Hing Wong — Restaurant in New York

I ordered from here because of the many good reviews. I wish I had better news but unfortunately can not recommend. Here’s a breakdown of what I ordered and corresponding notes:

Egg drop soup: good but nothing to write home about. Honestly the fact that it was generally edible is probably making me think more highly of it than I should.

Won Ton Soup: I didn’t try it myself but my boyfriend said it tasted a bit like burnt plastic and the won tons seemed old. He couldn’t eat it.

Vegetable egg rolls x2: We actually received a single order of two spring rolls. Besides the fact that they were absolutely not egg rolls I’ve legit had better spring rolls from the frozen foods section of the grocery store. We each tried a single bite but didn’t finish them.

Crab Rangoon: These could have been good but they were barely filled with the cheese mixture. The sweet and sour sauce they came with wasn’t great - best way I can describe it was watered down. We ate 3 total of the full order (12 I think?)

General Tso’s Tofu first batch: I requested this not be breaded. The woman on the phone said ‘okay sure, not breaded and deep fried, just sautéed.’ I imagine this means cooked on a wok and told her that sounded good. They delivered raw tofu that had been cubed and placed in a container with cold general tso’s sauce. It wasn’t cooked at all, literally cold. Also the sauce was super thin but perhaps that’s because it needed to be cooked to thicken up.

General Tso’s Tofu second batch: Actually cooked and although the sauce was still thin (particularly for general Tso’s) it had pretty good flavor and was quite spicy which I enjoyed. Not amazing but given the first batch it was a remarkable improvement.

I’m giving two stars because the woman on the phone was not only very nice but humored me through discussing the breading on the tofu (plus I actually changed my order a bit while in the phone which I’m sure was annoying.) Also, I called upon receipt of the cold, uncooked tofu and although she argued with me a bit that ‘I didn’t want it breaded or deep fried’ (as if that meant I wanted uncooked, cold tofu) she did acquiesce to send me a new order of actually cooked tofu. The new order was pretty tasty, as noted above.

Oddly enough the delivery driver asked for the original (cold) batch as ‘exchange’ - was more than happy to get rid of it but was interesting they’d want it back (maybe to make sure I wasn’t lying?) All in all with so many other Chinese delivery options around I really can’t recommend this place. Bummer because I was hoping to find a new go-to as the place I used to always order...

My friend & I tried this based only on the reviews which, for the most part, were very good.

As I like to say..I don’t care the price but it’d better be excellent.

This is a complete dichotomy to “excellent”.

We ordered the pork fried dumplings & crab rangoons as appetizers. The dumplings were good (although I’d never order them again). IMO..they weren’t fresh but instead seemed as though they were cooked earlier & then reheated. The crab rangoons were more “rangoon” than crab. There was a smidgeon of the cream cheese mixture inside …a very small amount despite the size of the rangoon.

I had the roast pork with broccoli. Many pieces of broccoli (why the hard stems on broccoli ?? ….I don’t know why they weren’t cut off ..the only thing I can think of is they’re left like that to have the dish look like it’s a nice sized meal but it’s only “filler”) and a less amount of roast pork. The roast pork was okay. Nothing to rave about.

My friend ordered the beef in oyster sauce. We had to check the menu as we had no idea what it was. I’ve ordered this dish innumerable times in my life & it’s never ever looked like this. If this was beef ..it didn’t look like it. It had a look as if barely cooked ..not the rich color of beef that’s the norm for this dish. She tried it; I tried it. Absolutely disgusting.

This will sound biased but I’d love to know the ages of those who write these reviews. Are they so young & unaware and they’ve never experienced really wonderful Chinese cuisine?

Are they used to the quality of fast food so this cuisine is “spectacular” to them?

Have they ever enjoyed fine dining? I think not.

I’ll never order from this restaurant ever again.

Once was more...

There are a ton of Chinese restaurants in the area, but this is the only one who does everything RIGHT.

Lo main on point with lots of ingredients. Chicken and Broccoli with a sauce that is to die for. Dumplings not overly cooked and full of flavor. Fried rice cooked right with great flavor and also that isn't yellow (I don't know why there are so many places around here with yellow fried rice). Soups with actual flavor and not just fake stock.

and it is all FRESH!!! All the ingredients you can tell are fresh and cooked the right way. When you have so many options of these classic dishes, you should eat from a place that just does it right. This...