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| - Big Wong is that 1 place my family & I always find ourselves going back to. Their food is good, but affordable ($5 dishes) & fresh. They are consistent: the quality of their food has remained the same since we discovered them over a year ago.
Hubby & I always order the same thing: seasoned rice & fried shrimp wontons, which are both phenomenal. They know exactly how to make the FSW's (ancient Chinese secret?), & seem to have the recipe down to a science. While I don't know the recipe for it, I believe they roll out the fresh wonton wrapper to a precise thinness, & then fry it in fresh oil at a specific temperature, for X number of minutes. This method results in a crispy (yet not exceedingly greasy) wonton wrapper. If you've eaten a lot of mediocre & MSG-laden Chinese food, you'll notice the difference.
The place itself is small & simple, so unassuming that it's the perfect facade for a magical kitchen where the chopsticks & wonton wrappers (probably) come to life to sing & dance at night. Srsly though, we saw Nicolas Cage by Big Wong once, & that's made Big Wong even more memorable for us. We've eaten at Big Wong so many times that we've kind of become friends with the main server, a Thai guy named Paul.
What does baffle us about BW is how it never seems to be as packed as we figure it ought to be. In a way, we like that, but we honestly believe that anyone that hasn't tried their food is missing out.
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