Kings Rice Restaurant

This is one of the better restaurants in the neighborhood. Great eel rice, awesome lamb dishes and the house special of string beans w fish filet are your best choices. It can get crowded but the food is fresh and alternative to your typical Cantonese eating.

I had their ever so famous eel fried rice. I was freaked out by eating eel in general and picked out all the eel parts in my fried rice. This is because of my irrational and deeply seated fear of eating fish products that have confirmed bone particles. I don’t care if eel bones are soft. So if you are NOT an adventurous eater and can relate to above statements, then be forewarned. That being sad, the fried rice was pretty good. I loved their soup that comes complimentary with an order of eel fried rice. They make their lobster traditional cantonese style with an egg. It is ok. I had another stir fried dish with scallops, snap peas, & lots of macadamia nuts, that was quite good but I forgot the name (sorry!).
This place does not serve any type of beer or liquor. It is quite divey but seems to be a popular local spot. Feels quite authentic but not that aesthetically appealing.

I love their eel casserole. At first glance, I reacted with the same grotesque look most non-​asians would react to Chinese food. It looks gross, but the flavor is undeniably heavenly. I find their food is better than their first restaurant in 86^th St. Also, you get free soup with the purchase of the eel casserole.
The service wasnt the best, but I didnt expect much from a Chinese restaurant like this anyway.
Place may be small, but they work pretty quick. We got our first dish within 10 minutes and the others came pretty fast right after the first serving. The rice took the longest to make, which was disappointing because I like eating the dishes with my rice.
I recommend ordering the rice first before you take your time deciding what other dishes to get.

A place where they can get me to eat eel means they are doing something right. I’m typically anti-​eel simply because I don’t love the taste nor really like. However, their potted rice with eel was too delicious for me to pass up. I even ate the eel! That’s saying something.
Too bad their porkchops had a bit too much sauce. It overwhelmed my tastebuds without the rice. Their complimentary soup also wasn’t too salty which is a major bonus for family dinners. Can’t wait to come back for eel rice.

This is a negative star rating for changing the price in front of us before we paid. 3 lunches order took 30 min and it was 2pm in a quiet restaurant. The food was one of worst I had in Brooklyn. There only two people eating and it too long and the food was horrible is not acceptable. The lady in front change the price right in front of me was the worst customer ever. My family and I will ban this place forever. If you want good lunch go somewhere else!

Beef lo mein tasted good. Neighborhood restaurant. Kitchen does not open until noon though the restaurant opens around 11 AM.
Will return to try more items on their menu.

Arrived at 11 am since it says they open at 11 am on Unilocal.Door was locked. Lights were out. Staff didn’t arrive until around 11:15 am and doors didn’t open until 11:30 am. Piles of dirty dishes all around the shop from the night before. When we started ordering they didn’t have anything. We ordered duck and was told they are sold out. We ordered lotus root and was told they are sold out. We ordered ox tail and was told they are sold out. I said «how can you be sold out if you just opened?» The waiter told me they are sold out from last night. It was an awful experience. Food was just ok. Not worth traveling an hour on the subway to get there.

Pros: The eel rice was good. they serve the food pretty quick.
Cons: This restaurant service is horrible. Very rude staff!!!

PROS:
— Eel casserole rice — very good. The eel casserole is what they are known for.
It tastes way better than the one I had in Chinatown. There is a place in Chinatown that makes it with dried orange peels and I hate the taste.
— lamb stew — pretty good. My favorite part is the dried bean curd.
— they serve the food pretty fast
OKAY:
— Jumbo shrimp with walnuts and broccoli — it’s standard. The mayo sauce was too thick. It’s like they scooped it right out of the jar and plopped it on top of the shrimp.
CON:
— service is not good. waiters are so busy they barely have time to talk to you.
— it is pretty pack at night around 7pm so you can expect about 20 minute wait or more.

