Joy Luck

We come here for takeout at least once a month, mainly because there are no other choices for Chinese takeout in the area. The key is to find dishes you like and stick with them, as if a dish isn’t good, it’s not going to get any better (perhaps that explains the wide range of stars for this place). On the plus side, they are very good about changing a menu item for you, ie making it with a different sauce, or with a different meat/​tofu. I would not recommend eating in, as the atmosphere is nothing to write home about. It’s a small place, in a small town and we come here often enough, for long enough, that you would think they would at least acknowledge they know us when we come in, but no.
Basically, a decent (or only) close option if you don’t want to cook and want takeout Chinese.

Fake, gross and too much MSG in their food. I do not recommend it. The general tho, is not formally made right. And their fried rice? Looks like it just came out of a microwave. They’re too American base and not Asian base. So disappointed.

I don’t like giving bad reviews but this is one Chinese restaurant I will never revisit. The taste was ok but I just didn’t feel compelled to finish my meal or take home left overs. I wish I’d have gone next door to. the Axe Café. Having been to a lot of great chinese restaurants before, I knew what I’m comparing to but I’ve also been to a lot of fast food joints where I’ve enjoyed my meal a lot more.

This is another place we’ve been eating at for years. Apparently it has changed ownership twice in that period, but I’ll be honest the food changed so little I didn’t even know it was a different place. It’s just your typical Americanized Chinese restaurant in a strip mall. That’s why I’m giving it four stars, even though I don’t think the food is all that great. The food is exactly what you’d expect, and once you’ve eaten in one of these types of restaurants you’ve eaten in them all. One person in a review of another restaurant said that all the food here tasted the same, and I think that’s close but not entirely accurate. Basically from what we’ve had there is food with a slightly sweet sauce, food with a more savory sauce, and noodles. For what it is it’s just fine. If you want authentic Chinese food, you’re in the wrong city, and the wrong peninsula for that matter. If you want surprisingly good Asian food try the Thai place down the street.
Other comments. (1) For the price you get a LOT of food, and for Americanized Chinese food it’s perfectly acceptable. (2) The «staff» isn’t incredibly friendly or efficient, but that seems to be a trend in Kingston restaurants.

A lot of stars down because of the service and the place. It’s a really dirty restaurant kind of in the middle of a random shopping market. When we ordered, the waitress seemed to understand what we wanted but we got two extra of one dish when we only wanted one. We asked for her to take it back but she said she would make the extra half off since the kitchen already made it. We didn’t want it! She left it on our table anyways and stopped cooking one of our other orders. That was just a disaster…
The food was okay. Nothing too amazing. We got the beef chow fun and Shanghai noodles — very strong curry flavor. Honey walnut prawns were average, just like where you’d normally get them. The lunch sweet and sour chicken was awful, I think if the sauce was improved that would have made the dish better.
I wouldn’t come here again. Been to plenty better Chinese restaurants.

Fairly tasteless food with a lot of carbohydrates hard to find vegetables and sparse on the meats. Without a competing Asian restaurant in 10 mile radius these folks have no motivation to improve their quality what a shame!

After trying this restaurant again, we found the food to be pretty good. The garlic prawns were tasty and the egg foo young was fresh and flavorful. Nothing exotic, but the vegetables were fresh and the flavors were good.

My fiancé and I love this place. Great food & quick service. Very tasty Mongallion Beef & Sweet n Sour pork.

My family loves visiting this restaurant. The food taste great and the service is fantastic. We love the sweet and sour chicken lunch meal and the serving size is pretty large. The wonton soup is reasonably priced and includes BBQ pork. I would recommend this restaurant.

We got an order to go, and everything was a notch or two up from what else is available in Northern Kitsap.
The Pork Fried Rice, Mongolian Beef, and Barley noodles were particularly tasty.

This is now again Joy Luck, with no luck. A few more traditional items like Barley Noodles or Salt & Pepper Squid are pretty good, but most of the items are Americanized, (old) greasy, overly sweet & gooey. Much the same as it was pre-​2008.
King Dragon was funkier, but had much better dishes.

I often eat here with my sisters. We all love the green handmade noodles you can get. The menu has all the classics, and a few things that are special to joy luck. The girls who serve are very young and sweet (I am assuming that they are the children of the owners or something) the prices are standard, atmosphere is a little on the dingy side but not to bad. I am very satisfied with the overall experience. Will continue to go back.

Good food, reasonably priced. General Tsao’s was tasty and spicy, ordered with shrimp and got lots of shrimp which weren’t battered before being cooked. Bonus points! Tried green barley noodles which were recommended. They are awesome! Definitely going to order that again. Hot and sour was ok, wish it had been more spicy. Didn’t love the pot stickers or egg rolls, but willing to try again or other apps before making a definitive decision. Looks family owned and love to support it. Better than any other Chinese food in the area that we’ve tried.

Food was SICK.
Cheese wontons– tasted stale and sweet. *I would venture to say that there wasn’t cream cheese in the filling, it was more along the lines of frosting.
Fried rice, was ok… but didn’t taste fresh at all. I picked all of my chicken out of the rice because it tasted underdone and looked pink.
Veggie Chicken dish, also ok… but not anything I would go back for.
I will NEVER return again.

Update: May, 2013
Having heard that they changed owners again, I’ve returned twice. MUCH improved. I’ve had the cheese wontons, twice-​cooked pork, General Tso, potstickers, and shrimp rolls, and all were decent, even tasty. Nothing spectacular, but it’ll sate a craving for Chinese. They get serious bonus points for my being able to order ahead on the Internet.
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This is the original restaurant to occupy the space. The King Dragon leased the space from them from 2008 – 2012 but lost the lease in July, 2012, so the Joy Luck returned.
I wasn’t that big a fan of the King Dragon, so I was hopeful that the change of hands would be an improvement. It is not. I ordered the cream cheese wontons, the potstickers, and the General Tso chicken, and all three dishes were pasty to the point of being gummy. These are not adjectives one normally associates with food, let alone three such disparate dishes, yet here we are. They were pasty. They tasted plain odd. The wontons, particularly, were inedible. After I’d eaten four, my jaw was actually getting tired from chewing their gumminess. Simply inedible.