First Wok
3870 Paxton Ave,Ste C, Cincinnati, OH, 45209
First Wok Menu
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Appetizers
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Chicken
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Pork
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Vegetable
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Address :
3870 Paxton Ave,Ste C
Cincinnati, OH, 45209 - Phone (513) 321-8388
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Opening Hours
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch
Bike Parking : Yes
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : Beer & Wine Only
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : Yes
Categories
Chinese Cuisine
The popularity of Chinese food in America can be adjudicated by the appearance of China Town in many major cities in the United State of America. The popular trend of ordering or opting for Chinese take away food isn't unknown in America. Chinese take away food comes to rescue when you're too tired from work or too exhausted to cook. No one can resist the temptation of eating spicy noodles, shrimp, chicken, beef or pork cooked in the sweet and spicy sauce. The cooking method of authentic Chinese food is a lot different compared to what is served in America.
Generally, Chinese use dark meat small bones and organs to cook dishes but this changes when you are eating American-Chinese fusion food prepared using white boneless meat cooked with broccoli, carrots and onions. Back in China, the food is less spicy and oily as they favor steaming and braising method for cooking the most popular dishes. So, if you have a taste for authentic Chinese food, then try finding a real Chinese restaurant in the city. You can also try the most popular fusion Chinese food like Pecking Duck, Chicken Feet, Hot Pot, Shrimp Dumpling Soup, Mapo Tofu, Wontons, Chop Suey, Egg Rolls and not to forget Fortune Cookies.
There are not many restaurants in America serving authentic Chinese food. A little research on Restaurant Listings directory can help you locate the best Chinese restaurants in the city. Chinese cuisine is continuously evolving, and you can find a variety of dishes categorized as the food for lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, vegan, vegetarian, and diabetic friendly. So, if you have a group of friends with different taste patterns, save the hassle and visit the nearest Chinese restaurant in your city.
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King P.
you like big food cheap? yep me too. take out lunch buffet.. yes a take out lunch buffet. ticken fry ri? kung po ticken wit peenus? pessi? yes please! ill take two, cuz it's a take out buffettttttttttt so cheap and so good.
(4)Alec D.
My favorite Chinese restaurant in Cincinnati for one reason!! The Crab Rangoon is the best I have ever had and I have to get it every time. I've only ever ordered carry out but the staff is very friendly and always gives us free treats to take home with our order. A very good and quick meal is always expected from this location. Will definitely return, especially for the Crab Rangoon.
(4)David C.
It's the only Chinese place in the neighborhood. And I still never eat there. The food is super bland and almost every dish lacks taste.
(1)Jes O.
This review is based entirely on the kids menu. Yes, this Chinese restaurant has a kids menu!! My kids love Chinese (and specifically, sweet and sour chicken) but usually the portions are too big... Until now. For $4.95 my daughter gets rice, sweet and sour chicken and crab rangoon. Score!!!!
(4)Amber C.
My boyfriend and I get take out from here pretty frequently and it is so delicious!!! Reasonable for the amount of food you get.
(4)Tyler M.
This place is slightly less original than its name suggests. If I had to use one word to describe First Wok it would be 'generic.' This place is really everything I would expect out of a place named First Wok. The fried rice tasted like fried rice, the crab rangoon tasted like crab rangoon, and the snozberries tasted like snozberries. If you're craving a coma-inducing amount of sodium, I would recommend this place as much as I would recommend any other extremely generic Chinese place. As sure as I am that this place is not, in fact, the FIRST wok....I would describe it as equal to any other Chinese place with the word 'Wok' in it.
(3)J ..
So freaking terrible. Don't eat here. The fat chinese guy looks like the owner. He is absolutely rude. I went in at 3:20 and asked for lunch special he murmured himself with weird language with very nasty manner and told me I can only do dinner combo. The absolutely worst general tso's chicken ever in my life. Such a small amount of food compare to price they charge. 9 dollar for dinner combo, they will give you rice65% and meat20% and one nasty eggroll. Stay away! I mean it. They will rip you off.
