![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fortune-cafe-exterior-1024x783.jpg\")
<\/p>\nBy Zach Brown, Berks County Eats<\/p>\n
Over the summer, I posted a picture on social media from a recent visit to Fortune Cafe in Wyomissing. It\u2019s my neighborhood spot for Chinese takeout: General Tso\u2019s chicken, lo mein, and all the classics. I asked followers: \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite place for Chinese food in Berks?\u201d<\/p>\n
While there were a lot of good suggestions, I was surprised by how many others, like me, are big fans of Fortune Cafe.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The restaurant is located in the Berkshire Square Shopping Center, in the same strip as Redner\u2019s along State Hill Road. It\u2019s just a short drive from my home base in Wyomissing Hills, which is good because every order I place is ready within 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
Typically, Fortune Cafe is a lunch spot for me. I can get in and out quickly with one of their lunch specials. And I tend to eat on the early side, before noon, when there\u2019s virtually no wait time. I walk past the booths that line the walls, and the fish tank full of bright orange swimmers on the left, and usually go right to the counter.<\/p>\n
On my latest trip, I arrived a little later, showing up around 12:30 in the middle of their peak time. While my food was still done before I got there, only a couple of booths were open, and I was third in line behind one person picking up and one person ordering in. Clearly, it\u2019s not just me who enjoys the lunch specials.<\/p>\n
I keep my order pretty simple, usually, either General Tso\u2019s chicken or sesame chicken.<\/p>\n
Sesame chicken is probably my favorite of the two. It has a sweeter sauce, or at least it tastes sweeter because it doesn\u2019t have the heat of General\u2019s chicken. And they don\u2019t skimp on the sesame seed garnish.<\/p>\n
The general\u2019s chicken is a close second for me, though. It\u2019s got some heat, nothing outrageously spicy, but it\u2019s more noticeable than some versions of the dish that I\u2019ve tried. It\u2019s also a little tangy, which I like.<\/p>\n
All lunch specials come served with fried rice and your choice of an egg roll or a can of soda. I usually opt for the eggroll, but I often don\u2019t have room for it by the time I finish my entree (I\u2019m just not a soda drinker). It\u2019s a filling meal for around $10 with tax.<\/p>\n
Just because I have my favorites, it doesn\u2019t mean I haven\u2019t tried other things. I recently tried the coconut chicken. Unlike the more chunky pieces used in the General\u2019s and sesame chicken, the coconut chicken had more of a sliced texture. I liked the chicken, but the sauce wasn\u2019t my favorite. I think I was expecting it to be a little sweeter than it was.<\/p>\n
More reason to stick to my go-tos.<\/p>\n
Fortune Cafe has also helped us convert Jakob into a fan of Chinese food. His favorite dish is lo mein, and Fortune Cafe\u2019s stir-fried noodle dish is pretty solid.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure the family and I will enjoy many more meals at the Fortune Cafe, as well.<\/p>\n
BCE Rating
Food: Good
Service: Excellent
Ambiance: Good
Price: $<\/p>\n
Fortune Cafe
1177 Berkshire Blvd.
Wyomissing, PA 19610<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/berks-county-eats-logo-transparent-1024x325.png\"\/){kind=logo}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/berks-county-eats-logo-transparent-1024x325.png\"){kind=spacer}
<\/p>\n
This story was contributed courtesy of Berks County Eats, a local resource for food and dining information. Berks County Eats is dedicated to promoting the dining scene in Reading and Berks County, PA, offering\u00a0restaurant reviews,\u00a0news,\u00a0and\u00a0events, and a comprehensive\u00a0Berks County restaurant directory.\u00a0You can read more at\u00a0berkscountyeats.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Zach Brown, Berks County Eats Over the summer, I posted a picture on social media from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-20858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}