R house is a family staple of mine. I grew up eating here and I can say it is still the same after many years! No frills, chinese restaurant - dare I say it's a hole in the wall. It does get busy sometimes especially during peak hours and there are only two servers so service can be a bit slow, but usually it's fine. Before I get into the food review, do note..it's not the most clean place. Now, the food! Yummy, just go at the right time (sometimes if you go between lunch and dinner like around 3... the oil is not fresh/new so it's oily and you can taste the old oil) 1) Salt and pepper fish fillet - Amazing, very nicely fried and lightly battered. It is not heavy. It is seasoned well, flavorfully salty and peppery with some jalapenos (yes, it's spicy if you eat the peppers). The fish feels fresh and not fishy. Tender with a nice slight crunch from the fried battered outside. 2) Sauteed string beans with minced pork - Delicious, especially eaten with rice to sop up the flavor from the minced pork and pickled veggies. The string beans are flavorful. It is a salty, savory, slightly sweet flavor with the right crunch on the green bean. I have also tried their other items, but the above two are the ones I come back to time and time again. Things I've tried: General Tso, Hot and Sour Soup, Mongolian Beef. read more

This place popped up as a contender for best lunch spot in Chinatown. I had visited over a decade ago with mediocre results. With the insanely inexpensive prices for lunch specials, it's no wonder it's a popular spot. I appreciate the large selection and nice portions on the lunch menu. There's a nice selection of Cantonese and American Chinese dishes to choose from at a great price. I've been a couple times recently and tried a few items, including fried sole, salt and pepper squid, sweet and sour pork, beef with onions, salt and pepper tofu, and hot and spicy, shrimp and eggs, chicken and shrimp. First off, please on please pass on that sweet and sour pork. That sauce is just gross. I'm sorry. It was all sweet with no sour. I was able to somewhat improve it by dousing it in vinegar, but this dish was one of the worst dishes I've ever ordered.... period. Not sure why people on Yelp praise it. I think most Asians will want to throw this dish out the window. The rest of the dishes were average to pretty good. The whole fried sole is probably the most popular dish. I also really enjoyed the salt and pepper tofu, eggs and shrimp, and the hot and spicy chicken and shrimp for lunch. At $6.50 a dish, this is probably the most bargain deal lunch special. Service is friendly but a bit lacking. They aren't super attentive. Both visits, we had to remind them to bring out our drinks after the food was already served, and both visits we had dishes that arrived at the table way later after we were halfway done with the previous dishes. Can see myself returning though for a nice freshly cooked inexpensive lunch, which they serve on the weekends as well. The dinner prices are really fair as well. read more

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Came here for lunch on a Wednesday morning with a men's group, and heard many good reviews about this place. It's always nestled next to King Bakery (which has some great Chinese pastries), and I've heard of the value for the price you pay for the food, so let's check it out! We came across the lunch menu that has some great dishes at only $7-$8 from 11am-3pm, super great deal for the amount of food that you get! Most of the food was good, I'll tell you what we ordered: Salt and Pepper Squid - Delicious! Eggplant with Garlic Sauce - nice vegetable dish! Chinese Broccoli with Oyster Sauce - Nice crunch and taste Salted and Pepper Pork Chop - nice and tender! Mixed Vegetable with Beef - good amount of both and it's tasty! With these dishes at $6.50, you can't go wrong! Only concern I had is the lack of waiting staff. You go inside and seat yourself, but there was only one waitress and everyone else was in the kitchen. Be prepared to wait! Arrive early!! read more

Came here because of good reviews, walk out disappointed. It is one of the few restaurants that open late. Fried rice and noddle are very good. You can tell they cook it from scratch and high heat. But the beef taste like a week old. Sweet and sour pork should be easy to make, but they still manage to mess it up. Sauce is bland, gallons of red dye in the sauce. Meat is thin and mostly cover in batter. Pineapple is like a month old. Brisket pot was a bowl of fat. Just get fried rice or stir fry noodles if you decide to come here. read more

