This was one of those rare moments when Yelp lead me wrong. Was in the neighborhood and looking for a place during dinner time. Came across Lulu with excellent reviews saying authentic Szechuan restaurant. So my spicy-loving nature had to give the place a try. Ordered: Szechuan Style Braised Pork 巴蜀红烧肉 (spice level 2 indicated on the menu) Sauteed Pork Tripe with spicy sauce 辣炒脆肚 (spice level 3 indicated on the menu) Eggplant with spicy garlic sauce 鱼香茄子 (spice level 2 indicated on the menu) The restaurant was very busy so food took a while to arrive. I noticed some tables had a small plate of kimchi and our table didn't, so I asked the server for some, and he brought a plate out. What I assumed was kimchi, (because it was cabbage in some red sauce and I overheard another table asking for kimchi) actually tasted nothing like kimchi. The cabbage had a slightly fermented sour taste and was marinated in tomato sauce and sugar. My mind kept telling assuming it was kimchi and was shocked when it tasted both sweet and sour at the same time. Some people might enjoy it, but not me. When the food arrived, nothing was as described! The eggplant with spicy garlic sauce was NOT spicy at all, and instead of tasting like garlic, it tasted like sweet and sour sauce, the kind you get if you ordered orange chicken. The Szechuan Style braised pork came on a burning stove, and the only close resemblance to "Szechuan style" was the green jalapenos. The pork itself is just soy sauce braised pork, and was clearly pre-cooked because it was just luke-warm when served. If you are calling it "Szechuan style", the least you can do is have some garlic, peppercorn, or red chili in the dish. The sauteed pork tripe with spicy sauce had no sauce, and even though it was a spicy level 3 on the menu, the pork tripe was not that spicy at all. The only spiciness came from the jalapenos, which I guess because it was fresh, was actually spicier than the pickled red chili in the dish. But hey, at least this dish had some red chili. All in all, everything tasted OK, but I wouldn't call this place authentic Szechuan restaurant. To me, Szechuan cuisine not only has to be spicy (by using red chili or chili paste) but also flavorful with peppercorn and garlic and other combination of spices. None of the three dishes I ordered achieved that effect. Spice level 2 was so mild and spice level 3 was only spicy because of the jalapeno does not make it authentic Szechuan. Perhaps the popular griddle cooked dishes, or the Chongqing spicy dish would taste more Szechuan, but there are so many better and more authentic Szechuan restaurants out there, I won't be returning for another try. read more

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Folks- this is legitimate Szechuan cuisine. Service may be a little rough around the edges, it may not be as pristine and clean as you want or expect, but the food is exemplary. I've taken my relatives from Mainland here multiple times and they absolutely love/rave about it. It's well-priced, food comes out relatively quick, everything is made to order. read more

I don't know why it just felt different. Do they change the chef? The beef roll were okay. No longer in my take-out cycle. read more

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I am not sure if I had the right order? In the menu, it says " spicy beef tripe with blood pudding ". But I didn't found any beef in it. Instead, some fish were found. Any explanations? read more

Lulu's Kitchen - The "Spicy Beef tripe with blood pudding " without Beef at all! - Szechuan Near Me - Dublin, California

Few restaurants survived COVID and fewer without dropping the quality, but not my love Lulu who went thru thick and thin with me! Lunch special still large enough for dinner special and flavorful deliciously eaten to be called the best Sichuan in Dublin! Their service and food is perfect. I came here with a group of 3 and they got our food out immediately after ordering. The food itself was amazing as well with a wide variety of dishes to choose from and all of them just being absolutely hard hitters. read more

From the menu it's hard to determine what is vegetarian but I have enjoyed a few times now the lotus root with chili, the dry tofu with leeks, shredded potato, and Dan Dan noodles (requested vegetarian) Would love to see more vegetarian options or items that can be made vegetarian marked on take out menu read more

