Big Wong Restaurant

This place is horrible! I order chicken curry and it had no flavor. I was with a party of five and we ordered different things. Everyone hated what they ordered. I went there In the morning so I hope that this is not a normal occurrence.

Small mom and pop shop with really cheap prices. Service not that attentive but for the price and food worth it.
Ironically the dish that they are next known for, hainan chicken, is just not that good. Very average. The chicken, rice and ginger sauce are under flavored. The soy sauce is just soy sauce… doesn’t have the sweet flavor. The restaurant however does have several stand outs. The shrimp broth noodle soup is delicious. Sorry i forgot to take picture before I ate. You can really tell that the broth has a rich shrimp stock and the noodles are never ever cooked. They also have a fantastic morning glory vegetable dish. It comes in thai style, shrimp paste or garlic. I love the Thai style. It is so good. I would come for this dish alone. The curry and roti are also on point. The curry sauce is thick and flavorful, while the roti is crisp and airy.

Love their food!!! Love their kangkong, salt and pepper chicken wings and pork chop.
Cons: they dont have fried rice but overall i love this spot

This place has gone through an updated wall décor long overdue, but the food is all the same and friendly staff with effective service.
I love my favorites: Won ton soup, fried won ton, chicken wings, curry chix with excellent roti pancakes, hainan chix dark boneless, thai ong choy, and chix with lup cheong.

I was craving some Chinese food and it sucked that this place doesn’t have oyster sauce chicken or any type of fried rice.
I ordered the ham nam chicken with rice and a side of salt and pepper wings. The waiter was both the cashier and taking orders as well. He didn’t seem too friendly and was quick to get our order but did not ask us what to drink at first. This place is simple has styrofoam cups for water and disposable fork and spoons.
The ham nam chicken is okay. It was bland. There was 2 sauces on the side which I thought was very tasty. The salt and pepper wings are really good though. Too bad they don’t have ketchup. I eat all my fried chicken wings with ketchup. My friend ordered the chicken curry, the Naan bread was soggy and the bread is supposed to be plump. Overall this place rates as a 3, worth the price for a cheap meal!

Definitely one of those hole in the wall restaurants you would love to find in such a cash cow kind of plaza competing with the best of the best like Raku, Kabuto, Hwaro, Kung Fu Tea etc. When we first came in on a Sunday night at around 7pm there was maybe 3 tables seated. Not long after being there the whole place got pretty packed. When I saw Chef Sheridan of Fat Choy and Flock n Fowl come in and sit at the table next to us with his family I knew we came to a good place.
Price and portions are GREAT! Average price for most dishes were about $ 5 – 7 for most. Hopefully they don’t try to raise their prices up like other restaurants do after it starts getting busy. I remember when Asian BBQ and noodle was that cheap when they first opened but their prices started rising not long after. Bummer.
Boneless dark meat Hainan Chicken — delicious! Chicken was nice and moist. Rice was slightly seasoned. Both dips were good and portion was big enough to share for $ 4.95.
Crispy Shrimp Fried Wontons — Amazeballs! Light crispy perfectly seasoned goodness
Wonton noodle — Good could add more seasoning to your likings
Curry Roti — Loved the buttery crispy Roti! Curry could use some salt tho lol
Ribs in black bean sauce — bland nothing special pass on this
Sweet Roti Dessert! Delish! Better than most Thai restaurants
I will be back again very very soon! I really can’t stop thinking about those damn fried wontons! Already have other items on the menu I want to try next

I like coming to Big Wong because the food is cheap for its quality and taste. I usually get the #1 Hoi Nam chicken (white meat) for $ 5.50, which I recommend. The dark meat is better taste wise but white meat obviously healthier. The yellow rice is very good (not greasy at all) and remember to use the sauce. The waiter recommended the #15 Beef Tendon Ramen, which I thought was average. The broth was OK, the noodles itself were generic. The brisket was good and tender but the tendon pieces were too rough and hard to be edible.
If you like authentic Chinese food with a little twist (not much though) and are on a strict budget, come to Big Wong. Note there seems to be 1 – 2 people working there who handle everything (counter, cashier, serving, etc) and can get slammed and overwhelmed at busy times

