J-Wok Cafe

We ate here for the first time last night and it was absolutely delicious! My husband ordered his favorite Thai soup (Tom Yum) and he loved it. The garlic fried rice was very flavorful. Our three kids ate everything we ordered and loved it all. Besides the food being so good, the service was outstanding. Everyone was extremely friendly and helpful. We will definitely go here again!

Food is fantastic, prices are real fair too! I have tried several of the items and they never disappoint.

It was our first time at the place, and the place grand opening. The food was good. The service was friendly, it is family owned and they are trying hard to make it. I had the Mongolian beef and my partner had the orange chicken. The meal was tasty. Will we go back? Most likely for a quick lunch or take out.

I don’t want to give one star because that’s too harsh.
I have eat here two times. The first time I ordered wonton soup fried rice and orange chicken. The wontons taste like super market wonton and even worse. I can barely taste the meat in orange chicken, all I can taste is the breaking outside. The fried rice was good nothing to complain.
The second time I ordered garlic chicken. The restaurant become some sort of a fast food place and everything was in a Togo container. The garlic chicken taste REALLY BAD. The chicken meat taste like it was out of date and has a weird smell. The sauce they use just make the whole thing even worse. It’s the worst chicken dish I have ever tasted before. I can’t even finish ¹⁄₃ of the dish and had to throw it away.
The service is good overall. I don’t care if you gave me Togo container. I just want food that taste normal.
And yes, I will never eat here again. There are plenty of good restaurants nearby.

The food was AMAZING and the people who helped us were extremely nice. Happy and always smiling feels very welcoming. I had the lunch special pad Thai with the lemon Grass. I would highly recommend this place to everyone.

This is my favorite place for boba. Also they start serving sushi roll (regular rolls California roll, shrimp tempura roll, philadalaphia roll etc) they are so friendly and good care for customers. I’ll be back soon.

Omg Pad Thai was so good. Kids loved it. Also tried Thai Curry. I choose spice level 5. That was perfect for me. Not too spicy but had a kick! That was so authentic and great. They serve variety food and has $ 1 menu. I thought that were some drinks, fries and etc…
They even have Boba tea. I will definitely going back!

Delicious food that’s made to order! I highly recommend the Boba as well!
Super friendly staff and very welcoming environment! I went twice in two days! haha

I check out this FUSHION thai Chinese restaurant.
I order garlic chicken hot spicy. The only thing hot was the establishment itself. No a/​c. Very uncomfortable.
Food served on plastic plate with u guessed it plastic utensils.
Garlic chicken very bland. I also order pot sticjers. Plenty of them for the price but no flavor.
I left my food after just several bites on the counter. Hopefully the guy coming in as I was going out got the hint. It sucked. I wont be back.

I work near this place and wanted to try a somewhere that delivers since obviously I can not leave. I’m a bartender and I order delivery SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK for myself and customers.
So I called & the guy who answers was nice I ordered chicken pad NO PEANUTS and steam veggies and egg rolls. He tells me it’s 17 whatever dollars that is not enough there is a $ 25 minimum. Ok… I explain to him that just yesterday one of his competitors just screwed me because they forgot the sauces & the vegetables were soggy etc. So I was looking for a new place who wants my business. He’s says exactly this «I really don’t know what to do there is a $ 25 minimum isn’t there something else you want?» I laughed and went along with it. (They should of waived a few buck minimum to gain a new customer) so I ordered ragoons. Which were very tasty.
I again said NO PEANUTS EXTRA SPICY 10 HOT MUSTARD AND SOY SAUCE etc. Gave the address blah blah blah.. before I hung up I said for the 3^rd time remember the hot mustard.
Guess what 40 minutes later the driver walks in and I said I sure hope you didn’t forget the hot mustard he had a dumbfounded look on his face we opened the bag there’s no hot mustard no soy sauce no chopsticks. Yes a fork and things labeled nicely. But REALLY? why in hell is this so difficult? To me it’s a no brainer ESPECIALLY
when I begged and pleaded reminded loudly.
The driver says oh?.I asked if he is going to bring me some back he said yes I suggested he could just walk across the street to the other restaurant and get the sauces from them and bring it back to save him a trip, but he said no he would come back. he never came back. So needless to say I’m still looking for a delivery place with customer service!

