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| - Easily my favorite restaurant of all time, and I've lived in New York and Los Angeles, as well as several other cities in the continental United States and Europe. Maybe if I visit China itself, I'll find something approaching how delicious Lucky's is, but I doubt anything could ever come close.
The secret menu, originally printed only in Chinese, but now available in English as well, is a treasure trove of authentic Schezuan dishes for which there are no equals. Twice-cooked pork, spicy sliced beef, real kung pao chicken, pork with brown sauce - it's all here, and it's all amazing.
Start off with a bowl of the dan-dan noodles. They are perfection in a tiny porcelain dish. Spicy, and with a tiny bit of ground pork, these were my after-school snack growing up.
Recently Luckys changed hands, and while the food and service are still excellent (the current owners were trained over the course of an entire year by the previous owners, who were also the cooks) there will always be a certain element missing for me now: The Tseng family, one of the most wonderful families I have ever had the honor to know.
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