Manchu Wok — Restaurant in Jefferson Township

Do a 180 and get a double cheeseburger for $6, backtrack a few steps and get a bagle and cream cheese for $4, or walk a bit to Berghoffs and get a hot sandwich for $8. Expected portion for the price, as it ends up being double what the menu says, but soaked in some salty factory sauce. Menu says Entrees: Noodles: $5 and change. I walk up, ask for noodle entree. Server asks me what I want in my entree. I scan the items and tell the server. Person at the register then charges me $10 and change before tax. Clearly, whoever owns these Manchu Woks is sitting around somewhere with all their money instead of paying their employees to do basic stuff like update the menu. Ended being a ramen-pack worth of noodles, a few tablespoons of reheated frozen produce, and morsel-sized cuts of meat. We're talkin, by weight, maybe a dollar fifty of food, maybe, at a grocery store, compared to the burger stand across the aisle, which will sell you a full pound burger for what would be a 50% markup on the beef alone. The reason Manchu charges so much, is because Manchu can't pull in enough revenue to scale up enough. Otherwise, the line wouldn't have been non-existent and Manchu wouldn't have to sneak in charges that don't even exist on the menu. It's a shame, because the japanese restaurant I went to in Chinatown reminded me of Japan, but this asian fusion thing belongs at an ice-road truck stop somewhere in the Northwest Territory. It could have been even worse, like that stupid pretzel stand selling pretzel bites (we're talkin dough, salt and oil with heat applied) for $7, but at least with the pretzels, I knew they were overpriced. I wouldn't care, but I wasted half my appetite on this slop, so now I have no room for something that actually tastes good, and O'Hare's gates are apparently so unreliable that my flight got moved from one terminal to another, meaning I've traipsed a mile or two either hungry or tasting my stomach acid dueling it out with whatever chemical concoction it is that I put in it....

I'm giving it two stars based on the stingy portions. My plate looked like I had ordered from the HALF PORTION Menu! I don't get it, because its not like we don't pay a "pretty penny" for it!! I can guarantee you the Man is making PLENTY of business...Manchu Wok is one of the most popular options at this little food court, so I don't know why the small portions. Even the Tofu he gave me was SKIMPY, when in reality Tofu is one of the cheapest foods there is! Next time I will pick from the other places, which is probably fine by him, because I dont think he likes me anyway...every time I go by there, he's serving the people in line and when is my turn, suddenly he has to talk to his cook, change food trays, clean or something, just to make me wait! I hope is not "a color...

For some reason, chinese food is like cotton candy. It melts in your mouth and is filled for a few tens of minutes, and you go hangry again. Maybe it is because of a fluffy rice and oily and juicy chow-mein. I had an orange chicken and kang pau chicken, 2 choice combination plate. I mean I am a frequent flyer and I find myself at a Chicago O'heir airport becuase of my connecting flight to midwest region. Right off the bat, I do not have a high expectations when I'm eating at the airport because I am fully aware of limitations of the kitchen and their limitation of the space and regulations by the TSA at an airport. Manchu Wok, I like their food. Matter of fact I saw several captains consuming the chinese food along side with me and that tells me something. ...