Dragon Court Co

I’ve never eaten in here before. I’ve driven past the place a few times, and it’s never looked super appealing — it’s at the end of Wentworth, it’s kind of feels like it’s on it own, and I haven’t looked inside but from the outside it seems like it wouldn’t be very tidy or friendly inside. I’ve always had the food delivered, so this review is for the quality of takeout.
Onto what matters when getting takeout! Their flavors are AMAZING at this place. There has never been anything I’ve been disappointed with before when ordering from this restaurant. Warning: Everything at this restaurant has an oily sheen to it — so if you’re looking for healthy food, this is not the place to order. The following items are the dishes I can remember ordering:
— Sliced pork with preserved vegetables (one of the BEST I’ve eaten in Chicago — you have to be prepared for some oiliness since this is basically braised pork belly, but it reminds me of the good ol’ days of traditional dishes. This packs so much flavor but can get a little unsettling because of the greasiness)
— Eggplant with garlic sauce (always a safe dish, this one is pretty done pretty greasily but amazingly yummily. The eggplant is made just to the right consistency, mushy with still a little skin texture to it, and is slathered in their garlic sauce)
— Fish fillet with tofu in XO sauce (SO good. I would imagine it would taste better at the restaurant, since the fish fillet are first deep fried and then tossed with the rest of the dish. But by the time it gets to me, the fillets are a little softer but has absorbed the sauce splendidly. The tofu is the perfect consistency to soak up the sauce and the sauce is amazing)
Unfortunately I can’t remember anything else, but since these three dishes are pretty traditional ones I can’t imagine the rest being that much worse off. I wish I could order from them now but I’m in CA! Wait… I’m in CA. jk If you’re in Chicago, this is a great place to get take out.

It’s easy to miss this place among the bigger & nicer dim sum places especially since it’s kind of near the end of Chinatown on Wentworth. But if you want an inexpensive dim sum fix, this is definitely the joint to go to. $ 2 dim sum for small, medium, and large plates? Yes, please.
Their dim sum was good, had the usual siu mai (pork dumpling), ha gow (shrimp dumpling), chang fun (noodle crêpe) and veggies. It wasn’t anything spectacular but it did hit the spot. Not sure how long the $ 2 «promotion» will last (it seems to just be a part of their regular menu right now).
There’s not much to be said about the décor, it’s more of a dive-​y place. It’s also not that big as it only has a few of the large round tables and probably less than 10 smaller tables around the edge. The service was good, it was kind of chilly and they had the fans going for circulation but they kindly turned off the one over our table upon request.

Decided to order a meal deal here. My mom called in and told them we wanted to pick up at 7:00 pm. My brother gets there and had to still wait about 25 minutes. I think they forgot to make it til he got there.
Chinese Broccoli — They used a garlic sauce which was ok, but the broccoli was old.
Black Pepper Beef — This was ok.
Salt and Pepper Smelt — Wow, these had so many bones in there. Eat with caution. I’ve never had fried smelt and almost choke on the bones.
Overall, the price is good, but quality isn’t. So, you get what you pay for. I’ll suggest go elsewhere.

Dim sum is $ 2.00 a dish, any dish, every day. Seems reasonable right? uhm for the price yes. For the service quality and food taste, uhm hellz no.
I had two people in my group — they would not seat us even though there was 3 large tables unused at the time we walked into the restaurant. They said it was reserved for larger groups. Okay, then we said we will wait. The waiter starts talking to me in broken English, and we respond back to him in Cantonese. He was somewhat shocked that we spoke. I mean, don’t I look Asian enough? Come on. Maybe I don’t like a FOB, but still, I am Asian.
We get seated 20 minutes later… and it took another 10 minutes for the waiter to return to our table. After we placed our order for dim sum, the group next to us (which had placed an order as well, about 5 minutes later), received all their dim sum dishes FIRST. Uhm, that is strange. Because we only ordered the simple dumpling dishes, and etc. which did not require a lot of preparation.
They blatantly ignored us, and didn’t even tell us some of the items we selected were not available for the day. After we ate, we went to the owner to pay the bill. He treated us like criminals — by ignoring us and not saying anything. Funny how the moment I started speaking in Toisanese (a local dialect), he immediately seemed shocked and smiled a bit.
Next time, don’t judge a book by its cover. Just because I may not look like Chinese or speak the language does not mean I should be treated with disrespect. Remember, I speak 7 languages fluently. So don’t pull that b.s. on me.

