And having people say hi to me even though I work in the back,” he says. “Meeting customers, that’s my favorite part. But he still has fun working with his family and staff, and he’s thankful for the community of customers who continue to support Snappy Dragon year after year. to 11 p.m., even spending his lunch breaks running errands for the business. Running the restaurant is hard work-David typically works from 8 a.m. (Both come highly recommended from David-he makes the dumplings himself, and his mom makes the noodles.) Even the cartoon dragon coloring page for kids has stayed the same. The restaurant is still best known for its handmade dumplings and noodles. Vegetable and egg only (as described above) Add pressed tofu. Extra hoisin or extra pancake, each 1.50. It is served with hoisin sauce and four homemade pancakes.
While David has taken over the business, his mother Judy still comes in to work daily. Mu Shu is a recipe of cabbage, scallions, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and eggs, sautéed together. Lots of things have stayed the same throughout Snappy Dragon’s 26 years in business. But Snappy Dragon soon earned a reputation for Judy’s Mandarin/Szechuan-style cooking, getting rave reviews and becoming a popular neighborhood destination. “It was really kind of scary, because of the amount of money we had to borrow from the bank,” David remembers. Opening the restaurant was intimidating for the family. “She really wanted to start a restaurant so she could have her food on display, so people can enjoy it.” “Snappy Dragon started because my mother always had a vision of starting her own restaurant,” says her son David, who now runs the business. After settling here, Judy worked in a couple of north end restaurants before opening her own. The family first settled in Washington DC and made the long road trip to move out to Seattle several years later. The nine-time winner of King 5’s Best of Western Washington Best Chinese Restaurant and one of CNN’s 50 best Chinese restaurants in the United States, Snappy Dragon has been family-owned and operated in Maple Leaf since opening its doors in 1993.īorn in Qingdao, China and raised in Taiwan, Judy Fu came to the United States with her son David and daughter Mari in 1971. Judy Fu’s Snappy Dragon has been a staple of Seattle’s restaurant scene for decades. Listen: Origin Story – Judy Fu’s Snappy Dragon
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