Lichee Nut

Delicious food! Great lunch special. Love the chicken and broccoli with garlic sauce.

I guess I got lucky this time. I ordered pork lo mein and an iced tea was gladly given to me to try (although I declined the free inclusion). The iced tea was mostly water to my taste buds with a little Splenda added so, as I expected, I did not enjoy it that much. However, my actual meal was DIVINE! The noodles were juicy and the sauce that accompanied them complimented the dish very well. The pieces of pork were thinly sliced and cooked to perfection. I ordered take out and with the crowd that was present for lunch, I would suggest you do the same.

Food was mediocre. Ordered three times form here… should have stopped at the second time to be honest. Delivery was slow and food lacked flavor. Will not be ordering again. Had better Chinese food at shanty looking Chinese food spots.

THERE WAS A STAPLE IN MY FOOD!
When I called to complain the response I received was ‘accidents happen. We will refund the price of the dish.’ I was shocked and dismayed.
I have I idea what else was in my food. I stopped eating the food but was sick for three days after with severe stomach pain. I will NEVER order from this restaurant again!

Changed the management… Not good they have not told it… The recipes changed. Service is friendlier but the other recipes were better… Miss it.

Ordered here the other evening — whist delivery was super quick… the food was rather lackluster. We ordered dumplings that were stodgy and very doughy with a rather tasteless filling. Vegetarian Moo Shu vegetables — which were dry and void of taste and a Sweet and Sour Chicken dish which was the highlight of the meal — a low highlight!
Give this place a miss

I do love the feature on Seamless — where it points out the most popular food items for restaurants. Which so speaks to me as a Unilocaler! I’ve ordered the beef with broccoli & the chicken version, both excellent. The delivery is incredibly fast and I’ve also ordered the crispy bean curd cakes, which arrive STILL crispy. When I crave faux Chinese food delivery, this is my top choice!

Generally when I come to this restaurant (162 Montague Street) the food is great. More recently I’ve noticed that the quality of the food on the lunch menu has changed. I received food that was Luke warm and the rice side was just cold. The food that is freshly cooked is amazing. I recently had a problem with a young girl who takes orders. I ordered food from the lunch menu and I was told that there was a minimum of ten dollars for cards. I left and returned after getting money from the bank and got back on line. The lady in front of me was picking up food also. Her food, like mine cost less than $ 10.00. However she being older than me, and of different race was allowed to use her card without any difficulties. This whole situation has left a bad taste in my mouth about the restaurant. Great food but the girl at the front desk is not very professional.

Very kind owners & staff, super helpful when I called & visited their restaurant. I don’t crave Chinese food often but when I do this is where I go in Brooklyn Heights. Thank you again!

Super cute location, cute area!
Food is food
Scallion pancake is so good!
Sake is a lil weak
I like this place
I had a crispy shrimp, good good
Big portions! Extra for work-​lunch :))

Delicious Chinese food with generous portions. Friendly staff. Additionally, if you have your own cell phone charger, the staff has a special charging station behind their desk. You can charge your phone while you eat and do not have to worry about someone taking your phone.
My new favorite Chinese restaurant in the neighborhood.

For a Chinese spot in Brooklyn the food is prepared fairly well. I ordered a hot and sour soup, hunan meat house special and bubble tea to be delivered. The fact that they let me pick how spicy I wanted my food was a huge plus. When the food came it was delicious. Hot and sour soup was very light and lad plenty of tofu. The hunan chicken didn’t look like mystery meat and there was an even amount of meat and vegetables. As my treat I enjoyed the pineapple bubble tea. I wouldn’t recommend the pineapple flavor but everything else was great.

Great neighborhood Chinese spot!
Nice sitting area and fast delivery!
A few times they didn’t make it as spicy as I requested but hey that’s what Sriracha is for.

I wanted to give Lichee more than two stars, but I haven’t had great experiences there recently. I usually get take out from Lichee.
The food can be pretty decent if you are looking for standard Chinese food dishes. However, I have had a few experiences where I was disappointed with my food because it was obvious that they seemed to mix the sauces of two different dishes I ordered (eg. I ordered 1– orange chicken dish and 2– a broccoli and tofu dish in brown sauce, but both of my dishes tasted like orange chicken). I don’t want all my food to be in the same sauce if I order different dishes.
The service is meh and pretty unfriendly, but fast.

tldr: Service was complete SHIT and made me feel like SHIT. I will NEVER order from here again.
I received extremely disrespectful service from the delivery driver that not only made me feel poorly, but made me not hungry at all anymore.
After having difficulty finding the deliver driver, we finally met, and he was completely rude. Shaking his head disappointingly and disapprovingly, muttering under his breath on why I had taken so long. I then said I was paying with card, and he went off yelling why I had not told the card number to the restaurant. It did not cross his mind that the restaurant had not asked me with what form of payment I would be using? His action was completely unwarranted and aggressive. After I signed the receipt and put a $ 1 tip (for his extremely bad service), he barked at me «only $ 1??» It was at this point that I lost it and told him that I should not have tipped him at all for his rude and immature attitude along with his belligerent conduct.
I sit here typing this angry review without even having tried the food, but honestly, I don’t care how the food tastes to know that I will never order here again and tell all of my friends not to either. DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS RESTAURANT.

I ordered from here over the weekend and I was really happy with my order. My bf got the general tso chicken and I got the general tso shrimp. They both were really good and came quickly. I am really picky about the quality of my food and this lived up to that standard. I also really liked how you could pick which type of chicken you wanted for picky meat eaters!