Stopped in for some food saw it listed as hot and new on Unilocal.This place is tiny. They had me at large Thai iced tea! I’m a sucker for that stuff.
Their happy hour early! Like 1−3pm. So we missed it by 3 hours. :(Honestly we ordered a lot of food and it still only came out to $ 41. Good prices on good food.
Our server was a tall young man with glasses and while you have the option to order at the counter or be served. We chose served. I only saw two people working a young woman and him seemed both did the cooking and serving. Very nice polite people. We ordered lumpia, wontons, garlic chicken with friend rice, and drunken noodles. All very good except I would use the lumpia sauce also with the wontons. The wonton sauce tasted a bit too rich for these simple little things.
I would go back

I always love to eat here it feels like home, good food, very friendly staffs. you have to try the smoothies they are good.

[10/​11/​15: Just learned that happy hour is now 3−5pm daily, with entrees for $ 4.95. The former «happy hour» is still 11 – 3 daily, but it’s now the «lunch special» menu and has more options.]
Considering that their music playlist consists solely of songs from the King of Pop, J-Wok’s name doesn’t reference the right genre. But at least their food popped in my mouth.
J-​Wok Café is a standalone restaurant located near Sam’s Club in one of those sprawling Tropicana Avenue plazas. The entrance (and therefore the best parking) is on the side facing Reno (not Tropicana). The menu is mainly composed of standard entrees, appetizers, and soups associated with Thai and Chinese cuisine. They also have a fusion menu, which I may explore at another time, as well as smoothies, frappes, and milk tea. With boba available for $ 0.75 extra, I wondered if it could be a decent substitute for dedicated tea shops. However, I decided not to overload on sugar today.
So-​called «happy hour» specials are available daily from 11 to 3, and I chose the Pad Thai ($ 6 special) with chicken (tofu also a standard option, and other meats cost extra). It was presented in a plastic to-​go bowl container. It was as good as any other standard restaurant Pad Thai: moist noodles, an overall sweetness that you can offset with a small lime wedge, a reasonable amount of chicken (some even with a bit of a char), bean sprouts, and greens. I barely remembered that I ordered it as a «3» (out of a spicy scale of 10) because the heat dissipated quickly. Other places are more aggressive with their capsaicin, and my sensitive palate was thankful that they went light instead. Portion-​wise, it’s average for a lunch special, not small as I’d originally thought.
I also picked up a $ 2 Thai tea. I think the large size is also the one offered on the happy hour menu, but I know with certainty that it was advertised at that price and size on their blackboard today. It’s a fairly generous portion served in a plastic cup that’s strongly reminiscent of a whipped cream venti frappuccino, and it’s sweet but not cloyingly so. I could see myself ordering it again as a happy hour or blackboard special.
I’m not sure if this issue will persist for the rest of the Vegas summer, but it was noticeably warm when I first stepped in. They have two vertical A/​C units that didn’t seem to be very powerful, but it did get cooler as the meal proceeded, especially when I moved to a table directly facing one of the fans.
While J-​Wok is not a complete replacement for more traditional Thai or Chinese restaurants, it definitely hit the right notes for me. It’s a good neighborhood restaurant that I could see myself revisiting, although not for a very quick lunch because they took a little longer than I’d expected to cook the food (which is a good sign otherwise). Check it out if you happen to be in the area.

