Fortune House Thai & Chinese Food

I am giving the restaurant 5-stars because the reviewer Mai Vang calling the owner’s underage daughter chubby. If you already knew she is underage, why do you have to call a kid chubby? This is body shamming. And nothing is wrong with being born into a hard working family that they need your help even your are underage. These details are unnecessary and irrelevant to the review.

Food tastes really good but service is BAD! Called at 6:30pm, they picked up and hung up. Called back thinking it was by accident but they answered the phone just to yell that they are closed then hung up again. Really? Closed for dinner on a non-holiday? Prior to this incident, I ordered food and didn’t get white rice. Was told I had to pay extra for white rice. Went back for rice and was told I had to purchase at least $5 to pay with credit card… Plain white rice is the cheapest thing that could be given away! We also noticed portions are inconsistent. This is the last attempt to get food from this place. 2 stars only because food is tasty. Otherwise would be zero stars!

Don’t go after 7pm!!!! This happened to us twice!! Went in at 7:05pm and immediately greeted by their chubby underage daughter. She asked, if we are going be finish eating by 8:00pm because they will closing at that time. My husband and I just said “sure”. We sat at the same place during our two visits. The place looks decent, but the bathrooms lighting are dimmed low. I think due to one working light bulb and the rest was either broken or they were short of light bulbs to replace. Can’t tell if the bathroom were clean too since I couldn’t see well enough.Food - We ordered thai food only. Had pho, chicken wings, spring rolls, fried rice and raw laab. Everything was good except for the spring roll, they had tons of carrots in it and their dipping sauce for it was the sweet & sour eggroll sauce. Pho broth was rich and on the sweeter side. The raw laab was good too. Not bitter or too sour too. They gave us tons of bean sprouts, basil and raw green pepper too.Service - The food came out fast. But I don’t know if it’s always case considering we had a time frame to finish our food. Keeping in mind their waiting service is bare minimum, only because there are two underage waitress helping us. We assume is the owners daughters. After waiting on us, the two underage daughters went back to playing and giggling at their corner seats near the entrance, like a child would. While we think both parents work in the back preparing customer’s food. Parents came out only after delivering us our the food and to check on us.Prices - I think it is a bit pricey then expected.Overall, I would have given a 2.5 stars. You win some and you lose some. Thai food is good that is a win. But service is bare minimum or on the poorer lose side. Can’t have it both here!Hope this helps!

When I lived closer, I always get food from here for lunch. And on special occasions I get party tray house fried rice for my employees. Now I live an hr away. Didn’t know they were new owners until it came down to price of the party tray. Previous owners charged $45, new owners charged $65. That’s when I was told they were new owners. As a business owner, I decided to give them a shot. Took food to work and my employees was like what’s this..and if I bought it from my usual location. Cuz the house fried rice wasn’t good at all. I tried it and never going back. The previous owners used to b by hwy 36 and rice st. And been getting food from them since 2003. This was the worst house fried rice I have tried. I don’t like living a negative reviews. But I am really disappointed. 2 stars for the chicken wings which is as good as any normal restaurant.

Placed an order for takeout online, ordered two Entree's the Red Chicken Curry and Chicken Stir fry. Promised time it would be ready was 35 minutes. Arrived for pick up, waited an additional 20 minutes before my food was ready and the 13.99 Red Chicken Curry did NOT include white rice?? Was told if I wanted rice with it that it would cost an additional $3.00! I've never had to pay extra for rice with an entree?!! Wasted nearly $30 what a rip off!

DEFINITELY not good. Ordered for takeaway a shrimp fried rice, no egg, extra shrimp/onion. Told it would be 10 mins. Was nearly 25 and watched other people after me get their food to take out. Wouldn't have been an issue really but... ...my food had EGG and the TAILS were left on the shrimp!! Called when I got home, 5 miles away and was told by the high school girl to wait a minute, then she came back on to tell me that the manager was too busy to talk to me!!!