Rude! I’ve worked upstairs from this place for about 7 years but have never tried it because I am picky about Chinese food and worried that I wouldn’t consider it good. Today I had a craving for spicy szechuan noodles, and figured I would give it a shot.
It was 1pm on a Sunday, the door to the restaurant was propped wide open, all of the lights were on, the neon OPEN sign was lit (!) so I walked in and there was a woman standing behind the front counter by the cash register. I said «do you have spicy szechuan noodles?» — she looked at me strangely for a few seconds (as if she thought I was going to rob her or something — I had on yoga clothes …), then finally very rudely said «We are not open yet!!» — that was it, nothing else. I stood there for a few seconds, somewhat taken aback, looked around again and there were no signs that the restaurant wasn’t ready for business (again, the door was wide open, the lights were all on, and the open sign was lit!) so I said «well, you are quite a friendly person aren’t you» and walked out. I will never go there again.
I just looked at their website and yes it does say that they do not open until 1:30pm on Sundays but then don’t prop your door open and turn all of your lights on! Also, one might not expect a restaurant to be closed through that much of the ‘lunch hour’ even if it is a weekend. Rude. Horrendous customer service.

A MUST TO AVOID
Today, after listening to several hours of boring testimony, in Russian! :((((, at a court reporting office on Court Street, I searched for a quick late afternoon bite. I chose Lichee Nut on yuppified Montague Street. I must have been nuts. I walked below street level into a non-​descript, half-​crowded space. The waiter, who can plainly see that I’m reading the menu, asks if I’m ready to order. Suppressing annoyance I choose the twice cooked pork lunch special. The hot and sour soup is a funky tasting unusually light color. A couple of tastes and I’m done but, before that, the waiter plops the main in front of me. Seen this before. Some call it cultural. I call it rude. The twice cooked pork is nestled under an ample mound of dry and pork-​less «pork fried rice». It consists of four tasteless thin pieces of pork studded with gross mystery vegetables. Talk about mailing it in!
One final point: I regard the term «Americanized Chinese Food» as a patronizing slur because it implies that round eyes don’t have palate enough to recognize inedible crap. That is no defense for this restaurant.
Hence the rating: NOT RECOMMENDED.

My first impression of Lichee Nut wasn’t great. They’ve got a B health rating, and in an affluent neighborhood like Brooklyn Heights where you expect more, that’s a bad sign.
Still, my family was set on this place for our mini (7 people) family reunion lunch. So we went. It was actually a pretty tasty time, but the service could use some help.
We ordered several dishes to share including the sesame chicken, shrimp in garlic sauce, schezuan beef with broccoli, and chicken and broccoli. All were very flavorful.
My qualms are with the service. At first they were inattentive (i.e.: it took 3 tries to get water for the table), and then somewhere mid-​meal they became overly aggressive (i.e.: hovering over us and taking plates away before we were finished). It’s not as if we were rowdy or stayed a long time. We must have been there no more than an hour — and there were plenty of tables open for other guests.
Between the health grade and the service I don’t think I’ll be back.

It completely befuddles me when someone slams a place like this for not serving up authentic Chinese food. If that’s what you want, you’re not likely to find it here… or anywhere on Montague Street for that matter. You come here for one thing and one thing only — Americanized Chinese food.
Lunch specials here are the way to go. You get an entrée, your choice of soup or iced tea (think Lipton mix and water), and crispy wonton strips for $ 6.95, which rivals most meal prices in the area and given the amount of food you get for it, this is a great deal. Dining in also allows you free hot tea, though service can range wildly from warm to dismissive, and it all depends on timing. If you choose to stay during the lunch hour, expect brusque service — choose your order within seconds, eat it within fifteen, and no lingering after your plates have been taken away. Come during the quieter hours of the afternoon and you’ll find that things slow down for the better.
Since my lunch hour at work falls squarely during the chaotic period at Lichee Nut, I usually get takeout. I place my order from my desk at work, walk five to eight minutes to the restaurant, and my food is usually waiting for me by the time they get there. If I were a more suspicious person, I’d wonder if these people are secretly order-​stalking me or hiring clairvoyant chefs to man the kitchen. Most of the time, I’m just happy that my hangries have found a quick cure.
Note: any time I come to pick up the order, the lone woman at the desk is handling dining checks, answering the phone, AND disseminating takeouts. It is easy to ream them out for the snappy phone calls (and I’ve been on the other end of those once or twice), but the last time I was waiting there for about a minute for my food, the phone rang once. every. five. seconds. If I had to do that for a few hours, I imagine I’d soon violate some social norms of politeness. To avoid phone fights like the ones a few Unilocalers have mentioned, speak clearly, know what you’re ordering, and choose your order options in advance (white/​fried rice, soup/​tea, etc.). Unilocal provides the menu online. Use it.
I generally order the broccoli with garlic sauce, and if you receive any ‘with rice’ entrée in a takeout container from this place, it’s going to seem like there is a disproportionate ratio of rice to entrée, but fret not. After placing several orders here, I realized they plop the rice on last, so there’s usually more food buried below it; you just have to dig for it. I find my food is usually a little oiler than I’d prefer (which might explain why I always feel like I need to take a nap underneath my desk after eating lunch from the Nut). I’ve also ordered the fried veggie dumplings which are all right. They’re served with a soy sauce blend that gave the plump morsels some much-​needed flavor.