Lucky Bento VIP Cuisine

This is a no holds bar, authentic Chinese spot. No frills, and it doesn't look like much from the outside. The interior is decently clean. We ordered a bunch of dishes and they're Northeast Chinese cuisine. All pretty good and it's decent portion size as well. Service is very minimal as per old school Chinese spots but it's reminiscent of the old fashioned style of dining out before Chinese cuisine got hipster. The sweet and sour pork is a solid dish and the the small intestine is cooked deliciously as well. The cumin lamb is another decent dish. Note: this is ridiculous but they charge you $1 per bowl of steamed rice. This is very atypical of any Chinese restaurant and also the rice is a bit soft/too much water added.Also note: we did spot a cockroach scurrying around the dining room.Nothing Michelin starred or fancy but it'll be home cooked Chinese food that will fill you up.

Hole in the wall Chinese restaurant focusing on Northeastern Chinese cuisine, which is hard to come by with all the trendy Sichuan Chinese food taking over H-town. Although not quite hit the spot for authentic Northeastern cuisine, the dishes are solid for the non-BS Chinatown home cook style and portion is decent for the price point. The owner also offered a free stir fried cabbage dish which turned out really good. However this place does charge for steam rice for $1/bowl, which is very uncommon for Chinese restaurants, we also saw a cockroach roaming around...

Awesome food tastes like heaven! Nice Services! Fast and easy! Say no more!!!Pork Belly

One of the most underrated restaurants in Chinatown! I came here for the first time on Christmas day, and then a second time a couple of weeks later with my family. You find some of the most delicious, quality and quantity food for an amazingly low price. You can tell that everything is freshly made, all of the incredible flavors are there, some of the best dishes I've had. Again, it makes it even better that they are also really low price! My family and I are huge eaters, we eat enough for a village lol. The last time we went we ordered 9 to 10 dishes for about five people, of course we had a lot to take her back home with us, but there is just such an incredible variety. We wanted to try everything. All of the meats were super juicy, everything was just so fresh in the flavors are there. Pretty immaculate. Apologies for some of the half eaten food pictures, I just couldn't wait to dig in I tried to take them at a better angle- whether or not I was successful... I may have read some earlier reviews of the place, not being as good, but I feel that they might have done something differently within the last couple of months of ownership, because again, this is a really great place to eat, and you have to come check it out at least once.We had incredible service, you have people constantly checking up on you, it gives a really good family feel, they have even asked us if things have tasted good each time I was here, you can tell it's not just transactional. Ambience is pretty great, they have a couple of different seating options. When you go in, there is a little bit of a limit to seating, since it's a little bit of a smaller place, totally worth coming in to. This place has quickly and easily become one of my favorite spots in Chinatown, again super underrated, so you have to come check it out!

This is as authentically Chinese restaurant as you can get. Only one server for the entire restaurant. Check. No water or tea for twenty minutes until you tell the aforementioned one server. Check. No real silverware and everyone is given plasticware instead. Check. Okay, the lack of silverware was kind of odd. I think it would be more economical to use actual silverware than plasticware but what do I know? The one server was running back and forth incredibly overwhelmed and would only come to you if you flagged her down. Please someone get this woman some help. As we ordered a table full of dishes (the best for me being the mapo tofu despite this not being a Szechuan restaurant) it was evident that cleanliness wasn't the top priority of this place. Other stand out dishes were the pork belly and the eggplant. My brother and his wife saw a cockroach wandering around the kitchen as we were leaving. Maybe it can help out the server.

Came here for lunch. Food was excellent. Service was ok. The lunch menu was all in Chinese. They don't have a English menu. I guess they don't care. They would have gotten 5 stars.

Pretty good food and reasonable price. Highly recommend. Worth a try for their northeast authentic food.

I came to check out Lucky Bento V.I.P. Cuisine 小沈阳 when it first opened 4 years ago. That was a completely different restaurant. My original review said the restaurant served Fuzhou Cuisine. According to a Chinese news site in 2021, a new Northeastern Chinese restaurant just opened. (https://www.dealmoon.com/guide/959837)To be precise, Shen-Yang is a city in Liaoning Province in the northeastern region of China, which is closer to Korea than to Beijing. The Shenyang Cuisine has similar dishes in Northeastern Cuisine but taste different. Due to the colder climate, the food is often served temperature hot and spicy. I ordered the traditional Malatang Pick 2. There was no English name for this dish. In Chinese, it's 水煮两样 under Delicious and Healthy part of menu. I picked Duck Blood Pudding and Tendon. The flavor was... oh my gawd, yeah. Other than picking out those toasted peppers, there were lots of meat in the bowl. A lot of reviewers complained about it charges extra for rice. Technically, rice is for southern Chinese. Northeasterners eat wheat breads and pancakes. I wanted more authentic. So, I ordered Scallion Pancake. This tasted authentic to me. Layers of goodness with crispy outside and fluffy inside while piping hot. Pancakes from this region normally don't have strong scallion flavor.Overall, this was a well-spent dinner. I got so much leftovers to serve many lunches thereafter. Oh, this place can get loud as customers happy to enjoy the food.

My top favorite authentic Chinese restaurant currently will not appear on the HC Top 100 list, and I hope they will remain a neighborhood hidden gem. The chef has superb skill, the menu offers a wide variety of regional Chinese dishes, and the value is crazy good, order three dishes and get one free.We got the Lamb Menudo Milky Soup, which I highly recommended, juicy and flaky Beef Stuffed Made-from-scratch Biscuits, Smoky Cured Meat stir-fried with Vegetables, and my perennial favorite Eggs stir-fried with Tomates as the free dish.In a huge city like Houston, I ran into 2 families I know at lunchtime, what are the odds of that? I look forward to my next visit to this oddly named restaurant with the best authentic Chinese food I can find currently. Please don't make the list because they are doing fantastic business as it is.

Lucky Bento VIP Cuisine is superb! Absolutely the best!!! We came back today one week later from our last visit as the braised pork belly was calling our names!!! Turns out, they also have authentic Asian-style sausages both in a Szechuan and Cantonese style flavors! Their sausages are very authentic comprised of juicy chunks of pork belly and tender meat bathed in a seasoning that you can drool for ! Their chef is truly a master of food