Unpretentious Chinese place in a strip mall offering hot pot, along with traditional Sichuan dishes.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 16051 Frederick Rd, Derwood, MD 20855
Phone: (301) 977-7676
Website: http://wangmanor.com/
Menu Photos
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Reviews
After discovering a few favorite dishes, we have been visiting this restaurant rather frequently. However, there seemed to have been an ownership or chef change recently. The menu is different, prices were increased, portions became smaller, and service became slower. I feel compelled to downgrade my rating.
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We’ve only tried take-out from this restaurant before, and sat down for dinner just recently. I have to say this is one of the most authentic Chinese restaurants in the area. If you don’t find it bizarre, the deep-fried pig’s feet is a must. I’d skip the pot stickers, though, because they appear to be the kind you can buy from the frozen section in any Asian supermarket.
Service ⭐️⭐️
Ambience ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
After hearing complaints of high prices and low quality from various sources, I decided to investigate by myself.
We visited the restaurant on Wednesday evening at around 6:30 pm and found ourselves to be the only seated customers.
Although the waiter was friendly, it was evident that he lacked proper training and professionalism. He struggled to answer some basic questions regarding the menu, such as the difference between stir-fried pork kidney and pork kidney in spicy sauce, as well as the unique aspects of the fish fillet with pickled cabbage and passion fruit compared to the traditional version without passion fruit. Additionally, he forgot to bring a serving spoon and when we asked for one, he simply grabbed a pair of chopsticks from a nearby table. At the end of the meal, he even mixed up our bill with that of another table’s.
In total, we ordered four dishes and one dessert.
Stir-fried Conch, $36.95 ⭐️
I would strongly advise against it. Our experience with this dish was quite disappointing. Instead of being primarily made up of conch, it was mostly comprised of sliced king mushrooms with only a few pieces of conch thrown in. Furthermore, the dish was overcooked, resulting in the conch being tough and chewy. Overall, it wasn’t worth it.
Fish Fillet with Pickled Cabbage and Passion Fruit, $28.95 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
We were disappointed to find that there was no trace of passion fruit in the dish, even though it was $5 more expensive than the traditional version without passion fruit. However, upon careful tasting, I was able to detect a hint of fruity sweetness in the soup. Despite the lack of passion fruit, the fish fillets themselves were tasty and well-prepared. – Just order the the traditional version which has no passion fruit and about $5 less.
Stir-fried Pork Kidney ⭐️⭐️⭐️
It is a dish that requires special cutting skills to prepare properly. Unfortunately, we felt that the chef did not execute this dish well. The pork kidney was overcooked and had a rubbery and chewy texture.
Deep Fried Pig Feet with dry chill, $18.95 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It had good flavor but were unfortunately overcooked. The skins were supposed to be crispy and crunchy, but instead, they were tough and chewy, making them difficult to eat.
Corn Cake $16.95 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
It is supposed to be a dessert made from kernel corn, which can be challenging to use making a pie. However, instead of a pie made from pure kernel corn, we received a dish of deep-fried dough with only a few kernels of corn scattered on top. This made the dish much easier to prepare, but it lacked the unique flavor that pure corn brings to the dish. I accepted the flavor though.
The spicy pork feet tasted okay: not too spicy, but we had to work around to avoid the hairs.
KungPao chicken was not good at all. The source was way off from authentic taste, it was just too salty. It lacked essential ingredients: white part of scallions and dried lantern peppers. And the peanuts were skin on and soggy. Chicken meat tasted hard and dry.
The spicy dry pot was average: too salty again. (Could you use green Sichuan pepper instead of the red ones? That would upgrade the dish taste a lot.)
We enjoyed the fried rice.
The additional star is for the friendly service.
The inside space was renovated in 2020. There is plenty of seating inside and private rooms for events as well.
We tried many things :
– Twice fried pork belly
-Cumin Lamb *spicy and SO flavourful*
– Fish in some kind of soup eith vermicelli noodles I can’t recall the name, huggeeee portion in the photos *also a little spicy, delicious *
– pork in soup
– corn cake ✨️ haven’t had this is forever and it was perfect
-general tso chicken
-silken tofu w/ century egg
– Green beans
Everything was a 10/10 with no complaints.
Oolong tea was served with our food as well and I cannot wait to come back here.
If you’re looking for good Chinese food, look no further cause this place ROCKS.
*I drove from fairfax here about 30 mins drive on a Sunday afternoon, easy drive and will absolutely do it again*
– Your local food gremlin
INSTA @ SpicyAivy
Furthermore, its menu seems to have been designed for an upscale restaurant, as evidenced by the inclusion of several overpriced dishes, ranging from the upper $40s to an exorbitant $88.95 for the Stir-fried Two Lobsters with Ginger and Scallion. While the restaurant still offers one of its specialties from the “Big Wang” era, the Stir-fried Pork Feet with Dry Chili, which I did enjoy, the overall dining experience did not justify the steep prices. Despite discounts were applied to three special dishes of the day, the final bill amounted to over $50 per person, which was quite excessive.