(1)Monica H.
This place used to be decent, and it's still fast and cheap for takeout. But the food is terrible. Very bland. Stir fried items are more steamed than stir-fried. Most fried items appear to be reheated mass produced frozen foods. You would be better off stopping in the grocery for a frozen dinner and microwaving it yourself. Overall, the food tastes like it was prepared by someone who does not really know how to cook, or like something you'd find in a hospital cafeteria.
(1)Christopher S.
They've remodelled the place since last time. Looks great and the food is pretty good.
(4)Ben N.
First Wok's website proudly proclaims the restaurant a member of the "Chinese Restaurant Association of America." A link to that organization reveals that it has thousands of member restaurants across this Great Land. This Chinese Restaurant Association undoubtedly has a gigantic printing press that pumps out identical menus for these thousands of Chinese-American restaurants. Just about everybody in the United States has been to one and knows the menu: beef with broccoli, shrimp with lobster sauce, kung pao chicken, mushu pork, combination fried rice, etc., etc. The only differences on the menus are the interchangeable restaurant names stamped on the front: "Jade Palace," "Happy Dragon," "China Dynasty," "Number One Express," "Rabid Panda." OK, not that last one. But definitely "First Wok." Some of these restaurants, despite their inauthenticity, can be quite good. First Wok, unfortunately, is not one of them. The best adjective to describe its food is "bland-o-rific": This food is woefully underseasoned. "Heavy" and "oily" might be the second- and third-best descriptives. But at least it is "edible." (I can't say that about every restaurant....) We were able to make our take-out entrees--"Szechuan" tofu and "Kung pao" chicken--more palatable with some sesame oil from the kitchen cabinet and chili paste from the fridge. Some more items from the cabinet probably would have helped even more, but for us this meal was the result of our own laziness and time constraints to begin with. And hot-and-sour soup was neither hot nor sour. Not even close. Just bland-o-rific. Big plus: Like most Chinese-American restaurants, First Wok is absurdly cheap for huge quantities of food. The best thing about First Wok was the "Free Donuts" you get with your order. These beignet-like morsels were pretty damn good!
(2)Kyle F.
This place does mostly take out but they have a small lunch buffet that's a really good price. Don't expect a ton of options but what the staples are there and they are always hot with good flavor. IMO the best Chinese buffet in the area
(4)Ben D.
This is my favorite Chinese place in the oakley/hyde park area. I get take-out from here all the time. It's fast, friendly, and reasonable. Try the crab-rangoon!
(5)Katie F.
Had I written this review a few weeks ago, I would have given First Wok at least 3, if not 4 stars. But a recent experience was just too damning to justify anything other than a 1 star review. My family has been going to First Wok for over fifteen years. It used to be managed by this super nice guy who would always put free crab rangoon or cookies in our take out order. Obviously, it's under new management. There is NOTHING special about this place, other than the fact that it has managed to stay in business for so long, and has an array of greasy food. Despite all that, when I was in town for the weekend (I live in Chicago) I dragged six of my friends with me to get there greasy buffet, a (former) Cincinnati favorite. Up to this point, the buffet was great because it was there, and cost $5.95. Except this time, we made the mistake of going on a Sunday. We had our fill of the EXACT same buffet they have every other day (literally. I've probably been 20 times on non-Sundays, and it's the exact same spread.) We paid up, and were saying our goodbyes OUTSIDE the restaurant when the manager came out and told us we owed more money. Huh? He's like "I charged you wrong, I charged the $5.95 rate, when it should be $7.95. My mistake. You each owe the difference." What?? Is that not fairly unheard of? Your mistake, you eat the cost, right? Apparently not. We were like "We'll give you an extra dollar each" at which point he went back inside, and tallied up the difference. He's like "actually, with taxes you all owe $16.43." Ah, it was so weird. So we paid it, to the penny. While he made an extra sixteen bucks, this dipwod permanently lost seven customers, just dumb.
