Hing Wang Restaurant

Fresh, well spiced food. Best Mongolian Beef in the hood. Table service or cafeteria style, your choice in two separate sections. Two brothers run it. The older one I like, the other I can do without.

Fried rice is a must! I have tried the chicken and combination fried rice and their are equally delicious! Don’t be fooled by the small packaging! There is a lot of rice in there!

It’s the best fried rice I’ve ever had. It really is, but every time I come here I’m reminded how rude the owner is. I’m a friendly person and she just doesn’t care about her customers. You’ll never get a «thank you» or a «how’s it going». I’ve dumped a lot of money on rice here, but she really needs to get out of the business if she’s going to act so miserable.

I have eaten at Hing Wang Restaurant for many, many, years (maybe over 10 years) I have tried everything on the menu. The food is always prepared fresh when ordered, so expect to wait 10 – 15 minutes (or longer) for your order. This kitchen is open combined with the front cashier. The owner is usually at the cash register, or cooking. The customer service is not so great, so get ready; I honestly think the customer service is poor because this is a neighborhood still going through regentrification.
My suggestions are, but not limited to; Phở, spicy Mongolian beef, spicy shrimp, spicy wings, spicy combo fried rice, bubble tea, and EVERYTHING on the menu!!! They give VERY LARGE portions, and the prices are very reasonable.
The only negative is; parking is difficult. If you can ride your bike or take the bus, those are best options, or get it to go, or if you want to dine in, make sure you bring family and friends, everyone will enjoy the food!!! After you dine, you can walk to the lake, the lake is a few blocks away.
PLEASE NOTE: Cash ONLY!!! Credit cards are NOT accepted!!!

Listen, I am picky when it comes to my Asian cuisine. As far as I know on the north side of Chicago, this is the place you wanna come to get your fried rice. Their combination fried rice is what most people get but my favorite is spicy chicken. Their pepper steak is good also. I think I’ll go there now for lunch. Peace

Best spicy shrimp fried rice I have ever tasted in life. I have been going to Hing Wang since I was kid. I also have never ordered anything else lol. I do not go for the customer service and I have never sat down to eat in the restaurant and I don’t need to. If the only thing they had on the menu was the fried rice they would still stay in business forever.

Kind of pricey. Cash only. Everything is spice-​optional. Everything.
Really meaty fried rice– I got the combo. Taste is above average.
Chicken wings are above average as well.

They raised their prices and they don’t make their food any better either! If anything it has gotten worse. And it STINKS.

Oh my. You must try the chicken fried rice. I felt like I was in China Town! Also pretty great that they have a bar in the establishment. Don’t go if you don’t have cash on you. they don’t accept debit/​credit which I learned the hard way

the one and only best chines food in the north side.

This place is okay. I’ve stopped here a few times after work with co-​workers. The location is huge, and it looks like they might have live music sometimes?
It’s cheap, and they have pretty quick service, but it’s nothing to write home about. Like other reviewers have said, there are so many other options nearby that this place is never my first option.

I stopped by here with a group of friends during a short break at school because it was close by. This is a Viet and Chinese restaurant, but the selection is predominantly Chinese food. They do offer Phở, but that is about it for the Viet section. Like others said, this is a place you only want to come when there is light outside. It is located by a really bad area.
When we got here, it was pretty busy around 12pm on a Friday. The line moved pretty fast and I decided to order the Spicy Pepper Steak Lunch Special that comes with chicken fried rice and an egg roll. The Pepper Steak had a weird texture and it tasted nothing like the one’s I am accustomed too. It had a weird mixed of spiciness and sweetness flavor to it. The fried rice was not bad and more importantly it is not bland. I took a bite of the egg roll, but it was just okay.
The service here is pretty bad for the most part. You do not feel welcome and I got that vibe that they do not really care for their customers because they already have their set customer based from the location.

The best shrimp fried rice you’ve ever had, or are about to have, or will have! The smoothies are good too. The 5 stars is for the fried rice because the service blows. Typical for these kind of Asian places.

Since the place has now combined with Viet Bowl, I’m just repeating what I’ve said about that place:
It’s rare that a place actually follows through on its promise of having the «best» of anything, but Hing Wang really does have the best fried rice. I had the combination kind: It’s spicy, and they mean it, and is a huge amount for the cheap price. I also tried their spicy wings — again, really spice, cheap, very, very good
I only had a couple of small orders to try out the place, but will definitely return for the phở. They also have a wide range of fruit smoothies, which are also very reasonably priced.
I notice a number of bad/​middling reviews here — the place looks like it’s been revamped quite a bit, and has a stage set-​up as well, perhaps for weekend music shows. It’s combined with Hing Wang next door which, again, tells me the place is probably under new management.
I’d recommend stopping by and trying a couple of their items before going by older reviews here.

