• Family Dining
• Special Luncheons
• Licensed under LLB0

• Special Occasions
• Catering Social Functions
• Gift Certificates Available

• Delivery Starts at 4pm
• Free Local Delivery*
• 10% off Take-Out Orders*

2006 Ajax/Pickering News Advertiser Readers' Choice Platinum Award - Chinese Food

2006 Scarborough Mirror Readers' Choice GOLD Medal Winner - Asian Restaurant

2006 Toronto Sun Readers' Choice SILVER Medal - Best Chinese Food

Hours

Open Everyday except Christmas

Location

376 Kingston Rd. Pickering, Ontario Canada - Located at the North East corner of Rougemount and Highway 2 (click here for a more detailed map).

All major Credit Cards and Interac Accepted

*on Minimum Orders

Popular entrees keep customers coming back

Ajax/Pickering News Advertiser

A tantalizing menu featuring such favorites as home-made egg rolls unlike any others in town is among the reasons people return to Paul Wong's Chinese Restaurant again and again. Nominated for the Best Chinese Restaurant in the Reader's Choice Awards, the restaurant also serves up such popular dishes as Szechuan Beef, Shrimp Harlok, and Cantonese Chow Mein. Chicken balls are another favorite. A thin batter means they're made up mostly of meat, the Restaurant says proudly. Located at 376 Kingston Rd. at Rougemount Drive since 1988, the restaurant offers take-out and delivery, as well as dining in a comfortable atmosphere. The Restaurant is proud of its commitment to using only fresh, top quality ingredients. All meals are cooked fresh to order. Call 905-509-9888.

Cravings. Is there any rhyme or reason for them? Scientists say yes. Certain foods may even trigger the desire to eat more, so perhaps that is where the notion comes from that everyone gets hungry again right after eating Chinese food.

Cravings were what brought us to Paul Wong's just over the eastern border of Scarborough. We were looking forward to a good feed of Cantonese food and we weren't disappointed.

Early on a Sunday evening, we had the full attention of the chef. Egg rolls ($1.40) were fried to a golden turn and were served with homemade plum sauce and a mustard sauce with a heat quotient of a blast furnace. A ceramic pot of warm saké went wonderfully.

We moved on to the delicious entrées. Stuffed shrimp with a sumptuous mushroom sauce were Lillian's pick for best dish of the meal. The crisp shrimp married beautifully with the richness of the sauce ($15.50).

Orange beef was slightly sweet and citrusy, with a bright chili undertone ($10.80). Ginger chicken ($11.50), with a perfect bite of piquancy paired well. One bowl of steamed rice ($1.70) was enough for the three of us and it would be unthinkable not to pair the neutral flavour of this international starch with the spicy dishes we ordered.

On the veggie front, a plate of fragrant snow peas ($7.95) stir-fried to a crisp finish completed our well-rounded meal.

I didn't experience the two-hour after "I'm hungry again" syndrome, but I sure had my craving re-fire the next day when I spotted the leftovers in the fridge.

Paul Wong's Fine Chinese Cuisine, 376 Kingston Rd. at Rougemount Drive and Hwy. 2, Pickering. Phone: 905-509-9888. Wheelchair access: no barriers.

Hours: Monday to Thursday - 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday - noon to midnight; Sunday - noon to 11 p.m.