Was recommended to place but overall wasn't' beautiful'...food only ok but service not very considering prices and location.

First time diners tonight, my wife and I ordered the won tons, house fried rice and the beef HO fun. All meals were delicious, highly recommend. The service is as good as the meals, exceptional. read more

Happy Boy - The Flied lice is darishuss. - Chinese Near Me - Spring Hill, QLD

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I was a happy girl at Happy Boy. Craft cocktails, lively environment, helpful staff. Green beans...oh the beans. Super yum. We ordered a half-dozen different plates to share and barely left a crumb when we finished. Can't wait to go back! read more

Every month, or every week, Brisbane is going off with new places to eat, drink & everything in between. One of the new kids on the block is Happy Boy, only about a month old, & already making many boys & girls happy with its authentic regional Chinese flavours. Located in a discreet street in Spring Hill, in a converted warehouse, there's high ceilings, open spaces, exposed brick, communal tables, a bar & comfy couches in one corner. Happy Boy lends itself to relaxed group dining & sharing plates with your family & friends. A really chilled out friendly vibe, with the soundtrack of laughter filling the air. The night menu is simple, with options from Snacks, Vegetables, Seafood, Meat, Noodles & Rice, as well as gluten free options on request. Prices are great with nothing over $30 & the rest averaging $15. We ordered the 1) house fried rice- shredded roast duck & preserved vegetables ($14) 2) chongquing chicken with chillies ($16), & 3) Roast pork belly with tofu ($16). Firstly, the size of the dishes are generous indeed! Thought we'd struggle to finish. But that was before we took a bite. Best fried rice we've had in recent memory. The Chongquing chicken had a punch to it's flavour from the chillies & sichuan peppers, but is so good, you'll be scooping mouthfuls in no time. The roast pork belly is perfection. Deliciously tender & as you chew, you still get the crispy bits of awesomenes! Whilst we didnt drink, the bar has a great wine list that can be matched to your meals. There's also beer, spirits & whiskies. So happy we stopped by even if we had to waddle out of there. Happy Boy makes us happy! Open for lunch & dinner 7 days a week & soon, breakfasts. Wooh! read more

Happy Boy - Happy Boy! - Chinese Near Me - Spring Hill, QLD

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The first thing you notice when you go in, is that there isn't an Asian anywhere in sight. This should have been a warning that there is nothing authentic at all about this "Chinese" restaurant. The food was ok, sure even tasty, but the spring rolls were served with a mayonnaise aioli not duck sauce or Chinese mustard. It was quite strange and you wouldn't ever see it in NYC 's Chinatown. The fried rice, the dry cooked green beans and the eggplant all seemed to be cooked in a corn oil or canola oil instead of the traditional peanut oil which takes the higher temperatures of wok frying. There wAs no Chinese tea. At all. Anywhere on the menu. The table had salt and pepper shakers. Not soy sauce or oyster sauce. There was no fresh ginger in any of the dishes. Fresh ginger, in taste and aroma, is key to Chinese cooking. Reference Mrs. Chaing's book. The chopsticks were plastic. I have been to at least 100 Chinese restaurants and the chopsticks are always wood, usually bamboo. If you are looking for an ok restaurant that serves ok Chinese food, try the Panda Express chain. If you are looking for a restaurant that serves a poor imitation of Chinese food at a decent price. This is ok. read more

There's two sides of Happy Boy. The warehouse space you virtually get to yourself during the morning when they're slinging Supreme Brisbane coffee beans to passers by and laptop jockeys like myself, and then there's the evening buzz from the Chinese restaurant it transforms into at lunch and dinner. During the day it's a decent spot to pop open your laptop and grab a coffee. As I'm writing this I've just seen they're also launching a morning menu of avocado on toast and museli. We returned as a dynamic duo to discover just why so many people had been urging us to check out the newest addition to Spring Hill. A word on location: those who've lived in Brisbane long enough to remember Little Tokyo will know straight up where Happy Boy is. It's on the cusp of the city and certainly still central enough to both the CBD and Fortitude Valley. Happy Days! We arrived early as the day before I'd overheard they were fully booked except for a few very early dinner sittings. Given our 6pm dining slot we were one of two parties in the restaurant and as such were attended to rather promptly. The menu, which you could fairly categorise as Chinese with a Western-twist, we're told is designed to be shared and the portions are quite large. Unfortunately I missed that part and did end up over ordering. Good thing they offer a take-home container to diners like us. That said, it's a menu style such as this and the long tables that would make Happy Boy a great venue for group dining! With that in mind, for a table of two, aim for 1-2 bar snacks and maximum 1-2 mains from the remaining items. Our dinner included: + the prawn potstickers, +Hong Kong Long Spring Rolls (could have left these out), + Fish fragrant eggplant - easily my favourite of the entire meal! + Wok-Taste Diced Beef + Xinjiang Inspired Lamb with Cumin + House Fried Rice with shredded Roast Duck and preserved vegetables There wasn't a chance we were leaving hungry and it all washed down quite well with the wine of the evening, Long Rail Gully Pinot Gris. The wines do change regularly. I'm still perplexed about where the food is prepared as in the main dining area, although there is a large workspace there's no visual evidence of any cooking happening (no sizzle, no fragrance as things are cooked) and the well-dressed staff crossing their arms behind said bench are certainly not cooking. Are meals being delivered to the counter in the dining area from a kitchen to counter waiter lift? As other reviewers have mentioned, it's not too dissimilar from Chinese cuisines you could order in Sunnybank or Fortitude Valley but it is in a central location and fun to try somewhere new. read more

