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What's Wong? The prices at Wong Kwon are good, but the food is not Story and photos by Max Galanty It has been said that you get what you pay for. At Wong Kwon, in Plattsburgh, New York, this old adage especially rings true.
Wong Kwon's tables are small and crowded together. The table setting is a paper placemat covered in Chinese years - like the year of the rat - and its explanations. The décor doesn't come off as a traditional Chinese restaurant. A few oriental-style paintings and a couple of paper dragons are the only things that would hint to you that you are in a Chinese food joint. The buffet is conveniently located in the middle of all the tables. It has 18 individual dishes to select from. Two of the dishes are fried rice. One is chicken and the other is pork, and they both have large chunks of cooked egg yolk in them. Steamed chicken and broccoli is a healthy choice but you may want to pass it up. The broccoli comes in two tones of color - bright green and brown-green. There was hardly any chicken in the dish at all, and for some reason the dish is drowning under water or broth - or some slimy combination. The food at the buffet isn't labeled, so in order to tell two dishes apart you could either ask or give those sausage-link-looking things a taste. For example, a jalepeno-popper-lover will be upset when they bite into the fried coin-shaped item and taste fish nuggets instead of cheesy goodness. At the head of the buffet table there are two types of soups; egg drop and the other is hot and sour. The soups were cold and the hot and sour was neither hot nor sour. Fried noodles are famous for making decent soup taste better. Wong Kwon's noodles, however, are larger than the soup bowl, and they barely improve the taste of the broth. Absent from the table is good ol' wonton soup.
There are many good dishes that you won't find at the lunch buffet. Most noticeable are spare ribs, sesame and/or General Tso's chicken, fried shrimp, and white rice. The dessert tray is a pathetic offering of dry carrot cake, some bland almond cookies and fortune cookies. The best part is probably the fortune. Wong Kwon's best attributes are its friendly and prompt wait-staff and gracious maitre d'. There is also a very small chance that there will be any wait for the buffet line. Be sure to grab some complementary mints and plenty of toothpicks on the way out. When you leave, don't be surprised when you ask yourself: "What is Wong with that place?" |
Wong Kwon Restaurant
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