Lucky Star Restaurant

Rude ass rude, don’t bother going there. I hate the fact that they think they are nice but really just rude people. Food may be okay but if you understand what they are saying about you. You’d throw their food back at them.

Stay away at all cost!!!
Found a bug in the food. The chicken w string beans didn’t was cooked. Called and the lady on the phone won’t exchange for me even w a bug!!!
Reporting unsanitary place to consumer affairs.

I ordered a 7+ dollar dish, sesame chicken, and was expecting tenderness from the chicken.
I brought the order home (I live two avenues away) and got a cold dish that had chicken hard as rocks and the rice was hard as well, microwaving it didn’t help either because the entire dish was not fresh, even the broccoli was raw. Was not happy with the purchase, in the trash it went and I ended up making cup noodles.

This is our local goto place for chinese take out. The lady who works at the register is so nice and speaks english well. A lot of take out places, u cant understand what theyre tryna say. I like their sesame chicken over here and especially love the fact they got those combos all day served w egg roll/​soup/​soda. I’ve never had any bad experience w them. Theres been once or twice they forgot to deliver an item and when i call, the driver immediately comes back w it. Great food and great customer service.

Awesome food and at the right price. Each time they make their food, it tastes very good.

This is my go to Chinese food place. They are cheaper than rest of the area or about the same price, never more. I always order take out, never dined in. The food quality is decent, like most of the others Chinese take out places.

I went to a friends house one night and we decided to order delivery. We ordered from lucky star and I was totally impressed! I had the general taos tofu and it was delicious! The tofu was cooked perfectly! I have thought about this place for weeks since! Lol. So today I’m in the area and made a special trip here to get some to take home. Nom nom nom also this place is really clean inside!

Nice and clean. Spacious take out restaurant. Food is made quick and the staff is friendly. I ordered a dish and a soup and the ladie suggested to get combo for a lunch special which means cheaper price.
The place is bigger than most of the chinese takeout restaurants I have seen. Food is great!
Ordered chicken and broccoli, beef and broccoli, and hot and sour soup. They were delicious!

Lucky Star take out is a solid place to get quick Chinese American styled food. They claim on their menu that they do not use MSG and they use vegetable oil. I ordered the chow fun beef and it was very good. It taste like Big Wing Wong from Chinatown and I did not taste much MSG. They had bean sprouts, slices of beef, onions, and green scallions. The chow fun was thick and soft and that it is how it should be. This was an oily dish but that’s how this stir fry dish is made. I also ordered the chicken wing fried rice and it was not greasy like most take out places. They used yellow rice and their chicken wings did not have a thick layer of breading and was very crispy. This dish was also very tasty. The price for each dish was about $ 5 and I was full after just the chow fun. The place looks clean too and they have about 4 tables in here so groups are welcome. I like this place so far and I don’t usually order at take out. They cook very fast. My order was ready in about 10 minutes and there was many people ordering here too. I will come back– highly recommend if you are in the area.
They do not give out fortune cookies though– at least not to me.

GREAT food for a take-​out Chinese joint.
I’ve been using my hard-​earned cash to buy Chinese food ever since the age of 13 when I got my first job… deliverying Chinese food (yes, I was Brooklyn’s first and maybe only non-​Asian Chinese food delivery boy). Fast-​forward 20+ years later and I’ve tried HUNDREDS of Chinese restaurants all around the country – 99% of them here in Brooklyn since they seem to come and go with the seasons.
Anyway, as any good NYer knows, you have your dine-​in places (comfy booth seating – or big round tables for the big families, tea and noodles when you sit down, miraculously-​always-​full glass of water) and your take-​out places (cheap aluminum chairs with a plastic-​covered cushion for your back and your butt, orange trays to carry your lunch special to your seat… you know!)
Anyway, this place falls into the latter group but what makes it so different from all the other fly-​by-​night fast food Chinese places is that the food is actually good! Go figure!
I won’t go into super-​detail here but suffice it to say, most places under-​cook (non-​crispy wings), over-​cook (rubbery shrimp), over-​season (sesame chicken that tastes like candy) or under-​season (lobster sauce that taste like nothing). This place gets it right 99% of the time.
The sesame chicken is crispy (if you have it there and it has not steamed while being delivered) and has FLAVOR, the pork lo mein is loaded with pork, crispy cabbage, noodles and tasty sauce, the kung po chicken is just-​spicy enough (you can always ask for extra spice) and delicious, and my favorite (which I’d never even tried until I rolled the wheel and ordered it here one day): the pork with mixed vegetables is succulent… SUCCULENT PEOPLE!
It’s a real find, this place. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for a while now and ordered from DOZENS of different places. Many have come and gone. Others I just stopped ordering from ‘cuz they started out good then got bad (don’t you hate that?). I don’t know how long Lucky Star has been around but I placed my first order with them 6 months ago… and to my surprise, I’m still ordering! The freshness of the ingredients and quality (from a preparedness standpoint) of the food is ALWAYS good. As an added bonus, pork fried rice has peas and carrots in it – not just pork and onions. This is something you usually find in an old-​fashioned dine-​in joint (pork fried rice with onions, peas and carrots) which leads me to believe that the food is good because they somehow got their hands on a real «restaurant» chef as opposed to the fast-​food type chef that China’s cooking schools turn out by the thousands on a monthly basis.
Anyway, the lady behind the counter seems gruff but she’s loveable in the way that Mel from Mel’s Diner in the old «Alice» TV sitcom was gruff but loveable. If she’s short with you it’s only because she’s juggling a bunch of orders at a time. And the weird thing is, even if you order something out of the ordinary (pork lo mein with no vegatables other than mushrooms or Chicken and Broccoli with Garlic Sauce but you want the sauce on the side) she ALWAYS gets it right. I think maybe ONCE in six months (and I order 2 – 3 times per week minimum) she’s gotten one of my items wrong; and they prompty sent the delivery guy back with the right item (I think they gave me plain fried rice instead of pork fried rice).
Anyway, it’s not «haute cuisine» by any stretch of the imagination (which is why I couldn’t give it 5-​stars. Unlike some people who give 5-​star reviews to hot dog carts, I think that honor should be reserved for something groundbreakingly awesome). It’s «fast-​food» Chinese – the kind where they knock on your door before you’ve even finished ordering. But for a take-​out joint, the food is HEAD AND SHOULDERS above any others in the area.