Based out of New York, this place is a nice change in pace from the Chinese restaurants you’re used to. For one, the food is not drenched in oil or extremely salty… everything has a unique flavor I can’t say I find in any other Chinese place. Everything is extremely reasonably priced as well!
TO START: Get the SHRIMP WONTONS. Fried to a perfect crisp, these babies are so flavorful. I can’t put my finger on it, but they are just so addicting. One order comes with 10 pieces, are a good size and comes with a light sweet n’ sour sauce. Do it!
FOR HER: I swear by their HOUSE SPECIAL SHRIMP WONTON WITH NOODLE SOUP. The soup is a broth that is not too salty but so savory. Comes with thin noodles, Chinese broccoli and steamed shrimp wontons. So extremely satisfying every time!
FOR HIM: He ordered the BEEF RAMEN WITH TENDON. The beef was so tender and was seasoned perfectly, and the soup again was not too salty but absolutely perfect. Not a fan of tendon texture, but he ate everything and said it was all so good!
TO FINISH: We tried the ALMOND PUDDING just to get a little sweet fix. A small cup portion, but it wasn’t too sugary! It almost had a tinge of fruit flavor I couldn’t figure it out until the end… when I found a lychee hidden inside! My favorite fruit ever, so it was the cherry on top to a great meal! :)

tldr
New York Chinese taste.
Hole in the wall spot with more than fair menu pricing.
The soups are clutch, not salty or overwhelmed with flavor; just right.
The food is extremely light but satisfying.
Came in and ordered a feast.
Get:
–house special shrimp wonton udon soup
–ribeye over pasta
–sweet roti
–fried shrimp wontons

Limited seating.
Parking space is decent.
Food came out in decent time.
I ordered the wonton soup with egg noodles.
It was ok. The broth wasn’t that flavorful. Wonton was just an ordinary stuffing.
I suggest ordering chicken! It is worth getting! It is seasoned so well and steaming hot just how I like it.
I am going to order one of the rice dishes when I come back to Vegas.
Great service!
Thank you!

Good food for cheap!
(Ps)You need to know what to order
When you order ask for:
large ribeye w/​seasoned rice.
Bakchoy (if you want)
And for desert sweet roti!
You will be happy you did!

Food: ⁵⁄₅
Service: ⁴⁄₅
Cleanliness: ²⁄₅
Décor & Style: ¹⁄₅
WOW, this place is cheap! We ordered a TON (look at my picture) and it was probably the cheapest meal I’ve ever had for all the great food. Service was slow since the owner was also the cashier, the cook, and the server, and dinner time was crowded. I would recommend dining at a non-​busy hour. Pretty much everything I sampled was delicious!
Décor was small, cramped, and very uninviting, one of those hole-​in-​the-​wall places. We used plastic spoons and forks!

So I was looking at Chinese food in Las Vegas, and this was the first one that popped up. Okay yeah sure leggo try it.
It was a big and very wong mistake to do so.
Came in before leaving to go back to the LA area and had a lunch here. I looked at the empty place and I was like ummmmm. okay. I see 4 stars and this is close to Kung Fu Tea so we’ll stay and try it.
I ordered #8– roti with a curry that included chicken and potatoes. I forget the name of the dish but that’s what I remember eating.
The positives here are that the roti (similar to a green onion pancake) was decent. It had the bread taste. The potatoes– the curry supplied all the flavor. When you bit inside and ate inside, you got absolutely zippo taste. Nothing, Nada. Zilch. It was bland. The chicken was a bit better, because it was soft, and it was in strips so the curry could actually soak into the chicken, but wasn’t too impressed. Curry was watered down. A lot.
Had one shrimp wonton because there were many reviews about it. You can taste the shrimp but it was just missing some flavor to the point of being decent.
The reason why Big Wong is popular is because of them having really cheap prices. Which they do. Shrimp wonton is $ 4.95, and most of the prices do go along that route. The food comes out in a timely manner and service comes quickly.
so here’s my tl;dr: You get what you pay for.

