JJ Chinese Restaurant

The seafood are surprisingly fresh and prepared perfectly! Love the food and service here!

5 stars for the «dinner for 2» meal deal which is approximately $ 30 of food, which can actually feed 3 – 4 easily. It comes with this delicious seafood egg drop soup, with heaps of seafood in it. A steamed vegetable dish, steamed soy ginger whole fish, white rice, and a seafood casserole dish. YUM.

Missing my moms Taiwanese cooking and had delicious spicy salt shrimp and beef with xo sauce. Made my Mother’s Day!

Food ther are pretty taskty. The servis is also good.
Best thing is it open till midnight

YAY! Great Chinese food in Denver! Staff is friendly and helpful with suggestions for what to order off of their intimidatingly long menus.

Service was great, food was great, and the picky eater of the group enjoyed her meal! Overall I recommend it.

DON’T EAT HERE! Got a bandaid in my food!!! That’s so discustin! !!! Hope I don’t get something bad from this! So mad, nasty! Don’t eat here! Going to report to the help department!

Food is pretty good here but a little pricer than the Chinese Restuarant around the area. We got hot pot this time with the satay soup base. Soup was alright. The veggies they have is not always very fresh and our waitress was nice enough to tell us which ones were more fresh.
But my all time favorite I was get is the sliced beef tendon with chili oil! It’s the best! And for dessert I like the fried buns with condensed milk! I like how they serve everyone a Chinese dessert after dinner usually it’s like a sugary soupy dessert.
The interior isn’t very nice and clean but there aren’t many good Chinese Restuarants in a Colorado and honestly I don’t mind it if it’s good food! They also have fresh seafood there, which is always nice to have!

In terms of authentic asian food, this is one of the few places that gives us good options. It’s not the best food ever, but for the category of Authentic Chinese, this is the best option so far.

Best Cantonese food :) I love it especially the snail.

Best Cantonese food in Denver and definitely the best late-​night Chinese dining. The owners changed this year and they got rid of the super inexpensive late-​night menu. Food still tastes pretty good despite the change in ownership. We order anything salt-​and-​peppered, the beef tendon stew, the seafood and tofu pot, and the steamed fish often.

Food was pretty good for Colorado Chinese — unfortunately they were out of a bunch of dim sum when we went. Overall it’s worth the trip — friendly staff and good fresh food.

This establishment is dirty, outdated, the service sucks but I sure do love the food.
My meal usually consists of Salt and Pepper Squid, Honey Walnut and Mayo Shrimp, Beef Tendon, Garlic Fried Pea Spouts, Whole Fried Fish, Fried Rice and House Special Crab or Lobster. The crab and lobster are buy one get one free or 2 for $ 23. Sounds too filling? I’m a fan of the Hot Pot here as well. Order individual items such as beef, fish, veggies, noodles and cook them in a simmering pot of stock at your table. They have the ‘normal’ Chinese dishes as well if you don’t know what to order like sesame chicken, ribs, lo mein, etc. They have dim sum but I don’t think it’s really the best.
If you need something, don’t be afraid to flag down a server or you may be sitting there for a while. Sometimes you have to ask for things a couple times. Sometimes the service is pretty decent, other times it’s horrible.

Came here on Chinese New Year and had a good experience. It’s a smaller space than some of the other chinese restaurants in the area. We had ½ Peking duck (plenty for 2 people) and it was delicious. Must try! The seafood with crispy tofu was okay. The tofu part was great but too much corn starch. Definitely want to come back and try other dishes and dim sum.

Turtle soup was rare so I tried it… hmm interesting taste.
I really liked the jelly fish appetizer and wood ear mushroom stir fried with celery. My mum had the shrimp dumpling and chicken feet dim sum; she said both were gourmet and it only costed 3 each.
Really good service too… I am going to try their fresh eel etc…

I guess this is not a place for everybody. JJ Chinese does offer good dim sum options, but not necessary the dim sum cart experience that many have enjoyed. No dim sum cart here, you will need to order dim sum from the menu.
For those soft-​shell crabs fan, the soft-​shell crabs dish here is excellent. I will designate JJ Chinese as my place to go for curing the soft-​shell crabs crave.

This is more like a 2 ½ star review and a bit hard to judge because of several disparate qualities.
JJ was a different dim sum experience for me in that they do not use carts but you order off a menu. For a large group that can be a problem because you need to commit on volume before seeing the style of the items and it takes quite a while to reorder if you need more. It is also easy to over order something that turns out to not be what you were hoping. The entrance to the restaurant was quite disappointing to me as it is filled with rather unappealing and smelly fish tanks. I also found the dining room small and dark and they barely opened on time.
However, of all of the dim sum places our group has gone this year, they did have what I consider to be the very best version of a shrimp and chive dumpling of anywhere we ate. This alone gives them most of a star! There were several other items that were tasty but rather plain and one or two that I found inedible.