I’ve been here a handful of times, and the quality of the food is very hit-​or-​miss. Came here for Mother’s Day, and we celebrated the same way we celebrate all holidays: by eating until we hate ourselves. We ordered the salt and pepper fried shrimp, salt and pepper fried pork chops, fish and tofu casserole, black pepper beef, fried fish fillets, and a crab dish. The salt and pepper fried shrimp and pork chops were fine, but the casserole, beef, and dish were under-​seasoned and came out cold. The fried fish fillets were shockingly tasty in comparison to the rest of the food. I wonder if they got take-​out from the place next door.
On a completely unrelated note, Asian parents have this thing about getting the check. Basically, they will refuse to let the other party (or the guest) pay for the meal. It’s a cultural anomaly that is hilarious to watch, but terrifying to be involved in. I have seen grown-​ass men and women stop just short of literal fist-​fighting in order to have the privilege of footing the bill.
I managed to pay for lunch, but only by handing the waiter my card before the meal even started. This is the tactical equivalent of flinging the Monopoly board and all its pieces across the room before your Dad can get all the fucking Railroads. I highly recommend it.

Had lunch here. Beef was tough. Tofu lacked flavor. Salt & pepper pork was somehow sweet. The fish filet was really good though, and everyone seemed to enjoy the fried shrimp and fresh crab. Food came out really slowly… but service was pretty attentive.

I came here with my family in mid-​March to try out the dim sum priced at $ 2 per dish. Their menu had the usual offers but were a bit lacking on the dessert end. But I couldn’t complain much with that low price.
Here’s what we had: shrimp dumpling, pork dumpling, steamed beef balls, steam barbecue roast pork bun, chicken sticky rice with lotus leaf, braised beef varieties, pan-​fried turnip cake, pan-​fried taro cake, pan-​fried pork with chives dumpling, pan-​fried bean curd crêpe, shrimp spring rolls, steamed vegetable crêpe, and steamed shrimp crêpe. That is a total of 14 dishes shared among four people. It was quite a bit but definitely not overwhelming.
They charged $ 2 per dish but the portions were slightly downsized. It was forgivable at times but a bit disappointing for certain dishes. To name a few… the turnip cakes were a bit lacking. The preserved sausages were very well-​minced and the turnips were probably crushed into powder to form these cakes. The chicken sticky rice with lotus leaf were minuscule and resembled the frozen products from grocery stores. Despite the small portion, the ingredients were not downplayed at all.
On the other hand, their shrimp dumpling, pork dumpling, braised beef varieties and pan-​fried pork with chives dumpling were very enjoyable. Service was also prompt and friendly. The owner even came by to see how we were enjoying our dim sum.

Damn, everything on the dim sum menu is $ 2 from 8am to 4pm! NOT BAD. So even the small, med, large, and special items, all $ 2 each! The dim sum wasn’t bad either, it was pretty good. Food came out fast. I mean, the dim sum didn’t taste extraordinary, it was Good though and Cheap. I would definitely come back.

Ordered food and dim sum from Dragon Court several times and they are generally made pretty well so decided to have dinner there finally and i wasn’t disappointed
we had steamed eel (live), stir fried snails, choi sum with garlic and the honey pepper flavored ox tail
the steamed eel was fantastic, we also love the stir fried snails as well (the oxtail was not tender enough but taste wise its good)
Service was very attentive, the waitress brought us water without us asking (usually in chinatown they only give you tea unless you ask), refill promptly, checked on us numerous times
I am a sucker for fresh seafood so definitely will come back to try their other seafood dishes

