Cheung Wong Kitchen

Cheung Wong Kitchen is a little piece of Hong Kong, nestled right on the corner of Allen and Hester in the LES. This no frills Chinatown eatery servers delicious Cantonese soul food on the cheap. I recommend sticking to the basics here such as the BBQ meats over rice dishes including char sui, soy sauce chicken, and/​or duck. They serve these dishes with well cooked bean sprouts and a nice heap of tasty ginger scallion sauce. I also was able to try the beef chow fun and they definitely did the dish justice. You easily tell when chow fun is cooked correctly when it has the great smoky flavor that can only be achieved with an ultra hot wok. There was also quite a lot of large pieces of tender beef cooked into the dish. I ordered the wonton soup as well, which was flavor full and had huge meaty wontons. However, overall the wonton soup at HK Wonton Garden still beats out the soup here.
Overall, I can easily recommend Cheung Wong Kitchen to anyone who is looking for a hearty Cantonese meal for cheap. I will be surely returning to get my fix!

My restaurant for an afternoon lunch in Chinatown!
The box is deep, the food is fresh, and the staff is pretty nice when you get there. Love coming here|.

This place has delicious Cantonese comfort food. Reminds me of childhood. The soy sauce duck is SO tasty. Definitely get the broiled bean sprouts with duck, chicken, egg and ginger scallion. Skip on the rice if you’re trying to be healthy. The portions are huge. Split the meal between my friend and I, we couldn’t finish it. There’s seating but it’s not fancy or anything. The food is cheap.
Overall, definitely worth checking out!

They keep their restaurant clean. Barely see an A rating Chinese takeout restaurant. Food is delicious too, sincerely feels that the chief is not rushing the order, taste is more important than speed.

I stopped giving this place business after finding a roach clinging to my takeout BBQ’ed chicken wings a couple of years ago.
This is sad because prior to that, I really enjoyed their food. It’s your typical Cantonese styled hole-​in-​the-​wall restaurant offering different rice and noodle dishes. Wonton soup, young chow fried rice and three treasure rice were some of my personal favorites.
Would I come back? Never. The unsightly memory of the roach kicking its legs while clinging onto the wing itself was scarring and disgusting.

This place is truly greater than the sum of its parts. Great prices, great food; the place is a bit cramped but there’s a really friendly atmosphere and best of all; while the food tasted good it was also nourishing and didn’t tire me out like some of the other food in the area.
I was so happy with the quick, courteous service and quality that I tipped 50%. I will be back.

Cheap Cheap Cheap, food for college students. You can’t beat these prices nowadays. I would not spend $ 10 on a meal everyday. But food that can cost up to $ 4 that equals 2 meals!!! I ordered the scrambled egg with roast pork on rice. It is good, flavorful and smells incredibly wonderful. If it fills me up, hey why not? I don’t need to spend that extra $$$. You get what you pay for!

I have been here numerous times for lunch and I’m always satisfied. Most rice combinations are priced around $ 4.50−5.50, one of the cheapest Cantonese restaurants in the neighborhood. Portions are generous and food just hits the spot. Staff is nice. That’s a big plus.
One star off: I have tried their BBQ pork (I call it my signature move: I always try its BBQ items whenever I go to a Cantonese restaurant and they are worth a lot of points in my book) and was underwhelmed. The flavor is a bit off and meat doesn’t taste fresh. Maybe that was their off day. Nevertheless, other dishes make up for it.

My favorite local place to have congee, Wonton soup, soy sauce chicken. All Cantonese food. Sanitary inspection grade A!

for 5.50 $
massive flavor
epic sauces
amazing meats on rice
tea and soup included too
it doesnt get better
one fail closed sundays

Very good take out foods. Inexpensive. The chef is from Guanzhou. 100% Cantonese style cooking which other Fukienese can not duplicates it. Don’t let the front image fool you. The foods is outstanding! Important note, do not eat in. Very small place.

Compared to other takeout Chinese restaurants, Cheung Wong Kitchen is consistently good and they maintain an A health rating. The chefs are accommodating in substituting veggies instead of rice for a nominal surcharge, which I really appreciate. It really is my local go-​to takeout.

