Big Hing Wong Restaurant
Big Hing Wong Restaurant
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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Price wise, the noodle soup/congee and the cut meat over rice is similar to big wong's on Mott st. (I'm using big Wong as a comparison because they are known for their roasted meat. But this place is cheaper when it comes to the fried rice, stir fry noodle dishes.
I got the duck noodle soup today with the pork, squid/peanut congee. Proportion wise, it's slightly more generous than big Wong but as a whole, my two dishes weren't as tasty as big wong's. my friend got the wonton noodle soup and sadly, she didn't want to finish her wontons I guess because it didn't taste good to her.
It's not too bad if you're in the area and want something fast, but it's nothing worth raving about.
Quick, cheap, and opened late. Basically 3 very important words to me when I'm in a rush for food.
Really nothing to boast about for this restaurant, it does the job. I come here mostly for their congee but their rice dishes aren't half bad. Not a huge fan of the cold meat over rice, so it's a little bit of a turn off for me.
Not the cleanest place, so don't expect too much, also waiters are hit or miss depending on if something is good on their TV.
I stopped by here for a pound of BBQ pork and it was a little bit dry. Some of the other stuff hanging in the window looked okay though.
Only tried one dish: BBQ pork over rice. It was $4.75, for a decent amount of food, both pork and rice. No vegetables were included. Pork was pretty tasty and tender, even if a little over cooked and soft. It is not an, "OMG, I can't believe how much good food you get for no money" kind of situation, but it is a good value for sure. I think I would go back, particulary if I was just carrying out and eating in the park. It is kind of a dumpy place.
Not OK with OK218? 99 Favor Taste too much? Lok Teen too much smokers? This is the absolute best Cantonese restaurant in all of Grand St. Though not a large restaurant, it is holds 3x more capacity that OK128 and almost everything is not only less expensive but the portion is also much greater.
I mean if a restaurant still has sizeable dishes for $4.75 then that explains how theirs business is so good. And they're opened from 8a-10p how about that? Food is great-just like OK128 with the busy atmosphere of NY Noodletown.
All in all if you're in the outskirts of Chinatown by Allen and in the mood for Cantonese, this is the place to go.
This place has been a staple in this community since forever. I remember it being the default stop after an early afternoon at church. Many of our members would hit it up for all sorts of goodies: wonton noodles, barbecued meat over rice, varieties of congee and just about every rice and noodle dish known to man.
But not to be one of those annoying folks that complain, it's kind of gone down hill. While not by much more, it's a tad more expensive than similar Chinese restaurants. The service is generally pretty good and they're pretty welcoming to non-Chinese-ers, but the food is also pretty general.
Today I ordered a quick "Three Blessings" rice which is just fancy talk for 2 meat window meats (sounds funny) and a fried egg. If the place is good, the egg's nice and gooey, the meats crispy on the outside and ever so tender on the inside.
I ordered 2 kinds of roast pork to supplement my egg. The traditional redder roast pork was incredibly fatty, unusually chewy and a little difficult going down. As for the other crispier skinned roast pork, it won in crispness, but the meat itself was pretty cold. Actually the entire order, with the exception of the rice was pretty cold. Egg? Semi-gooey. I know, I sound like such a douche. But hey, I still gave em three stars.
Would I come back? Not unless I had to…which was the same reason I hadn't stopped by til today.
I staggered in here on a recent Friday night, a brief respite from a happy hour that went on so long it threatened to bleed into a nearby birthday party. I ordered a plate of cha siu fan, sliced roast pork served on about a pound of white rice. I woofed down most of the plate and was fortified for another several pints.
Last night I returned to Big Hing Wong sober with some vague recollections of a decent meal. It turns I had beer googles when it came to the food.
That same plate of cha siu fan on closer inspection had some rather serious problems. All were related to the pork. (Really, it's quite hard to screw up white rice.) The pork is covered in a thin sauce, presumably to disguise the fact there's no flavor or tenderness left in the meal. The glaze or char of the outside of the pork is gone. It's so thin it could have been cut from a plastic-wrapped Boar's Head container.
On this second I visit I also had more time to investigate the myriad of menus, some in English, some in Chinese, others on the wall and still others with pictures. I looked them all (I'm bilingual), but was drawn in for an only in English picture menu of dim sum. It was well into the evening, past the time for yum cha. My waiter said the steamed dim sum were available and I ordered a plate of shiu mai.
A better word for this snack would be "reheated" rather than steamed. It was obviously from a premade batch with a strange industrial acidity and pulverized bits of frozen vegetables.
The meal was cheap ($7.25), service friendly, oolong tea flavorful and the seating fine, but man, you can't decide the merits of a restaurant when intoxicated.
Want a quick, cheap, semi satisfying meal? Than I would recommend coming here. Decided to run in for a quick meal because my friend saw roasted duck hanging from the window & she knew she wanted it. (Drunken moments).
We shared duck over rice and bunch of dim sum bites. Food was average. Probably not the best place for dim sum but HEY, you get what you pay for.
I don't know if I'd go out of my way to eat here again, but it's perfect for a quick and cheap meal.