Ken’s Restaurant

it’s old and tired and could use a paint job and new furniture but the food is good, and service attentive. I had the Deluxe Egg Foo Yung is awesome and a huge portion. The spring rolls are handmade, huge and jammed with fresh vegetables.

So when you’re open till 3 or 4 am you know you’ll attract a certain crowed. Well that was me 15 or so years ago. When I was much younger, drank a lot of alcohol, and this place was a go to after the bar for some Chines food. My sister and I visiting the city and she was craving their deep fried calamari. Fast forward to today… wow they somewhat renovated new paint!?! Purple walls or maybe I just didn’t notice it before. Menu looks new and hard cover, (side note I haven’t been to Kens in many years so all these things might not actually be new but still new to me) the food in the menu looks and sound the same. We came at about 1am to my surprise their were 3 other tables there. The food was ok, we ordered deep fried calamari was supers salty, chow fan, gailan, with beef was ok, spicy ginger beef was extremely salty. I guess if you’re drunk and hungry this is the place, it has changed look wise and taste of food or maybe I needed to be drunk to enjoy it. Prices are decent and hours open most nights till 4am!!! Needless to say it was still fun to be eating at this place at 1am, brought back some good memories.

I was visiting Winnipeg for an overnight business trip, staying in the Radisson, and headed out looking for East Ocean restaurant but stumbled into this place instead. Not much on atmosphere but I have to say that they served some of the best Chinese food I have ever had — and I’ve been to a lot of Chinese restaurants. They had a garlic broccoli dish that was cooked perfectly and had enormous flavor. We also ordered a pork and flat noodle dish that was outstanding, and another spicy shredded pork dish that was also out of this world. The dumplings were a little different than I am used to, very dense but also very tasty and I really enjoyed them. The only dish that was a little disappointing was the duck — not as good as I’ve had elsewhere, just OK. I don’t think duck is their specialty.
The menu was extensive, portions were huge (especially for the price) and the waitress was very friendly and had a great sense of humor. The place got a few more customers after the Jets game ended, but otherwise not many people there. If I ever get back to Winnipeg I am going there again!

Not the best service or food, but was eating there at 3 am so obviously there was a certain cliental at those hours. So for food at a very late hour it wasn’t that bad.

The food is average. The stuff inside is certainly outdated and the staff as well. If you want better food and service, definitely try some other places.