Wings Chinese

1 Reviews on “Wings Chinese”

• Paul

  March 2016 -Wings is no more. The new owners indicated that the owners of Wings just wanted to retire, but I can’t verify that. I’ll miss this place – personable, simple, and tasty!Really Good!. I walked into Wings assuming by the name that it was a corner pizza/wings/sub shop. Big misunderstanding on my part! This is a great little Chinese place that is short on ambiance but long on flavor.Their menu indicates that their main food line up is Cantonese, but they have a back page line up of other regional cuisines. They also have a selection of prix fixe family style options. I opted for the 1-person option, which included egg drop soup, an egg roll, sweet & sour pork, a chicken thingie I can’t remember the name of, fried rice, chow mein, tea, and cookies. For $8.50 (this was the posted price on the menu, but the bill came for $9.50), it’s a *lot* of food. None of these are my first choice of dish at a Chinese restaurant, but I figured that I could try a few common dishes like this to see if I want to come back for some of the less familiar options.Egg drop soup was fairly bland. The egg roll was good, but I’m not a fan of egg rolls. This one included sprouts and celery, and seemed fresher than many egg rolls I’ve suffered. The tea was hot & fragrant!The main entree was fantastic. Sweet & sour pork here means something very different from the normally overly sweetened, toughened strips of pork drown in corn syrup you get at most Chinese restaurants. At Wings, they’re more like fried dumplings with a morsel of pork at the center. The meal came with four dumplings, drizzled over with a very fruity-tasting sweet/sour sauce. The dumplings were warm, and the sauce was cool. The dumplings were crisp on the outside, chewy and bready on the inside and the pork morsel was tender & delicious.The chicken thingie looked sort of like a well-done omelet. Inside were pieces of chicken, whole peas, and I’m not sure what else. Tasty and different. Fried rice was delicious, and the chow mein was very, very good. If the sounds from the kitchen were to believed (and based on my taste buds, I find the evidence compelling), I think that each of the items delivered to my table was prepared based on my order. No massive vat of fried rice or chow-mein under a heat lamp. The fried rice had one taste, the chow mein had a completely separate taste. The meal had nuances of flavor within and between each dish. It wasn’t just a massive conglomeration of sweet or salty. The other reason I suspect everything was made to order is that it took a while for the food to be delivered. The soup was delivered first, then the egg roll, then the entree plate, and finally the cookies. Ask for chop sticks if you like them.This place is small and nothing fancy, but the food here is far better than either Mandarin Palace or Empress Palace, both of which I’ve reviewed here and found rather bland (though with better ambiance and faster service). I’ll be back again. I suggest you give it a try as well.

  May 12, 2011, 9:43 pm

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