Jack’s Fortune Restaurant

Great food and good friendly service! Jack’s is a comfortable, sit down, reasonably priced Chinese restaurant. They actually serve hot tea for free!

Great restaurant and food. Egg rolls, spring rolls, chicken cashew peanut, beef onion, sweet and sour chicken, all the meals were delicious. Very authentic and family own business. Service was great.

Sad to say, but there’s no good Chinese food in Annapolis. Jack’s Fortune is no exception. Like many other reviewers have said, there was no flavor to the food! I got the kung pao chicken, which LOOKED great! It’s just chicken, scallions, peanuts, and dried chilis, so I thought that was a good sign that it wasn’t a bunch of mixed veggies. No, not good! I don’t know how a dish covered in such a dark sauce can be so flavorless, but that’s what it is! It wasn’t salty, wasn’t sweet, wasn’t spicy, and the sauce was watery and half an inch deep in the carry out container. The portion was pretty good and the salt and pepper wings weren’t bad, but I won’t be returning.

What a wonderful surprise! You see, we’re from Texas where great Chinese food is non-​existent! Fresh, real chicken (not parts are parts) obviously prepared with a great love of cooking only the best! We will be back tomorrow :) oh, and super service, fine dining ombiance, nice wine & cocktails, white table cloths — what more can you ask. Food gets 5 stars!!!

Been to Jack’s a few times now, so I figured they deserve a review. The service is great for dine in and for take-​out. I love the customer service, every one is so polite and friendly. The food is usually great. I love the Shrimp and Chicken in brown sauce, the lo mein is okay. Only reason I gave it 4 out of 5 is because they don’t offer their lunch specials or even combination plates on the weekend. It sucks but it won’t stop me from going there.

I did not have high expectations but this place was close for takeout. Strictly 2 – 3 stars. Lo mein and brown rice was way over cooked. The triple delight had no flavor and paltry serving of meat. Folks were very pleasant though.
we travel continuously on our boat and never get to the same place twice. One generality is that the quality of Chinese food has deteriorated everywhere. It’s not just cutting back on meat and veg quality, the food has less and less taste. May Thai food is the way to go.

I’ve been to Hong Kong and China, Jacks is every bit as good or better then the places I visited. Not on the menu? Ask. More times than not they can make it.
Jack’s special fish is Devine as is the crispy chicken or beef. I’ve been eating there for 4+ years and it’s great. If you can be there on Chinese New Year, do it. Great show and service is always on point.

I want to start off with saying that I am loyal to Court of Shanghai, but I do think Jack’s Fortune is awesome. The service there is really great. You walk in and are greeted by a sweet woman named May. The whole staff is actually just made of cute older Chinese women. One thing that annoys me at restaurants is when they never refill your water. That is never an issue here, they refill your cup every five minutes. The food is great for american Chinese food and let’s be honest it’s what we all really love. If you go to any Chinese restaurant in Annapolis looking for something authentic you are in for the worst surprise of your life. The food here is never excessively oily and never takes long to make. I think if you are on the fence whether to go you should give it a try.

Many local old-​timers love this place, as did I for many years. Of late the food has been just ho-​hum, but convenience kept us occasionally coming back. So we recently opted for carryout during a holiday rush, ordering pretty much the basics: Gen Tso and sides. The egg roll and sides were okay. The Gen Tso was tasteless and they barely included any sauce. We had to salvage our meal with a small bowl of microwaved Trader Joe’s Gen Tso sauce from our pantry — pathetic considering that Jack’s Fortune is also the most expensive non-​chain Asian eatery in Annapolis. We’ve had similar experiences with other menu items there recently.
On the upside, the owners are nice folks and the dine-​in atmosphere is above average, but I suspect they are more or less just riding on customer loyalty and neighborhood convenience, and not on food quality. Again, lots of Annapolis oldsters still rave about this restaurant.
Sorry, but I am over Jack’s Fortune, at least for carryout. Would rather go a little out of my way to House of Hunan, P.F. Chang’s or Canton.

Truly awesome experience when dining in decided to revisit after my last visit of take out. The beef and spring onion truly amazing and loved the service too will be back to dine in soon!

Holy Vegetable Dumpling!
There is always a first for everything. Today was the first time I chowed down on Chow Mein on Christmas Day. If it had to be Chinese Food (this is my boyfriend’s family tradition), I’m glad this place made the cut.
What I enjoyed:
5 Vegetable Dumplings (Plump & delicious)
5 Bhuddist Delight (like traditional Bhudda’s delight, accept they tried to be different and change the name).
5 Vegetable Fried Rice
5 Szetchwan Style Green Beans
(I really didn’t try Chow Mein, but it sounded good right!?)
What a pleasure it is to enjoy screamin good Chinese food that isn’t over-​cooked, over-​salted or over-​spiced. Yum!
Apparently this place is the boyfriend’s family favorite hot spot. They know her by first name and have her order memorized!
Would I return here again?!
Oh yes. Anytime, day or night.
Enjoy!

