Royal Fortune Szechuan Restaurant

Peppering Chicken. Leaving comment while eating lunch by myself saturday valentines day food was very good and dirt cheap 6.99 for chicken dish w rice w my choice of hot n sour soup get lots of rice and chicken great place to go for a tasty cheap meal

Yummy and great lunch specials. $6.99 Lunch Special but closed Wednesdays,<br/ <br/ I love the following:<br/ Peppering Chicken<br/ Ginger Beef<br/ Sizzler Beef<br/ Mongolian Beef<br/ Chicken Corn Soup<br/ Sweet Sour Soup<br/ Green Beans Szechuan Style<br/ <br/ These are new owners who have been around for 4 months or so. they are friendlier and the quality of food is excellent.

To be fair, this cannot be a review of the food, because we were never served any and and did not eat. Thursday. Lunchtime. The place is packed. Good sign. We wait for a table. Not one look from the staff. After I say ''for two'' I get a weird look which seem to indicate ''why are you here ?''. We get a table. Plates pass by on their way to other table. Looks delicious and promising. 15 minutes pass, I have to ask for tea because they brought the cups, but not the teapot. 40 minutes later, a waitress ask one of us to move one of the chair to accomodate a large group. 15 minutes later, still no food. Total wait: 55 minutes. Time to go back to work with an empty stomach. Morality, when you cater only to tour groups, don't bother have a restaurant open to the public. You don't need the public, and the public doesn't need you.

What can I say? The place is a buzz with Chinese families eating out. That is the best recommendation.

Just north of King Edward Avenue on Fraser, in the Fraser neighborhood, or Kensington, depending on which map you use, sits the small and unassuming Royal Fortune Szechuan Asian restaurant. It's easy to spot with its red and yellow facade, but the real treat lies inside. I've been to probably a dozen or more Asian restaurants over the years in Vancouver and Richmond, a suburb, but this is the best. Not just the best moderately priced place (we four ate for about $100 total), nor the best inside the city itself, but the best. I've never had better ginger beef. The prawns and cashew stir fry was just great. And a rice and vegetable dish we had, served with lettuce wraps, was tasty without being filling. If you want atmosphere then try somewhere else, but if you want the best Asian food available in greater Vancouver, in a neighborhood that's developing a whole scene devoted to ethic restaurants, this is it.