China Wok — Restaurant in Asheville

They’ve gotten pretty darn inconsistent.

We always order the same thing (the Singapore chow mei fun). This time, there was hardly any curry. You can see from the lightness of the noodles on the photo. Also it wasn’t spicy at all. Sometimes there’s far too much curry. Sometimes the curry isn’t even stirred into it and it’s just left in big clumps.

Also please note that my son ordered the sweet-and-sour chicken without the sweet-and-sour sauce, and you can see from this photo how overly breaded and fried the chicken is. When the chicken is in the sauce it has a lot more opportunity to hide how over-breaded it is, but without the sauce, you can see that it’s really over-fried and has a lot of batter.

This used to be our go-to place, for years and years and years, but recently they increased the prices; my Singapore chow mei fun was almost $19. And I understand when prices went up after Covid, but if you’re going to charge $19, I’d like to have a little bit more consistency with the quality. I am fine paying $19 for good Singapore chow mei fun that is correctly spiced, but not when sometimes it’s overspiced, sometimes it’s underspiced, sometimes the spice is clumped and sometimes there’s hardly any spice at all.

We want to like this restaurant again! We want to go back. We live nearby and we want to make this our regular to-go Chinese restaurant. So I hope that if the owners are reading this, they will take this as constructive criticism and examine the consistency of their dishes. Also, the sweet-and-sour chicken could do with less breading and more chicken.

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My first time here. I’ve passed it for years and have been looking for a good Chinese Restaurant in Asheville since we moved here in 2016. Grew up with NY Chinatown and Lums in Queens, NY. Owners were nice, read reviews and got a combo chicken and broccoli platter with fried rice, eggroll and wonton soup to share with wife. My wife liked the soup and dumpling, it was a little more dark broth than she preferred but tasty. It comes with a well packaged bag of fried noodles which was great and in my mind, mandatory for a Chinese Restaurant. 👍🏻 Egg roll was delicious and the best one since moving here. I could buy a dozen and my wife and I could eat for a week. They have packets of duck sauce, soy, mustard at your disposal. The Chicken and broccoli was ok, fresh broccoli, meat and sauce was ok I’d do it again but perhaps a little too much sodium/soy?? All in all definitely will order again and try different things. I like to support, hard working small businesses that have something to...

Poor food/poor service. We had heard bad reviews but decided to give China Wok a chance and ordered at 7pm on a friday night for pick up. Food was ready quickly but the order was wrong. The "mongolian beef" had ingredients that weren't listed on the menu and obviously don't go in that dish. The soup was cold, the sesame chicken was all breading, and the "mongolian beef" was bland, rubbery, and filled with mushrooms and carrots. I called to complain about the mistake and was told very rudely that I was wrong, and to bring my food back to the restaurant to prove my claims. I have lived in Asheville for over 3 years and this is by far the worst food I have ever received, this is the first bad review I've ever written but it was simply that bad. We will never eat...