Wah Kee Wonton Noodle

I friend and I tried Wah Kee for lunch recently. There are two rooms with many tables. We had to step into the second room to find the waiter to seat us. They were not very crowded. The waiter was very friendly. They have an extensive menu.
After perusing their menu, I decided to try one of their lunch specials: Szechuan Spicy Pork. My thinking was there were so many items on the menu, I would try one of the lunch specials which they would be expecting to sell many of and make well. I was disappointed in the dish. It was very bland, covered in a brown sauce, and I didn’t notice much if any spice. It did have lots of vegetables, zucchini, bamboo shoots, onion, mushrooms and came with a large portion of rice. For an appetizer I had the Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf. This was much better although again it could have used more flavor. I did enjoy the dense chewy sticky texture of the rice and the chunks of chicken inside. My dining companion had the cashew chicken and said it was very good.
I would be willing to go back. I don’t think I would try another lunch special, but would go for something else and hope it had more flavor.

Always a joy to eat the tong and lo mein dishes here. The egg noodles are the best, but so are the gyoza & wontons. The chili sauce is just the right amount of hot. Some times it’s pretty dead in here, but lunch seems to be busier.

Best tong mein soup around! I recommend the bbq pork tong mein.

I called for delivery at 6 and finally got my food at 7:40. The woman originally quoted me 20 minutes, and after 30 I realized that I hadn’t given her my address, so I called back with that. So, a little bit of a misunderstanding, that’s fine. But an hour and 10 minutes after that getting cold delivery is not cool.
I ordered off of the daily specials section of the menu for a discounted price. I found out that the daily special is only a lunch special. It doesn’t say that on the menu. But ok, that’s fine.
So when we get the cold food the potstickers are gummy and the general tso’s is cold and limp with weird sauce.
I will admit that the spicy garlic beef was ok. It might have been good even, if it had been hot.

Not sure where all of the positive reviews were coming from for this place, would give them zero or negative stars if I could. Ordered pickup through grubhub, got pot stickers, Cantonese Seafood Pan-​Fried noodles, Chicken and chinese sausage in a clay pot, Baby Bok Choy, and Roasted Duck on rice. Total was over $ 50. Grubhub text messaged me on the way to the place multiple times telling me that the order was ready, but I ended up waiting about 15 – 20 min for my order when I got there. There was a guy hunched over the phone scribbling orders including credit card numbers old-​school style, making me wonder about ordering directly from them.
Most chinese takeout I’ve ever had has been packaged where the dish + sauce is in one container, and the rice is separate. Both the clay pot dish and roasted duck were about three quarters rice. They still threw in a container of rice for reasons we’re still trying to piece together. Extra for caulking our roof?
I guess the most disappointing dish was the roasted duck, as they used the back of the bird; it was all bones and cartilige. The one decent dish was the baby bok choy, the rest we pretty much threw away all the extra rice and ended up hungry. We called the next day and talked to «Lee» who said the owner wouldn’t be in for a couple of days, and that they didn’t care what we thought of the food. Needless to say, we will not be going back, and we will not be recommending this to anyone we know. Total ripoff, you’d be better off buying a bag of rice and top ramen. I’d say I got about $ 10 worth of food, and that’s being generous.

Loved it! The food was authentic and the owners talked to my mom at length in Cantonese. We ordered wonton soup, Gui lan (Chinese broccoli), veggie lo mein, Char Sui pork, and chicken and shrimp chow fun.

I have been dining here for years. I recently introduced some extended family to it being they are moving to Madison in the ensuing months. They too are likely to be fans of wahkee for the next few decades. Great lo mein, wontons and gyozos. Interior has little atmosphere and the bathrooms should be updated, years ago… Great food though.

A great Chinese Restaurant. Huge menu. The Tong Mein is outstanding.

Holy crap, some of the best Chinese food I’ve ever had. I love all of the regional dishes that you can’t find in most Chinese restaurants. What Wah Kee serves is beyond American Chinese food – it’s authentic, housemade Chinese food that is made well.
I had the daikon cakes (the chili oil was bombdotcom), siu mai, wonton noodle soup with ginger and scallion, and pork cake with salted egg. I loved all of it. I’ve been to many places in Chicago (I live there) that don’t even compare. I kinda wished I lived in Madison so I could eat here often. ^_^

I really loved this place!
Service: speedy, friendly and able to answer questions
Price: accepts credit cards! Very reasonable
Portion: very generous
Parking: amazingly, has a small parking lot on the edge of downtown
Food: so good. Their noodle dishes were so flavorful, the right amount of chewy and all house made! They have this noodle machine imported from China that makes the yummiest quality noodles that I, as a noodle connoisseur find faultless.
This might not be the fanciest place, but rarely do I crave a certain restaurant when I move. I crave these noodles!

I get excited by new items every time I come here!
Wah Kee is very good at adding flavors to the dishes but without making it too spicy or salty.
My personal favorites now include clay pots, five-​spice beef, appetizers.
Need to explore more the next time I come here, and also try the noodles.