A pretty authentic Chinese food place in Dublin. It's only getting 3 stars because the service was awful. The staff were friendly enough and even suggested we order less food which I thought was awesome, but they struggled to understand us and the timing of the dishes coming to the table was very wonky. Pot stickers arrived literally as we were finishing up everything else and they were one of our main courses. To add to the weirdness, glasses of iced water arrived 2 minutes before we paid the bill....that's quite the afterthought. The tea was delicious, I couldn't get enough of it. Sadly halfway through eating I realized the side of the tea pot had dried on food stuck to it. Orange peel chicken was great, it was served in a nice thick really flavorful brown sauce. Sadly being slightly unclean and very strange Food timing drops a couple of stars. read more

I would come here for their lunch specials! Worth the price. In terms of flavor, I'm really picky because I'm always comparing to what I had at Beijing growing up. It's not quite the same but not bad. I ordered their spicy kidney 火爆腰花 dish. I think it's kidney, I don't really remember the english for it actually. Next time I would get their twice cooked pork or try their spicy fish instead. read more

Lulu's Kitchen - 火爆腰花 - Szechuan Near Me - Dublin, California

I love Lulu's and eat there usually once a week, ordering the same thing most of the time, Pan fried string beans, Shredded pork with spicy garlic sauce, Xiaolong Bow (multiple orders), Tea and Sour Plum juice Never disappoints read more

A good place for Szechwan food. The dishes are nice and spicy. They start you off with a complimentary kimchi appetizer which is really good. We got water boiled fish, spicy fried chicken and pan fried baos. Everything was pretty good. They charge for the rice by the bowl. One bowl is usually good enough for 2 unless you eat a lot of rice. If you're in the area and feel like getting some spicy Chinese food, this is the place to go. read more

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Came here on a Yelp whim to experience authentic Szechuan dim sum. It's located in a standalone building in a strip center that looks to be in need of remodeling. Now that this place has opened they should expect more traffic here. Food tasted great! Come here if you need some spicy Szechuan! A bit pricey, so one star off. Otherwise 4 stars! read more

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We've been here many times in the past couple of years. Food was good that's why we were loyal repeat customers. However that will no longer be the case. I don't know what happened. Maybe changed chefs or just completely don't care anymore. Ordered boiled beef supreme sauce: zero flavor, no spice or salt. Beef was a weird soft texture - which means it's not fresh. Had 5 other dishes all were just as bad. Sad because we really liked this place. read more

We were looking for a place to eat that would satisfy meat-eaters and vegetarians and Lulu's Kitchen fit the bill. Many Szechuan restaurants put little pieces of meat in vegetable dishes making it hard for vegetarians to eat them. This was not a problem here. We had several dishes including hot-and-sour soup, green beans and some sort of wild mushroom. I also really enjoyed seeing the Chinese farm-to-table cooking show running on the monitors! read more

Lulu's Kitchen - Szechuan Near Me - Dublin, California

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Spicey Szechuan mapo tofu, fried rice, and hot and sour soup. The food is hot temperature and palatable. The tofu was very gingery. Maybe too much. The soup is tasty with lots of content but watery probably didn't have corn starch to thicken. The combo fried rice had small grains and looked like old rice with too much soy sauce. Perhaps this is their food style but I have had better elsewhere. The place is plain but clean. We ate there on disposable plates cups and utensils like at a picnic. read more

This is a very authentic Szechuan (Sichuan or whatever other romanized spelling!) restaurant. Szechuan food was the second regional Chinese food to hit America (after Cantonese). At the time, around the 70's, Szechuan food in America was "anything other than Cantonese", sort of the vanilla ice cream to balance out the ubiquitous chocolate ice cream. After several other regional Chinese food have had their peak in America, I'm happy to see this Szechuan restaurant bringing this spicy regional Chinese food back! The difference here is that what Lulu serves is much more authentic than the Szechuan restaurants of the 70's. The hot spices are very unique in taste. The dishes are very traditional. Again, as I've stated in several of my other reviews, if you're looking for American Chinese food, this is definitely not the place for you; but if you're adventurous and eager to try something authentic, visit Lulu! read more