Hold up. I have tp right something about this place!!! Check it out for yourself if you’re looking for some fantastic flavorful authentic chinese food…
Fair warning: don’t expect too much service wise

Total Overdose!!!
I think my family so O.D. on ordering food. Too much to eat and plenty of leftovers to take home.
King Rice Restaurant is the sister restaurant to Lian Won Café. This restaurant is bigger than Lian Won Café and seats more. Both restaurants are known for their Eel Rice Casserole.
If you have a big family like I do, you should get there a lot early than schedule because the wait for a big table can be long.
My family ordered 12 dishes… Holy Cow!
1. Eel Broth Tofu Soup– It comes complimentary. One tasty broth soup.
2. Lamb in a ClayPot– I think they gave us the most fattest lamb. Way too much fat in the lamb.
3. Oxtail– I think this was the only dish I didn’t eat because I have braces on.
4. Steak and Peppers– Chinese got to cook the steak all the way. Not how I prefer my steaks. Be careful with the peppers because it is spicy hot.
5. Assorted Seafood with Snow peas– Okay dish. Nothing special about this seafood dis.
6. Sauteed Vegetables– If you are a Chinese family and eating family style, you must have at least one veggie dish.
7. Duck– Quite disappointing. It was still red. I question some of the duck meat, because some tasted like chicken meat.
8. Spinach– Eat your veggies. Can’t eat all meat.
9. Peking Pork Chops– Highlight of the meal. Nice sweet and sour taste. The pork chops were crispy. Totally Yum!
10. Intestines– A bit salty for my taste.
11. Lobster with Ginger and Scallion– This was eh to me. Didn’t have enough lobster meat. It was a small lobster. All the meat was in the head.
12. Eel Rice Casserole– I was a little disappointed. While the rice had nice flavor and taste, the eel was a bit chewy. I feel like some of the eel wasn’t cooked all the way.
The Eel Rice Casserole was suppose to be the highlight, but turn disappointing. Wait was long. Stick with Lian Won Café. A smaller restaurant, but serves up some better dishes and Eel Rice Casserole.

Family style dinner… we love it here however majority time it’s a mad long wait. eel rice is mad good but order as soon as you get there cause it takes awhile.
Service is nice… majority of the food is good too… definitely recommend to people

Good Chinese food. Eel rice was great.

Be prepared to wait… even on a weekday. It’s always packed by 7pm everyday. Went today (Thursday) at 6:45 and it was already full. Waited about 20 minutes for the first dish to come out and about 40 minutes for the eel rice casserole (we ordered the largest size). The service is alright… as expected in a Chinese restaurant. The food was pretty salty this time but still good. Spent about $ 125 after tip for 4 people. Had a lot of leftovers.

Came on a Tuesday night, to have their eel with rice with my family.
DISAPPOINTMENT to find out when the waitress told us that it was all already pre made.
Ordered a dish on their menu but they said they don’t make it. We also asked if we could be seated at a bigger table because we had 7 people and the table we were assign to was tight packed into the wall. They wouldn’t allow us because it’s for 8+, after three no’s from them we gave up and sat there all elbows clashing, didn’t understand why until the amounts of other customers began rolling in, it got really packed around 7. A lot of people were waiting by the door.
The waitress was nice and scooped the rice for us into bowls.
Family thought the food was good so that made the mood a bit better from the situation about the table.
I was sweating throughout my whole meal due to poor ventilation tho, not cool.
A unique thing about this place is that they give fish balls on top of the Bokchoy dish.
Two stars off for clashing elbows and poor ventilation.

On a weekend, I came here for lunch, heard about the much hyped up eel rice casserole, so of course I had to try that. They have small and large and this casserole takes a while to come out. The small yields about 6 – 7 small bowls, while the large yields much larger, about 8 – 10 small bowls. I think the chef had a bad day, because it was really dry, not much juice or sauce at all. The small runs at $ 20.
I had the stir fried egg plant dish, chow fun and a veggie dish. The chow fun didn’t look fresh at all. The dishes were in decent portions, larger than medium but smaller than large. I thought the food was just okay.
Surprisingly the service was pretty decent, considering it is a Chinese restaurant.

AND THE KING HAS FALLEN.
hahaha.
Let me start off by saying how service is here.
The service here is terrible.
My mom asked for a table for 12. The waiter gave us a table of 8. And then he decided that he wanted to catch an attitude saying «well you should of asked for the big table». He said he’ll just bring the extra 4 seats we needed. it took him over an hour to do that. We asked him multiple times he decided to ignore us with an attitude. Later on we asked another waiter to bring it to us. He brought it to us right away and apologized for the long wait.
They took about 20 mins to bring us water and 10 mins to bring us forks.
Service here basically SUCKS BIG TIME.
Being busy isn’t an excuse for terrible service.
The food is okay, I definitely had way better ! The fried squid was wet soggy. the clay pot eel rice is meh. nothing special.
Would I come back here again most likely not !

