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Louie's Cuisine of China (Ballard)

5100 15th Avenue NW
Seattle, Washington 98107
(206) 782-8855
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Categories: Restaurant

Restaurant Details

  • Pretty standard Chinese food dished out in a legendary Ballard location—it's been around a long time, regulars love it, and stepping inside is sort of like going back in time to the '70s (although the Louie family's been in the Seattle-area restaurant business since the '30s).
  • Features: Cheap Eats, Family Friendly (nice to babies), Good for Groups and To Go
  • Cuisine: Chinese
  • Serving Hours: Mon-Thurs 11:30 am-midnight, Fri 11:30 am-1 am, Sat 4 pm-1 am, Sun 3-10 pm.
 
 

Average Rating:
  • 4.33000/5 Stars.
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First the good: Delicious food. No question. General Tso's chicken is a delightful mix of hot and sweet. The beef dish we tried was unimaginably tender. Prawns, fried rice, and potstickers were great too. Egg roll was a bit different than I'm used to, but good. The bad: No Fortune Cookies. Service for water and tea refills was horribly slow. At $36 for two people, I wouldn't label this "cheap eats".
Posted by chainmailgirl on November 12, 2007 at 5:43 PM · Report
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The only Chinese worth eating in Ballard

...including my ex. Chinese takeout has become one of those things that I refuse to skimp on (see aforementioned ex). Question the ability of the cook, even in your mind, and there will be small chunks of metal in your sweet and sour chicken (see Wallingford’s Moon Temple, a place where small things have scurried across the floor when I picked up a bag of takeout). The talent of an angry Chinese food cook to mess up your order is legendary. But ordering at Louie’s couldn’t be simpler. Simple, fast, easy; for under $20, cashew chicken, mandarin beef, and a double order of steamed rice, with the ubiquitous hombao and egg rolls, a quad of fortune cookies stuffed in the bag, and the heady scent of warm, delicious Chinese turned out to be better than the promise within. It ain’t Wild Ginger; it ain’t Hong Kong cuisine, but if you’re seeking old school takeout to curl up on the couch with your newly minted significant other, go with a takeout order from Louie’s.
Posted by zymyrgy on October 5, 2007 at 11:16 AM · Report
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Time Warp

Look, kids, I was around in the 70s. This isn't LIKE the 70s, it IS the 70s. Even the way you walk will change in here. I absofreakinlutely love this place. I don't care if the food is super-old-fashioned Chinese-American style of a type that's almost disappeared from US big cities. Place is full of really old people, too, which is always a plus. Wonderful decor. Make sure you spend some time in the bar. This is what livin' used to be like.
Posted by Fnarf on May 16, 2007 at 3:49 PM · Report

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