Walked in and waited for a while while the cashier was highly concentrated on some work at the register she did not look up at anyone for a while. Then I seen it. Im all its glory a roach climbing on the menu. Right at the front. I thought about it a couple minutes and left read more

The two star review is based on the raw food that they served us. I won't go into too much details but the steamed dumplings we ordered came to our table not cooked all the way through. I had one that was questionable and I took the other one off the spoon my kid and sure enough that one was partially raw as well. When we told the staff, none of the wait staff bothered to apologize... Even though the other dishes were alright, we just won't be coming back to this place again. It's a big red flag if a simple steamed dumplings dish can be done so wrong. read more

We come here regularly and never get disappointed with the quality of food . The menu is extensive and service is great.

The west lake soup was so watery with no flavor. You are lucky to get a few pieces of minced beef and tofu in each serving. Would not eat here again. read more

Still 4 stars. Dan Dan noodles are simple but good and we'd recommend them. If my kids weren't with me I would have liked it spicier and kept the peanuts in. Pot stickers were typical. Beef pancake roll was our favorite dish. They do a great job with this one. Skip the XLB- we sent ours back since every single one arrived broken. The server was apologetic and took it off our bill without an issue. read more

I was craving hot and sour soup and this restaurant did not disappoint. Everything here was spicy though so definitely be careful when ordering. We ordered a large take out order and they packaged everything nicely. Placed it in a box also so it was easy for me to carry. Overall, great experience and will definitely go again for that soup! read more

Finally had a chance to try this place! It was Friday night and it wasn't packed, so we were seated right away. Since we weren't too hungry, we decided to share one dumpling dish and one other dish. We got the pan fried pork buns and the sweet rice with ribs. Awesome choices! They give SO much rice, so we had to take it home. The sticky rice is sweet and savory. The ribs are so soft and fall right off the bone. It had a lot of flavor! Tasted really good with some of the chili oil they have on the table! It also came with some squash/pumpkin type of veggie, which added a nice flavor to it. I really liked it! As for the the pork buns, WOW. These are so addicting. The skin is crispy on the outside but soft when you bite into it. It's a good ratio of skin to filling! The meat filling is flavorful and there's a lot of it! And the sauce they give with it adds flavor through the rice vinegar. I would eat this breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Haven't tried the other dishes yet, but I will come back here to try more of their dumplings! read more

Lulu's Kitchen - Sticky rice with ribs - Szechuan Near Me - Dublin, California

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Kinda disappointed. I came here thinking the reviews were good. This REALLY isn't the place to go for Dim Sum. There are no carts here, the place is tiny. The prices are astronomical. For 5 dim sum dishes it was already $40. The food quality was okay, not great. Service was okay, though getting a chipped tea cup (bad Feng Shui) should have been my sign that this was going to be a problem. The steamed pork with Sticky Rice was dry. The pork was overtly dry to the point that the meat had the texture of wood. The Chow Mein tasted funny. The photos I took may look appetizing, but don't let that convince you. The dumplings were flavorless. It's a hit or miss. Not sure how it got such a high rating, since our experience was so dismissal. I don't plan on coming back. read more

The food here was terrible. Orange chicken was extremely dry, chewy, and completely bland. The eggplant was also very bland. Fried rice was okay but they skimp on the chicken/protein in their dishes. Overall 1 star and there's better options nearby. read more

Pretty good place for some chinese food! All of the dishes we got were well portioned and had plenty of flavor. I'd definitely recommend coming here for dinner sometime. read more

My friend recommended this place for our double date, and while the exterior doesn't look much, they offer great quality of food! Definitely one of the best Chinese restaurants we have tried in East Bay! read more