Big Wong has the perfect Vegas meal for anybody on a budget who might not have struck it rich with lady luck. Their amazing menu has most items for around $ 5. This is the type of hole-​in-​the-​wall that Bourdain would rave about. How cheap is this place? Even their hot tea is served in styrofoam cups. The fried chicken aside, most of their dishes don’t classify as «greasy Chinese food.» Here are some of my favorites:
— Hoi nam (Hainan) chicken over rice: This is one of my favorites. The seasoned rice is the bee’s knees. It comes in three variations: white meat, dark meat, and bone-​in dark meat.
— Special deep fried chicken over rice: This rice isn’t seasoned, but it does come with a pretty tasty sauce. The fried chicken is more flavorful than the steeped Hainan chicken, but also more greasy. I like the dark meat version of this dish.
— Curry chicken served with (3) roti pancakes: The roti pancakes are amazing. A great curry dish if you’re craving something more Malaysian.
— Beef ramen: This is possibly the most underrated dish on the entire menu. The eggs are perfectly soft-​boiled and I love the beef. Each piece is super tender and probably braised for a long time.
— Salt and pepper chicken wings: Perfectly fried and a great appetizer or side to share with the table.
You really can’t go wrong with any of these dishes. Order a couple of dishes if you’re paying with a credit card — the minimum charge is $ 10.

Big Wong?
Yes. Yes. A million times yes. I don’t know why I didn’t start going to this place until recently because this place is literally a treasure.
It’s located in probably the best food plaza on Spring Mountain so it easily gets overshadowed by Monta, Curry Zen, and Raku but wow! If you were to ask me to grab a quick bite to eat, I would choose Big Wong every single time now.
The menu items are based off of each other so if you’re a lover of let’s stay pork chop, you can literally have pork chop with rice or pork chop with noodle soup or even pork chop on its own! It’s how they keep their prices so low but hey, I’m not complaining.
My go to order at Big Wong: Rib-​eye over pasta and a side order of Roti. Whatever is in the rib-​eye sauce has got me hooked. You get a good portion of meat, pasta, and potatoes for only $ 5! The Roti is a pancake that basically can go with anything (and it’s only a dollar!!!).
The service is great as well! They seem to have only 5 people on staff per shift but they make it work. The older gentleman who seems to be the owner is able to cook, serve, and clean! He’s quite the animated man whenever he interacted with us.
So thank you Big Wong. I’ll be back soon!

I ordered 5 diff items for a party of 3
Arrived at 7pm on a Saturday night. Parking is ridic hard And spaces are tiny so yeah.
Service was quick. Water refill sucked though which is why they’re getting 4 stars instead of 5. I was so thirsty quite often but didn’t get enough refills.
I ordered the curry with rice, curry with pancakes, salt and pepper chicken, shrimp won tons, and the boneless chicken!
Curry with rice: average. Nothing special. Def didn’t give enough curry sauce because the bowl was quite small and lots of chicken was in there. ⁵⁄₁₀. Wouldn’t order again bc I’d rather try other items.
Curry with pancakes: same as above. ⁵⁄₁₀. Pancakes were smokin hot though haha
Salt and pepper chicken: ⁹⁄₁₀ grab this. Order it. Suck on the bones and the skin until you crave more. Spicy as heck but delicious as heck too. Put this shit in ur mouth. Bite it. Swallow it. So good man. Enough said.
Shrimp won tons: 6.5÷10 nothing special. I am from Orange County so we have Westminster which makes better stuff than this so its prob good for Vegas but eh for where I’m from.
Boneless chicken: ⁸⁄₁₀ wow the two sauces are awesome. Chicken was tender and juicy. Order this for sure guys
Also I thought this place was family style but it looks like each item is for a person except for the chicken wings. Everything is cheap, like $ 4.99 for everything so I couldn’t resist not ordering many times.
Worth the drive from the Vegas strip in my opinion. Yummy. Snowflake shaved ice is in the same area so that’s a plus too.
Will be back.

Okay. I have to bump this up to 5 stars. My family seemingly comes here almost once a week now. The food is ridiculously good and the prices are too good to be true (but they are!).
I stepped away from the norm of ordering the chicken hoi nam and tried the special shrimp soup with shrimp and wontons after reading Nelson Q’s review. It was spot on. Seriously, a really good bowl of soup. It’s a broth unlike anything I could compare it with. The wontons were made with all shrimp filling and the shrimp on top of that makes this a super value at under $ 8.
I also ordered some veggies this time. They did not have any ong choy so I ordered the gai lan cooked in garlic. The sizzling plate it comes with was nice to see and the aroma of the garlic was in the air. Loved it. Gai lan is a bit bitter with the leaves and next time I hope they have the ong choy.
The service was very fast for a friday night. You order and your dish comes up in about 5 minutes! Wow. All the food is good here so far and the prices keep me coming back!

