Wong's Kitchen Chinese & Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in New Brighton

I would read the reviews that seem honest and unbiased. That’s what I did when I came here but it was not true still! I came into Wong’s Kitchen on 5/21/19 around 12:30 after I was in a 4 hour long training. The first thing I noticed before entering was that I called to preorder my rice and the woman who answered stated to come in and order it. I was thinking they precooked all the food and maybe I shouldn’t go there. So then when I walked into this establishment I noticed their pretty pathetic buffet and was a little grossed out about it. There were two elderly people eating and I thought hmmm maybe it’s not that bad. Even though at 12 pm a Chinese place is typically packed. I then ordered my rice which was $4 and attempted to pay for my food. The woman literally attempted to dissect the whole $20 bill to see if it was fake. If it were fake I would never taken the time to write the review! I also had taken this 20 from the atm and was adamant it was real! So she then started putting it through this machine that she had no idea how to work and then said no sorry I can’t take this! I was livid especially when she asked me to bring back a smaller bill. I told her no this is discrimination I won’t be back for the simple fact I’m sure this didn’t happen to the other patrons (checking their money with a machine; also I thought they used markers?) or she would have realized she doesn’t even know how to check money correctly!!! But anyway this place is run down and sells premade old food and discriminates against colored people. I will never ever ever go here and I just moved to this neighborhood so they lost out on a valuable customer to their already failing business! I even attached the same 20 bill to prove it was real and you can tell just by looking at it!!! Also chipotle sells rice for 97cents and they told me my money was real so I really just got taught a valuable lesson without losing more than...

Just finished dinner, ordered pickup hear about an hour ago, the line out the door was encouraging, but the food was absolutely awful.

Ordered Sesame Tofu, Gen. Tso's Chicken, and Beef Lomein with Wontons.

The Tofu, Chicken, and Wontons all had the very distinct kind of tough, leathery texture that frozen items have. I'm betting that much of the food here is not actually made by them, but simply store-bought in, reheated, and sauced.

Its that exact kind of leathery texture most Chinese take-out food gets after you leave the leftovers in the fridge for a day or two, then microwave them. The same thing happens with frozen foods.

The Lomein was also very odd... I'm pretty sure it wasn't even lomein egg noodles at all... it was much closer to either store-bought angel-hair spaghetti noodles, or those bulk-packs of Cup Noodles ramen.

Also ... Pictured Below... Why are there strips of charred, burnt orange peels in the Gen Tso. chicken? I understand that the oranges are part of the flavor, but why are the orange peels burnt? And why are they including the in container and not removed before shipping it out? They aren't edible, and its hard to differentiate them from say, a carrot slice or something... until you put one in your mouth that is.... So...

This was by FAR some of the worst we’ve ever had, and I’m usually very forgiving of family owned businesses. We actually go out of our way to seek out those little “holes in the wall” to find undiscovered dining treasures.

The egg rolls tasted like they had been deep fried in years old grease. The Egg Fu Yung were these bizarre pre-shaped square hockey pucks in brown mud and were tough to cut, which was a first for me. Both items tasted slightly fishy.

I swapped them for a serving of chicken fried rice that had the same years old grease in play, and the chicken in it consisted of diced lunch meat. The chow main was mushy celery and mystery meat in a brown sauce.

The final cut was when we paid the bill. The waitress had tried to save us a few bucks by charging the egg rolls as an optional side, rather than an a la carte item. The cashier (Mom/sister) saw this and after an extended exchange in Chinese, the price went back up by $3.

Never returning. ...