I don’t think the management understand how to manage a profitable business. If someone made a reservation and there is obviously an empty table, why not seat them? Because the restaurant is hoping for a walk-​in group of 10, even if the reservation party is a group of 7. They definitely care more about the large tables.
The food is very typical Chinese, nothing outstanding. The house specialty, the eel rice casserole, will take forever, coming out after you’ve eaten ask the rest of your dishes. The staff will tell you that it’s because it’s unexpectedly crowded that night, but if you take a peek into the kitchen, there’s invoke less burners for the casseroles than there are tables in the restaurant.
The casserole is okay, I definitely have had better. And with much more fish in it. I don’t even think there’s one full eel in our order.
If i had my way, I wouldn’t come back. The bf says that waiting for a table is like the Lord of the Rings (all there movies).

I live around the neighborhood and was happy to try Kings Rice Restaurant. I had dinner there once with my mother on a friday night and my experience there was… okay.
Food: My mom loved the eel rice casserole. She claims it was delicious and would definitely have it again. I, on the other hand, am not very fond of eel. I ordered something else on the menu (some sort of rice noodle that had no name but just a picture on the menu) and they said they do not serve that… so I have no idea why it was present on the menu…
Service: The waiter forgot our order of eel rice casserole so we had to wait a looooong time for our food to come. They seem to care more about the bigger tables of 8 or 10 people.
Overall ³⁄₅ just because my mother liked the food.

Recently opened in a storefront that has seen quite a few businesses come and go, despite a location with excellent foot traffic. Word from a reliable source has the owners/​managers as veterans. A recent visit suggests if they’re not, they’re doing something right.
Bustling and full at 6 PM on a Sunday evening, with a line waiting for tables, we arrived thankful that someone in the group had the foresight to make a reservation, although we still wouldn’t be seated for some time. Not too large, not too small, the space is bright and casual, no different from standard family-​style Chinese restaurants. Their round tables are split about evenly between those that seat 4, 6, or 8, although they have the ability to expand some in the back to 10, tightly. Seating overall is cramped and tables are close together. This is no banquet hall restaurant; if its a group 8 or more, make that reservation ahead of time.
Service is the usual rushed, get-​the-​job-​done variety, although the general busyness of the place means more work flagging down waitstaff for anything at all.
The house specialty is eel rice casserole, available in three sizes. Best ordered immediately upon sitting down, as it takes time to prepare. The order includes eel bone soup, a milky soup with flavorful tofu and cilantro, delicate with a mild sweetness. The casserole itself is generously large, with plenty of crunchy rice along the bottom and sides. Plenty of eel pieces mingle with scallions in the fragrant rice, without too much other distraction. Its a well-​made rice casserole, comforting yet restrained, and worth coming to this restaurant to have.
Not that our ordering stopped there, although depending on the size of casserole ordered, it can be better counted as 2 or even 3 dishes on its own. Their English language menu features a short list of fairly recognizable dishes that can be found at many Cantonese restaurant menus. Their Chinese menu, on the other hand, offers plenty of house specialties not as easily found. Somehow, my usually unadventurous family (when it comes to ordering Cantonese meals for family nights out) ended up sampling mostly new items.
Oddly, they are very specific about their inability to accommodate lunch time food items during dinner time, whether to dine in or to go. That includes all dishes on rice (discovered when trying to order something to go on a different day), fried rice and/​or fried noodle dishes. Not a great impediment, but something to expect.
Kings Rice doesn’t rest on the laurels of their eel casserole alone. The rest of the food was largely pleasing, sometimes quite good. The braised Japanese tofu with enoki mushrooms was a satisfying, savory mix of textures. Bone-​in chicken pieces were steamed in a richly seasoned sauce, the meat smooth and tender. Stir-​fries impressed, from the addictive vermicelli to the house mix of vegetables, seafood, nuts, and innards. Like the tasty eel soup, a soup casserole of baby bok choy, clams, and taro was delicious, well-​flavored but restrained, just like home cooking. The classic fried shrimp and walnuts in mayo was very competently made. The equally classic Peking pork chops were fine, although rarely a dish I get excited over, and I’ve had better elsewhere.
Kings Rice is a very good Chinese restaurant, and the lines of patrons speak volumes in a neighborhood without many similar choices but where most are rarely very full on most nights. Do go for the eel rice casserole. Do try some of the items on their Chinese menu while you’re there.