It's been a long time since Lockport had a good Chinese restaurant. There is another that was good for a while but they have gone downhill. I have found in my years of eating Chinese food and research about Sweet and Sour sauce that I do not like the Sweet and Sour sauce made with pineapple, I like the one made with apricot. I know it's odd but I hate pineapple and only learned this when another Chinese restaurant in Lockport switched from the apricot to pineapple. I stopped eating there and we were on a quest to find a new Chinese place. We started going to restaurants in Williamsville and Clarence because we liked theirs better.
We were very excited to see this place opened up a couple years ago now. We tried it immediately and were blown away with the amount of food you get for the money. It's not cheap but it's reasonably priced. And it's always good. Every single restaurant seems to have hit and miss days or off days. We have yet to have that with this place.
I'm not very brave when it comes to eating out, I tend to choose the same foods over and over. Here we always get sesame chicken, lately it's been sesame tofu as we are trying to eat less meat and consume less animal byproducts, it's always good and very saucy, which we tend to mix the extra sauce into the fried rice. The vegetables in the fried rice are still slightly crunchy which is good, you know they're fresh and it's nice having texture and not just mush. I also like their cashew and shrimp. When we're extra hungry or just craving it we throw in an order of crab Rangoon which is super delicious too! We used to get soup with our order as well as it came with the meal but it was honestly just too much food for us so we stopped ordering the meals that came with the soup.
They did close for a few months during the beginning of the Covid pandemic which was devastating as this is a comfort food for us and in uncertain times we were craving it bad. Happy they are open again and have been ordering from there regularly. The wait time is always quick, they always say 15 minutes and the only time we've had to wait longer than that was on a super busy Friday night when they first opened which is totally understandable. The food is always searing hot and fresh. It sometimes sucks smelling it and your mouth is literally watering to eat it but it's just too hot still, even in the middle of the coldest months you'd think it would cool slightly on the ride home and it doesn't. You do get fortune cookies which are good and fun for the kids!
I did notice recently they have gone from using plastic containers for their rice to the old "Chinese food containers" of the past, the cool foldable cardboard containers with the little metal bar handle. My kids were fascinated with them since they've never seen them in real life, just in movies, and even we got some happy nostalgia since most Chinese food places around here don't use them anymore. I'm not sure why they went back to them but it was surprising and fun to see. Somehow whatever we ordered came with rice in every single size those containers so we had a large, medium, and small which was absolutely adorable! They do still use the plastic containers for the meals. I hate plastic but we do wash and reuse them for various storage needs and my husband to take leftovers to work so he doesn't lose or damage my good containers.
The employees are always cheerful and polite too which seems to be far and few these days. read more