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One of the older Cantonese restaurant in Houston where the price is still fair and big portion, you will feel like home here. The steamed flounder fish was really good, the snow pea leafs was good also. No thrill and no frill Chinese restaurant. read more

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Wow, wish we knew about this place earlier! Their lunch prices are unbelievable. There are dozens of entrees for just $6.50 each. And it's available every day of the week including weekends. What about the portions? You would expect lunch-size portions with a bowl of rice. Nope, they give you the whole plate of entree - something you would only expect for dinner, with rice separately in a container. What about the taste and quality? It was frankly quite good - definitely better than we were expecting for the price and quantity. How do they even make money? The service was adequate, and the interior is not fancy. However, if you prioritize value, this place can't be beat. We will be back! read more

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Food is great. Still open late night. Very reasonable price. Wait time might take a lil while but their lunch specials' pricing is awesome and food is on par. Love this place! read more

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Before you head out that way, just know that once you order it takes about 45 minutes to get your food, but the food is amazing. Service is kind of slow. The ambience is like a Chinese restaurant and the prices are average. read more

R House - Egg and shrimp - Cantonese Near Me - Houston, Texas

R House is one of my go-to's for late night less-than-glamorous Cantonese food. Like many of the Canto options in Chinatown, the food is neither exceptional nor terrible, but perfectly passable when it's past midnight. Similarly to their neighbor FuFu Cafe, they are open late daily and have been a reliable source of seafood, carbs, and all of the above. As per usual, the English name has nothing to do with the Chinese name. R House is likely a play on words for "Our House" but the Chinese name 華洋 (Wah Yeung) is extremely common for Canto establishmens. Wah/Hua for Chinese and Yang/Yeung for foreign, makes for a fitting name especially for being in the US. The place is very modest, with handful of round tables and a very dated decor. The bathrooms are a bit on the less appealing side and the parking is vast due to being inside of DunHuang Plaza. Somehow the later it gets, the more likely I'll come across a ton of tables where dishes from previous parties remain. The food is affordable and the portions are solid. I don't think anything stands out frankly, but when they're versatile enough to handle most dishes. Avoid the soups and anything intricate with the stir fry (wok hei is a tinge weak). I have stuck to noodle dishes, as well as stir fried stuff like egg and shrimp and even beef chow fun and it's been a reliable choice. The staff speaks Cantonese and is very old school. I don't know how long places like this will last in today's Chinatown, but I really do hope that it'll remain a solid option for years to come. read more

Food is good but service is bad. Takes a while to get noticed. Even with many empty tables. You need to go grab your own menu and try to find someone to actually take your order round 10pm. Round 10:30 pm you need to grab your own plates and silverware. Round 11:00pm remind them to see if they put in your order. Hopefully your food comes out before 11:30pm. Don't think we will come back. Oh by the way, around 11:15 our waitress told us they don't have some items available and if we would like to order. read more

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We stumble thru this place by mistake, we were looking for another business that was right next to them but had move recently iykyk, however once we realize that we were not on our usual spot we said why not and gave it a try, and honestly it didn't disappoint, decent size portions, it was decent no complains read more

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The price is reasonable. I came on Thursday around 1 PM. I wait for 30 minutes as many customers stated this is only one or two waiter/waitress. So be prepare and be patient for your food at this location. read more

Looking for a late night food place for Congee. Saw that this was supposed to have good congee. When I arrived, around 10 pm, all the tables were empty. Compared to the cafe beside it that was full. Thought i would give it a try since somebody said their congee was one of their specialities. I found the congee underwhelming. They did serve it hot.... Freshly made even but nothing to write home about. There were small chopped up pieces of pork and century egg. If you compare to the congee from the dimsum places, those were much better. Place is bright. Staff was nice. Will go back to my old late night place just beside it. read more

R House - Pork with preserved egg congee - Cantonese Near Me - Houston, Texas

Prices are unbeatable!! Open late which is great!! Really solid Chinese food! Can't go wrong here read more