I went to get an early lunch around 10 AM here last weekend because I had read about the chicken rice. When I arrived, I ended up ordering chicken rice, chicken wings, and Chinese broccoli. I ordered all of this with the plan of taking half of it home as leftovers. The rice itself was very tasty, but the chicken was on the dry side. You can pick between dark and white meat chicken — but can’t do half and half. The dipping sauces are tasty, especially the sesame oil sauce. The chicken was not the best, but for $ 5, you can’t lose. The fried chicken wings were absolutely delicious — 8 for $ 5. The Chinese broccoli was very good — sauteed in garlic and oyster sauce. The food here wasn’t the best ever, but it was really cheap!
The service was a little weird. All of the food came out at different times and the employees are pretty cold and unwelcoming. But, this is pretty typical of Asian restaurants, right?

Bare bones establishment that’s all about the food. There are literally 2 people who prepare all the food and server the customers. That’s probably how they keep their prices insanely low. Almost every dish was under $ 5. My group of 10 ordered at least 2 dishes per person and everything was delivered in a timely manner.
Highlights
— Get the salt and pepper chicken wings. Best I’ve ever had. Seasoned and fried perfectly with thinly sliced peppers. I could eat these all day.
— Hoi Nam Chicken with chicken rice. Love you can choose dark or white meat. Great dipping sauces. The rice is sooo good. Make sure to ask for ginger sauce too.
— Thin Rib Eye — Thin cuts of rib eye with dipping sauce (like teriyaki, but not as sweet?) and potatoes. I don’t know if this is Chinese, but it was good. If I were to do it again, I would probably go for the thick rib eye.
— Roti w/​Curry Chicken — Tasty roti, but wish the curry was a bit thicker. Big chunks of chicken in the curry
— Surprisingly good Thai iced tea.
We over-​ordered for 10 people, the bill still came out to $ 90. I wish I had a Big Wong’s in Seattle. This is my kind of place!

Today I received an email from Unilocal HQ advising that my review of Big Wong, from last March, has been removed due to not being detailed enough about my experience at this restaurant.
The purpose of me sharing reviews is to share my experiences; whether it be Exceptional, Good, Bad, or Ugly. So now as a Unilocal «Newbie» I’ve learned that a one liner is not enough. My review read…“The food was cheap and good tasting, but the service sucked!“
Big Wong is a small hidden gem of a place near ChinaTown located in a crowded U-​shaped strip mall off Spring Mountain, just west of Decatur, on the north side of the street.
We went for dinner last March in search of inexpensive Chinese food that would taste great! Thanks to fellow Unilocalers, we got what we asked for, and then some…
The restaurant is small and the tables are crowded together. The food were small appetizer portions and we sampled at least a dozen types. Most people would spend $ 10 bucks or less to eat here, but our bill came to over $ 50 because we sampled foods we were familiar with and foods we never heard of. Overall, the food was good, yet as mentioned; appetizer portions.
One lady serving at least 20 tables packed with people. She had zero personality, despite me trying to hopefully cheer her up with some jokes, etc. I asked if they had Big Wong T-​shirts for sale, similar to the one she was wearing. She apparently thought I was making fun of her, as my question was ignored. I was sincere, as I would honestly wear one of those T-​shirts offering them free advertising every time I wore it. When asking about the most popular dishes on the menu, she told me to make my own decision and walked away. Perhaps, she was just having a bad day as her fellow co-​workers called in sick or something. I suppose it would be fair to read other reviews and look for references of the wait staff service.
One guy working in the back as the chef. He was hustling with the woks and pots and pans, really producing some efforts for the hungry patrons that were pleasured by our lovely waitress. He really did a good job, but clearly understaffed for some help.
Would we return? Only if they decide to sell T-​shirts and we were once again in search of a Chinese restaurant that was cheap and good tasting, but the service must NOT suck!
Better than a 1 liner? If you think so, please review with a U for Useful, F for Funny and/​or C for Cool. Thanks for reading my review of Big Wong.