Lucky Lotus 97

Lucky Lotus 97 sits in a plaza beside Fresh Box Market and the Centre Wellington Sportsplex, but the kitchen behind the counter runs on twenty-four-hour marinades, an eight-hour chicken broth, and house-made peanut, fish, Thai, and honey garlic sauces. The casual address and the scratch-made discipline do not always travel together. The Scotland Street restaurant has been open since 2021, anchored on that mismatch: Thai and Vietnamese, both lanes, in a town where neither had a focused address before.

The menu carries that range across appetizers, noodles, soups, curries, wok and grill rice plates, vegetarian plates, and vermicelli bowls. Fresh Salad Rolls — rice paper, lettuce, bean sprouts, thin noodles, herbs, and a choice of shrimp, chicken, beef, tofu, or vegetables, with peanut sauce — sit as the clean opener; Vietnamese Spring Rolls and Thai Chicken Satay handle the fried and skewered ends of the starter list. Pad Thai is the benchmark first main, with Pad See Ew, Drunken Noodles, Curry Pad Thai, and Peanut Pad Thai filling out the noodle column on later visits. The Vietnamese soup side runs deeper than a single pho listing: House Special Pho - Pho DAC Biet, Chicken Pho, Vegan Pho - Pho Chay, Bun Bo Hue, Tom Yum Soup, Spicy Tofu Soup, and Chicken Wonton Soup. Thai Yellow, Red, and Green curries cover the spice ladder, and Honey Garlic Mango Chicken — twenty-four-hour marinated chicken, mango, jasmine rice — bridges the saucy-shareable lane. Lemongrass BBQ Beef Short Ribs and Mi Xao push the menu past its safest defaults for diners who want them.