R House - Cantonese Near Me - Houston, Texas

When I have the time I definitely go here to get their lunch special. I usually don't have a lot of time but when I do this is the place. Their lunch specials are great. I've had eggplant, salt and pepper shrimp, and other staples that are always fresh and made to order. read more

Food is always on point here. One of the best values around town; especially their lunch menu at $6.99. Service can be slow but the food and value is worth it if you're not in a hurry. read more

Cantonese dishes bring comfort as well as good taste. Also has extensive lunch menu. Quantity of food coincides well with price points. Service is okay considering limited wait staff, but worth the wait. read more

If you place an order over the phone in English they will acknowledge and confirm it, but totally dismiss it. When you get there they will deny ever receiving the order and even have the audacity to say you might have dialed the wrong number. At the same time, they can be observed attentively taking orders over the phone in Chinese. read more

The food was good for being Houston food choices.But definitely not the best for USA Top 100n There are better food in the world. I would still say worth trying if you are in Houston. read more

"Our house, in the middle of our street" Jokes aside, this place is a must try if you're stopping by Chinatown in Bellaire! The lunch special is incredible ($6.50 for most items)! This mom and pop shop delivers full, authentic Cantonese flavors with every dish I've had. Every order also comes with a to-go boxed packed to the brim with rice. I had an excellent to-go experience and the lady taking my orders was very sweet! I'll be back to try the fried fish next time. Great place to eat all around although the restaurant itself is a bit small. read more

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Variety of Cantonese main dishes and "rice plates" at hole-in-the-wall (former R House) in Don Huang Plaza

Our House aka 華洋 'R House Restaurant has been my last night go-to place for many years. There was no exceptions on January 1st, 2022. Just the turn of calendar from a chaotic year of pandemic. I have been craving for soup and noodles. I think R House got what I needed. The menu had everything from a typical Cantonese restaurant. Employee was fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. It was very easy to communicate. I noticed spaghetti in the menu. He explained it was Cantonese style with typical chow mein topping. It got me so interested because no one on Yelp reviews except for the first review from 2011 had mentioned spaghetti dish. It must be popular. He said they were sold out. I wonder if it was a new year's traditional food. Ok, I'll come back to try it later. I patiently waited for my stir fried seafood chow mein, shrimp fried rice and mixed vegetables soup. The dining room was filled up halfway. They were not in a hurry to clean up the table which I was sitting. They got many round tables with lazy Susie in the middle for family style dining. My order was takeout. When I got home, few hungry mouths were already looking at the chow mein. For me, the noodles were good. Seafood was fresh. But flavor was a miss. Fried rice was kind of bland but it was easily fixable. The soup... OMG... Lots of veggies in the little bit of soup. I think the container was too small. It got lots of green veggies cooked to perfection and soup was really flavorful. On my next visit, I'll order the same soup because I want to compare with my takeout experience. And, of course, stir fried seafood spaghetti - to have a fair comparison with chow mein. I'll update you on the photos. read more

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Not sure what to think, The staff are nice, the food for me is kind of plain but the white rice is delicious! Its so fluffy! What I didn't like is that for sweet tea they don't have refills, they do charge you and the place doesn't look that clean. They don't have croutons for the egg drop soup either. The restrooms are not clean at all. It has more Cons than Pros, I wanted to form my opinion based on going and the reviews too, Glad I did. read more

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Dirty place. Price is cheap like the food. 3 out of 6 dishes order were either burnt or spoiled. Owner is a is super rude. Stay your a** in the back. 12:00 pm is to early to be arguing over $6 pork ribs that were hella spoiled. Come to this place if you want to get sick or catch a case. Rudest staff, probably worst in the kitchen with their spoiled/rotten food. read more