I was so excited to try this from all of the great reviews. I had the strangest experience here. I was brought water and I ordered. Barly milk tea, scallion pancakes and spicy pork vermicelli. She brought me out the tea and after she walked away, a friendly cockroach crawled onto my table and my water glass. I guess he was exploring. I grabbed the attention of the waitress, I didn't want to alarm the entire restaurant. As this happened, I really just wanted to leave. She picked up the roach with my water glass in her BARE HANDS. She went to the kitchen, moved me to another table and brought out my food. I wanted to leave! I felt sick! She came and said "on the house, this will be on the house" I knew I didn't want to eat but here was the food and so. I sat and took 3 bites. The vermicelli had an offputting smell. I kept mixing it around and around and I never did find any pork! The scallion pancakes were oily and didn't have much of a flavor of anything. I received my bill. She meant my TEA was on the house. I paid $25 for food that I walked out with and threw in the TRASH. read more

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their twice cooked pork is so of the best i've ever eaten. it's very oily but just so good. read more

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Supreme broth is amazing! Good portions for the price. Spicy in itself. I like to get extra spicy.

Even though Lulu's seems to specialize in spicy, Szechuan-style dishes, I'd still recommend it to people who, like me, can't take a lot of heat. I've been able to try a variety of dishes here and have never had a problem finding non-spicy options. Here are some of my favorites: xiao long bao (8) - 7.95 soup rice noodle (beef stew; not spicy) - 8.95 steamed pork ribs with sweet rice - 13.95 rice dumpling in sweet rice wine (small) - 6.96 The choices above were good for lunch with two other friends. It was my first time trying the rice dumpling dessert and I really, really liked it. It wasn't too sweet and had only the slightest hint of rice wine. The dumplings themselves had a smooth black sesame filling that made for an interest combination of flavors altogether. Parking can be tough since there are quite a few other restaurants and shops in this little plaza, but I've always managed to find at least one or two spots. In any event, this place is worth circling around a little bit for, especially since you don't have to drive down further to the even more crowded Ulferts Center. read more

I have to say that the hot and sour soup was very good. Highly recommend to check out if you're in the area! read more

Lulu's Kitchen - Call and 1. Chef's Special Hot & Sour Soup - Szechuan Near Me - Dublin, California

I'm writing another review on this establishment. In my opinion, this is the best Chinese in this area. Good is great, service is very good. Just a word of CAUTION: my waitress added 15% tip and tried to hide it. Although i saw it and left 20% anyways. It's hard times and people risk their health in service industry. Just be aware. I'll continue going there anyways. read more

We wanted to try Fiery Shanghai but after sitting down and presented with 1000's of options, we decided to stand and go to Lulu's. We ordered shrimp fried rice, preserved meat fried rice, mapo tofu, beef noodles, sizzling squid and tea duck. All was good except for the duck, not for us. Will definitely come back. read more

I used to love this restaurant but when i found pincher bugs in it, i took it right back. Lulus kitchen is grungy and dirty looking. I will never return. Get better Lulus kitchen, get better. read more

I went out on a limb today and ate a dish well out of my comfort zone. I ordered frog legs in a special sauce. Just a hint of spice but very flavorful. Only spicy when I bit into a jalapeno. Delicious. Tasted just like chicken. In fact, they looked like very mini chicken wings. The drumette was very meaty. The rest of the leg had some meat but was super tiny. The only downer, there were plenty of tiny bones making the dish hard to eat. Just pop a piece in your mouth, chew carefully then spit out the bones. Great to try once but not different enough to be worth the effort. Just cook up some chicken wings in the same sauce and I would be just as happy. Also got the dry fried string beans. Despite the chilies in the dish, very mildly spiced. Perfectly cooked to "crisp tender." Yummy. Lulu's Kitchen is great for adventurous eaters, not afraid to try unique food normally not found on the American dinner table. Otherwise, don't bother. Skip their attempts at Americanized Chinese food, most are listed in the menu under the exotic section. It can be too much trouble working one's way through the menu to find the gems. read more

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I was super excited to try this restaurant as a friend recommended it. My family LOVES Chinese food and we have been looking for a good place to go to in Dublin. Unfortunately, we were HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED. We ordered: * orange chicken - no orange flavor; chicken was tough * pan fried green beans - best dish; good amount of spice but was greasy * beef with celery - beef was very rubbery and celery was tough * pork shoulder with ginger glaze - skin was very fatty and glaze had no ginger flavor *chicken chow mein- no vegetable and very greasy I'm sorry to say that we will not be ordering from LuLu's again. :( read more

