Wok City
“Every time i order from hear they are quick taking the order and with the delivery as well very warm and tasty food.”
“One time I was there, a guy ordered 25 pieces of fried chicken.”
“We stumbled upon this tiny Chinese place at a night lingering around Lincoln Center.”
Wok City
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
7 reviews
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Hypes:
– Awesome cheap, fast, and typical takeout chinese food place
– Great lunch specials
– large menu
– fast turnover and they make everything fresh in front of you
– for what you pay its really worth it
Gripes:
– not the cleanest
– limited seating
All you need to know is this:
If you want greasy ass, cheap, nasty takeout, go for it. For some reason the chicken wings seem to be popular here. I didn't think they were that great, but hey, it's cheap.
The fried rice was barely edible. Greasy as hell. Same goes for the beef w/broccoli and rice. All in all this place typifies the low-grade Chinese takeout experience. At least they give you a lot of food for the low price. But you'll probably feel pretty gross after putting all that grease in your poor stomach.
Due to lack of Chinese takeout in the Lincoln Center area, I yelped Wok City and ordered from them for a club event. I had appealed for money for chow mein and fried rice. When I called them to order, they told me that the chow mein wasn't actually noodles. It was actually vegetables with rice.
Now explain to me how that even works? I'm Chinese so I've eaten my share of lo meins and chow meins in my lifetime. Every single time I order lo mein or chow mein, it comes with noodles. This woman told me that it was actually vegetables with rice. WHAT?!
I had no choice but to order it because I had appealed for that particular dish. When it came, everyone went for the fried rice, which was pretty good (which is why they have 2 stars). We have two whole containers of vegetables left over cause it wasn't even good.
Guess I'm going to have to look for another place again. Sigh.
Fast delivery.
Decent food.
Good prices.
This tiny restaurant serves up decent Chinese food for a reason price. Great for take-out and delivery, but this isn't really a place for sit down. There is only one table and it's usually for storage.
I eat Chinese about three times a year. Usually it makes me feel kinda sick and slothful, after I eat it, and it takes me about four months to forget this, at which point I order again, remember, and so on. After eating Wok City, however, I don't feel sick, and feel only slightly slothful. So I think that must make Wok City my favorite Chinese takeout, ever.
Attending festival after festival (Anderson, Oshima, Latinbeat, Wajda, etc) at Walter Reade, with no real alternatives, I've found myself here again and again… I always sit at the little two-table four-seat spot which for some reason is always filled with the restaurant's employees shoveling their faces with food — it's fun… one time the counter-woman said to me "You only one who sit with us."…
The food, for this kind of food, is decent and cheap. I judge these places first by their rice — the white rice is consistently good. The pork fried rice is just alright, the roast pork is great but the rice itself isn't all that good and the onions are often soggy… The pork egg roll is really good, lots of fresh veggies, perfectly crunchy outside with not too much dough. The shrimp eggroll is good with nice whole shrimps… I've tried the fried chicken which is good, the fries aren't bad, the crab rangoon is fresh and about what you'd expect… Beef Sichuan-Style is good. Twice cooked pork is good and a rare find in this kind of place… They obviously use fake scallops, some sort of pollock I think… None of the meat dishes I've had were fatty or gristly, which is refreshing… Their shrimps are good… Their veggies are always good, fresh and generously portioned… I wish they made their dishes hotter, even when I request "super spicy" it comes out just about average… I've yet to try any of the "sweet" standard dishes, I'm putting them off for awhile…
I always grab a quick beer or two at the deli next door. Making for an evening of food and drink and entertainment for about $20.
What my friend describes affectionately as "dirty Chinese food", I add the labels utilitarian and quasi-functional Asian cuisine.
Not a place you'd ever see me bring anyone from back home to dine, but quick and cheap-ish combos and specials that gets the job done. Although far from being "Chinese food", the fried chicken wings you get with the "American and Chinese Special" combos are surprisingly crisp, freshly fried, and not small as I would have expected. The chicken and eggplant was also a nice surprise, although pricing at that point begins to move away from bargain to "now I'm starting to pay like a New Yorker".
Egg rolls that are thrown in with the combos are deep fried blandness containing veggies only. The beef with "sha cha" is really not spicy at all (contrary to the little hot pepper next to the name on the menu), but at least the vegetables weren't stale and the beef was not tooth-gnashingly tough.
Kudos for BBQ pork fried rice that was a respectable portion, not sickeningly greasy, and a reasonable accompaniment to whatever it is you plan to order. Points off for having to dig around to find actual pieces of pork.
A suitable (and cheaper) alternative to Ollie's, if this is the kind of stuff you just happen to be craving.