Gum Wah Restaurant

Our usual place (Joy Luck) was closed! So my Grandpa wanted to go two storefronts down to Gum Wah. It's a big restaurant with lot of seating. Like Joy Luck restaurant, Gum Wah is what Americans would call a hole in the wall (or to me, normal). Before I ordered I saw what others were eating. It all looked so good. It was lunchtime and most people ordered lunch special items. We got chow fun with prawn, rice porridge fish filet, yin yang fried rice, bitter melon lunch special and some typical beef string bean lunch special. The chow fun was amazing. I loved it! It was so flavorful. It's the saucy style chow fun I like too. The rice porridge was tasty. It had plenty of fish and 1 whole egg (1000 yr old). Bitter melon was good for bitter melon. The yin yang fried rice was the dish I ordered, and it wasn't to par. I was kind of sad. The rice seemed old/dry. The tomato sauce did not have much taste. I think I was unlucky! I give this place 5 stars because I would get the chow fun again. Another customer had the black bean chow fun... I wanted it... Would definitely go back!

Foods are all good. Beef rice noodle with too much meat. Congee is delicious. I saw how they make the thin rice sheet to wrap the fried stick – youtiao and ordered one: the sheet is great but fried stick is kind of hard. Service is affable. When I tried to get hot water for my ever-presence tea bottle and couldn’t, she said “oh you don’t know” and went on to show me.

They have great rice porridge offered at a very cheap price. I usually am very satisfied with just one bowl of their porridge. I would recommend the pork liver which is chewy and seasoned. Their rice noodles are also very good; a great comfort food choice!

They have the best roast duck and bbq pork here. Food is cheap and always in big portions. Their wontons are always freshly made almost everyday and never frozen with a juicy shrimp in every wonton :) This is definitely one of my top 2 favorite restaurants in chinatown.