Serves meat, vegan options available. St. Louis’ first (and only as of 2/2023) 100% black owned Chinese food restaurant. Vegan choices may include shrimp combo plates in hot braised, lemon pepper, buffalo, and orange flavors; vegetable or shrimp fried rice; fried cauliflower in a variety of flavors and spring rolls. The management is aware to omit eggs from fried rice when ordering vegan shrimp items but please still specify. NOTE: Reported September 2024 to have limited vegan options – please send updates to HappyCow. Open Mon-Fri 11:00am-8:00pm, Sat 11:00am-4:00pm. Closed Sun.
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Added by Tigra220 on 10 Feb 2023
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First Review by Tigra220
Tigra220
Points +10712
Fried Rice Eatery with Vegan Shrimp Options! - Edit
Um, Lefty’s did NOT come to play with y’all!!
Read more@leftysfriedrice314 (on ig) is a black-owned Chinese food restaurant on the south side. Let me repeat that. BLACK OWNED HOOD RICE!!! (Because I, for one, cannot stand light-skinned fried rice with peas and carrots. What is that?! )
Why is a vegan so excited about this? Because last Friday they added vegan shrimp to their menu!! I ran down on ‘em so fast, they didn’t even have time to enter it into their POS. (They use the New Wave brand for their vegan shrimp)
I ordered…
Lemon Pepper Vegan Shrimp combo
Vegan Orange Shrimp combo
Hot Braised Vegan Shrimp combo
The combos come with fried rice and a big spring roll. And then the manager (I’m assuming that was her role) ran out and made SURE the kitchen understood that no eggs went in the fried rice. LOVE TO SEE IT!!!
They also offer veggie fried rice and fried cauliflower.
I tried the Hot Braised Cauliflower and it was delicious as well.
Food 100%
Customer service 100%
On my second visit I noticed that the rice was even better (more moist) than the previous visit, but the spring roll in my combo, and the vegan shrimp portions were both smaller.
Also of note, if you order on their website do not bother putting in a specific time. They do not pay attention to that. I requested a 6:30pm time, but the food was made at 5:51pm. So by the time I made it there from my workout, the food had been sitting there for nearly and hour and was cold. HOWEVER, the manager remade my order, so no problem for me, I just want to inform others not to preorder unless you’re picking it up right away.
It is a restaurant, so you may grab a table and eat there. Various bottled/canned drinks available in their cold case. (Yes, the infamous fruit flavored sodas i.e. grape, peach, pineapple, etc are there too!) They accept cash, card, ApplePay. I won’t be giving my fried rice money to any other establishment from now onward. They got me!
Updated from previous review on 2023-02-10
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