortune Restaurant

Friendly staff, affordable prices and delicious food! The place looks old but very good food. I recommend it for sure.

For western style Chinese food It doesn’t get much better.
The staff and service is great and the foods even better and has been consistently that way.
If your looking for hot, good and we’ll priced Chinese food this is where you need to eat.

This is as good as any western style Chinese restaurant I have been to.
I could tell by the number of repeat customers (most of whom the staff knew by name) this must be a good spot.
Great service, very friendly staff and really fresh well prepared food. Good on you Good Fortune.
I will be back soon and can highly recommend this place.

I don’t want to lower it to 2 stars because I really want to like this restaurant so consider my review 2.5 stars because the service and speed is outstanding. They were mad busy when I visited around dinner time. The phone would not stop ringing and a stream of people came through the door as I waited. Unfortunately, not being a local it’s going to take some time to discover the source of the hype. I’m sure it’s just a case of picking the wrong item off the menu.
My favorite dish for a plane ride is fried rice. You can compact it, it doesn’t go bad right away, it can be consumed slowly with chop sticks and it tastes damn good! But I’m going to have to qualify that because the shrimp fried rice I took out from Good Fortune didn’t taste damn good or even good. They handed it to me very quickly and I walked it back to the hotel full of anticipation.
They serve it in those aluminum pie pan containers with the paper cover which doesn’t hold up very well in a paper bag so BYOC (I really do!). Their version consists of peas, white rice and little tiny shrimp. That’s it. I tasted a little bit of salt, but overall, very bland. You get what you pay for at only $ 6 but after picking out the shrimp, I pitched it in the trash can. Me sad.

We had good fortune to find Good Fortune Restaurant. Traditional Chinese food with fresh flavors. One of the best I have had. Ginger beef, Good Fortune chow mein, and egg rolls. Yum! Service is excellent and prices are good too. Enjoy!

This is pretty typical small town Canada Chinese inspired fare with oddly thick sauces and very few seasonings. Its fine for taking your Grandparents out but nothing to write home about. If you don’t eat traditional Chinese food on a regular basis this might not offend you, but I found it bland and suspected most things had slid out of a plastic bag into the wok. Meh.

Living in a small town can inevitably be limiting if you enjoy dining out. And… two things are fundamentally important to one’s enjoyment of said small town… good Pizza and good Chinese.
Thankfully, Sidney has more than acceptable, as matter of fact they have down right great Chinese in the Good Fortune Restaurant. Thankfully as well, for we certainly didn’t find good pizza in the year we have been here.
As our time in Sidney comes to a close, I will say that I am going to miss Good Fortune. The Wor Wonton Soup was a staple in our house on cold and blustery winter evenings, and when it came to the care and keeping of out of town guests, Good Fortune was always on the itinerary!
Table service in the restaurant is definitely the better choice when not in the mood to eat in front of the TV in your PJ’s, and there is ever a great compliment of friendly staff to ensure a pleasant and even entertaining dining experience… would LOVE it if they’d come to Sooke :)
Their Ginger Beef is the best I’ve ever had, bar none, Beef and Broccoli is always fresh and nummy. Crispy Noodles are topped with a massive amount of all the good stuff one would hope to find on crispy noodles, and the Kung Pao Chicken does pack a punch. The only thing I haven’t been happy with is their egg rolls, but that’s because I’m a Spring Roll girl, always have been, always will be!
The only reason the Good Fortune doesn’t get a 5 Star review is because their take out can be inconsistent, and they don’t always get my «no onion» thing right.
We will miss you Good Fortune, and will probably drive back for dinner from time to time.
Thanks for everything!
PJ xo