New Happy Restaurant

Our entrees were garnished and presented very well, but ended up being standard low-​quality chinese food. The dining area looked really nice, aside from the 55 gallon fish tank with half a dozen Koi crammed in it. If you order a soft drink, be aware that refills are not free! I did like the hot tea we received before our meal, and the hot and sour soup. Our waiter was very pleasant and attentive.

We chose this place based on reviews on Unilocal and Google and more importantly it was centrally located for relatives in Denver, Lakewood and Littleton, so we met here on Saturday night. The dining room was about half full at 7 pm, and our group of six got seated right away. The friendly waitress quickly brought out hot tea and ice water, and we ordered up some steamed and fried dumplings and a pu pu platter. While we were pondering the menu, she asked if we would like to start with soup, and quickly brought those out. We ordered 4 entrees, including one that we just kind of made up, cause my mother in law wanted asparagus, mushrooms, and chicken, so they made us up a dish with those. Everything was very tasty (moo shoo pork, ham and egg fried rice, general tso’s chicken, honey and garlic chicken,) and each dish was seasoned differently, so we will make the 20 minute drive again. It was a very pleasant dining experience and everyone agreed the choice was a good one.

I like this little restaurant. The food was good, came out pretty fast too. It’s not 5 stars good but I will definitely be eating here again :)

My Mom loved this place. I did not. It is very good at what it does– quick, super Americanized faux Chinese food.
I like my Chinese food more authentic, but this place was perfect for my Mom, who is not comfortable with really ethnic food.
It was clean, service was friendly, and like I said, Mom was happy.

So they totally missed the POW in kung pow shrimp. It seriously tasted like all the food was cooked with shrimp drippings with no spices added. The vomit that came out of my mouth had a better after taste than the few bites that I took from their food. I said good day!

I love love love this restaurant! The servers are very friendly, they’re clean and good prices! The food is super delish and great portions! They need some newer high chairs though. I’ve been going here for 30+ years and recommend it to everyone!

The service at New Happy is fantastic. The family that owns and runs it is always super accommodating. And with the great customer service is great food. I don’t think there’s a bad choice on the menu. We always get a few to share. This restaurant is an all around hidden gem.

Our neighborhood Chinese place. I love the people who own this restaurant. The man is always dressed in a suit and the woman is great. She always asks me where I have been when I come in… The food is your typical Chinese but my goodness. The menu is huge!!! They have everything you could ever want. From American to Chinese. It’s just awesome and beautiful inside.

I love this place. The food is pretty good… love the cute atmosphere… love the old Chinese guy who greets you… this is my favorite place… love it love it love it

Very good authentic Chinese food.

I dont understand why this place only has 3 stars.
The atmosphere is like an old quaint chinese restaurant with mirrored walls and red vinyl booths and glass table tops, they have fun chinese décor.
The people who work here are so friendly and the service is super fast for my lunch break.
I always like to try new things and everything I have had is delicious so far. They start you off with a sample of their chinese chicken salad which has delicious dressing with a kick, I cant wait until the weather gets warmer to order the full portion for lunch.
I am in love with their hot and sour soup and my favorite dish so far is the lemon chicken, however everything is delicious, mongolian, kung pao, shredded hot pork… yum!

What a wholly peculiar experience. This restaurant is very pretty, dated, but well kept and charming. The owner a sweet, urbane well dressed and polished man doted over our table at lunch, regaling us with corny old jokes that were repeated three and four times to the point of decided irritation by all at the table.
«Would you like home made water»?
And
«Old Happy gone, New Happy here, you not happy you don’t pay»
When the food arrived it was astonishingly poor. The fried rice was ridiculous. Not fried and oddly yellowed with tiny slivers of ham. We each had a different fancy garish (mine was a radish, see my pic), carved with artistry and truly beautiful. But the main dish was horrible. I mean barely edible. I had a spicy chicken dish that was tasteless.
This place has been here 26 years. All I can say is Denverites don’t know good Asian food. I haven’t found it yet in this city.

I would not eat here. Sesame chicken (tendons) gross. GF was not a fan of the pork in the ‘vegetarian’ fried rice. Being so close to all the yummy Asian eateries on Federal, they really need to raise the bar.

New Happy is the place my family goes when I visit my grandparents. On the scale of Chinese food I have sampled in my short time on earth it is clearly quality. It doesn’t scrape the eschalons of high-​end nor does it wallow with the crowd of dime a dozen eateries.
This is the place that makes my grandpa «happy» therefore he would drop a four or five star. We are always quickly seated even if our group pushes double digits. None of the many dishes i have tried here has disappointed and a few stand out. Sweet and sour is the only thing on my grandpa’s mind; he’s addicted! I enjoy just about everything as i usually clean it up the next day too.
The small bar serves a variety of quenching drinks and virgin cocktails. The staff is versed at customer service and doesn’t let anything fall through the cracks. At the end of the meal the New Happy experience comes full circle. When the check arrives it is always placed firmly in the hands of the correct family member which is critical in keeping a fine meal from devolving into a blood bath.