FuLoon Restaurant

I just finished a New Years takeout dinner from Fuloons and have to say the experience was top notch. We ordered the duck, hot and sour soup, the vegetable and chicken soup with the pan fried noodles, the house fried rice and the steamed dumplings. Every item of food was savory and delicious, particularly the duck and the dumplings. The only thing that was missing was the sauce that goes on the duck wraps but aside from that it was a very satisfactory experience.
As a side note, we ordered the food two days in advance because of the duck’s need for preparation and it was only couple minute wait for the time we scheduled the pickup. All in all, I am impressed with Fuloons execution and after the meal was left a happy and fulfilled boy.

Best SIchuan food in Boston!!!
Ordered the sichuan style beef which was swimming in oil and chilis, cabbage sour and spicy, mapo tofu and they were all incredible.
Come here if you want amazing Sichuan food. Don’t come here if you want to eat orange chicken and a crab rangoon and have the waitstaff dote on you. That’s not how great Chinese restaurants roll.

My fiancé and I went here because we wanted some Chinese food. We don’t live to far so we headed over. Parked on the side road and went in. We were not greeted right away when walking in. A young woman with long black hair grabbed two menus, raised up two fingers and we thought to just follow. We go into the main room, and there is no one eating there at all. We proceeded to sit and look at the menu. Place is incredibly cheap. 2.75 for beer, 4.95 for cocktail ! I was going to order a cocktail but when the waitress (same woman) came to take our order her iPhone started ringing and she seemed annoyed that we were still ordering /​asking questions. She only spoke a small amount of English too.
We ordered an order of scallion pancakes, tofu with veggies, and shrimp in lobster sauce.
The scallion pancakes were great, nice and crunchy.
The tofu was delicious, veggies (green peppers) were very hard and crunchy– appeared to not be cooked throughly.
The shrimp with lobster sauce was delicious. Great amount of shrimp.
3 stars based on food. Would definitely order take out or delivery (not sure if they deliver)
The atmosphere of this restaurant is incredibly awkward. It’s very dark, and furniture is all ripped up. Seems just gross. Waitress very rude. I honestly wish my fiancé didn’t leave the tip that he did.

One one comes to mind, YUCK. When you think of that gross salty greasy MSG chinese food… this place comes to mind. Service was friendly unlike others experience, but VERY slow. Came here for lunch and waited forever for my food. It was expensive for the quality. Also I was clearly ordering lunch for one and ordered an entrée and a side of rice. Low and behold the entrée I ordered came with rice. It would have been nice to have been informed. I was stuck with awful food and a ton of rice with slow service and paid more than I wanted to for the quality of food. 1 Star!

Worst service ever and the waitress even verbal abused me for not giving her enough tip…
Never went there again after that experience!

Should have read the Unilocal reviews before coming here. The service and food were both awful; possibly the worst Chinese I’ve had, I’m sad to say.
I came for lunch and ordered the green beans from the lunch specials menu. The waitress didn’t ask me about my choice of other options and I had to flag her down to ask for soup. When the green beans came out (less than a minute later), she grabbed one crab rangoon (which I don’t like anyway) and the soup from the buffet. I rarely eat at buffets because I typically don’t find them that fresh. So, although when you first enter they give you the choice of eating from the buffet or ordering, you’re having buffet food either way. :/​
All of the ordering stuff wouldn’t have mattered much if the food was good. However, the rice and green beans were the consistency of stale leftovers, waaaaaay over-​salted, and tasted like someone had been smoking and ashed into the dish. Yum!
Definitely do not recommend.

This place is pretty good. Food is amazing, and prices are very reasonable. My wife loves this place.

Weird to read the varying reviews about this place. I really enjoyed the mapo tofu and vinegar cabbage dish here. I went during lunch time and it was also empty, but the food was oh so delicious. Spicy, greasy food, just the way it should be.

I went there last weekend, The duck is great, but other food just ok.
When this restaurant first opened in 2005-​06?, it was very excellent, this chef from famous Beijing hotel. It’s good from 2006−2010…But after that, food quality has gone down ever since… and customer service not so good…

Where was the taste? Everything tasted kind of strange. May be someone used bleach on the dishes and didn’t rinse them properly. I don’t know what was wrong, but my meal was not enjoyable. And my Chinese in-​laws clearly stated that they do not wish to return to FuLoon. So the verdict is: not authentic, not good, not acceptable.

Major let down!
I’ve been waiting until I had an appointment in Boston to venture up here and out of the culinary wasteland (Cape Cod) for some authentic Chinese cuisine. Especially, after reading a glowing report on the «Serious Eats» food blog.
I don’t know who was cooking the night we were here, but my guess it wasn’t the much lauded chef I read about. If it was him, a vacation might be in order!
First off, the entire restaurant was empty at 7pm on a summer weeknight. I wondered if this was a bad omen, but let it pass. But – it’s summer, a hot evening, and instead of a/​c they simply opened the front door. Really? I expected to sweat at least a little from the spice. ;)
But…the food ranged from barely spiced to downright bland. Maybe they saw me, the redhead, and toned everything down, thinking I couldn’t take it? Ha!
Chive pancakes was the only thing worth some praise.
The first bite of our sizzling chicken dish (described as succulent slices of chicken, green pepper and onion with special sauce) I met a chunk of gristle. Didn’t matter as the sauce was flavorless and we left most uneaten. Nothing special here.
The food blog said the hot and sour cabbage was the surprise on their visit. Not the night we were there with no heat, barely a taste of vinegar on the overcooked cabbage. Darn. I make this better in my own wok.
Some other Unilocalers complained about the waitress with the long hair… Not my experience at all. She couldn’t have been friendlier or nicer. Only wish the food was better!

