Wah Wing Szechuan Restaurant — Restaurant in Port Coquitlam

This place has been here since I was a kid. Glad to see it's still here and I'm visiting again after 20+ years. All I remember was that I liked their hot and sour soup.

Not really an authentic Szechuan restaurant. 30 years ago, most chinese cuisines were cooked by hong kongers or south chinese people. So, most of these dishes are going to be a southern take on it.

Hot and sour soup - price is awesome. $11 enough for at least 6 bowls. Souo base is missing a bit of flavor but it is jam packed with ingredients.

Drunken chicken - it was ok. Little on the salty side.

Shanghainese pan fried pork buns - these were probably the worst I've had. Not made in house and not properly pan fried. No juice, super dry, no fried bottom crust.

Bean curd wrapped pork dim sum - surprisingly this came out last. At least 20 min has passed. This is a steamed dish but it came out with dried edges like it was sitting on a dry heater. Taste was ok.

Mapo tofu - asked for extra spicy and extra numbing. Numbing was there but nowhere near real szechuan numbing. Was not spicy at all. Sauce was more oily than saucey.

The price point reflects the quality. Things are either mediocre or a complete miss. Would come again to try only the better stuff. Staff was friendly. Came to try to refill the tea way more times than normal. The iron goddess tea tastes much better than a lot of dim sum...

Although this unassuming restaurant looks very much closed from the outside (we only went in because they had an open sign), but it’s actually pretty spacious and welcoming on the inside. Lots of big round tables and limited tables for 4 people.

Their menu for lunch was a bit confusing with both the dim sum menu and the regular menu and another lunch menu that was different from the lunch menu in the main menu. There were a lot of options to choose from so we were a little overwhelmed. Prices were good for the portions and service was quick.

We ordered 5 dishes for 3 people to share. We ordered the hot and sour soup (really great taste, not too spicy), the pork bao from the dim sum menu (nothing special and too much bun to meat ratio), salt and pepper squid from the lunch menu (flavourful and good value at $10.95), the special fried rice (flavourful and good value at $14.95), and the tofu which had good texture and was cooked well, but was a bit less flavourful.

Overall it was a great meal and we spent $75 with tax and tips for three people.

The employees have lunch at 3 pm so be sure to come earlier for lunch or come after 5 pm for dinner.

There are lots of parking spaces as this restaurant is located in a plaza close to the BC...

My last 2nd Order at this restaurant was beef chow mein and it tasted like soggy spaghetti noodle with really sweet sauce. It tasted so sweet I felt full after one bite.. Maybe the cook was trying out something new but who in the world decides to make a really sweet beef chow mein. I can't emphasize enough how sweet the dish was.

Today I decided to give another try and ordered something I previously had - fried rice noodle with black bean sauce. I had no problem with the rice noodle in the past but today's meal was far worse than my previous beef chow mein and in fact this is the sole reason why I decided to write my first food review. First the black bean sauce had zero (Absoluetly zero) viscosity. The sauce covered half the dish and I think I would be able to easily drink just the sauce with 1mm diameter straw if such thing existed.. just imagine that. Secondly the noodles... I can tell the difference between old noodles and the ones that were cooked for too long. This one exceeded both combined! It was much softer than dense tofu and everything came apart. After 5 scoups (chopstick/fork was impossible) the dish became black bean soup with mushed rice noodle chunks. I'm never ever going back to this...