I really love this place, but the prices keep going up and the food disappointed me the last few times. Dinners are like $ 17 (and you have no choice of size) which we feel is excessive for chinese food. Don’t get me wrong – they give good portions and I’ll eat the leftovers for days because the quality isn’t questionable like our other choice, Joy Luck.
We got it as carryout last time, which seems to be where chinese food tends to fail. I ordered the szechuan beef, which was true to its name last time and was beautifully spicy. This time it was bland and it definitely not shredded. Just beef strip… things. Either they gave me the wrong dish or they got lazy. Kind of bummed for a hefty price tag.
That being said, their egg drop soup is fantastic and all my other experiences with this place over the years have been positive. Just seems like the prices are going up and the quality is going down.

The service and presentation are unmatched for the price when considering Chinese cuisine in Annapolis. The portion sizes are large enough to share and the traditional dishes are done well. The restaurant excels in more unique entrees and specials. The only drawbacks are spicy dishes are not all that spicy and there is a lot of «sauce» covered dishes that rebrand the same meat and veggies with just the additional toppings to differentiate. A very good deal.

Food was very bland, no real flavor. I ordered the Cantonese hot pot, and it had ammoniated scallops (a whole two of them) and absolutely no flavor. I’ve had baby food with better flavor. The fried rice wasn’t really fried rice, it was rice with soy sauce added. My bf got crispy beef, which was far from crispy. I don’t know how long this place has been around, but I wanted to try someplace new, and I can say, we won’t be back. $ 50 in our takeout order and I can say it was not worth $ 20 of it. I have no problem paying good money for good food. This was a waste.

Ugh.
Bland. Bland. BLAND!
We had the Pu-​Pu platter for 2, Sesame Chicken, Szechuan Beef and Wonton Soup.
It was the blandest, stickiest Chinese I have ever eaten. My beef was supposed to be spicy. Guess what? Nope!
Don’t waste your money here. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

So I thought I’d give them another try again since it has been a couple of years. We ordered Beef Chow Fun (no its not on the menu but they served it up anyways) and Mango Shrimp and Shrimp Toast.
This order was WAY better than I had remembered! Very fresh and some of the better tasting Chow Fun in the area. Had to up their rating because of that. Not sure if they upped their game or what, but all of a sudden I have a new favorite place for Chow Fun and other semi-​authentic Chinese Food.

Oh my. As others have said, Chinese food in Annapolis? Well not really, but when we crave even the Americanized version this place does not deliver. If you love peanuts and just want to eat peanuts order the Kung Pao Chicken. Then if you want to play with your food try finding any discernible pieces of meat. Chopsticks can come in handy here. Want flavor or heat? Won’t find it here.
If you are a fan of wilted 3 inch pieces of green onion, and then a couple of handfuls of fresh green onion, order the shredded pork, Peking style. Once again, enjoy playing find Waldo, as you look for any traces of protein. Oh and don’t believe the menu about plum sauce. This dish was drenched in Hoisin. Ugh. A little goes a long way with this concoction and does best when it’s flavors are used to enhance not drown. My favorite however, was the fried rice. All it was, I kid you not, was rice bathed in soy sauce. Really? And considering this was take-​out lunch the bill was close to $ 17 bucks.
I know these places have high sodium levels, but I have NEVER had to drink three bottles of water after eating some nuts and onions. If I’m craving some hum drum mediocre Americanized Chinese I am heading straight for Hunan House.

Jack’s Fortune was wonderful! I tried this place on a Thursday afternoon during lunch hours and was delighted with the service and food.
I was given hot tea and H2O promptly and my appetizer of wonton soup and egg roll was up in about 2 minutes. The EGG ROLLS here are the BEST I’ve ever had! I ordered another one :) I was just as pleased with the pork fried rice and General Tso’s chicken.
Quiet and nice oriental ambiance with classical music in the background. Would be nice to take my girlfriend here sometime.
All in all I would say that the food is just about as great as Court of Shanghai, one of my favorites in Annapolis, but not quite as expensive!
Enjoy!

Dinner tonight for 5 of us.
Service was wonderful, as were the garnishes but the food was tasteless. Beef and Broccoli passable but the chicken XO was a drudgery to eat. White rice was the most tasteful thing we had next to the fortune cookie. Salt and Pepper wings were just fried wings with some scallions and peppers tossed on top. Calamari chewy and very breaded, no sauce. Shrimp toast was perhaps the other best thing on the table. House of Hunan a better option in ANP.

The food is very good… location is excellent. I think the prices are a bit on the high-​end for most of their entrees. Their «Hong Kong» duck is very good and worth the price.
The service is good attentive. Your water glass will never go empty.