This is how often I go:
«Same thing with extra rice, please.»
In other words, beef with hot peppers and scallions.
I used to eat here religiously for lunch until acne invaded my forehead. It was high school all over again. Now it takes a Herculean effort not to go every day.
F***ing sodium.

I’m definitely on the fence. It’s your typical hole in the wall joint, albeit extremely more authentic than most other places. HIlary P. was craving some of that salted pork and rice, so off four hungry ladies went to a cramped little table in a cramped little seating area. Granted, the table service was pretty good for a place as such; it’s home-​down, but we got our Styrofoam cups filled with hot tea! We ordered crispy noodles with assorted meats. (Always a surprise, eh?) Those noodles in their brown along were phenomenal! I went for the cheap portion of soy sauce chicken over rice with bean sprouts. You get a HUGE bang for your buck at only $ 4.50, and it’s enough to make two meals out of. However, the duck was cold except for the immediate outside; it was clearly taken out of the fridge and thrown on the griddle for 30 seconds. It was full of bones and mostly fat. I barely picked any meat off of it. The rice and bean sprouts sure were filling through!
Yep. A-​OK.

Officially my favorite restaurant for an afternoon lunch in Chinatown!
The box is deep, the food is fresh, and the staff is pretty nice when you get there. Except for one time, I felt the taro I got wasn’t too fresh, but since then after I ordered it a few more times, it’s continuously been good. Prices are great too. And the barbecue meats are really savory. Love coming here, just wish it was open on Sundays. But as a fellow churchgoer, I could understand :-)
Update 4÷20÷15
Still good! Ordered the three blessings rice and it was PACKED. how can you go wrong when there’s quality AND quantity. This place needs to break the 5 star ceiling and go into 6!

Off the beaten path with standard Canto fare — noodles, meats on rice, congee — and I hope this place stays. Cleanest, friendliest Chinese restaurant I’ve been to, with an A rating and a staff who, if not exactly your best friends, looked at you in the eye and would smile. I ordered the soy sauce chicken over rice: it came with eight pieces of meaty chicken, sauteed green beans, and this interesting dollop of garlic & ginger purée, over rice. $ 4.50! Amazing.

Another Cantonese kitchen that makes the standard Chinese food. Everything was cheap but nothing really stood out. Quick service and a good place to grab lunch if you are in the area.

This… this place just gets it. I came here after reading something somewhere that their fried beef noodles are good, well forget that, I come to this page and see that their rice dishes are served with bean sprouts, that’s new in a good way. So being the Asian bodybuilder I am I like my chicken over rice, and MAN did this place do it right.
You rarely go into Chinese food places such as these and look for a truly healthy meal, you half expect a salty but awesome tasting dish or dishes for that matter, and that’s exactly what this place gave. The soy sauce chicken was ON POINT, not dry just salty enough, with some ginger mixed stuff on the side giving an extra kick, and don’t get me started on them bean sprouts.
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They’re cheap too.

The char siu was really fatty. Flavor was good, should’ve asked for leaner pieces. Also ordered a beef Lo mein and it was horrible. The meat was nasty and the noodles tasted off. We had to throw it away.
Service is really fast. I didn’t dine in the restaurant, looked a bit cramped.
I don’t think there will be a second visit.

How does this place not have more recognition? Fine, its location is kind of out of the way and it doesn’t look the friendliest (one time, a bunch of Hispanic guys walked in, I overheard them say, «Yo, this place is filled with Chinese gangsters,» then they walked out), but they do simple Cantonese food the best.
The waitress is extremely nice (though I can’t say how extensive her English skills are) and helpful, and the chefs are extremely skilled at what they do. They can pretty much make about any combination of things that you want, and it seems as if their barbecued meats get sold out pretty quickly, which is unfortunate because I usually get there around 9pm. And you know what? This place is always crowded. Crowded with people of all ages and walks of life. Sometimes it’s old Chinese men, sometimes it’s police officers, other times it’s immigrant college students, and more often than not, it’s me as well.
Things to get:
— Soy sauce chicken on rice
— Beef with hot peppers and scallion on rice
— Stir fried broad noodles with beef
— Fish filet with tomatoes on rice
— Congee with pork and thousand year old egg
Yup. This has become a place that I eat at once a week. Good stuff.