We love to go for dim sum when we are in town for the weekend. After a few average, at best, experiences at our old favorite we decided to try JJ’s. What a nice change of pace!
We were only the second table when we arrived just before 11AM on a Saturday. But that did not last long, it filled up quick. They quickly sat us, gave us the various menus and a pot of tea.
Now keep in mind, while this is dim sum, there are no carts. I wasn’t sure how I felt about that at first, but let me say it was great. We ordered exactly what we wanted (the menus have pictures, if you need) and it was prepared fresh and brought to our table HOT! Not old and cold from sitting on a cart to long.
We tried the following:
Pan Fried Turnip Cake with XO sauce
Fried Shrimp balls — done a little different than other places… least favorite
Pan Fried Noodles with Chinese Broccoli and Sausage — dry style… favorite
Steamed Scallop Dumplings
Capelin with Spicy Salt — little fried fish… love them!
OX soup — not for the faint of heart as it contains many organ meats… my BF is a little more adventurous than me!
This was a LOT of food and we took a mountain of leftovers. But that’s OK we wanted to get a good sampling of what they offer. There are so many other items on the menu that I can’t wait to try.
They also have the live fish/​lobster/​shrimp/​crab in tanks. We’ll have to try the lobster special for dinner some night.

Saturday April 19^th 2014. Time: 10:30hrs ish. Thank you Cheryl for organizing. Thank you Cynthia, for ordering. YES this establishment is OPEN, during the Weekends at 10:30hrs. But when we arrived there at that time, ERR, the Entrance DOOR is LOCKED! Gasped! Ohh NO! What are we going to do? Thankfully, one of the staffs opened the doors for us, coz we have been waiting like about 5 to 10 minutes before this establishment schedule to open. With 10 other Unilocalers who are into DIM SUM, to JJ Chinese Restaurant we went.
Yes, this establishment have DIM SUM just WITHOUT THE CARTS. So you have to order from the Menu given by the staff. From what I could recall we had the following items :
* Shrimp Har-​Gow
* Scallops Dumplings
* Crystal Spinach Dumpling
* Pan Fried Turnip Cake
* Shrimp Rice Noodle/​Crêpe Roll
* Fried Sesame Seed Ball with Red Bean Paste inside
While the rest at our table, have the following items. These items contain PORK, so I DO NOT eat these items :
* Pan Fried Pot Stickers
* Pan Fried Leek Dumplings
* Pork Siu Mai
* Sticky Rice In Lotus Leaf
* Steamed BBQ Pork Buns
We also opt to have Oolong and Chrysanthemum Tea that morning as part of our beverages. The Staff also provide water for everyone at our table when we requested them.
They have the «Thick Chili Paste» as part of the condiments if you request it from the staff, but it was NOT Spicy enough for my liking, and hence can make or break my Dim Sum eating experience here.
All in all its the COMPANY that counts. As for the FOOD personally, the texture of the dough especially the Dumplings OR the Shrimp Rice Roll, could be slightly thinner for my personal taste bud, but in this case JJ Chinese Restaurant offer the «thicker» version. I like the Fried Sesame Seed Ball with Red Bean Paste inside, since those are my favorites that morning. Furthermore, it was FRIED, came out HOT and DEFINITELY Greasy!
Remember the food can take awhile to be prepared, cooked, fried, steamed in the kitchen from the order you made. Hence do give them some time. Thankfully we had the WONDERFUL Unilocalers to engage with good conversations all around. To boot, the Dim Sum that morning with tips and tax was $ 11 per person! SCORE!
Left this establishment at about 12:15hrs ish that afternoon.
They are open 7 DAYS A Week.
* Mondays — Fridays: 11.00am — 12 Midnight
* Saturdays — Sundays: 10:30am — 12 Midnight
JJ Chinese Dim Sum Seafood Restaurant
2500 W. Alameda Ave
Denver, CO 80 219
Tel: (303) 934‑8888
@85/2014

I came here with ten other Unilocalers to enjoy some dim sum. We were given tea and ice water (after requesting) pretty quickly. Dim sum is ordered off a menu, no carts here. Though some may miss the carts, I prefer my food to be cooked to order so that it’s steaming hot when it comes to the table.
What I remember ordering/​inhaling:
har gow/​shrimp dumplings (huge!)
shrimp rice roll/​crepes
spinach and shrimp dumplings — yum
sao mai (pork dumplings)
potstickers (long ones, not the super doughy kind you usually find– really good)
chinese chive and shrimp dumplings (EXCELLENT)
turnip cake
sticky rice in lotus leaf
scallop dumplings
bbq pork steamed buns
sesame balls (filled with red bean paste. these are very large!)
Everything was inhaled pretty quickly. I was particularly impressed with the potstickers and the chinese chive/​shrimp dumplings, which were pan seared on both sides to give it a bit of crunch. Also, for those who do not know me, it is VERY HARD to impress me with a potsticker. These are not Lao Wang potsticker good, but by far, the best I’ve had in a full menu Chinese restaurant in Denver.
Service was quick and friendly (relatively– friendly for a Chinese restaurant). They cut our turnip cakes so it was easier to share.
Price: we got multiple orders of the above dishes, b/​c we were such a large group. For this feast of deliciousness, each of us paid $ 11, tip and tax included!!!
To sum up: An excellent alternative to the two super popular dim sum places if you know which dim sum dishes you like. Quieter and smaller than the larger restaurants. So dirt cheap, you feel like you stole something. I will be back!