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| - Price is great, portions are generous, food is good-tasting, and the mango pudding is delicious too! This place is definitely worth a try.
Food: 4/5 - Good tasting food, nothing too special but it hits the spot and is pretty filling.
Price: 5/5 - The pricing at Lucky Noodle is actually very good. Whereas any ramen joint sells their bowls at $12+, all of the noodle bowls here are $9, and you get a lot more than the average ramen joint (Tohenboku, Sansotei, Kinton, etc.).
Service: 3/5 - Really slow service. Takes a long time to get seated, to get your order, and to get your bill. The biggest downside here. Staff were average for a Chinese restaurant.
I went with my family here on a Sunday afternoon and it was pretty packed. It took us a while to get seated and you could see why (they seat 1-2 people in a booth that can easily fit 4-6 people), and when we wanted the bill it also took them $10+ to get to us. It seems like they are pretty understaffed.
I digress however. The food here for the price point (8.99) is actually really good. I had pretty low expectations but it was actually really good.
The premise here for all their noodle bowls is that you choose the soup base, 2 toppings, noodle type and you get a drink/dessert for free as well. I got the Japanese pork soup base, with beef brisket and chasu pork. Both meats were full of flavour and tender, and they were pretty generous with their portions (I think i got 3-4 of each meat). The soup base was also very good and tasted pretty similar to what you would get at a real ramen joint. The ramen noodles were also good, they were store bought but at least they were not the instant-ramen noodles, but the fresh/frozen ramen noodles. Overall it was just below the quality/taste of ramen you would get at any other joint, but the price and portion makes it so much more worth it than any ramen place I've been too.
I also got the mango pudding for dessert and it was also really good. It was a regular mango pudding you would get at any other Chinese restaurant with mango pieces in it. Honestly, even without the mango pudding or drink, the ramen would still be worth getting by itself.
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