Gou Lou Cheong BBQ Restaurant

Gou Lou Cheong BBQ Restaurant operates from the Oakland Shopping Center at 4139 North State Road 7 in Lauderdale Lakes, sharing the plaza and street address with Caleb’s Mountain Pizza and sitting close to Silver Pond Restaurant and Maxim’s Bakery in the same shopping center near the northern edge of the city. The restaurant’s name and BBQ classification point to Cantonese-style barbecue, the roasted and glazed meats, such as char siu pork, soy sauce chicken and roast duck, typically hung and displayed in a restaurant’s front window or case, a specific cooking tradition distinct from the more generalized stir-fry-and-combination-plate menu found at many of the other Chinese restaurants along this corridor.

According to its Yellow Pages listing, the restaurant has operated for twenty-four years, placing its opening at roughly 2002, and it takes cash only, a detail that sets it apart from most of the other restaurants in this collection, nearly all of which accept some combination of major credit cards and debit. A cash-only policy is not unusual for a small, family-run counter-service restaurant of this type, and it typically reflects a business built around lower overhead and simpler transaction processing rather than a broader commentary on its size or quality.

Gou Lou Cheong keeps a five-day-a-week schedule that skips both Wednesday, when the restaurant is closed, structured around a fairly standard 10am-to-7pm window on the days it is open, a schedule geared more toward lunch and early dinner service than the late-night hours kept by some of its neighbors, such as Fortune or Bak A Yaad Cuisine. No customer reviews were found attached to the business’s public directory listing, and no independent website or social media presence was identified through the sources checked for this profile.

A Sunbiz search for the business name was not performed as part of this profile given the limited public information otherwise available, so the corporate registration status of the restaurant is unconfirmed; anyone with a specific need to verify its legal structure should search Florida’s Division of Corporations records directly or contact the restaurant. As a cash-only, roast-meat specialist operating in the same plaza as several other independent restaurants for close to a quarter century, Gou Lou Cheong represents one of the more traditional, unadorned Chinese restaurant models still operating along Lauderdale Lakes’ State Road 7 corridor, the kind of business that survives on a loyal local customer base rather than an online marketing presence.