First, Thie Super Wok, changed the name again as Da Da Wok” First, WRONGNAME, Misleading people believe the noodle of «Traditional Flavor«From TAIWAN. IT is Outrageous. I asking the owner, why using this name and not truly Taiwanese Flavor? She is trying to say«White» people don’t like the heavy traditional. And«Pay Attention» the menus is almost from HONGKONG. Here is the HONKKONG Food store, NOT Taiwanese Food. beside this confused, the SIZE is smaller my memory of Taiwanese Noodles. $ 9.00 is not economic price.
Marc D.
Place rating: 3 Vancouver, Canada
To start off: Stupid name! I picture a bad stereotyped version of a Chinese Superman that has been poorly copied and instead of being a man of steel has a wok to protect him from bullets. His alter-ego has Mao style glasses and is named Crark. You get the drift. Ok, let’s get past that image and on to the place itself. It is located down a dark set of stairs in that crazy food court that always seems half deserted because they don’t turn on all the lights. The bulk of the food down here is pretty bad from the various stalls, but it is one of the few ethnic food options in that area and draws a business crowd at lunch time. Super Wok offers the standard food court steam table Chinese food. Nothing special here. If you want your MSG infused stir frys that are reheated and made soggy by steam, then this should be your choice. The one saving grace on the menu is that they are the only place downtown(since Tea Tone closed a while back) that I know of that offers Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup. This isn’t an incredible version that you have to immediately drop everything and brave the dark stairwell for. But it doesn’t suck. It comes with a generous amount of very tender brisket — which was surprisingly good. Several pieces of bok choy are placed on top, and were perfectly prepared — still a bit of crunch to them like I like them. The noodles were commercial standardized noodles, but they were cooked al dente like I like them. The broth was a bit weak on flavour — but they offer housemade pickles that once you add to the soup really perk up the flavour substantially. Be sure to ask for a generous portion of those(they will give you as much as you like). The broth needs that flavour — but I guess they are afraid to include it for the downtown clientele unless requested. Overall if I am in the area and craving Taiwanese style beef noodle soup I would visit again, and I would check my stereotypes at the door(or at least try to stifle a giggle from seeing the name and drawing up that image in my mind).