R House - Cantonese Near Me - Houston, Texas

First time here, came on Christmas day. Was busy but there were 3 tables open when we arrived so there was no wait. We ordered several dishes, according to my mom who's been here multiple times, the food is usually better, and the wait for the food isn't usually as long as it was today. We ordered the walnut mayo shrimp which only came with 6 shrimp. The white chicken barely had any meat and was a small portion to begin with. The garlic snow pea leaves were so so as there was a gelatinous substance on the veggies, apparently the corn starch wasn't mixed properly to make the sauce. The beef was also so so, not much taste. The toasted fish filet was probably the best of all the dishes. The sweet and sour chicken was decent too, it had a good batter on the outside and was moist on the inside. Overall i wasn't overly impressed with the food, but would come back on a regular day to give it another try. read more

R House - Cantonese Near Me - Houston, Texas

The lady that work in the front is soooooo dirty. She use sink water for the customer, she wear the same blue glove to hold everything I saw her pick up a dirty card board box she was stepping on and bring over people food, cleaning peoples plate, wipping the table handing people cash. So disgusting read more

Came on New Year's Day for lunch, and the restaurant was very short staffed with the owner waiting most of the tables. I asked for hot water, and she brought hot tea instead. We ordered several dishes including eggplant, green beans, rice noodles, tofu and shrimp. The mapo tofu was very disappointing, but other dishes were more palatable. With the lunch special, each dish was only 6.50, so it's a bargain but with mediocre service. read more

Very small please, very few customers in the Saturday afternoon when we came by. Clearly a family run business. I had the Cantonese Hong Kong style sweet-and-sour pork, and my husband have the fillet steak with black pepper and we both had curried beef fried rice. That was very good. That food was tasty and very inexpensive. The two ladies who served us were very nice and I hope they get more customers. It's in a great shopping center with many other places to eat including dessert places massage places. It's a good place to come for a date or a day of shopping and massages and eating. read more

R House - Restaurant inside with window - Cantonese Near Me - Houston, Texas

Horrible place! First time there and waited for a hour and 15 minutes for our food to come out. Food are super salty, and taste nasty, and no service because this restaurant is under staffed. ONLY one server took care the whole restaurant with BAD attitude. You must pay attention to your bill that the server also charged us extra hot tea that we did not order. By the way, the place is SUPER DIRTY! read more

The food is really good here, and the prices are amazing. The trade off is that you may have to wait a lot longer to get service and food as they run the restaurant with a limited staff. I do not recommend making an urgent appointment right after scheduling to eat here. I love all the salt and pepper dishes - I've tried the salt and pepper squid, fish, and tofu. All are delish!! Looking forward to heading back! read more

They were very rude since we walked in. although this might not sound so bad but when we asked for straws as we tried to grab them she proceeded to just throw them on the table. food was alright but not for what it cost. the place we some what sanitary but not for my liking tables were dirty. Didn't seem like they practiced any sanitation skills. To put the cherry on top as i went to pay instead of putting in 14.02 which is what one plate costed she charges my card for 400$! I'm sorry but are you kidding me how does that even happen on "mistake" I understand maybe 140$ ok cool but 400$ & then has the audacity to say oh it be in your bank in 3 business days. Yes I had the money but point is what if I had bills to pay or was saving that money for something important. overall worst experience never going back. read more

The restaurant is located in the Dun Huang Plaza, which arguably one of the most popular plazas in Houston's Chinatown. As such, you may need to be prepared to spend some time finding parking. The restaurant signage is above the store, but not easy to spot right at the front of the store. The feel of the restaurant is pretty casual, nothing too fancy. Has a decent low-key vibe to it (I wouldn't recommend coming here for a first date though lol). The restaurant can probably seat around 40-50 at full capacity. My party had come for the lunch specials which is served even on weekends. The dishes we got were okay. I was impressed at the price point (especially in this inflationary economy), but not at the quality of the food. Wasn't horrible, just not something I'd necessarily come back to, since there are so many other options in the area. I also was not a fan of how some of the dishes/utensils were not cleaned very well. I get that this can happen from time to time, but I did notice that there were a few things that were not clean just at our table. Finally, I didn't feel like the service here was particularly great. There were a few moments when the servers were bringing the food to our table where the interaction felt borderline rude from them. Again, I wasn't really surprised, but this does dock a few points from the overall score of the place. All in all, I'd come back if someone invited me to meet here, but this wouldn't be a place I'd recommend to others. read more