Service was amazing & got my food in a timely matter. Would highly recommend this place! Try their Thai fried rice!

Best authentic Thai food in Minnesota food here reminds me of my home town Thailand everything was super amazing we definitely be back to try different menu. The service was also great nice & friendly environment. I recommend you order fried pork belly basil stir fried with fried egg. I love how fried egg turn out nice and crispy just like the one I had in Thailand.

GREAT FOOD!!! I would recommend and come back

Pricey for the small meat portions with rice. Better options at nearby Chinese restaurants. Sesame & General Tso’s chicken a bit too salty. Fun/flat noodles were good that’s why I gave 2 stars.

Fortune House has completely overhauled their menu. Long gone is the buffet and the lengthy list of Americanized Chinese food. In its place, a menu featuring more traditional Thai & Chinese dishes. Pho, Tom Yum, Larb, Papaya Salad, fried rice & noodle dishes.For my first foray into the new (and hopefully improved) Fortune House, I was set to feast. I started off with 2 appetizers - fried chicken dumplings/potstickers & egg rolls (Vietnamese style, I think - glass noodles, shredded carrots, chicken, flaky wrap). Both served with familiar sauces, but different. The potstickers sauce was tasty but had a thickness to it, where other places' sauce might have the consistency of soy sauce. The sweet and sour sauce for the egg rolls was unique, too - light orange in color, not much sour, but great flavor.For my entree, I wanted to order the "Pork Clay Pot Rice". Sadly, I was informed of their shortage on pork - not the first time I've heard of this during these late-COVID times at Asian restaurants. Chicken was available, though, and it was fantastic! Think of an Asian chicken and rice casserole - ginger, green onion, sliced sausage. When was the last time you had chicken that kept the skin on? So good and full of flavor. Served with a spicy soy sauce (like regular soy sauce but with tiny bits of a very spicy red pepper floating in it).My rice dish (ordered the medium size), and frankly the apps, could easily be split between 2 people (4 eggrolls & 7 potstickers. Reasonably priced and tasty authentic grub.I will definitely be going back to explore more of the menu, although I'll probably not stuff myself the way I did today! ?

Boba was not great. Bubbles were hard in the middle. Very hard unedible bamboo pieces in the food and bland tasting chicken lo mein. I mean, we still ate most of it.

Food here is one of the best I've had in Twin Cities - not sure why all the negative reviews. Would love to keep supporting this business

As a fellow asian who's very familiar with asian flavors, hoping new owners read comments, improve, and find way to succeed. Can only comment on dishes ordered. Lomein has eggs? Haha smh. Have ordered hundreds of times from all over and never had "eggs" in it. New owners, please google the recipe. Amount of meat adequate but portion size small, under-flavored, and now cost more. O Recipe for success? Lomein noodles also of the fatter variety which requires little cooking skill vs skinnier noodles. How do u mess this up? Next- first time ever had singapore noodles, which just sucked. Noodles all broken, waste of money. New owners are Karen so assume their Thai dishes are more authentic tasting. May return and test. As for chinese dishes, avoid. Not hating, just an honest review. 2 stars as I didn't get sick, just majorly disappointed.09/20/21 update- gave another try, dined in, and glad. Had pho, eggrolls, papaya salad, and springrolls. Pho was piping hot with generous meat, noodle, and broth portions. You even get fresh thai chilies and shrimp paste. These guys keeping it homeland real! Pho on the sweeter side but def not bad. Pappaya (lao style) was just ok, flavor and portion size. Eggrolls had good flavor. Spring rolls needed more meat. Still dont trust their chinese menu but they know what they doing as far SE Asian flavors.

Food was okay. Got sweet basil beef and general tso chicken. Flavor was there for the basil, but the beef is way overcooked and tough/dry. Portion is very small for 14$. Chicken was fun to eat and savory. Two little kids were serving us, they were fantastic.