juyouge 聚德楼 in Selden

Bon G. and I chose Ju You Ge for our Valentines Day festivities due to Spice Workshop being closed on Mondays. We had been to this venue once before and thought it was comparable to SW and also about the same distance from Shirley. It is a family operation with Hubby cooking in the kitchen and Mama running the front and taking care of the customers. We went on the early side around 5 pm but by 6 all the tables were taken. BTW... they are BYOB so be sure and bring your beer, wine etc to enhance the meal. Our appys were Dan Dan noodles and Steamed Soup Dumplings...Both delish..The Noodles had a nice toothy feel on chewing them and the red hot chili sauce was perfect...a nice burn... the Soup Dumplings were also terrific..the soup was perfect and the pork ball inside was delish.. a perfect rendition! For our mains we chose 3 dishes, after all it was a special day! We had Cumin Lamb 10/10, Sliced fatty beef with soft tofu in a really hot s...

It's really hard to find an authentic Chinese restaurant. Since all continents can have different culture in food, I love that they have a lot of different options. The owner and staff are very nice The only thing is every time I order the same dishes, there will be difference every time and sometimes it's not in a good way.  Maybe it's a different chef every time

The soup dumplings were okay. You can taste a lot of ginger in the broth. More dough than meat/soup. I would rate it 5 out of 10. It took about 20 mins to come out .. with 1 other table in the restaurant. Also ordered beef lo mein to go, and that took about 20-30 mins. So if you have time to wait, the lo mein was decent. The girl at the counter was nice and apologetic about it but didn't really give me a reason why it took so long... either way I probably won't be back unless I'm REALLY craving soup dumplings.