Kim Wah Chinese BBQ

My wife and I made our first stop here on Christmas Day, largely because it was one of the few Chinese restaurants open on Christmas. We were truly blown away by how great everything was, and we’ll certainly be back. My wife is still going on and on about the crispy beef, and I was very pleased with the chicken two ways plate I ordered. Well done!

Seriously my favorite Chinese place ever. I always get the orange flavor beef and it’s absolutely delicious! Everything is always amazing and hot. It’s a bit more expensive than other places but you will leave with leftovers that are just as amazing as if they just made them.

You must order off of the authentic menu. The pecking duck is my favorite. I do not order the Americanized Chinese food so I can not comment on the regular menu.

The Peking Duck was very good. The tofu clay pot and kang kong was good in some ways and ok in others. My rating is based on what is available in San Antonio. It has been the best we have had in San Antonio.

Ordered takeout. Eggrolls were mediocre, nothing special about them.
Roasted duck lo mein was good, but not outstanding.
Lemon chicken was straight nasty, the lemon glaze sauce that came on the side did not taste right… I have no words to describe it other than it had some kind of chemical after taste to it. And the battered chicken that came with it was dry and bland… and that says a lot, considering you can’t really go wrong with «deep-​fried anything.» The fried rice it came with was basically soy sauce seasoned rice with bits of scrambled egg mixed in. The meal was extremely underwhelming.

3 stars for my first time ordering from here. I ordered a lot of food to go for just two people, but I definitely wanted to try different things on the menu to determine if I would come back.
The egg drop soup was not good at all. It had a weird taste to it. They did not give me wonton strips like most places, but I had some at home. Those wonton strips could not even disguise how bad the egg drop soup was.
The spring rolls were tiny and just okay.
From the authentic Chinese menu, I ordered the salt toasted pork chop and the walnut shrimp. Both were very small portions for how much I paid, but they were pretty good. The salted pork chop was probably too salty and I did not taste any other flavor/​seasoning, but the walnut shrimp hit the spot! Not as good compared to my favorite Chinese places in Dallas, but they were sufficient for being in San Antonio and satisfied my craving.
We also ordered the sesame chicken and the combination fried rice from the dinner menu, which also came with an egg roll. All three were terrible.
I will probably order again but only from the authentic Chinese menu. However, I may not order as much because the portions were so small for how much I paid.

When I placed the Peking duck in my mouth, it was as if I was back in Beijing. I love duck, it’s one of my favorite birds. However, it seems like it’s very easy to cook wrong. At Kim Wah, they do it perfectly.
When you get the full order of Peking duck, they also use the bones for another dish, served after the Peking duck. You can have either duck bone soup (which I loved while in China) or have them stir fried. I recently tried the latter and loved them! The bones have so much flavor!
For an appetizer, try the corn nuggets, I love them!
I ordered a dish to bring to my mother, duck lo mein. She had never had duck but loved this dish and the stir fried bones.
Staff is always friendly and smiling.

The food was amazing. I ordered the sweet and sour shrimp and baby bok choy. My table mates ordered roasted duck, Peking duck, Chinese brocolli, intestine with black bean sauce, crab rangoon (sp) and pork fried rice. I will definitely visit here again before I leave San Antonio.

Worst «authentic Kung pao» beef I’ve ever had; what was brought to my table resembled nothing like Kung pao. It was a sad dark gravy mess with beef and onion; only good part was the beef was tender. Had to ask the server if this was kung pao, when she said yes I just shook my head. I’ve had better Chinese food in Idaho. Golden Wok’s version is way better! Should’ve known not to stay and eat with a practically empty restaurant at lunch hour. Very disappointed, not sure how they have a 4 star rating!

Kim Wah never disappoints when it comes to serving up delicious authentic Chinese cuisine from various regions. I recently came back from a trip to Beijing and concluded the multiple times I’ve had the Peking Duck at Kim Wah was just as comparable to the Peking duck I had its original city! My go to dishes with my family include:
Peking Duck with Duck Soup
Walnut Shrimp
Stuffed Eggplant
Beef Wide Noodles
Snow Pea Leaves
Each dish came out hot, fresh and tasty. However the place is a bit understaffed, last time I went back only two ladies were waiting around 8 – 9 tables so the service was a bit slow. I have been coming to this restaurant for 6 years and unfortunately these dishes used to be enough to bring home an entire meal for the next day but now it’s barely enough for my family to leave stuffed. The prices have also increased. But if this is the only place in San Antonio who’s able to dish out delicious meals consistently for the past few year it’s worth it. *sigh*

3.5 if I could. I heard this was the best authentic chinese place in SA — guess it makes sense given the lack of chinese population. Wasn’t planning on eating chinese in SA but in laws demanded rice, so gotta find the best I could.
Boba here is overpriced and ultra sweet — so I don’t recommend it. Thai tea tastes a bit funky and honeydew is just over the top toothachingly sweet…
The food though isn’t bad at all. Peking duck is where its at: tender duck, mantou that definitely serves a large party so either come hungry or bring a lot of people to share this. It’s kinda hard to eat a lot of this since duck is rich and mantou is pretty filling. Skin could be crisper but that’s nagging. I would recommend the soup to go with it — its rich and palate cleansing at the same time. As for the other stuff, we got beef flat noodle, steamed fish, cashew shrimp, snow pea leaves and mapo tofu. Beef flat noodle is good — had better elsewhere, but it had all the essential components that make it good. Steamed fish is really good if the eating a head on fish doesn’t freak you out. Snow pea leaves are tender and garlicky, though could have been cooked a tad longer. Avoid the cashew shrimp — tastes like tea for some reason and the sauce just doesn’t really work. Same with the mapo tofu — too watery and is oddly overly sweet yet spicy.
Service is really really slow. Think it took us almost an hour to get our food. While I appreciate knowing its fresh food, I’d rather it move along too… the drive is a bit far from the main areas too so, while its surely decent chinese food, dunno if its worth the trek out here.