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I'm sure this has been said before, but Happy Boy made me a happy boy. The restaurant is very chic, service was good. I had the flash fried lamb and broccolini with garlic-- both amazing. I definitely plan on going back during my stint in Brisbane. I did go on the early side because I was in the area for a conference so I had no problems getting in, but I could see it getting busier as I was leaving. read more

Eggplant can be a tricky vegetable to work with but Happy Boy nails it and then pairs it with delicious pork belly. The duck fried rice is a perfectly balanced combination of fermented vegetables, egg and shredded roast duck. Great service and location. read more

Happy Boy - Eggplant with Roast Pork Belly - Chinese Near Me - Spring Hill, QLD

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All round pretty good, although service was a tad slow. As lunch with work friends - it was ideal for Friday. Place was buzzing and although out of the way was busy. The food was excellent, good range of cuisine on the menu - house fried rice was awesome. We shared the dishes and individual bowls were not a problem. I did miss chop sticks. Reasonable value. Really not a lot more to say - it's good. read more

I'd heard excellent things about Happy Boy, the hip, new and supposedly authentic Chinese restaurant/bar that is in the same building where Little Toyko was, so was pleased (and surprised) when my Dad suggested it as a lunch destination for a recent family lunch. Located towards the Valley end of Spring Hill on Mein St, Happy Boy is almost hidden amongst several residential buildings and is in what appears to be a converted garage with a roller door for an entrance. We rocked up early at 11:30 for a Saturday lunch and it was completely empty save for one guy waiting for his takeaway coffee. Personally I didn't mind but I did wonder how busy it gets during lunchtime as it isn't in a busy area. I've heard dinner is much busier so if you are looking for something quiet, Saturday lunch is a good time. The interior is a large warehouse-style space with a large long table in the middle and several smaller tables along the left wall. Don't expect to see the kitchen though as it's upstairs and food is apparently delivered via an internal dumb waiter. Happy Boy is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and has separate menus for each. The lunch menu is a smaller version of the dinner menu with individual-style meals (i..e smaller versions, some served with steamed rice) rather than the shared-style that feature on the dinner menu. Prices (most ranging between $12-$15) are cheap for lunch but fairly standard for Chinese food. I'd read several reviews and they all said that the Fish Fragrant Eggplant ($13) was a must-order dish so that was my choice. We also ordered the Chinese BBQ Roast Duck ($14) with the House Fried Rice inc Roast Duck & Preserved Veg (+$4), Wok-Fried Prawns with Ginger and Shallots ($15), Beef Chow Ho Fun ($13) and Stir Fried Fresh Seasonal Vegetables ($8). We weren't given a drinks menu so I'm not exactly sure what they have but the wine list is written up on a chalkboard above the bar and two cocktail options - Happy Boy (Whiskey & Green Tea) and Happy Girl (Gin & Lychee Green Tea). Somehow a question about the Happy Girl was taken as an order but was very much enjoyed by my Mum who can't stop raving about lychee flavoured green tea now. I also ordered a standard green tea which was refreshing on a hot day but did come sweetened, which I didn't expect. The first dish to arrive was the Fish Fragrant Eggplant and was a decent sized serve of several large chunks of soft fried eggplant coated in soy, fish sauce and chilli oil. It was served on a large plant with an ample amount of rice. The eggplant had a melt-in-your-mouth soft texture and incredibly flavourful with the chilli giving a nice but not over-the-top spicy hit. Although not uncommon in regular Chinese restaurants, I was surprised that it arrived by itself and it was a while before the next dish arrived. We had said that we were sharing, and were given small bowls to do so, but if this is common and we weren't then it would be strange for one person's meal to arrive so far in advance of everyone else's. About ten minutes later the rest of the meals arrived altogether and it was clear that serves at Happy Boy are not small! The Wok-Fried prawns were succulent and coated in a delicious thick ginger and shallot sauce with perfectly cooked fresh broccoli, onion and carrot. I loved it but the rest of my family were a little underwhelmed. The Beef Chow Ho Fun (stir fried flat rice noodles with beef and vegetables) was tasty and not overly oily but probably my least favourite. The BBQ Roast Duck dish was again large with lots of tender pieces with crispy skin and served with broccoli, duck dipping sauce, plum sauce and the fried rice. The Fried Rice had chunks of duck, tangy preserved vegetables and shredded egg omelette and was seriously tasty fried rice. My Mum said it was the most authentic Fried Rice she'd seen served in a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane, although as the least Chinese person I know I'm not sure how valid that statement is :) The Stir Fried Season Vegetables were a mix of snow peas, broccoli, carrot and mushrooms - simple but absolutely delicious and I really loved the selection of vegetables. We were absolutely stuffed and we didn't even get through all of it, with a substantial amount of rice left after we were done. We easily could have just ordered four dishes and it would have been more than enough. Considering our meals including drinks came to just over $20 each, I'd call this one cheap meal and seriously good value for the size and quality of the food! I'm not an expert on authentic Chinese food but I've had my fair share and would say this was up there with some of the best I've had in Brisbane. The menu shouldn't scare anyone away but it's good to see that's it's not all Lemon Chicken and Sweet & Sour Pork that is common of the Westernised menus found in the majority of non-Sunnybank Chinese restaurants. I'm definitely keen to go back with a group for dinner sometime and am intrigued by simple breakfast menu! read more

