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| - Yum! I'm not a huge lover of true Asian food - for example, my favorite Chinese food is served at Panda Express. Despite my best intentions, I typically balk at the stuff people actually eat in places like Vietnam and Taiwan. You can understand why I was a little leery of venturing to a Chinese place on Spring Mountain for dinner with my coworkers the other night, especially when it was recommended by the Taiwanese guy! I consulted with him and he assured me that 'americans' like myself would still be able to find something to eat at Joyful House, so we decided to check it out.
The restaurant is quite large and well-lit, with a bunch of (like 15) tanks for fresh seafood that you can see. It seemed like a pretty legit operation and my coworker was already conversing in mandarin (or something) with the friendly wait staff, so we knew we'd be treated to a wide variety of dishes.
Speaking of wide variety, everybody ordered a bunch of stuff and then my coworker spoke to the waiter and apparently ordered like 6 more dishes. Everything is family style, so we had waaaayyyy too much food, even for our large group of like 12. Here's a quick run down:
Garlic Baby Bok-Choy - loved it. Not bland like your usual veggie dishes. Highly recommend.
Mandarin pork chop - the favorite of several people at the table. Sweet and breaded, which is my fave.
Sizzling steak - just ok. We were pretty pumped after the sizzling presentation, but it wasn't anything special. Not spicy (despite the warning on the menu).
Clay pot scallops - served with rice noodles and really good.
Seafood dish - don't know what it was called, but I really liked it. It came with shrimp, crispy noodles, and some other stuff I can't remember. My 2nd fave.
Clay pot eggplant - good not great.
Pork fried rice - standard.
String beans with pork - good not great.
Appetizer soup - just the soup they serve to everybody, I guess - beef broth with nothing in it. It was as good as you can make beef broth, but the 1 year old LOVED it, so bonus for that.
Tapioca Dessert Soup - no thank you. If you're into tapioca, you might like it.
Lemon iced tea - really good! Sweetened, but not too sweet. I actually had two glasses, which I usually don't do.
Prices were kinda high - $15-20/meat dish, but everything was good, including the service.
Any time I have somebody in town craving a 'fancier' Chinese meal, we will definitely take them to Joyful House.
Bonus points for being open late (til like 3am)!
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