specialty chicken & wonton house

i recommend this place if you have a smaller party (2 – 4 people). despite the unexciting name of the restaurant, their specialty soy sauce chicken is worth checking out and makes a great chinese new year dish. i like their other chicken dishes as well, although they may be more suitable if you have a keen palate for cantonese food. the deep fried squab makes a great alternative for chicken, although it is a little pricier. for greens, the pea shoot stir fry with garlic is well executed. the price here have gone up a lot the last year. however, it is still a good choice if you don’t have a big party for largely portioned dishes.

this place is chinese fast food. their haianese chicken was very good. service was typical of asian restaurants. overall, the food was good, price was good and the place was pretty busy.

free range chicken menu

an early sunday lunch - a table for 2

tried their free range chicken set lunch - half fr chicken (we chose empress fr chicken, supposed to be treated with wine), came with a bowl of chicken soup (you can substitute the soup w. a drink), a plate of bean curd with veggies, 2 bowls of rice.

overall taste was ok.  it may be my own opinion that i do not like their chicken to be served cold directly from the fridge.  plus, i could not find any 'wine' taste in the chicken at all.

i would prefer going to prata-man.

soya chicken is delicious at this place. rest is mediocre. beef brisket hot pot only had a few pieces of brisket with mostly lettuce on the bottom. vegetables tasted sort of bland. the salted fish meat pie was very salty. egg tofu did not look appetizing and had no flavour.

ample parking though which is great.

specializing in chicken and wonton? that may only be half true. though their soya chicken was not bad at all, the opposite remains true for their prawn wontons. first of all, the broth itself reeked heavily of an unappealing fish like smell. the actual wontons had a weak flavour and overall weren't very good. another very disappointing dish was the honey garlic pork. the sauce was somewhat standard, but the actual pork inside was almost papery, and reminded me of tofu. something i did enjoy though were the black bean clams and black bean beef chowmein.

for the lunch special, you can have a soup or a drink. ben opted for the daily soup. the daily soup of the day was pork bones with red carrot and green carrot. we had the chicken flavoured rice instead of plain steamed rice. we also ordered a second lunch special to share. the above is goat brisket/tendon on rice. this is usually eaten in the winter and it is usually served in a hotpot. for the lunch special, it is served directly on the rice itself. the meat was tender and we love the sauce on the rice.

we had lunch at specialty chicken chicken & wonton house on ackroyd road. we ordered two dishes to share. the first item was halibut hot pot. the halibut was slightly crunchy as they were deep fried before cooking in the hot pot with lots of onion and green onion. i can just eat rice with the onions alone with the sauce that sticks to the onions.

"can i go trick or treating dad?" "what? no. trick or treating is a waste of time. and, it's dangerous. someone might try to poison you.". "i'm turning 20 in a month dad." ~ yes i see the irony in this statement ;). "you act like you're 14.".   since my dad didn't let me go trick or treating, he made up for it by taking me out for dinner in richmond!! pretty good trade off imo :d  

  we were planning on going to top shanghai, but when we got there they were closed...we were tired and hungry by then, so we just defaulted to specialty chicken & wonton house next door! (which turned out to be a pretty good decision.)

  the place was packed when we got there! we had to wait 5 mins for a seat ~ but we were seated promptly at a booth, which i was really happy about.

 for some weird reason my dad felt like splurging that day...on $3 oysters! :o
so out of character for him! this is coming from a guy who eats at kent's kitchen all the time ~ but don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with eating at kent's ;)

july, 13, 2019

i went there for lunch with 3 nieces. we had...

whole fish sauce chicken... it's good but too much hair on it

hot and sour soup... spicy enough but not much ingredient as before

stired fried salty fish and chicken fried rice... extremely oily and smaller portion as before.. not worth for $18

mixed seafood on deep fried egg tofu... we love this dish.. it's good

stired fried beef tendon and beef brisket on flat noodles.. july few pieces of chewy beef brisket on it.. my niece was so disappointed

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april, 9, 2019 @ dinner

we went there for dinner. we had:

small lamb stew hot pot ... it came without the gas stove, we asked one of the long pony tail hair server, she told us that, we need to order the big size, if we want the gas stove.

i found out, it's just only $6 more for big one. then i asked her to change into big size with gas stove.. then she went to ask the cook and back said that...." ok.. we can put more meat and veggie inside for u...but without the gas stove" with inpatient and mean face..

we asked for gas stove , because the lamb stew will be cold without keep it warm.

what's the point, they give me more food without gas stove??

its end up, we keep the small size... but found out it just only have 6 small pieces of lamb stew with dried bean curd on top and a lot of cabbages underneath. it's not worth for $24.

we also ordered...

half soy chicken.. smaller size before and extremely salty. ..

salty fish with guy lan ... veggies look and taste like overcooked.

their services and food quality used to be good.

no wonder we are 3 rd table at dinner time...

january, 12, 2019 @ lunch

we tried something new today.

we had :

fried beef on crispy noodles with satay sauce ... i asked them to make noodles extra crispy.. it's perfect, but not enough sauce on it.. beef was too chewy... they put pineapple on it?!

beef shank wonton noodles in soup... nothing special

december, 25, 2018 @ lunch

we don't like turkey. we had...

fish sauce chicken... omg... i found 15 long pieces of hair on one chicken wing.. a lot of hair on every 2nd piece of chicken..

pork livers fish cake congee

fried egg and shrimp flat noodles... not much shrimp inside

december, 15, 2018

i tried their... honey garlic ribs, wonton bbq pork noodles in soup, shredded pork congee and chinese donut for lunch

november, 17, 2018
because of my grandmother like their bbq pork wonton noodles in soup, so that's why .. we go there once a week.

