Cantonese classics, Chinatown style.

Good fortune, served family style.

Ho Won — 好運, “good fortune” — is a long-running Cantonese restaurant in the heart of Calgary's Chinatown. The menu is the classic kind: soups, chicken, duck, beef, pork, seafood, sizzling hot plates, rice and noodles, all cooked fresh in the wok.

Climb the stairs on 2nd Avenue SE and you'll find a dining room made for sharing — round tables, a red-and-gold dragon wall and platters that arrive hot. Guests keep coming back for the salt & pepper squid, the ginger beef and the Ho Won crispy chicken.