j & j wonton noodle house

a little on the pricier side but some fine tasting food. recommend the hot and sour soup.

best chinese food anywhere!. we love the food so much that we eat lunch at j&js three times a week and we have done so for ten years. our super favourite dishes are spicy ginger fried chicken; garlic pork; spicy tofu vegetable noodle soup; halibut noodle soup; stir fried prawns and vegetables (with a variety of great sauces). reasonable prices and excellent service. whenever visitors come to town, we bring them straight to j&js for dinner.

nice and fresh.. good tasty food, always fresh. their lunch specials are a good deal, and usually a nice large portion. house tea is excellent. staff are friendly and efficient.

wonderful seafood!. we had the most fabulous halibut ever! the service was great too, and the prices are reasonable. the kitchen has a big glass window, so you can watch the chefs hard at work. we will definitely come back.

victorias best spring rolls!!

i almost always order the same thing for lunch at jjs....the sichuan style braised beef noodle soup. it was fantastic...a slightly sweet delicious broth and beef that melts in your mouth. sadly, i went today and it was not the same soup i've been ordering for the past few years. the broth has changed...not as thick and didn't have the same slight sweetness. the beef was tough and i had to really bite into it. i was so disappointed. i'll try it one more time but if it's the same as today i'll have to switch to something else.

was awesome a few years ago, until they sold it and new owners took over, the food doesn't taste the same ever agian, so sad, really loved this place for our chinese food cravings

found the food of inferior quality for take-out.....beef very dry and tough,  special fried rice bland without added anything,  green beens old and withered, and alsogai lan old and woody.

the only place for chinese food in town. .period. .
we have been going here for over 20 years now and never had s bad meal. .the ginger beef is definitively one of the best dishes here. .

j&j's was the venue chosen for our last dinner/dining experience during a recent stay in victoria.  with the restaurant closed on sundays and mondays, this was our first opportunity to get there, and we were looking forward to it.

the restaurant is located in a neighbourhood just outside of the downtown core, in a block (of fort street) just beyond what tourist maps indicate as "antique row".  an easy find, and interesting area.  the restaurant opens at 4:30pm - we arrived a touch early, parked, and did a short walkabout before it opened.  we were not the only ones arriving early - when it opened, four tables worth of diners, and a couple of people coming for take-out orders, entered the place!  glad we came early.

it's a small, and very unassuming-looking place (especially so from its outside appearance), but offers more seating inside than one might expect from seeing it outside.  there is certainly nothing fancy in decorations and the like inside - from what i saw, it's mostly dark, bare walls, and rather dimly-lit lighting.  the most lighted spot is at back, the kitchen, which is visible through a full-size, glass window, enabling diners to view the cooks doing their thing.  our first impression -- i think we've found "our kind of chinese restaurant"!

what we (threesome) ordered and shared: 
.... all the servings were large, well-prepared and presented, and served piping hot to our table.  the ginger beef and prawns were prepared szechuan style, "hot & spicy" - when the server was taking our orders, we agreed on 'medium'.

--  crispy, spicy, ginger fried beef - dark, quite large pieces of beef, with a fairly-crispy outside, and tender inside, w/some green onion.  it was hot, it was spicy, and it was very tasty!  a portion was left to take back to our hotel, and it was enjoyed as a snack the next day on our balcony back home!  

--  stir-fried prawn w/black bean sauce - shelled prawns, tender and juicy, and good assortment of veggies.  everything cooked perfectly.  yum! a very flavourful and tasty dish.  

-  stir-fried squid w/hot, ginger garlic sauce - squid rings, tasty and tender, and nice assortment of veggies (including some good-size mushrooms).  the squid was tender, the veggies cooked perfectly, and the sauce hot & spicy (a touch too!).  but guess we enjoyed it, as there was nothing was left on the plate!! 

-  house special chow mein - a nice assortment of meat, chicken, noodles, and veggies.  it looked good, and tasted the same.  the plate was cleaned!

we enjoyed our total dining experience at j&j's, the food was exceptional, the service good, and we left 'full & happy', and very pleased we had chosen to dine there for our last dinner in victoria.

best place for asian in victoria. i'm from vancouver where there are multiple top notch places for great asian cooking and sadly, the choice in victoria isn't great but jj's is phenomenal and the staff are ever so friendly!

my husband and i went here for dinner, as we've been searching for a new chinese restaurant. it was pretty tasty, we had the wor wonton soup, the house special chow mein, ginger fried beef, and sesame chicken. everything was pretty tasty, however the chow mein was a bit crispy and undercooked. i liked that it came with lots of vegetables however there were more veggies than noodles. it was pretty expensive, all told. i wish they had combo dinners. we'll be back for lack of quality chinese food in victoria.

great service and authentic tasty food.
the ladies working at j & j's are absolutely wonderful and very helpful, kind, and funny.
my family and i had the szechuan shrimp noodle soup, bbq duck noodle soup, and szechuan beef with hot chili bean sauce. each dish was simply delicious and served very quick.
the szechuan shrimp noodle broth was spicy with a little hint of sweetness and filled with vegetables. 
the bbq duck noodle soup was very authentic and the broth was not heavy at all. absolutely perfect.
the szechuan beef was also nice, had a little spice and lots of broccoli.

had dinner last evening? it was excellent again. great service, friendly staff. love the open kitchen, very impressed to see all the chefs wearing traitional chef hats. keep up the great cusine. its not cheap to eat there but the dollar value is shining through the flavours of the cuisine.

amazing food, good atmosphere and friendly servers. plus if you need it they have a wide selection of gluten free options that are quite good! the only mind downside (isn't a big deal) is some of the servers look/dress very casually and often look like restaurant goers more than they look like restaurant servers.