Fortune Cookie Restaurant

Elite '08

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Amanda H.

Atlanta, GA

I had never noticed this place before, but after seeing the great reviews it got here, I had to try it.  They were right--it was a great meal!  The service was fantastic.  I ordered one of the dinners for one.  The egg drop soup came out first.  I've seen it done many different ways, but never with corn and green onions...it was delightful and delicious.  The egg rolls came out next, and they were also good.  Then came the entree.  I ordered a combo of Sweet & Sour Pork and Shrimp with Lobster Sauce, both of which were great.  The restaurant was cutely decorated and quiet.  Altogether a fantastic meal; I'll definitely be ordering from them in the future!

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Barry M.

Chicago, IL

17 years ago I stumbled into Fortune Cookie after moving into the neighborhood.  I can still recall what I ordered it was so good:  sesame chicken, egg rolls and hot/sour soup.  Well, maybe not exactly that, but it quickly became my favorite Chinese restaurant.  Of all time.  Over the years, I've been to FC hundreds of times and now that I'm living in Chicago, it's one of those things I miss most about Atlanta.  I have also lived in DC (with a Chinatown), dated and married a girl from NYC and spent countless evenings searching Manhattan for a comparable Chinese resaturant (may have found one or two in about 3 years of trying) and now here in Chicago my search continues for a solid Chinese place, but to little avail, even with a Chinatown not that far away.   The positive reviews for FC are all well-deserved, and if you go there you will understand.  Mongolian anything, brown sauce with anything, steamed anything..... you get the picture.  Lunch during the week can get mobbed, and there's sometimes a bit of a rush hour during dinner, but it's worth the wait.  And, you can't beat the prices.  I can't wait for my next visit!!

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Elite '08

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Patrick H.

Buford, GA

Good, solid Chinese. You'd think that would be fairly easy to find these days, but not so.

The Fortune Cookie is tucked in the very backmost corner of Loehmann's Plaza at Briarcliff and N. Druid Hills. The strip mall is one of the nicer ones of its kind, with tall older trees to shade parts of the lot and a healthy blend of stores. The restaurant is standard-issue, generic Asian in decor other than the large fish tanks, but still pleasant in a nondescript way. The party I was in got a nice corner booth that was comfortable; though the lunch rush is noisy, it was still possible to have conversation.

The hot-n-sour soup was particularly good; while it's such a standard that you don't expect much of it, there was a tang to it that pleased me. I typically only have the broth, and that was definitely a flavorful experience.

I ordered the Kung Pao Chicken (peanuts on the side, please). The first couple of bites were okay, but nothing interesting, Oddly, the more of it I ate, the more the flavor seemed to shine through in the sauce. It was spicy enough to make the sinuses take note, but not such much as to distract from the food. The spring roll was nondescript (and possibly a commercial/frozen one), but hot mustard cures all spring roll ills. It was also accompanied by a four-point star shaped confection that tasted just so slightly of cheesecake. It was startlingly rich after a filling meal (the portions are just north of sufficient), but I could not resist.

While my world was not changed by the experience, it is solid Chinese fare and worth putting into at least a semi-regular rotation for when you need to pick a place that everyone will be okay with, or if you have a yen for Chinese and are in the area.

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Carl C.

Atlanta, GA

My dad and I checked out Fortune Cookie a couple days ago....this is some damn good chinese food.  It doesn't look like much from the outside, but the inside is very quaint, clean and pleasant.  Our waitress was EXTREMELY attentive and quick, and our food portions were more than ample.  We had the "dinner for 2" special which included sizzling rice soup, spring rolls, teriyaki beef skewer, mongolian beef and kung pao chicken.  Everything tasted great and I was pleasantly surprised.  Our total bill was roughly $30-$35 including drinks.  I will DEFINITELY be going back!

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Jinny K.

Atlanta, GA

While I would have liked to review a classier joint for my first time, I just ordered the spicy eggplant from Fortune Cookie and mmmmmmm it was so good that I felt I needed to share....

Until I heard of this place (yes, a well kept secret...I've lived in the area for years and only recently stepped in), the words "Chinese food" and "Atlanta" didn't belong in the same sentence in my mind. Especially Chinese food that actually tastes like something other than a disproportionate combination of soy sauce, MSG, a random and stale piece of crab rangoon, and if you're lucky, the occasional water chestnut.

Anyway, this place is awesome...great for take out or delivery. The restaurant itself is small and doesn't have much ambiance (think strip mall, next to Lohemann's...yeah, don't bring a date here) but the good food is much appreciated and they have good lunch specials and dinner sets.

Good options for vegetarians are the Ma Po Tofu and the Spicy Eggplant (and I don't even like eggplant...apparently I'm a bad vegetarian).

P.S. If you live near here and still order Chopsticks, help yourself out and give Fortune Cookie a try....please.

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Jarrod C.

Decatur, GA

This is the best Chinese place ever.  Okay, it's my wife and I's favorite.  We both suffer from really bad cravings for this place and it doesn't take too much to convince us to go.  We get the same thing everytime for the most part because what we get is just too good to branch out.

Dinner for 2.  The sizzling rice soup is my absolute favorite part of the meal.  We both just can't get over how good it is.  Then you get spring rolls and a piece of nicely marinated meat (not sure what it's called) and those set you up perfectly for you meal.  My wife always gets the Mongolian Beef and I get the Sesame Chicken usually.  There is a huge portion that makes for a great lunch the next day too.  

We both like most Chinese places and have tried a good bit of them, but we'd go here over any of them.

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rob s.

Travelers Rest, SC

yeah - I agree.  It's one of my favorite Chinese restaurant.   Leaving from work from Norcross to L5P, it wasn't unusual for me to stop in for take out on a tough days work.  It be tasty good.  Lots of choices as most Chinese restaurants naturally have.

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Elite '08

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Rebecca O.

Atlanta, GA

I used to have the number programmed into my cell phone.  Seriously.  That way I could order delivery on my drive home and not have to pace back and forth waiting for the broccoli chicken with brown sauce and brown rice to arrive.  I'm good like that.

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James A.

Atlanta, GA

Best Chinese Food I have had in Atlanta. And to put it in perspective I'm from the Bay Area and have had the best. People had been telling me to go there for years and I doubted. I'm making a public apology. Incredible food with very reasonable prices. I actually eat there too much now, I need to slow down.

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J H.

Atlanta, GA

I had lunch here with my best friend today.  Nice chinese restaurant.  I had shrimp lo mein and wonton soup.  My friend also had the shrimp lo mein  and egg drop soup.  Both the egg drop and wonton soup were good.  Service was great, we were seated right away and our food did not take long at all.  

The shrimp lo mein was good, but also with the meal they give you one fried chicken wing.  I didn't understand this? We also got an egg roll, which that makes sense, but one chicken wing?

Pros: good food, quick, dine-in/carry-out, good service
Cons: it went right through me, the one chicken wing?

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Margo R.

Atlanta, GA

Fresh. Flavorful. Fantastic. This is without a doubt the best Chinese I've had in Atlanta.  I recommend the spicy eggplant dish (which is on the low calorie menu, though from the taste you'd never guess) or perhaps the scrumptious mo shu pork. This quiet place has a varied menu, excellent service and high quality food. The shopping strip where it's located is rather dull, which is probably why this restaurant is such a well kept secret. Fortune Cookie is a fortunate find.

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