Under New Ownership!
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Restaurant: Wo Fung Dessert
Cuisine: Chinese
Last visited: July 4, 2010
Location: Richmond, BC
Address: 4151 Hazelbridge Way
Price Range: $10 or less
1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very good 5: Excellent 6: Tres Excellent!!
Food: 5
Service: 3 (for what it is)
Ambiance: in a food court
Overall: 5
Additional comments:
- Family owned/operated
- Famous for deep fried chicken wings
- Made upon order
- Very popular to Chinese locals
- Busy/popular/line-ups
- Most popular place in Aberdeen food court
- Chinese fast food
- All deep-fried foods
- Small selection of traditional hearty/meaty Chinese hot foods
- Popular for Hong Kong style iced teas
- Quick, casual
- Not meant for vegetarians
- Budget-friendly/cheap eats
- No desserts
**Recommendations: Chicken wings, squid tentacles
It’s taken me forever to write a post about Wo Fung Dessert. I’ve known about their “world-famous” chicken wings for years, but I’ve never come around to trying them until now. I always get distracted by all the other great places in the food court – especially my go-to which is dessert at Frappe Bliss for their shaved ice milk. I did still have this AFTER my chicken wings though.
Don’t get fooled by the “Dessert” in “Wo Fung Dessert”, they don’t do dessert here and they don’t need to. Their business relies on their deep fried specialties, especially their deep fried chicken wings. Quite often it sells out by late afternoon. They are the busiest stand in the food court and always have a line up. Just sitting in the food court you’ll see everyone with a plate of chicken wings and it’s really a must try if you’re at Aberdeen Centre. They have a small selection of traditional home cooked hearty foods like beef tendons, brisket and tripe that is quite popular as well. It’s very Hong Kong/Chinese style comfort fast food that’s good, quick, fast and cheap.
People always compare them to the best chicken wings in Vancouver, which is the deep-fried chicken wings from Phnom Penh, but they’re not really comparable. The ones from Phnom Penh have a special lemon dipping sauce and overall I would prefer those ones, but Wo Fung chicken wings are still excellent.
On the table:
**Chicken Wings – 5.5/6
- 3 whole chicken wings $3.50
- Made upon order.
- This is what brought Wo Fung Dessert to fame.
- They’re greasy, nice and salty and flavourful all the way through.
- The outside has a very light and thin crispy batter and it’s like fish and chip batter. It reminds me of the crispy fish and chip batter from Moby Dick Seafood Restaurant.
- It’s very moist and super juicy on the inside and the meat is so flavourful. They were pretty damn delicious.
- Maybe they have MSG in them? I don’t know, but who cares… they’re really good!
Deep Fried Fish Balls – 3.5/6
- $2.50? I think for 2?
- These actually taste better than they look. Yes they are small fish balls, but they’re tasty.
- They don’t look appealing at all because they’re so wrinkly that they look really dry and rubbery, however they’re actually quite good.
- They are deep fried and made upon order so they’re really hot. They have the same crispy coating around them, but it’s really light that it almost seems grilled. They’re nice and juicy inside with a dry outside and surprisingly not that greasy.
- I don’t know what herb they sprinkled on top, but I couldn’t taste it.
Deep Fried Squid Tentacles – 4.5/6
- These are also excellent here. I didn’t order them on this occasion, but I’ve ordered them before.
- It’s the same light and crispy salty batter.
- They fry them perfectly and the squid tentacles are tender and not rubbery at all.
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I think they’ve changed owners in the past couple of weeks. The chicken wings used to be much bigger.
I’m probably in the minority… but I prefer the squid tentacles over the chicken wings… because I can eat more of them! The chicken bones slow me down. Hehe
Probably not for (most) girls but, for some people, chicken wings might be their definition of dessert! 😉
Yes, they definitely switched owners !! The wings are not as good as they were before, my sister commented that they were a lot darker (meaning the oil is being changed less often :(! ) and were not the same ones we had before. I have to agree the chicken wings are good… just not exactly the same as the ones we had before.
Their wings are good, but I do find them way too greasy. Their iced drinks are a good deal though!
Fu – I actually really like the tentacles too! It’s just the cholesterol that keeps haunting me if I indulge in too many.
Gary – I like to think of the “grease” as “juice” lol
The wings are good there, especially with a cup of the iced lemon tea. Yum…
They even have “che-jai mein” or cart bowl noodles (HK term) there.
They have switched owners for almost a month now…even their drinks aren’t the same.
Just had the wings today. They changed owners for sure but I think I’m liking it better. The wings and drinks were good. Can never go wrong with this place, can’t find wings like these anywhere else in Richmond. Thumbs up. 10/10
I come to this place often. wings and the drinks here are delicious. cant get enough of these.. just reading this makes me hungry.. ill probably go tomorrow!
I think I only tried the squid tentacles when it was the old owners so unfortunately I don’t have the old chicken wings to compare to… I still liked these ones though.
Maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t have the old ones… ? That is if they were indeed better – this way I can’t be disappointed.
I love their chicken wings! I think I will go for some now.
I finally had a chance to go to Richmond to try these. I’m pretty sure wings are my favourite food item. Very good. I saw some stuff stuck on to the batter and was trying to figure out what made it taste so good, a bit of grated ginger maybe? Anyways, I forgot about it and was clicking on random blogrolls for malaysian food blogs and found this. I’m pretty sure this is how they make their wings.
http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.com/2010/12/malaysian-lemongrass-fried-chicken.html#more
@May – Hi May! So glad you finally made it here! Glad you liked it! Great detective work too! Hmm I should try the recipe at home and see if I can replicate it. The photos look great! Hmm the ginger I could see for sure, but I don’t recall the lemongrass… now I better go get them this weekend and examine harder. Thanks May! Can’t wait to try this recipe out and compare!