Holy duck noodles.
Seriously. Wow. The soup base is awesome! The noodles are wonderfully delicious, and there was literally half a duck in there. I’ve had other noodles here, and they are good. But they’ve got nothing on the duck noodles. I am salivating while writing this.
Other things worth trying:
–Daikon carrot cake with their homemade chili sauce (like Ellie said, it means business, but yummm)
–Sau ma (I never know how to spell it.)
It’s not the most alluring of places, both from the inside and out. But hey, I’m not going for the atmosphere. THOSE NOODLES. I wish I could read Chinese, because it seems like there are some special Chinese dishes that I don’t know about.

I really wish I could give them more stars, because my side dishes were really good, but they messed up the two main dishes that my friend and I ordered. She got the sesame chicken, which was straight up sweet and sour chicken sprinkled with sesame seeds. It was okay, but definitely not sesame chicken. I ordered the Singapore Rice Noodles, but this dish was completely wrong. This dish is supposed to be made with very thin noodles, and instead, they used these very wide rice noodles. Further, they charge an additional $ 4 for substituting fried rice for white rice. I’ve never been to a place that does this, but $ 4 seems like an awful lot to charge extra for that.
Positives:
Their char siu bao are delicious. Sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves were amazing. Egg tarts were really good. I would be curious about their clay pot rice. They do delivery, which is nice.
I would go back, but with a little hesitation.

The noodle soup is so awesome that I had to go back three times in a row!
Hope I can find some places like this in Los Angeles.

Love this place! Authentic and fresh dishes! The pork hock is a must-​try. All kinds of noodles. We also had five-​spice beef as an entrée. Fantastic!

Best hongkong food in madison! I just found it! Really good quality and taste BUT really reasonable even cheap price! Not crowded and enough and easy parking lot.

This place is a gem. If you are looking for some good noodles in clear broth you came to the right place.
I always order the Phở Ga because it has just enough chicken flavor and it is not overwhelming. The cilantro basil and lime add just the right kick. The pork bun is steamed to order and never disappoints. I love this place.

Ordered food here and was happy to see that they were open early as a lot of the other places in the area seemed to open much later. I called and was put on hold for about five minutes so I hung up. I got a call back to place the order but I should have stayed away.
I ultimately ordered the spring roll and the spicy chicken fried rice. I got spring rolls and regular fried rice. This was a big problem because the regular fried rice looks like it was boiled in chicken broth with a few veggies tossed in it. It would have been salvageable if I got some chili packets but that wasn’t the case.
I called and went over my situation with the the person that answered and was told that she couldn’t do anything because her driver wasn’t there and neither was the manager. I didn’t see why this was a problem and suggested that she place a new order and have the driver deliver it when he gets back. That made a lot of sense to me but made no sense to the person that answered for some reason.
This was a bad experience all around. This was my first time here and it will definitely be my last.

I feel so lucky to be in Madison, where there are a myriad of Chinese restaurants to choose from. Yes, different parts of China has their own distinctive flavors and style, so Chinese restaurants vary a lot as to what they offer.
The owner originates from the hong kong/​guangdong area, speaking Cantonese. I know we are in good hands here. Since this is a Cantonese-​based restaurant, the dishes I tried are from the Canton region. Hence once again, similar to my reviews of other Chinese places, it doesn’t apply to American-​Chinese food, since these are not what I usually get.
They do their traditional cuisines right — you can’t go wrong with their claypot rice. Do note that claypot rice takes a longer time to make compared to other dishes. The wait is absolutely worth it, just ensure that you are not in a rush afterwards.
Hong Kong style noodles (soup or dry) are equally good too. They come in a variety of ingredients for your selection, my favorites are the classic wonton noodles. Those wontons come wrapped in nice thin wonton skin with lightly-​marinated pork and shrimps in them *yummy*
Their congee is also another one of the highlights! It’s super smooth and flavorful. But note that congees are only available on weekends up to ~ 2 pm or whenever they are out. You can order them with fish, pork, beef or chicken. The congee is so smooth and soft that you can just swallow them without chewing! I am seriously considering ordering these for my upcoming wiscom teeth removal ~~
Most of the Canton dishes are not spicy by nature, but for the adventurous eaters out there who loves spicy food, they have home made hot sauce out there for you! If you fall in love with their hot sauce, they do offer it to go as well, so you can add it to any dishes that you make at home.

Come here for authentic canton-​style noodle soup, since it’s the best in Madison. I was transported back to times in Chicago’s Chinatown and business trips in Hong Kong. These are American serving sizes, so if you’re a smaller person you could probably order to split between two people, and get a second, drier dish to nibble on or pack for home.
I ordered the shiitake mushroom and chicken noodle soup (N5) and it was exactly what I wanted. Clear broth, veggies, and «wonton noodle» style noodles. The Thai iced tea was delicious with lemon instead of cream, it was like a southern-​style sweet tea with an Asian twist.
The ambiance and service isn’t as polished as other establishments in Madison, but what are you coming here for? They also have various imported beers sold by the bottle, and a list of specials almost every day of the week.
Then we got fortune cookies that spoke the truth, so, this place is magic.