(1)Coleen P.
Don't be fooled by the 3 star rating. I gave this place 3 stars because it's not a fancy place, they don't use rare and expensive ingredients, and the flavors are not one of a kind. But really, what more can you expect from a small hole in the wall that charges a mere $5.95 for their buffet? This restaurant is a great place to satisfy that Chinese food craving for an affordable price! As mentioned earlier, they offer a lunch buffet from 11am-2:30pm that is only $5.95 on weekdays and $7.95 on the weekends, and let me tell you, it is one heck of a deal! On most days, I order their lunch combination to go. It is quick, easy, and cheap - perfect for a time-crunched student like me. However, just yesterday I decided to be a little more adventurous and tried the lunch buffet. I was impressed. For $5.95, they had at least 6 different entrees from their menu, 2 soups (eggdrop & hot and sour), appetizers (crab rangoons, eggrolls, etc), chow mein, fried rice, white rice, and they even had a small dessert bar (cookies, small cakes, chinese donuts, etc). The flavors are not special, it tastes just like any other fast food Chinese restaurant at a mall food court. Nonetheless, the food hits the spot. Will definitely be coming back here.
(3)Erika D.
I was going to give this "Chinese" restaurant one star but the food is edible. I had the lunch special General Tso Chicken w/ White Rice and an egg roll. I am use to General Tso Chicken that is sweet with a spicy kick. It was sweet. VERY VERY sweet but lack any kick of heat. The Chicken was heavily bread and fried hard. My egg roll was very large and very greasy. The wrapper of the egg roll was soaked with grease and the cabbage on the inside had soaked it all up. My partner had the opposite problem with her egg roll. It was very dry and smelled funny. She said that it tasted okay. She ordered the Lo Mein w/Chicken Lunch and found the Lo Mein was very oily and lack any real veggies. She had friend rice with her Lo Mein and it was full of freezer burned peas and carrots. Cannot say that we will be making a return trip.
(2)Brad B.
I've been frequenting this Chinese place for some time and particularly like their lunch buffet. While not the greatest Chinese food around, their lunch buffet is good value and worth it. This place tends to get crowded so get there early. Also, the actual buffet is in the corner and the space around it is tight - especially when there are hungry patrons gathering around it.
(3)Jodi D.
My hubby and I both like First Wok, but unfortunately they always seem to give me white rice when I specifically and multiple times request fried rice I like their buffet because then I don't have that problem.
(4)Subspace E.
Oh, how torn am I! We loved First Wok. It was the bright beacon at the end of the dreary weekly grocery shopping mission to Bigg's - warm, soothing hot-and-sour soup, an order of scallion pancakes, maybe some dumplings and an order of tofu moo goo gai pan or Szechuan beef. The portions are massive, the food piping hot and occasionally fantastic. The hot-and-sour soup was the best I'd had in Cincinnati: strips of real seared pork chop, a ton of wood ear mushrooms and other dried mystery treats, traditional pickled Chinese vegetables, egg, fairy wings, uppers, diet pills, daiquiris, immune boosters, vitamins, minerals, and plenty of black vinegar. Magical. And then we got food poisoning. Or rather, my partner did. The night will live in infamy because it was the night that I "didn't feel" like eating rice. I just didn't want any, which is very unusual. I love rice, I'd eat rice with every meal if I could. That night I pushed the rice toward TheBoy and said, "You can have mine," and encouraged him to eat more. Try the rice! I said to him. What could go wrong? Cut forward about three hours. Insert explosive, spine-cracking, intestine-shredding, screaming projectile vomiting coming from TheBoy while I stand by wondering what could have happened. We ate the same dinner! I said to myself. I didn't feel sick, but it was undeniable that my normally hale man friend was in danger of barfing his anus out his face. And then I remembered two things: 1) Starchy foods are more likely to carry food poisoning than any other food. This is especially the case for rice or mashed potatoes, items that are often "dipped into" over the course of an evening as they are hotheld. 2) I didn't eat any rice. So, First Wok, even though your food was great, well-priced and in close proximity to other stores I find myself at often, I have to give you the ol' ONE STAR. Because I'm angry at you. Oh, not because you served poison rice -- these things really do just happen, and I'm surprised they don't happen more often -- but I am angry because we can NEVER GO BACK to you unless I want TheBoy to start dry-heaving at the memory of your tasty vittles. Damn you! Damn you to hell!