In town for business, and was craving vegetables. So I turn to Unilocal,as always, and looked for Chinese restaurants. Kim Wah showed up as one of the higher rated place in town, so I gave it a shot. I had their house special Tofu hotpot. It tasted bitter for some reason, and the Tofu tasted strange too. Wouldn’t go back

The best Peking duck in San Antonio. Definitely worth checking out, do it. The duck comes with a great soup. The most impressive Chinese food I’ve had in SA by a long shot.

Ok so brought my legit chinese hubby who is from Taiwan in here for lunch. Mistake. It was nothing special for me and i have no standards as far as chinese bbq but my hubby is upset. He says its simi authentic, terrible quality food. We had peking duck (pic) which was just ok kinda cold and not crispy. Hubbs hated it. Also got bbq pork and it was TERRIBLE. the snow pea leaves was on point but its kinda hard to mess that up. Also hubby got some unidentifiable beef thing and was super disappointed. Overall nice server but took forever to get food, cost a bunch, and taste wise sucks. Don’t waste 60 bucks like we did.

Kim Wah has a large selection, with two different menus — an ostensibly American/​Chinese menu, and a Authentic Chinese menu. There are several items that are on both menus, but the Authentic one seems to go a bit further in depth than the American one. Fried intestines, anyone?
The place is relatively clean, and has ample seating. The dishes are fairly good sized, when it comes to the entrees. But the amount of rice was pretty stingy. They gave us about an ice cream scoop’s worth of rice. When you consider the amount of entrée, it’s not much rice. Frankly, I’d rather they gave out a bit less of the dish, and a bit more rice.
The service was friendly, but the food took a long time.
The chicken curry was a sweet curry, which was alright. I was hoping for something spicier, and it wasn’t spicy at all. The Kung Pao Chicken was not nearly as spicy as I’d like it, and it lacked whole peppers that you normally see. It did have about half a green bell pepper in it, a handful of celery, and a generous amount of peanuts. None of the food was overly memorable. Generally bland.
The eggroll tasted as if it was frozen and deep fried on site.
They have a long wall covered by awards that Kim Wah has won, like Reader’s Choice Award (several years ago), and other articles written about this place, which all have generally good reviews.
All the entrees were $ 9+ A bit overpriced for what there is…

Last year I had a terrible craving for Peking duck. Searched on Unilocal; they came up with Kim Wah and into town I came from Canyon Lake. Was not disappointed, just loved this bird. One of the few places that has this sort of dish in San Antonio.
I would recommend to anyone who has to subdue their hunger for Chinese duck.

With an overall 4 out of 5 star rating, I was glad to finally get a chance to try Kim Wah out. Man, was I disappointed! I was surprised to find the place completely devoid of customers the entire time I was there. Though, I wasn’t there too long considering I had ordered ahead and was just waiting to take and leave.
What we ate: general tso chicken lunch special with fried rice.
Mongolian beef lunch with steamed rice.
Small plain lo mein. One order of fried dumpling.
Verdicts: chicken was pretty flavorless and not very saucey. Fried rice looked boring with no random veggies like peas or cabbage like I’m used to. Mongolian beef was kind of tough and a bit dry despite the abundance of gravy. The lo mein was also devoid of any color. I like me some lo mein but now I’ve found one I don’t like. My wife said I make better lo mein and that’s really saying something. The rangoons included with the lunch specials were ok, but weren’t filled much. The egg rolls (also included in the lunch special) were pretty good. I quite enjoyed the dumplings as they actually had some flavor. Most dumplings I’ve tried in this town have been bland, but these we’re good. All that was right at thirty bucks. Not worth it. I really need a good Chinese place nearby.

Good place. Sucked to drive into Leon Valley, but worth it. The design and décor was not worth mentioning. They had a display of all of their awards.
So they have a 2 part menu. American and authentic. Go straight to the authentic. If you are a lemon chicken person, please unfriend me.
I can’t say I know what true authentic any type of food is really, except American, which what the heck is that too?!
Just go here and order some authentic food. The shredded duck with noodles, bok choy, and mushrooms was good. It had a very familiar American gravy to it, but still good. Wifey had pork noodles. Good.

It’s been awhile since I had such authentic Chinese food.
Awesome BBQ pork and rice.
Really on point with their eggplants and minced pork and garlic.
Reminds me of Houston Chinatown.
4 stars because it’s so good for SA Chinese food.

i’ve been in San Antonio for a year now, and every Chinese restaurant I’ve been to taste like crap. Literally, it’s all expensive nasty crap, but Kim Wah restored my faith that decent Chinese food can be found in this town!
Ordered some items off the «authentic Chinese menu» and it was pretty freakin good. Got the BBQ pork, bokchoy, and the sweet and sour shrimp? BBQ was the most on point thing I’ve tried. Taste exactly like BBQ pork we have back in Dallas. Bokchoy was a little oily, but that’s how most asian places make it anyways, and the sweet and shrimp was freaking amazing! They didn’t cheap out on the shrimp either! Huge shrimp! Love this place and will come back because yo, it’s better than most of the other asian restaurants around.