Came here around dinner time at 5ish. Ordered the dinner for two: lobster with ginger and scallions, yu shan scallops, and pork with spicy salt and pepper. Bill totaled to $ 41 (plus tax, without tax, the meal costs $ 36.88) There are a lot of «typical» appetizers and there’s nothing special about what’s on there. Seriously, nothing special. Those are typical dishes charged at least $ 2 more than regular places. What’s special is if you can order the items on the wall in Chinese writing. I am dead serious. (Take a Chinese person who can read Chinese with you.) I went in with a groupon ($ 12 for $ 20) with my handy phone. I used to come here for dim sum with my mom, had dinner here for my sister’s graduation, and had dinner here for a party… but these were before they sold it to the current owner of 2012.)
Food: 2. Warning I got from people i know said they switched boss recently and food sucks. I went with the Unilocal that read 3.5 stars. I am quite disgusted by the food. The pork tasted of butter. It had no garlic, and minimal jalapeño peppers. :(I guess this doesn’t end here. The lobster and scallops were cooked well, lacked something flavor though. If you like the pure seafood taste, then go for it. It totally lacks the ginger and scallions in the lobster and the yushan in the scallops.
Décor: 4 typical as the Dragon court that used to be in Chinatown Square. They had green chairs that are padded perfectly, white parchment paper on the table (feel free to leave bones on the table… that’s what they’re for), white walls, green lining that runs to the floor. There are some signs on the wall for some other dishes (not really friendly to those who don’t read/​understand Chinese). There’s an aquarium outside the window, along with some traditional gold statues and stuff by the host counter/​register. I think it looks better upstairs.
Price: 3 It might be reasonable since there are two seafood dishes. Yet, for the taste, I don’t really find it worth. I’ve tasted better at other locations in Chinatown for the same dishes and it was cheaper than what’s charged here.
Atmosphere: 3 With the families dining around and their conversation, it’s pretty average. The tv that’s present in there isn’t louder than guests. The room is well-​lit. I feel it’s missing some music. It can get awkwardly quiet and I found myself looking around when I’m not talking, and of course, I ended up eavesdropping other conversations because it gets that quiet.
Service: 2 I guess they might deserve more points, but they get a two because I find there is the lack of attention and cooperation of the waiter/​ress. After receiving the menu for two minutes and five minutes, two different waitresses stopped by to take orders when we had our menus to our faces. There are cues and obviously it takes at least 2 minutes to know what is wanted, right?(If you know what you want on your first time ordering at that place, kudos to you.) They checked up on us once. The waiter who heard us speak English to them when we walked in got cued and asked us «how is everything» in English, other waitresses remembered my date speaking in Mandarin so we got a second waitress who took our orders in Mandarin. [This is what the Chinese places deal with when I visit… I’m trilingual .] They did their best to explain what the meal contains when we’re ordering. I didn’t really like the serving of dessert that ran down the side of the bowl, plus, some got on the table when it was served. this is fine. Up until the waitress took my phone to «scan» with their itouch and returned my phone… they placed it dead on the spot of dessert (taro with tapioca «soup”/ tong sui). :(Apparently being observant is not an entity here, of course, unless you know them.
I kind of docked points when the waiter was chatting loudly in the middle of the room (I was seated in the corner again… second time these two days). They were having a fun time chatting about the price of the boxes of vegetables that gets shipped to their place. I understand waiters can be friendly, but when it’s loud enough for the whole room to stop eating and stare, this is a problem. Again, maybe having music might help?
This place is not good for the atmosphere. If you like trying new places before you settle, I honestly think there are other places worth trying first. With the menu presented and your intentions, this place is not for specialties (maybe… if you can order from the wall of Chinese stuff. (I’m still wondering what a is… doggie goose?)

$ 2 Dimsum! How can you beat that price?
Only downside is that they are understaffed leading to long wait times between meals.

I would give it a zero star if there’s the option.
Service is extremely bad. I bought a groupon now for this restaurant and called for delivery. After the guy heard that I’m using a groupon, he said that their manager is not there so they cannot take any coupon then hang up my phone. I called a few more times until they finally picked up again. He said he cannot take any coupon and ask me to call back in half an hour, MAYBE their manager can come back.
Really irresponsible people and bad service. I love Chinese food and Chinese restaurants but the service there are always disappointing.

We heard that this is a good place for Dim Sum to try. So we were there the day after Christmas. It was alright. We had the usual. Ha Gow was good. At least we tried.

Hot n sour soup is very good with shrimp
Awesome food. excellent breakfast

We found Dragon Court to to be an ok place for dim sum carryout. Dim sum quality and pricing was good and reasonable. We tried a variety of the basic dim sum selections — har gao, siu mai, beef cheng fun, and a bean curd roll.

Leave it to my parents to find the best deal for everything.
So a group of us were stuck between choosing Phoenix, Happy Chef, and on my parents’ suggestion, this place, for dimsum on a Sunday. What captivated my curiosity — my mom told me ‘it’s 20% off. everyday.’ Great! wait, what?
I’m happy that we didn’t have to wait at all, the owner was helpful with my questions, we got to loiter there for over 2 hours w/​o feeling rushed/​crowded, and the bill came out to $ 36 for 5 ppl (4 girls and 1 swede with a big appetite for soup dumplings).
As for the environment — the bathroom could be cleaner and the facility could be updated, but it didn’t bother us. We enjoyed the food, and it came out piping hot (which rarely happens when someone is pushing a cart around the room).
By the end of the meal, my friends and I were wondering about this 20% deal — we didn’t see it pasted anywhere on the walls nor on the ordering sheet, but lo and behold, it was deducted from the bill. Haha, yay!