I was seriously craving some good ole crispy egg noodles nest and pan fried flat rice noodles in the middle of the night, and this place was one of the few that was still open (other places had early COVID closing time). We ordered the egg noodle nest with "happy family" meat combo of beef, chicken, and shrimp. We only wanted shrimps at first but the cashier told us that they only offer shrimps in that meat combo. The egg noodles were very crispy as it should be. They put the sauce in a separate container so the noodles wouldn't be soggy by the time we eat it. The sauce was just ok, a little too salty for my preference. Portion size was ok for the price. I was disappointed with the flat rice noodles because it didn't have the black-ish wok charred flavor that I was looking for. They just stir-fried the noodles. The sauce is the same as the egg noodles, which was a little too salty. read more

R House - Pan fried flat rice noodle with beef - Cantonese Near Me - Houston, Texas

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Maybe I went there at the wrong time of day and week. My friend and I came here for lunch on a Wednesday, and we ordered beef and broccoli and walnut shrimp from their lunch menu. My beef and broccoli is fine, but the walnut shrimp dish only came with 4 shrimps on a bed of shredded iceberg lettuce. It looked so sad, I get that inflation is really bad right now, but $6.95 for 4 shrimps are just sad and wrong on so many levels. I'm attaching a picture of the walnut shrimp the way it was served to us, before we touched it. Judge for yourself. read more

R House - $6.95 for this walnut shrimp dish. - Cantonese Near Me - Houston, Texas

Waited 40mins and no food being served. And to be informed that the dishes have been out of order

Food is good but the service is extremely poor! The wait time is extremely long and there usually only one waitress. Last time I came here I had to wait one hour to get my food read more

Most of the Cantonese food that we tried were good. We ordered the scallion pancakes, bo luc lac (shaking beef), and pork with tomatoes - all were good. My daughter ordered the udon soup and she said that it's really bland. We also had a dinner meeting there and ordered a lot of dishes that were mostly delicious. read more

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xenophobic! Beware to any Americans that want to eat here. They hold your cards and FORCE you to tip. My friend and I ate here today and the food was decent but when we went up to pay with our cards the woman swiped my friend's card (White American woman) and gave her the receipt and TOLD her to put a tip. Then the worker swiped my card (I'm a black American woman) and gave me my receipt and would NOT give me my card back until I circled a tip amount. I asked for my card back and reached to get it back and she pulled it away from me and told me I needed to tip. This also happened to my boyfriend when he ate there (Arab American man). She didn't do this to anyone else in the restaurant and they were all her own race so do what you will with that info! read more

Service was ok. However, we ordered the salt and pepper squid and it was burnt literally you see char marks. So she let us exchange it and we chose the pork ribs with peli sauce and it was spoiled!! We tried telling them and I was very discreet as I was trying to be considerate of other customers. Owner comes out yelled at me and said it supposed to be that way and I told her to try it and it made me puke. She just told me not to come back and finally after arguing they took it off our bill!! Even though I had such a horrible incident I still tipped the waiter as she did nothing wrong but the owner is foul and dirty just like the restaurant! This is not a restaurant I could recommend. DO NOT GO I am now sick. I didn't want to even give it star read more

Not a fancy place at all. But highly recommend for good old simple basic Cantonese dishes. Even on the weekends, they have their lunch specials which is $6.50 a plate and there were so many dishes to pick from. You can order as many dishes because they're not too big or small of size (average). Will be coming back for a good lunch spot. Would much go here for price and quality of food than FuFu Cafe for a simple lunch meal. Service is okay, may not be the prettiest place - like dishes can be chip and updated. But for what it is, it's a good deal for lunch specials. read more