This place is AMAZING!! I ate here a few days ago and I ate the Sheng Jian Bao and Yang Zhou fried rice. My sister and brother ordered noodle dishes and they loved it and agreed they give SO much food! Everything is SO delicious and the portions are very nice. Aside from this, the lady at the cashier was so friendly and nice :). I will definitely be coming back. I wish I lived closer as this is a 30 minute drive from me.. Either way, I definitely may drive here sometimes simply for their delicious food! They deserve 5 stars completely. read more

This is a new little gem in the dublin area! It used to be a zazang noodle place and now it transformed to a stylish szechuan restaurant. Decided to give it a try on the last day of the lunar year - because all the chinese restaurants were fully booked. We were lucky that a table left so we got seated within 5 minutes. There were a lot of dishes that we wanted to try but since we only have 3 people we can only ordered so much. We had the "saliva chicken", a tofu dish, a steam fish dish and the glutinous rice with spare ribs. Out of all the dishes, we loved the steam fish the most. Not the typical cantonese style steam fish, but steamed fish fillet over tofu, topped with a mixture of diced veges in hot sauce. I forgot the name of the dish but the picture will tell how good it was! All the food was good, even the dessert - glutinous rice ball with osmanthus wine sweet soup. Definitely give it a try if you are around the area! read more

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YES, this is EXACTLY the restaurant the Tri-Valley needed. Binky and I NEVER eat Chinese food (even tho it's Binky's favorite) because we do not often find very good restaurants in our area. Lulu's had been on my radar when it first opened but I soon forgot about it in the midst of the hustle and bustle of everyday life. LUCKILY, a friend recommended the restaurant, prompting Binky and I to visit for dinner last night. Firstly, Lulu's Kitchen offers OPTIONS GALORE -- Binky and I went WAY overboard with ordering (we ordered FOUR dishes for TWO people -- obviously, we were a little too excited...). 1. XiaoLong Bow: Binky and I had heard rumors that Lulu's xiaolong bow were the best to be had in the area (although, admittedly, not the highest standard...). Nevertheless, Binky and I were truly excited to try their bow, considering that xialong bow have been HYPED LIKE ALL HELL these past few years in the bay (causing Binky and I to be more disappointed than not...). I'm happy to report that Lulu's bow did NOT disappoint -- the broth inside the dumplings was HEAVENLY (wish they had put more soup inside the dumplings, best part), the skin was thick and each dumpling contained a big portion of meat. 2. DanDan Noodle: YUM, the sauce was PERFECT (not too salty, thank God), tasted so good over the noodles, beef, and bak choy. 3. Tea Smoked Duck: (~20 dollars for half order since they charge by "market prices") My least favorite of all the dishes we ordered. Admittedly, I'm not SUPER big on duck and Lulu's was good (strong tea flavor, tender pieces of duck) BUT I did think the meat was a little on the salty side. 4. Sauteed Lotus Root w/ Chili: I don't even like lotus that much and this turned out to be my favorite dish we ordered. The chili spice was SOOOOOOO good on the lotus (CAN NOT EVEN DESCRIBE HOW DELICIOUS IT WAS). This dish has single-handedly made me rethink the lotus root. MUST TRY. Overall, WE LOVED THIS RESTAURANT. I wish we had ordered some plain rice, or some less flavorful vegetable because ALL of our dishes were SEASONED to the max -- I had to drink TONS of tea to balance the flavors. HOWEVER, 10/10 WOULD RECOMMEND -- it's not everyday you come across a good Chinese restaurant in the Tri-Valley. . read more

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The waiter was very rude and unprofessional . The flavors of the dishes were not authentic Sichuan after the pandemic. I guess the original chefs left and now is a new chef who changed the way how to cook. Not worth trying. Thanks read more