4.3 – 179 reviews • Chinese restaurant
Casual storefront eatery with Sichuan & Mandarin classics for takeout or sit-down dining.
✔️Lunch ✔️Dinner ✔️Dine in ✔️Take out
Hours
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Saturday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Monday | 11 AM–8 PM |
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Nate Wojtasinski
Joyful House is just great. Always the best food. I skip past three other Chinese places (that I’ve already tested) to go here. The family loves it! The lemon chicken, beef and broccoli, chicken fried rice, pork dumplings, egg rolls, and crab Rangoon are all delicious. I ate most of the dumplings before I remembered to take a picture of them, LOL.
… moreAlice (AliceBecause)
With the change of ownership the food has lost a lot of its unique flavor and become just another generic Chinese food place. If that’s what you want, it’s not bad, but I do not think it’s as good as it used to be.
… moreJason Cole
Welp… unfortunately…. My favorite restaurant on the planet is under new ownership… & the best Chinese food on earth is officially no more… now it’s just a basic Chinese takeout place… gonna go home & cry in my pillow… so disappointed… goodbye OG joyful house
… morePaul Popa
Joyful House is hands down the best Chinese place in Saline. I’ve eaten at a few places around town and this one beats them all. Best of all, the food is consistent. I’ve eaten here at least a dozen times and the food is always delicious.
I remember Joyful House when it was a larger restaurant, complete with a buffet. The restaurant has since downsized, with a fair number of tables and a pleasant eating environment. Most tables are set for two, and as a family of seven we do have to combine some tables but it isn’t too much of an issue.
My go-to dish is chicken lo mein, but I’ll often get chicken with mixed vegetables as well. I judge every place by how well they make these two dishes, and Joyful House really nails both. The lo mein always has tender chicken with the perfect amount of flavor; never too salty or too bland. The chicken with mixed vegetables has the perfect variety of vegetables, and the sauce is outstanding. The rice is always perfectly cooked as well. Tonight I ordered a lo mein with hot-and-sour soup, fried pork dumplings and crab rangoons. Everything was delicious, and for around $25, it was a great meal.
I’ve yet to find a restaurant in Saline or even Ann Arbor that makes better Chinese than Joyful House. I’m confident in saying that no matter what you order, you’ll enjoy.
… moreDeborah McHenry
Food didn’t have much flavor. I ordered sesame chicken and the chicken was hard and stringy. The fried rice was slightly tan with a little bit of peas. I really wanted to like them. Not the worst. I think that they might have been understaffed for the amount of orders that they were getting.
… moreHarper Jane Adkins
Joyful House is hands down the best Chinese food not only in Saline but in the greater Ann Arbor area. My family gets the same takeout order at least one night a month. Our relatives from out of town always want Joyful House when they come to visit! The food is always pretty expensive per dish but worth it. Every other local Chinese restaurants’ dishes are bland and service is poor compared to Joyful House. Once you taste it you’ll never want Chinese from anywhere else!
… moreDebbie Gallaher
The food is different and not good. Recipes are not the same. Very expensive and very disappointing.
… moreLeann Marr
I placed a pick up order tonight was highly disappointed. It was so expensive for a small amount of low quality food. I ordered chicken lo mein and while it was flavorful and tasted good. It did not taste like lo mein. It was like a garlic noodle dish. I love garlic and it did taste good but not what I was expecting when ordering lo mein. We also ordered orange chicken and sweet and sour chicken and we were so disappointed with the quality of the chicken. It was hard and stringy inside, not plump and juicy like our normal chinese takeout location. The orand and sweet and sour sauces were ok nothing special. The egg rolls we ordered were flavorful but not crunchy. It seemed like the egg roll wrapper was too thick and there was not enough cabbage to go with the meat. The amount of meat was great, I just wish there was more vegetables to go with it. It was $54 for 3 meals which is crazy to me. I normally order from tecumseh’s oriental sizzling and am able to get 4 larger, better quality meals for $45. My family wanted to try something new but I doubt we will return.
… morePatty Shoemake
My friend and I were here Tuesday, 3/12/2024. This is the best food I’ve had in a very long time. We chatted with Judy, and she told us of her & her husband’s homelands. She was so nice. I will come here again. I don’t get to Saline much, but if I do, this is my place to eat. I had the Sweet & Sour Chicken. Also love their egg rolls.
… moreEmily Meinke
Friendly and tasty food. While it’s not very authentic this place has higher quality food compared to other places in saline (it’s not greasy and the cuts of meat lower grade pieces of fat). Staff is incredibly friendly and efficient. This is my family’s go to place for take out.
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