Ho Lucky Restaurant - STEWIACKE

This small on building size in a small town but big on taste and good quality. Very good servings and always hot. Good take out and sit down.

Have eaten here many times,never had a bad meal or bad service,Martin the owner and cook loves to come out and talk to people.good food for people who do not like lots of salt or msg,as he uses very little or none at all.the number 5 is the best of any chinese food i have tasted,small but great

So I only have a small sample size -- just one takeout order. They were quick enough -- and the place looked clean (though I didn't go in the bathroom). But the food was a cut below (nothing special) receding down toward awful, though surely at least slightly better than inedible.I was driving from Moncton, NB to Halifax, NS on a poker playing journey. I was very hungry, having missed lunch somehow. It was about 3PM. I decided that I just wanted something I could eat while I drove. And though it might seem incogruous, an order of pork strips and hot and sour soup fit the bill perfectly (I have mastered the art of drinking soup like a cup of coffee. And with handy napkins, pork strips make the ideal "driving snack" -- as long as they're not too hot).After placing my order, I waited in my car, listening on satellite radio to some 1950s drama. I went in to check on things after about 15 minutes -- and my food was just about done. I left 5 minutes later, eager to enjoy Canadian-Chinese food. Would it be the same as American-Chinese? Would there be a slight difference? A profound one? My tastebuds wondered.I had my answer immediately. As soon as I took the lid off the soup and started sipping I knew that this was not my grandmother's Chinese soup. The broth was thick, almost stand-up-on-its-own thick with corn starch. Yech. The small shards of vegetable and meat were completely overpowered by the thickness of the soup -- that tasted vaguely like the **** they pour over fries up this way -- poutine or something like that I think. The wonderful clashing of white pepper, vinegar, and tomato that makes for the hotness and the sour? Barely a note. I did something I have done only 3 or 4 times since I started buying meals for myself at the tender age of 12. I tossed out more than half of something that wasn't rotten -- just not to my liking.The pork strips were not as bad. But they were only distant cousins to the moist and juicy ones I normally find in American-Chinese take-out joints. These were dried, 1/4 inch pieces of pork, literally buried in a thick syrupy goo -- I guess they consider this to be the "honey-sauce" or "orange sauce" or whatever their name for the heavy-on-the corn syrup sauce is. I confess to dutifully finishing the container of them. but I felt sick and guilty about it afterwards.This wasn't the worst Chinese food I've ever had (half frozen egg rolls accompanied by a rancid hot and sour soup takes that prize). But "methinks not" sums it up fairly well.

Good service and we received our meals within 15 minutes. The dining area is small, but sufficient. Good location, just a few minutes from the highway. There is also plenty of parking at the rear of the restaurant.

Great food, friendly people. Fresh and delicious. I live in Toronto and have a hard time finding good Chinese food. This was better then any other place I've tried.