Wing Hing Chinese Herb,Food & Acupuncture

Some of the chinese medicine supplies are way overpriced than other places. If you are a practitipner looking for good quality herbs i reccomend tong ren tang or ann st acupunture instead.
The herbs are a bit low quality and one time i bought ju hua tea and found bugs in my tea (not the intentional tcm kind of bugs)
I no longer send my patients over there to get herbs due to the lack of quality. However, i have heard great things about the pracitioner there so go see the dude but dont stay for the herbs!

I remember my mum taking me to Wing Hing for Chinese Naturopathy and Acupuncture when I was a teenager. Being wiped down with Isocol before the needles was a little confronting (hey if it works I guess you don’t have to be über traditional) and the language barrier was a little difficult, but there were very impressive Chinese University degrees on the wall and I remember the Naturopath knowing more than enough English to diagnose me.
What exactly she diagnosed me with I’m unsure, but I’ll never forget the evil herbal concoctions my mum steeped for me from the bags of herbs she prescribed. The only way to drink them was with 2 full glasses of water sitting ready as chasers. You can imagine how shitty I was when I realised you can get this stuff in pill form. When I asked my mum later why my sibs never had to take it she replied ‘well, you were the only one I figured I could get to drink it’ which probably speaks volumes about my trusting nature and how I’ll eat just about anything even if it tastes like satans intestines.
I do remember there were results (it was circulation stuff I think) and I’ve never been anywhere else where the price was calculated on an abacus.
Since then I’ve used Wing Hing more as a food shop. It is not as big as Burlington but it has a good, targeted range. The fridge full of fresh noodles and won ton wrappers are great, and I couldn’t find black sesame seeds anywhere else in China Town. I personally hope Wing Hing never changes.

In terms of shopping, it’s a little strange. I don’t practice the ancient art of herbalism, so this place probably isn’t for me. In saying that, there’s a myriad of people taking snippets off various herbs and putting them into bags to be used for whatever Eastern-​style remedies they concoct. They also sell actual ingredients for the more difficult, obscure Asian dishes, so if you’re looking for solutions to that Green Curry, then this may be it.
Being predominately Asian, it can be difficult to communicate to the staff if you are looking for something. Regardless, everyone is very helpful and even offer advice. Very good stuff if you’re a 20 year old bachelor who can’t stomach Mi Goreng Noodles anymore.

Wing Hing’s is like a little bit if China right there on the corner of the Brunswick Street mall. It’s the kind of place you’ve probably rushed past a hundred times without ever peeking in, but it’s definitely worth a look.
It’s quite amazing to wander through this old store with the mulllion dollar location and see Chinese herbalists busily picking through a myriad dried herbs and mixing and bagging them to order. The many and varied goods stuffed into the the shelves are similarly a mystery to this non-​chinese speaker like moi, but the real reason I’m writing this is that my good friend Ti brought me a cough linctus from Wing Hing when I had a chesty bark I couldn’t shake — within a week it was gone!