One of the three owners of the restaurant, Vincent Tsui told The Times that initially they had not expected their cooking to appeal to English people but found that they had come regularly and that "We're not going to make any concessions".

[5] The 1969 edition of The Good Food Guide praised Lee Ho Fook's "strikingly individual cooking" as "the work of an artist".

[8] In the book Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA Robert Ji-Song Ku wrote that Zevon's reference to Lee Ho Fook in the song "Werewolves of London" was emblematic of his perception of the ubiquity of Chinese food in the daily life of British people.

[10] The comedian and writer Rich Hall imagined dining at the restaurant as a werewolf in his 2010 short story collection Magnificent Bastards.

[11] The record producer Joe Boyd recounts that in the summer of 1966 his ritual for visiting music dignitaries was to take them to dinner at Lee Ho Fook before walking up Wardour Street to see The Move at the Marquee.