Wild Ginger II — Restaurant in Warwick Township

In life, a lot of the time, the 2nd version of something is never as good as the first. When we take a look at the long lineage of English Monarchs, how often is II I? Not very much! Luckily, this principle was not true for Wild Ginger II. To quote the song Dental Care by the greatest band of all time, Owl City, “Open wide, this’ll only hurt a little.” And this is exactly what our waitress said to us when handing us our food. While my toothache was extremely distracting, I chewed on a massive chunk of ice to soothe my cavity. Are you just a decoy dream in my head? I questioned to this toothache as I promptly ate a steamed seitan dumpling over wilted lettuce. The toothache responded by saying, “I am floating away (floating away),” and immediately disappeared. I am convinced that it was the pillowy soft comfy soft delicious smooth soft nice sweet little soft yummy soft nature of the dumpling that drove the cavity to float away. Put on a warm fuzzy sweater “cuz” you’ll feel so much better. This is normally true if you’re having a salad but here the ginger carrot dressing has a warming and nourishing property, as does the miso soup. If all the roads were paved with ice they wouldn’t thaw or crack, and if all the restaurants served food like Wild Ginger II, my heart wouldn’t thaw or crack either. All I need to keep me going is Wild Ginger II veggie lo mein, and I will remain intact forever. Farewell powdery paradise. No they don’t serve cocaine at Wild Ginger II but the white rice is almost as powdery. Perfectly complementary like a winter storm to a frozen maple tree, the white rice gently and subtly absorbs all saucy elements of any other dish. Pour me a heavy dose of the atmosphere within Wild Ginger II, because the warm and comforting environment is something I want to sip on like it’s watermelon celsius. Thanks to the excellent service of our waitress and the beautiful decor of the restaurant, I never wanted to leave. It was almost as if I don’t feel so alone. The walls of the restaurant rapidly closed in on my decaying body as I panicked, chewing on a complementary lemon to ease the pain as all of my teeth now started to pain me. I screamed in agony as the walls began to suffocate me but then I realized I was just a prisoner to the crust of sesame chicken and my teeth were actually the sesame being crushed by my actual teeth. I certainly left teardrops everywhere as I cried in pain, but luckily I was able to sop up my tears with a cloth napkin. The waiters all converged around the table and gave me a thousand hugs until I felt better. This is the kind of outstanding, above-and-beyond service you simply won’t find anywhere other than Wild Ginger II. Yeah While do I tire of counting sheep? When I could be eating them!!! For desert I ordered a live sheep and I started eating it’s wool like cotton candy 🤤. This light and airy texture reminded me of the graceful way that fireflies cut through the night air like coursing rivulets of tears making their way down my cheeks. I was certainly bursting at the seams following my delicious dinner at Wild Ginger II, as I ate enough for about ten thousand lightning bugs. I’ll kiss you between the ears is what the sushi chef told me. I desperately wanted to turn into a firefly sized bug and move to the sushi boats made of bamboo where we could promptly make love without being seen by anyone like ab and Nemo at the bottom of the ocean. Just like everything in life it was meant to be that I would be trapped in this restaurant, the worm...

Friday night out with friends completely ruined by the worst service I’ve experienced in years. Every Friday for the pas 20-25 years we (group of 5 couples) go out to mark the end of the work week and get a good start on our respective weekends . Yesterday was no different accept there were only 6 of us as 2 couples were not available. We decided to go out of our comfort zone and try this place. Menu looked good and reviews were decent as well…you really need to wonder about that. Since we all work and this was a bit further for us than usual we called to reserve a table for 6 at 7:45pm. The reservations were happily given and nothing else was said at the time of booking. When we came, there were only 3 or 4 tables were taken, considering Friday evening. In any case, we set down and ordered a good amount of food, mostly appetizers to start. In a little bit after that as we were only partially through with our appetizers, the waitress started, frankly, bugging us about getting more food. After her 5th time or so, I said we’re still enjoying our appetizers (food was actually good) and we need more time before ordering more. To which she replied that they close at 9pm (Friday night) and we need to order now. I wondered to her if it was just the kitchen or they would want us to leave as well. To my surprise she said yeah and clarified by saying that they start closing down promptly at 9 pm. The time was probably around 8:30-8:35. Not having a choice we quickly ordered . By that same time around 8:30pm we were the only occupied table in the restaurant. We got our ordered food closer to 9pm and proceeded to eat it quickly. While chewing our food, I noticed the same waitress rolling her eyes and giving us dirty looks. We left around 9:15-9:20 barely able to finish our food. Needles to say, we’ll never be back there again. I understand, the good help is really hard to find in this brave post covid...

Every single time so far I have ordered the same two dishes. Pad thai and drunken noodles. Pad thai is okay, for taste I give 6 or 7 out of 10. But drunken noodle is anything but drunken noodle. Without miss every single time, the same bland taste. Very close to how Chinese Chow Fun is made, looks like that and tastes like that. They could advertise it as chow fun if they are making chow fun! This time when I ordered, I even told them to tell the chef to make with drunken noodle sauce and not chow fun sauce. Nothing has changed. Very very disappointed. If I had flat rice noodle, I could have whipped something up far superior and tasting like the genuine drunken noodle. Not sure how hard is it for an experienced chef to figure that out and make it! A youtube search for the recipe will get him what he wants. Just soy sauce, oyster sauce, thai basil, palm sugar, garlic and chillies that's it. I live in the area, unfortunately not many thai options around which is why I keep going back to ginger hoping one day they will fix their drunken noodle. Very sad, nothing...