Single-handedly bringing to Seattle's attention the virtues of Mandarin home cooking.
Sauces available for purchase
Optional spicy preparation
Catering and delivery
In 1993, Judy Fu opened Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon and it quickly became a popular destination for devotees of her Mandarin/ Szechuan style cooking. Food critics and fans alike appreciate Judy, respectfully (and affectionately) known as 'Fu-Ma,' for her graciousness, elegance and culinary skill.
A variety of authentic Chinese food is offered, like spicy beef noodles. Chef Judy Fu also makes her own sauces, such as Judy Fu's Black Bean Sauce and Judy Fu's Peanut Sauce, which are available for purchase.
Staff is available to help plan menus for holiday parties, office luncheons or other catering needs.
In Short Most patrons are regulars and comfortably dressed in kick-back attire. Some take tables in the front room, but many head toward the back dining room and take a stool at the dumpling bar, where a cook continuously forms and steams the dumplings (jiao-zi). Specialties include tea-smoked duck, green-onion pancakes, salt-and-pepper prawns. House-made noodles and steamed dumplings, authentic clay hot pot and crisp, battered and fried eggplant slices in sugar-vinegar-soy sauce are also offered.
Just moved into the neighborhood a couple of months ago and discovered this place. Have been going there almost once a week since then. Great tasting food, friendly servers, never a rushed feeling, always fun to be in the dining room. A new favorite.
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Snappy Dragon is a great place for a mixture of Chinese dishes. The food tastes great, the menu has excellent variety, and the service was spectacular. I have heard about Judy Fu's from a bunch of people and was impressed. They even sell their sauces at the restaurant! Don't listen to the mixed review....this place rocks!
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We get Snappy Dragon almost weekly. It is such high quality food. They make their noodles homemade. I highly recommend the snappy dragon chow mein with homemade noodles. The Sesame beef is amazing and so is their snappy dragon fried rice. Their service is quick, prices are good, and you can't beat a neighborhood restaurant.
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If you like Chinese food then you should like to eat here. They are family oriented and have something for everyone. My favorites are the moo sho pork and the hot and sour soup. Both are excellent. If you dine here you can either eat family style or just chose your own entree. I enjoy family style because you get to try different entrees and everyone shares
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The best Chinese to be found in Seattle! Judy Fus has great food, both take-out and eat-in, and the service is fast and friendly. Everything Judy Fus offers is tasty, and they have quite a cocktail menu too. You can also get the tasty sauces to take home. Dont miss the homemade noodles.
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By jill777
Everything i had today was nothing short of great taste! Service was very good as well. Got in and got out. I'll be back
Posted 12/19/08
snappy service makes a happy customer
By stevethefoodguy
i went there the other night and the service was great. two of the employees, bennet and i believe nicholas were really accomodating. i am a recovering alcoholic and nicholas highly recommended a buckler... excellent choice to go with excellent food. having never been here before i asked bennet what to eat and he highly recommended the general tso, sesame beef, eggplant and sesame chicken and sweet and sour pork, so i got all of them... yum !!!! I can't believe they don't use msg. and a lot of left overs. the sauces were excellent and complemented each other well. the decor felt like my own living room and nicholas in fact informed me that many of the decorations came straight from the native sescatchwan province of china. much like the sescatchwan style of food. thanks again. the servers had a little trouble with their fluency in chinese but overall pretty good. it's nice to see a hip young wait staff at a chinese restaurant. go maplehill neighborhood.
Posted 12/12/08
I used to work there
By JakeLee123
I'll say this much. The owner does a very good job of making sure the kitchen is always clean. That being said, this place is not real Chinese food. If you think it is, you're being fooled. There are some dishes that are passable, but still not great. If you do like real Chinese food, obviously go to China Town. But if you can't make it that far, I would suggest the homemade noodles, and ask for light on the oil (they can make it spicy too which will add some flavor--certainly not authentic, but it should suffice). The dumplings are alright, and supposedly the beef noodle soup is good, but I never tried it. The egg plant is an abomination, as well as all the chicken dishes. They don't use dark meat in the chicken so they try to supplement that with just disgusting amounts of msg in order to add flavor. The --- stickers are atrocious. (Stupid sit wouldn't let me use the actual word here, flagged as "inappropriate"--gimme a break)
The dried sauteed string bean is actually alright too. Oh, and the won tons in peanut sauce--unforgivable.
Listen, if you want really good chinese food, take the time to drive down to the International district. If you like fatty and disgusting americanized chinese food, go to Snappy Dragon. That's really all there is to it. None of the other Chinese restaurants in North Seattle are gonna be good.
And if you do like Snappy Dragon well---you just have really bad taste in Chinese food. But apparently a lot of people do because it's usually busy in there. So i guess enjoy your crappy general tso's chicken (which is not real chinese food).
Posted 12/06/08
Something has changed and its not good!
By ellebarr37
This place used to be fail safe great Chinese Restaurnat and always really busy too. I was there on Saturday night and figured there would be a wait but there was no one waiting and we were seated immediately at one of the many empty tables. that was my first clue.... also the entire staff was made up entirely of what looked like fresh out of high schoolers doing their first job. I saw one actual Asian person the whole night..... and my suspicion grew. The service was lame ...... slow slow slow and they took our drink and dinner orders at the same time.... and brought them out about the same time too. But, the food though was actually awful. The sweet and sour was too sour and the spring rolls basically were filled with shredded cabbage and thats it.
I know I used to love those things because they were full of flavor but there was none to be had last night except the taste of the slightly burnt oil they were fried in. The barbequed pork was flavorless and actually tough, not tender. We also had the general tso's chicken which I remember used to be a real treat but again the flavor was wrong and the peices of chicken over coated. We also had prawn sweet and sour. The prawns were actually good quality but they were over sauced with very little flavor but sour and a few onion and green pepper chunks that seemed under cooked.
And the chow mein with black bean sauce and few vegetables lacked the essentail flavor it used to have. The home made noodles were pretty good but the whole dish just lacked flavor.
I don't know what has happened, but it has changed. I will not be going back to my favorite Chinese joint unless I hear it has changed back. Its really pretty sad!
Posted 11/21/08
Drowning in Sauce
By theanginator
Every time I order from here my food always comes drenched in some sort of sauce. So much to the point that I can't even taste my food, just the sauce. The atmosphere is awesome but the food always leaves me dissatisfied.