J-​Wok kinda reminds me of a confused Pei Wei/​China One with a splash of Thai. Being in the area and seeing the high ratings, we got suckered in.
We were thinking of a noodle dish and an item off the fusion menu. As much as we were eyeing the Pad see ew and the Drunken Noodles, the owners strongly recommended the Chow Mein and Mongolian Beef Hash off the fusion side.
Tastewise, the hash was a disappointment using the same type of hash browns found at Mickey D’s and the flavors just didn’t mesh well together… no…just no… the Chow Mein was good, similar to what you can get at China One, but the excess oil left on the plate was unnecessary.
Overall, a weak A-​Ok for me, and another place I probably won’t be returning to when you got tastier oodles of noodle options in Chinatown, and be careful… The po-​po may get you here for J-​Wokking …;) ALOHA! ! !
Shaka Meter: \uuu/​\uuu/​\uu 2.5

This review was for my 1^st visit on Thursday, July 2^nd
Thanks to other reviews, this place was on my short list to try. My colleagues and I stopped in for lunch, and the first thing we noticed was the cool «celebrity-​like» backdrop on the far wall. Cheesy but fun — a little tongue-​in-​cheek so to speak. The 2^nd thing to really pay attention to, as mentioned by other reviewers, is the Specials board. HH prices from 11 — 3 pm. Yes!
I ordered the Thai-​ritto and the deviled eggs, and my colleagues ordered the beef & broccoli, orange chicken, and pot stickers. We each tried each others dishes and all were excellent with generous portions!
Thai-​ritto consists of pad thai with a lime sauce wrapped in a tomato flour tortilla. So fresh, and served cool. Perfect on a hot Vegas summer day! The beef & broccoli was tender and the sauce was well balanced, not too spicy, salty or overbearing. The orange chicken was well flavored as well, with crunchy pieces of chicken (nothing soggy about this dish) and lots of beautiful colors of various vegetables. The pot stickers were cooked beautifully with a delicate soy-​vinegar sauce that was also well balanced, not too salty or vinegary.
Staff is very friendly, and chef popped out to check on us. My colleagues received a work-​related discount that I did not (not the restaurant’s fault), and chef generously offered a dessert on the house. Wow! Pretty amazing customer service! We all shared a slice of the key lime pie, which we initially said we were too full and would just try a bite, but of course we ate it all.
Be patient for your food — it’s cooked to order. This is NOT Panda Express where the food is pre-​cooked and sitting in a warming dish. It is WELL worth the short wait! Thank you, J-​Wok Café, for a wonderful lunch! We’ll be back…

Very friendly staff. The cook even came out to see how we were doing. Boba tea is to die for and red chicken curry tasted fresh and delicious.

This was such a great family owned restaurant. The owners are so welcoming and friendly. The food was excellent and the prices are very reasonable. Definitely will return here.

Everyone here is so friendly! Family owned and the food is absolutely delicious. I got the pot stickers and the house fried rice with BBQ pork, plus a yummy boba smoothie. The rice was filled with tons of fresh carrots, bok choy, green and white onions. So good! A full plate of it! The pot stickers were delicious and fresh! I watched them make my honeydew melon smoothie right in front of me, tasted amazing. I’m definitely always coming back when I crave anything from smoothies to rice.

Good Thai, probably one of the better in the area. The happy hour specials are very cool, it’s a great idea. Will def recommend to friends and be back again sometime.

New Asian fusion spot now open on the East side, complete with a pun-​ny name! They have Thai and Chinese staple dishes for the traditionalists, and some fun specials, too.
You can get any number of Thai/​Chinese dishes here, and they’re fairly solid– the pan fried potstickers (great dipping sauce!) and crab Rangoon (really light on the cream cheese) are made fresh daily, but my usual picks are the egg foo yung or the crispy pork with Chinese broccoli. My guy often opts for the orange chicken, chow mein, or the wor won ton soup (giant portion). If you’re feeling more adventurous, they offer some fusion specials. I’ve enjoyed the Thai-​rrito, the Thai deviled eggs, and the Mongolian beef hash and eggs. Snag the garlic cheese fries during HH.
BEVERAGES: Thai tea, thai coffee, Torani fruit smoothies, blended frappes, milk tea, flavored teas, and great honey boba. Try the Turbo Frappé for an unbeatable caffeine rush.
Family owned and operated with attentive and friendly service. Everything is made to order, so call ahead or using Eat24. Small stage area in the back for performances and special events. HH specials available 11AM-​3PM, and they give teachers, EMT, police, firefighters, etc 10% off with ID, all day, every day.
December 2015 Edit: they’ve pared down the menu and are trying out a Sushi Tuesdays special.