Wok Shop Cafe — Restaurant in San Francisco

Ate here with extended family and tried a variety of dishes. As an Americanized Korean, I was quite impressed with how the food tastes. Here is my honest review of each menu item I’ve tried.

Pot Stickers: 9/10 With all the good reviews on this, I had high expectations. It is still really really good. Very Crispy and good flavor, I just thought it would be better. (picture included)

Orange chicken: 10/10 My favorite out of them all, very very good. Amazing texture, so so yummy. 100000% recommend.

Mongolian beef: 9/10 Very good. Rich flavor. Definitely recommend.

Sweet and Sour pork: 7/10 Good texture but something in the sauce was a bit unexpected, although it was still overall pretty good. (picture included)

Kung Pao chicken: 7/10. Very spicy, beware.

Beef Chow Mein: 9/10 Not a huge fan of chow mein but this was really good.

Singapore style rice noodles: 9/10 Pretty good, authentic flavor. Normally something I would not like, but I enjoyed this dish at this restraunt. (picture included)

Prawn and Scallop with black bean sauce: 4/10. Server recommended this to us when we asked for a mildly spicy seafood dish, however it did not meet my expectations at all.

Salt and Pepper Fish: 8/10. Delicious but a tad bit too salty for my taste.

Beef chow fun: 7/10 exactly how you’d think it would taste like

Service (7/10) was less than ideal as the one server was sitting at her desk watching shows at a loud volume. Wish she paid a tad bit more attention to...

While staying at the Holiday Inn on Van Ness, I got delivery one night. Ordered Pot stickers (appetizer) and Orange Chicken for dinner.

The pot stickers were the fattest ones I have ever seen. We live on the east cost and these looked like fried dumplings, only 3 times the meat inside. They were ok, but to make them very good or great you need a good dipping sauce. They gave you a packet of sauce (gyoza sauce). Lame. Therefore, they remain just ok. Those that cannot make a good sauce doing a disservice to their business. (I am used to getting a great home made sauce from my local Chinese restaurant. It isn't hard to make dipping sauce. I make a decent one, myself when at home. I have yet to crack the recipe of my local place. I have asked for the recipe, but they won't give it to me.)

The Orange Chicken was pretty generic. Breaded chicken in an orange colored glaze. Not great tasting, not bad tasting... just meh.

Delivery was quick and it filled two bellies with no left overs.

Ordered from lunch from Bamboo the day before. They are worlds part in taste/flavor. Bamboo was much better. But I didn't see pot stickers/dumplings on Bamboo's menu and was in the...

We ordered from Wok Shop Cafe to our hotel, via Grubhub. We ordered two of the meal combinations, 1) the cumin lamb combo with an egg roll, hot and sour soup, and white rice and 2) the hot chile chicken combo with egg roll, hot and sour soup, and lo mein noodles.

The food was delivered to our hotel a full twenty minutes early, and the delivery man was cheerful and friendly, saying “I hope you enjoy the dinner.” In my experience, that rarely happens, and this was an atypically warm delivery person.

As for the food itself, the soups were very fresh and flavorful and the egg rolls were crispy outside and moist inside, not so easy to do with delivery chinese. The chile chicken was our favorite, crisply fried outside and tender inside, in a flavorful and spicy sauce. The cumin lamb was good not great, as the meat did not have the texture of being wok fried quickly, instead feeling a little like the meat was steamed in the sauce, which had been in the wok before the meat.

Anyway, the food was overall quite good, delivered early, and with a 25% off first order coupon on Grubhub. I’d recommend this place having sampled many local...