Authentic Chinese food with quick service (but just like all other chinese restaurants you do not go there for the atmosphere or services). Especially like the seafood shaved noodles!

Lucky Gate's noodles are all made fresh in house. Sometimes we even get to see the chef pulling the noodles through the window that peeks into the kitchen.  Lucky Gate is definitely one of my favourite places for Chinese noodles, we always order a noodle dish when we're here. We decided on the seafood and vegetable chow mein 三鮮炒麵 ($10.99) since Mamallama likes seafood. For all noodle dishes, you get the choice between their hand stretched noodles or their thick shaved noodles. We got it with the hand stretched noodles, which has a dense, chewy texture that I love. The noodles were stir fried with shrimp, scallops and bokchoi in a soy based sauce.

Chinese style pancake 手抓餅 is also one of our staples at Lucky Gate. While it's called a "pancake" I think a ringed pastry would be a more accurate description. The compact pastry is slightly crunchy on the surface and soft yet dense on the inside. It has a pleasant subtle sweet flavour. We couldn't finish the pastry, so we brought the leftovers home. Baby-Paca and I reheated it in the oven later that day and ate it with sweetened condense milk, which of course made it taste even better.

We also love their shredded chicken with green bean starch sheets 雞絲粉皮 ($5.99). I must say that a lot of Chinese dishes sound pretty strange and far from appetizing when translated into English, but this is a very typical dish that can be found in restaurants in Beijing, or in restaurants that offer northern Chinese cuisine. I have tried this dish in various Chinese restaurants in Vancouver, but a lot of the restaurants don't do it quite right. Either the sauce is too thin or too vinegary, or the texture of the green bean starch sheets are off, but I quite like the one at Lucky Gate. I do think that this dish may be an acquired taste though. Some people may find the cold and slippery green bean starch sheets kind of strange. I think someone even compared it to snot. I can see why, but Baby-Paca and I still think it's great, especially on hot days when we feel like eating something cool, light and refreshing. The green bean starch sheets themselves don't taste like much, they take up the flavours of the slightly vinegary sesame sauce. The chicken wasn't too dry, and the slices of cucumber paired well with dish