Great Chinese food, authentic and delicious. I am impressed with their decision to place the chopsticks on the table, instead of the folks and knifes. The whole place is nothing but a good Chinese restaurant, and defines how it should be in the US.

YUMMMMMMY.
Super authentic food here.
Faves include:
Braised pork shoulder (drool)
Steamed fish (in a variety of flavors… Spicy, soy sauce, etc)
Tofu knots with pork (I forget the actual name but that’s what I remember it looking like)
Tea smoked duck
To be honest almost everything I’ve tried here is great. They aren’t afraid to pile on the spice, either.
The menu also has a bunch of pictures for easy ordering haha. Everything looks so damn good in the menu too so it can be difficult.
Service is quick and friendly enough.
Reading other reviews on the service, I felt kinda bad for the lady they mentioned.
I have actually had her as my server several times (it’s really either her or the owner for the most part) and I’ve always found her service to be good.
Well I definitely like the place. I’m kinda craving it now. I may have to make a stop in there tonight for dinner =)

Terrible food (how can you really mess up shrimp and steamed veggies?!), slow as molasses service. Word of advice, never go with a large group during lunch. It will take about 3 hours to get your food, even if it’s empty in there. Thankfully, we called ahead to order for a group of 15. It was still slow.
I will not be coming back.

The best actual Sichuan food in Boston, some of the best I’ve had outside of Asia. Mandarin cabbage, cucumber, spicy chicken, steamed beef, mapo dofu — ALL of it was very good. As always, stick to the proper meals and avoid the Americanized dishes.
Cheap as hell. Two very hungry people and left with half our food for $ 65 (that includes half a dozen beers).
Kitchen speed: VERY fast. Although admittedly we went at a low service time.
Service: ABSOLUTELY FINE. It won’t be your thing if you feel like you have the peculiarly American desire for the the wait-​staff to be your best friend, though.
Décor: very 80s, but find it very difficult to care, it’s a Chinese restaurant.
Lastly: I don’t understand the negative reviews — tastes pickled, too salty, too oily, too dry, etc. … it’s Sichuan food, it isn’t sweet and sour pork! Ordering steamed beef and complaining that it’s too hot or too oily is ridiculous, it’s like buying a Chieftain tank to drive to work, and then complaining about the gas mileage.
If you get a spicy chicken, expect to see 40 (not a misprint) dried chilies in it. Expect a quarter-​inch of oil ontop of some of the cooked dishes. Sichaun food is usually VERY hot, oily, seasoned, and a lot of ingredients are salted or vinegar-​pickled. This is not some horrible mistake the restaurant makes, it’s exactly how the food is supposed to be.
We live an hour away, and it was absolutely definitely worth the trip.

I’ve been to this place several times. Their food has always been greasy and over seasoned. But it’s OK. I didn’t expect to much. Sometimes I just want to grab some fast food near my house.
But today’s experience will make me never go back again. I ordered a beef chow fun. The beef tasted like rotten. The noodle was very very salty with too much soy sauce. This is most gross Chinese food I’ve ever had. Finally, I left all the beef on the plate when I leave.

A friend said that this place had excellent szechuan and I was not disappointed.
We had the pickled cucumbers, yuxiang eggplant, spicy and sour cabbage, ma pao tofu, and dandan noodles. Dishes are served family style.
The ma pao tofu and dandan noodles were well prepared and tasty, though they didn’t blow me away. I would say the ma pao tofu was a little bland for my taste. The eggplant and the cabbage dishers, however, were absolutely delightful. The cabbage had a wonderful flavor and a subtle crunchiness. I could have eaten the whole plate. Watch to avoid biting into the peppers if you’re sensitive to spice! The eggplant was lightly sauteed and had a delicious sauce that brough out the eggplant flavor without being too salty or too spicy.
I don’t live anywhere near Malden but I will be returning to FuLoon for more of their delicious veggie dishes!

The restaurant is unassuming with no frills and a quiet atmosphere, but the food is delicious. The wontons in hot oil is my favorite dish along with the crispy diced chicken with red peppers. The food arrived promptly after ordering and was fresh. The only downside is that the restaurant charges for a bowl of rice regardless of the dishes ordered. Typically, restaurants will give at least one bowl of rice with each entrée free of charge.
If you are in the Malden area and looking for authentic szechuan food then this is the place to go. Boston’s chinatown has very good alternatives as well — spicy fish at Gourmet Dumpling House and Sichuan Garden.

Their lunch buffet seemed to have food left over from a gas station in Alabama. The noodles were hard, most of the items missing and the staff was non-​existent.
Heaven forbid you ask for them to stock the lunch buffet– in the middle of lunch. You can’t pay me enough to eat here again.

Keep away from this place. I had the worst dining experience ever!
Food sucks! The waitress with damn long hair verbal abused me for not giving her tips. Yeah, you are not getting it because your service sucks!