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Happy Boy made me so happy! The food was excellent, the service was friendly and helpful and the ambience was fun! I actually risked taking my baby for the earlier seating and it was great. The fun atmosphere meant she was relaxed and wanted a 'chat' too. There were so many tasty dishes to choose from and as there were four of us, we had ample choices. We went for the fried rice, spring rolls, pork belly and salt and pepper calamari. Every dish was tasty and finger-licking. I had a lovely glass of Pinot noir which complemented the dishes nicely. There's an ATM in the restaurant which is very useful. Will definitely be back! read more

Despite the contemporary interior the menu is that of a very typical Westernised Chinese restaurant e.g. Fried rice , spring rolls etc; The food is not bad - the same quality as what you would find in a good Chinese restaurant in Sunnybank but given the comfortable atmosphere and proximity to the city, I personally would prefer coming here . Portions are also generous (not as big as Little Singapore though) and affordable. We ordered the pork and prawn wontons (good flavoring but I didn't like the whole peppercorns that came with it which were hard to pick out ) and special fried rice (done well). Would come here again if I had another Chinese food craving . read more

Yummy food, great wine, limited selection but still nice. Basic set up but it works for them. Loads of staff on so ordering / service is fine read more

Happy Boy - Chinese Near Me - Spring Hill, QLD

We had the crispy chicken, salt and pepper fried tofu, the chow fun, and the Sichuan fish. All were very good- the tofu and the chow fun were probably the standout with the fish a close second. I love Sichuan style fish, but their broth needed more flavor and spice. It was too toned down. The space and wine was also great. read more

Delicious food ! The menu has so many great options. Especially fun for a big group. A little bit noisy inside but the atmosphere is fun and they have a great drinks menu. read more

I have been to a lot of Chinese places and happy boy is pretty nice, the staff are friendly although service can be slow because of the volume of customers booking is wise. Food was promptly served and tastes great but beverages took some time. read more

Last night I discovered Happy Boy, a hidden Gem in the heart of Brisbane City. Upon entry, you instantly feel like you're in a very clean old factory - the setting is very cool, but the hard factory walls make it a very noisy environment. Between 6 people, we shared about 7 dishes. The stand outs for me were the Hong Kong Long Spring Rolls, the Salt and Pepper Prawns and the delicious House Fried Rice. Typically this restaurant is very busy, so I would strongly suggest booking a table. Definitely a must try in Brisbane, but avoid some of the small dark alleys surrounding this area if you're walking. read more

A few blogs said Happy Boy served dandan noodles, a type of spicy Sichuan noodles that I absolutely love. Unfortunately I was informed that Happy Boy change the menu every so often and they'd taken dandan noodles off the menu. DEVASTATED. So I ordered some beef chow ho fun. It was full of flavour and generous with the beef servings. However, I have had the same dish in other restaurants of Brisbane for much cheaper so overall I was a little disappointed. But maybe I was just bitter about the dandan noodles. The food is good though, and the space has a lovely ambience. read more

I really enjoyed my meal here. Very delicious and a good ambiance in a tucked away corner of the city!

Picked up dinner here the past few nights. First night because it was close and open. The rest because the food is excellent. Lamb special is probably my favourite so far. Will try and come back next time in Brisbane read more