(1)Brieanne S.
why is chinese so expensive for dinner? I hate it. but my girlfriend and i love this place. the portions are big enough to share. we are able to just order one dish and still be full and have left overs. I do love chinese food (its my fav) and this is a great junk food chinese place close to home
(4)Mary K.
I like this place. Not a lot of atmosphere, but the food is great. I especially like the buffet. Lots of variety and darn tasty.
(4)Tara S.
I'd liked this place a lot, and then I read some Yelp reviews, and I thought...hmm, maybe I ought to look elsewhere. Well, I did. And I'm about done with that. The crab rangoon isn't nearly as good at other places. The other stuff I tend to get are non-pork eggrolls and egg drop soup. No, 1st Wok doesn't do this stuff extraordinarily better than the other places. But did I mention the crab rangoon? Yeah, that's enough for me to stick with the place. And I've never gotten food poisoning here (knock on wood, I guess). Plus, it's handy to go in, place your order, and then go do a little grocery shopping at Remke/Bigg's or pick up some crafty craft supplies at Michael's. You don't have to sit awkardly on those chairs at the front. Do a little browsing or practical shopping while you wait. Oh, and pick up one of the tasty candies at the front. The flavors change, but they put up a little sign saying what it is. The last two times, there were pomegranate and guava ones. Not super-exciting, but I like the new tastes for the ride home with my to-go food. Never done the buffet. I'm a compile-a-meal-from-appetizers kind of a gal.
(4)Katie G.
Awesome place! This is by far the best Asian food my boy friend and I have found in cincinnati area! We moved here from Seattle and have been searching for the best Asian food and First Wok is the BEST! There food is on point and the people that work there are so kind! I would also like to add that it's not over priced like the surrounding Asian food!
(5)David T.
Excellent staff and great fried rice. They serve a fried dough as a complimentary starter which was very tasty.
(4)JJ P.
You know - after reading some of the other reviews I'm a bit torn. We probably hit up this place every 4 months or so - it's a good value for the food. Now, don't get me wrong, this isn't some extraordinary lunch buffet, but as a whole I've found the food to be better than most local run-of-the-mill Chinese takeout joints (barring China Chef in Colerain but since I grew up eating that my opinion is probably a bit skewed) and heck, even other Chinese buffets I've tried around here. $5.95 for a Mon - Sat buffet and $7.95 for Sunday is a good deal. Selections are limited, this isn't some giant spread, but the food that's on the table shows a nice variation and they have all of the buffet highlights. Those Scallion Pancakes? They're the only Chinese buffet I've ever been to that has them and they're too die for. Like way too delish. Are they greasy? Yes, but they are good and honestly one of the main reasons we go there. Fried rice is nothing special so I stick with the other buffet offerings. What I like is that if a dish is labeled "Spicy" it actually has a tiny kick and some flavor. So I'll use grab some black pepper chicken, whatever other spicy dish on the buffet, the vegetable they're offering (typically green beans) and then fill up on the scallion pancakes, crab rangoon, dumplings, and chicken on a stick. Wrap it up with some oranges as the end of the meal and I'm happy. Is it the best food around? No. But we've found it to be consistently good and the price for a lunch buffet is super reasonable. We'll continue to visit!
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