With so many Thai restaurants on the north side, it’s hard to find a good Chinese food restaurant when you are looking for one. Well today, I really had a taste for shrimp fried rice. I thought about Mei Shung on Broadway @ Catalpa, but the rice wasn’t memorable. Next, I thought about trekking to Young’s Chinese (Ashland/​Irving Park), but I found their rice to be a bit salty. Then I remembered my friend (a Chicago native) mentioning a place on Wilson that has THE best spicy fried rice, which I had never heard of. I figured that I’d give it a shot since it was on the way to my nail salon.
Hing Wang is on Wilson, near Broadway – definitely a daylight only, get in/​get out type of neighborhood. So I went in with the intention of getting my food and getting out of there. Apparently everyone else had the same idea in mind, because the place was noticeably empty. You can tell that it used to be a carryout only place, because all of the patrons got their food to go.
I ordered a small shrimp fried rice, non-​spicy, from a lady who was eating sunflower seeds at the front counter. Gross. Before completing my order, I took a quick peek at the chefs to see if they were eating on the job too, and was relieved to see them all busy at work (not spreading their saliva all over the place while cracking nut shells).
My food was ready in about 10 minutes. I took my bag to the car and opened the visibly stuffed box to find very fresh, steamy hot fried rice with the right amount of shrimp, egg, green onions, and bean sprouts. A lot of Chinese food places put small shrimp in their rice, but not Hing Wang. The shrimp were medium sized and plenty in number. Very satisfying. Glad I didn’t waste my time with the other foods (like the Vietnamese food).
Did I find my go-​to place for fried rice? I don’t know. The rice was a bit on the salty side, but that might be a Chicago thing. (I now what you’re thinking. For the record, my taste buds are fine. I had some some shrimp fried rice from my favorite spot in Los Angeles, and it wasn’t salty.) I might go back and try the spicy rice… when it’s light out… get in/​get out.

I grew up in Uptown and I have been going to this place for YEARS, since they were located across the street underneath the Red Line. I really believe that they have the BEST fried rice I’ve ever had. I always get the combo rice, spicy. There are huge chunks of beef, and the shrimp are always the jumbo shrimp, which is rare for Chicago chinese restaurants. The people that work there always remember me, and ask me how I’ve been. They recently opened up their Vietnamese portion of the restaurant, and I am a huge fan of their spring rolls (no pork, thank you) and their Phở… this place just keeps getting better. I hope they are around forever!

Yum! Love the egg foo young. The sauce is addictive.

I love the fried rice here. Best place in town for it. I usually get it spicy. Sometimes it’s better to sacrifice ice service for taste. It can get real busy. They’ll have alot of customers regardless what other reviewers say.
They don’t take credit cards anymore. Cash only!

Unlike the somewhat decent Viet Bowl, with which Hing Wang shares space and a menu, the Chinese food at this restaurant is awful. I’m not sure why so many people are fans of the fried rice, since when I ordered it as part of a lunch special it was dry, bland, and thoroughly mediocre. The pepper steak that came with the rice was covered in a gelatinous brown sauce that completely overwhelmed the other ingredients. While I requested that my order be made spicy, I couldn’t detect even a bit of actual heat.
I’m not a fan of Americanized Chinese food in general, and don’t really expect much from a restaurant like this, but by any standard this is just terrible. If you go to this place, just order from the Vietnamese side of the menu, get the phở, and have a filling and flavorful meal as opposed to a disaster.
The egg roll was nice, though.

All reviewers for Hing Wang are right when they say this is an excellent restaurant. It is a little hole in the wall (predominately carryout) chinese restaurant that is a little known secret.
Order the fried rice (veggie, plain, combo, shrimp or chicken) — You will not regret it! It is so tasty. Try it medium spicy. I found out about it when I was a student at Truman College and I would go here at least twice a week. It is hands down the best fried rice I ever tasted.
The egg foo young, subgum and chicken broccoli are all good too. I usually take it to go, but be prepared for people asking you for change if you choose to dine in.
The restaurant is located on Wilson across the street from Truman College in the evolving Uptown neighborhood, the future home of Target is right around the corner. Also, a 7 Eleven just opened a few feet away a few weeks ago.