A fine comfort food Chinese restaurant in Paris…read more * * * Why would any American go to Paris and intentionally get Chinese food? * * * 1) The tourist places that create an "authentic" French cafe that looks like the cafes of Jean Paul Sartre's era are often complete rip-offs. * * * 2) Paris is a globalized city. That is just a fact. In New York City, everyone eats Chinese or Ethiopian or Japanese or Mexican. In New York City, some people even eat French. Nobody in New York says, "Hey, New York City is in America. We need to be eating hot dogs and hamburgers." Paris is lived in from people all over the world. Regardless of where they were born, Parisians want pleasures from all over the world. Parisian standards in food are high. So their "food from all over the world" tends to be pretty good. * * * 3) Just because food is globalized does not mean that food is standardized. Every country, every city and for that matter, every cook, takes international dishes and does something to make it fit their own taste and the tastes of the people in the host nation. Mexican food in Paris can be a riot. Some places serve nachos as elegant perfect equilateral triangles with a perfect inner equilateral triangle of refried beans and a perfect circle of a jalapeno slice in the middle. You could take those triangles and show them in a museum. Nachos in Texas or Mexico don't look like that. Parisian cooks have their own takes on the Chinese standards as well. The good ones make marvelous Chinese food. The bad ones not so much. * * * Le Lys d'Or has wonderful cooks. I believe the entrepreneurial family behind Le Lys d'Or is Vietnamese. That already puts them at the fusion of Chinese and French. Le Lys d'Or is a long standing institution in the XIIe arrondisement. It is generally crowded - with locals rather than tourists. * * * The crowd is right. The food is fine. * * * My wife will vouch for their steamed fish, which has all sorts of hidden flavors suggesting something aromatic and good was in the steaming water. I will vouch for their imperial rolls (here served on rice with chicken and vegetables) which have a much better fry job than do the imperial rolls I get in Texas. Texas has a lot of Vietnamese immigrants and first rate Vietnamese restaurants. So I am used to getting fine imperial rolls. The rolls at Le Lys D'Or are much better than the ones I get at home. * * * If you were to skip the banana beignets for dessert, You would not be missing much. * * * And the nicest part of all, Is that as you are sitting eating perfectly wonderful Chinese food, Outside your window, It is Paris. What more do you want in life?

A fine and comfy Chinese restaurant with great service. Everything we ordered turned out great!read more

Not the typical authentic flavorful Chinese restaurant I'm use to in the states but granted, their…read moreclientele are for the French and not this asian who loves FLAVOR. The 2 stars are for the two items we tried and not service. Service was fine and subpar. -4 varieties of pan fried dumplings: veggie, fish, chicken, & pork. The fish was very fishy. The pork and the chicken tasted the same - bland. The vegetable one was surprisingly the most flavorful. No dipping sauce was offered or available but I did ask for hot chili oil. I believe they used szechuan peppers & red chili to make their oil. -thick noodles in meat sauce: the meat sauce was dark brown and came separately from the noodles. We dumped the entire small bowl of sauce into the noodle bowl but the flavor was super bland and had a funny herbally taste to it.

Found this gem when exploring my new neighborhood. Absolutely love the vibe and the food. Great…read moreprices too! The eggplant and pork dish is my favorite.

Great restaurant option in Paris with fresh and flavorful food. It was busy, but the meals came…read morepromptly. I'm looking forward to dining here again.

I came back after many years and I'm delighted to report the food is still as good as before…read moredespite a recent ownership change. I came on La toussaint so the restaurant was PACKED. I waited outside in the blistering cold wondering if this was going to be worth while and finally got called in after thirty minutes. I quickly ordered and the food came promptly despite how crowded the restaurant was -- yeah they're efficient. The duck noodles and dessert Chendol I ordered were both delicious! Definitely worth standing outside in the miserable cold and the struggle of taking no. 7 all the way to the end of the line to get to the 13th! I'll see you again very soon, HaoHao!