Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon

07/20/2008 Posted by jonesoda

I took a friend to Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon after reading the review in the Seattle Metropolitan Magazine since I am always looking for good neighborhood places around Seattle. After reading the other reviews of Snappy Dragon here on this board I was a little weary about trying it but did anyway. I am glad that I did now. First thing you will notice upon entering is the friendly wait staff. They were very helpful in offering their recommendations when asked. We ended up ordering the pork dumplings (Waiter Rec), the Snappy Dragon Chow Mien, and the Pineapple chicken w/ cashews and pea pods. The food was delivered to our table in record time and was nice and hot. The dumplings were super and the dipping sauce was great too. They also came with a small side dish of some spicy chili paste that was super spicy that went well with the normal dipping sauce. I ordered the chow mein with made to order hand cut noodles and it was absolutely wonderful. It is not like the plain old chow mien noodles that you get at other Chinese places. The pineapple chicken was also great. A new taste from your regular Chinese restaurants. Slightly sweet that went great with the chicken and cashews. All in all I highly recommend the Snappy Dragon to anybody looking for a fun new place to get good Chinese food that is not typical run of the mill that you can get at the 100 other Chinese places in the city. If you are looking for Chinese food that you would get in Hong Kong, like one of the reviewers states that they were looking for, you will need to keep looking. The last time I checked the Snappy Dragon is in Seattle and in no way do I think that they portray that there food isn't Americanized. I actually can't believe some of the bad reviews of this place because our experience tonight was all together great. The prices were great for the amount of food that we received. The wait staff was friendly and I will be going back soon!

Pros: Great Food, friendly wait staff, great price for the amount of food you receive.

Cons: That I hadn't found out about this place before today....

07/03/2008 Posted by kaelyra

My fiance and I have been searching out the Chinese restaurants in N. Seattle since we moved here almost a year ago. We tried this one for the first time recently. It's a bit far from us, so I doubt we'd order there often, but when I get a craving for American Chinese food, this is totally the place I think of now. The fried rice was fantastic, the sweet and sour pork was cooked almost perfectly (only a few smaller tough pieces, which is a miracle with Pork) though the sauce is a bit strong, and the price (while not cheap since it was dinner) was not outrageous for the amount of food. The white rice was a bit on the dry side, however. I will admit that I haven't tried any of their more exotic Chinese dishes because that's not what I was looking for, but the food we had was great, there was plenty of it, and the service (we picked up takeout) was good from what we saw.

Pros: Huge portions

Cons: Dinner can get pricey

05/28/2008 Posted by Todderz

Love the lunch specials for their value, for dinner the food costs a bit more than I'd like to spend on take out and can sometimes be a bit greasy. Love the salt and pepper shrimp and sauteed green beans. Can be super busy on weekends, so we like to order take out. Always get extra fortune cookies!

Pros: Lunch Specials

Cons: No parking, spendy dinner for chinese take out

05/20/2008 Posted by lizzywhizzy

I have been going here for years and I love this place!! The veggie pan fried potstickers are the best in seattle and the duck with hoisen and light and delicious little buns....i'm drooling right now!! I love the wait staff most of them have been working there forever and the family is right there as well. It can get a little packed on some nights and getting a table can be a wait...but its totally worth it!!

Pros: good food, great wait staff

Cons: waiting for a table

05/09/2008 Posted by windawin

After seeing that the Snappy Dragon won several "Best of Seattle" awards, my husband and I decided to give it a try...HUGE MISTAKE!!! The first bad sign, not a single Asian customer!! The "crisy eggplant" had a sauce that was practically florescent red! Each dish was excessively salty and the tea was flavorless...brown water. You are better off going to Panda Express. At least there you expect to get mediocre "trashy" Chinese food. "Best of" award...what the heck Seattle!!!?????

Pros: fast

Cons: the food

04/17/2008 Posted by summershelley77

I've never been a fan of Judy Fu's however, on my pregnant sisters' craving for Chinese and our combined laziness, we decided to order. I thought maybe it will be better this time as we haven't ordered from there in a year or so... NOPE. The food is extremely greasy, and sweet and sour chicken and shrimp are so heavily breaded there is barely any meat in there. The only dish that was okay is the fried rice, however, it is very greasy so you will need papertowels to literally strain it first.

Pros: None

Cons: Expensive, Greasy tasteless food

03/26/2008 Posted by rookie_food_critic

I don’t know how so many people can rave about this place.. the food is absolutely tasteless, greasy, and uninspiring. We ordered the chicken chow mein with home made noodles, the chicken was bland and undercooked. So we decided to try one of their vegetarian dishes that the waitress recommend… It was an egg plant dish which was supposed to be spicy… instead it was deep-fried extremely thin eggplant slices in a dangerous red color. And yes, if you like oil oozing out of your food when you bite into it, it is your kind of place… It was a royal waste of $25… I can’t fault their portion sizes, it is huge.. but who can eat that stuff….

Pros: Portion sizes if you can eat their food

Cons: Greasy, tasteless

03/15/2008 Posted by junio66

I heard it used to be good. The LAST time I ordered from there, the chicken chow mein was 99.9% noodle and a piece of chicken grizzle thrown in for fun. It's a major gut-bomb. Not much flavor.

03/06/2008 Posted by DanTurner123

AVOID this restaurant at ALL cost! This place is Filthy inside, COMPLETE LACK of professionalism, and worst of all, FOOD NOT FRESH!!! My stomach still hurts when I think about Judy Fu's SUCKY Dragon!!! Eat at your own risk!

Pros: NONE!!!

Cons: TOO MANY TO LIST!

03/25/2007 Posted by somebozo

So I've been down to Judy Fu's once, and look forward to going back. Very often when you order the hot and sour soup at an unfamiliar chinese restaraunt you're going to get a mouth full of salty vinegar. Not at Judy Fu's! We each ordered a different soup and traded tastes -- all of them were great! The dumplings came out and they were freaking awesome! While we were eating those we were speculating about how great the meals were going to be. And then we got them. Salt. Salt. Salt. That's all we could taste in three entrees. Awesome soup. Awesome dumplings. Gonna go back for both. But not going to bother with the rest of the menu.

Pros: dumplings

Cons: salt, salt, salt, salt