Great not good but Great Dim Sum
also for my surprise day my BF had planned for us to get Dim Sum for lunch, and I was oh so down with that, and not just flying by seat of our pants as we usually do he had checked out reviews on Unilocal and had picked this play out
we were seated rather quickly, and as we looked around it was like ok the food must be good we are the only white people here, ok their was one girl but she was with a asian guy so that didn’t count
so we get seated after about 5 minute wait, this is a small place so it stayed filled the whole time we were there, they gave us the menu and I am like of this is a regular menu and we wanted Dim Sum, now in Seattle they just come around with carts full of steamed basked of goodies and ask if you want any of it, but here we see the guy at the next table has a different menu that we don’t have
so I asked the nice lady if we could get Dim Sum and she is like oh you want Dim Sum and she takes away our Menu’s and gives us a sheet of paper with food on it and a pencil to mark off what we want then they make it up
Now as I don’t really know what we get usually we just say sure to a bunch of stuff and get way too much food and have to be rolled out of the place like a oompa loompa
so the lady is trying to help us by telling us things she likes to eat, so we pick out about 7 or 8 items and sip our tea while we wait for, little steamed goodies to show up at the table
as usual we ordered too much and we tried to Finnish it all off the best we could, I can say it was all good but if you don’t do anything else order the custard tarts they come out hot from the oven and are oh so good
we will be back this is the place for Dim Sum and we may even try the regular menu as it looked good also

Yummy Yummy dim sum!
I’ll eat anything with pork in it! Or filled with red bean paste, fried, and covered in sesame seeds!
And…I can’t say anything without repeating others… so read An P.‘s review.
We got a great deal, especially for a small group of people.

Dim sum, dim sum, dim sum.
Dim sum is one of my favorite cuisines and I enjoy eating dim sum every month in Chinatown. On my last trip, I spotted this dim sum restaurant all the way at the end of Old Chinatown and kept a mental note to come check it out for the next dim sum trip. The day finally came, and it was time to take inventory of what Dragon Court had to offer.
Raul B and Jill M. beat me to Dragon Court and we were able to get a ton of space since there weren’t that many people there. There were no carts and expert-​level menu ordering with no pictures. We went off and went overboard checking on everything that sounded good and waited as they brought each dish.
The pork shumai was very good and the shrimp dumpling hargow was tasty with proper texture and taste as well. Pork spare ribs could have been more tender and it was not as rich as I would have liked, but the beef spare ribs were a good change of pace. The great thing about all of the dishes we ordered was that they were coming fresh out of the kitchening piping hot!
I thought the taro puff was a bit flaky for my tastes and was not as rich as I’d like in the middle but the baos were very good with good pork inside. The shrimp crêpe came with Chinese broccoli saving us the step of ordering another dish. We ordered some brisket noodle dish which was surprisingly good and the grilled curry baby octopus was delicious as well.
The employees did not have a great grasp of English and I wasn’t quite sure what they were saying some of the time and there was also another group of employees cutting up veggies on a table in the back of the lower dining room which was a bit off. The best surprise was when we got our bill and they subtracted 20% off! I don’t know why, but I would assume it was due to it being 1:30pm in the afternoon. The food is not top notch, but if you’re looking for a change of place and are looking for value, then head on over to Dragon Court.

OMG! This was a wonderful find. My husband and I were invited to dinner to Dragon court. I was expecting a Panda express type of dinner… no no no, it was fantastic!
First off we ordered off the Chinese/​authentic menu. We ordered the set family style dinner. We got the lobster (stir fried) you can choose how you want it cooked. Stir fried crabs, steamed oysters with black bean (DELISH!), stir fried Chinese broccoli. I ordered the «Malaysian Squid» not knowing what it was. The waitress tried dissuading me from ordering it, she said it would be too strong a taste, I ordered it
was fabulous! It was stir fried with shrimp paste and unbelievably delicious. I love shrimp paste even though it has a strong smell, as a matter of fact I love the smell!
The Décor is rather dull and minimal. You can’t miss the lobster, crabs and fish swimming in the tanks. My heart instantly fills with happiness when I see them, I know for sure my sea food is fresh.
The restaurant does not have a parking lot, you have park on the street or at the public parking lot and walk to the restaurant. I love this place and will go back whenever I am in the vicinity of Chinatown.