we tried their...
bbq pork wonton noodles in soup... my grandma asked for fatty side.. because it was too lean and chewy, she cannot eat last time.. it came perfectly what she asked for

mixed meat on fried flat noodles... they put tons of bean sprouts on it, can't even see flat noodles.. lol

i had hot and sour soup... omg.. extremely sour, not spicy at all, but a lot of ingredients inside

october, 13, 2018
went there for fast lunch before moving houses.
we had:
bbq pork/ beef tendon noodles in soup --- 3 sliced of fatty chewy pork and 2 pieces chewy beef tendon

chewy beef shank and wonton noodles in soup

deep fried fish cake/ shredded chicken congee with way too much shredded ginger inside.

crispy chinese donut

october, 7, 2018
i tried soya chicken... their chicken getting smaller and smaller , everytime i go there... but still same price and yummy.

stired fried sticky rice with chinese sausage--- not bad... a lot of ingredients... worth $16

september, 2018
omg... everything downhill now.. the deep fried white fish is half size as before with $9.50?!

the chicken are smaller than before.
congee is water down, not thick as before.
deep fried chicken wings extremely dry.
beef fried rice portion extremely small for $13.50, the portion look like smaller than midnight snack size.
the short hair / skinny lady still with black face, always forgetting our orders, since last year.

february 6, 2018
we tried their fried rice vermicelli in singapore style... omg extremely small portion for $16 from their dinner menu.. half size as lunch menu. not much seafood inside..
salty chicken fried rice are small portion too... not much salty fish inside.
half chicken with bones more than meat. everything downhill for dinner time... it was big portion for lunch time.

december, 26, 2017
i ordered their sliced fish congee, congee so watery , not much rice inside... just like drinking rice soup with fish for $9.25??

november, 11, 2017
i tried their chicken on rice with black bean sauce, chicken was extremely dried.

august 18, 2016
i went there for dinner with parents. we tried their steamed mui choy woo tung fish ( not enough mui choy), soft and tasty ox tails hot potato, hot and sour soup with a lot of ingredients inside; tasty soya chicken.

november, 11 , 2015
i went there for lunch before shopping. i found out that, their lunch combo had mark up their price $0.75 more for each item plus smaller size as last week.
i had ordered a bowl of beef brisket / wonton noodles in soup... they used to put 5 slices of beef brisket but just only 2 and half slices now plus noodles are half size than before.. but it's still taste good..

3 of us went there for lunch today. we tried their fish / pork liver congee, salty fish chicken fried rice (tasteless / chicken are too dried / not much salty fish inside ), shredded pork fried noodles (it's pretty tasty/ too small portion / noodles are really crispy), deep fried smelt fish, half chicken with wine sauce (it's tasteless ), bbq pork and wonton noodles.

september, 21, 2019
fish congee got at least 6 big pieces inside
beef brisket/ bbq pork on noodles in satay soup base
their food quality and services are better than before

this place closes at 10:30pm. i wanted to try this place for a while now. upon walking in at 9:40pm, they had told us they have already called last call. i said it is 9:40pm you close at 10:30pm. they told me 10:30pm is when everyone gets kicked out and they are closed. i may buy take out and go. i thought about wonton. i couldn't even find it on the menu in the minute i looked. i decided to leave. found tsim chai noodles on zomato. glad i did. food was amazing!

we ordered a sweet n sour pork dish last night but meat was rotten . we informed the servers and ordered another dish instead. there was no acknowledgement and or apologies from the servers and management. 
we also ordered a braised halibut with onions , it turned out just skin n bones. the quality of food did not match the price. don't think will go back to that restaurant ever again ! one of the worst restaurant of the year !👎👎👎👎👎

lousy service and rude waitress and juz so-so food. it was a rainy day and i walked in for a late lunch and wanted to sit next to the windows so i could watch the rain. but the waitress "disapproved" of me sitting at the first table near the entrance which is empty and walked me to sit behind the cashier and kinda dim there. but i reckon her reasoning was rude coz i was alone and she gave me the feeling that i would have walked out without them noticing or before settling the bill. anyway i stayed coz kinda hungry and could not do anything about her obviously rude way of service as she did not say it out aloud. y e t you definitely f e l t it!!!! so i ordered their beef and bean curd clay pot ($13+++) and a bowl of rice ($1.50) and total bill came as $16++ the food was just ok and nothing to shout about.. i put down a $20 bill and it took the waitress the longest time to come and collect it to complete the transaction eg giving me back my change... so i only gave them $1 tips... maybe i should have not left them any tips given that very rude unspoken mental humiliation or treatment.

food was cold and not fresh! terrible service. the 2 dishes we ordered came with rice and soup. the soup was luke warm, rice was cold, chicken platter was not fresh and the hotpot was cold.. we asked them to make it hot and the waitress was so rude to take it away .. only to receive it back minutes later and still only warm. the service is really bad and would only reccomend the free range chicken when it's fresh.. will not be back! please beware!

bad service and bad soy chicken. we orderedone whole soy chicken. the firsr plate came as normal. the second plate came with dark bloody chicken inside. we talked to the server. she questioned whats the problem. it's normal. i wanted to ask her to eat them herself. anyways, we insisted to change it. she bought the plate back and microwave it for couple minutes and bring it back out. horrible service and the bloody chicken still bloody to me.

disappointing. slow service, bad service, and they demanded a tip? because this is richmond. almond chicken, or ( chicken & almond) has lots of batter and grease, but almost no chicken. special soup and wonton soup are both ridiculously salty. soy duck was okay, except that it was delevered cold. overall, it was a disappointing dinning experience!