Sweet Wonton House

TLDR: Looking for a solid HK style spot, Sweet Wonton is a good choice. Definitely get the house special rice noodle stir-fry, personally I like switching it to the thinner rice noodles. Tasty wonton/dumplings too! Little Neck has pretty solid Cantonese food now, Sweet Wonton on Northern is a popular spot for good reason. Stick to the staples but the wonton soup in the bone broth is tasty. It's got that rich almost tonkotsu like creaminess but with the shrimpy flavor that you come to expect from a HK wonton or dumpling soup. The house special sesame stir-fried rice noodles is so good. Salted fish, dried squid, chives - ask to switch to the thinner rice noodles which I think tastes better. The textures are good, lots of flavor and tremendous wok-hei.

Looking for a no nonsense Cantonese noodle and rice shop? I went for lunch and ordered the salty chicken and mushroom congee and the wonton & dumpling noodle with the optional bone soup. The congee came out in a clay pot bubbling hot! Pro tip, sprinkle a little white pepper and enjoy some seriously good congee! Next came the wonton & dumpling noodle bone soup. The wontons and dumplings are stuffed with big chunks of shrimp while the noodles were cooked perfectly. The bone soup is really tasty - I drank the entire bowl. The service is pretty good as well. It’s a small restaurant with approximately 6 tables, 7 if you count the outdoor dining table. The servers speak both Cantonese and Mandarin and they can be loud so be prepared. Decor is basic.

This restaurant is really a hit or miss - mainly miss. Of all the dishes I ordered, I only liked 2. The wontons weren’t anything special to rave about, but the broth in the wonton was delicious. Very flavorful. The broth in the roast pork ramen, which isn’t ramen by the way, was sweet due to the roast pork. The roast pork itself was flavorful and tender. The HK style Chinese sausage clay pot rice was lacking in the overcooked, crunchy texture of the bottom of the clay pot that most people order this dish for. The sausage was overcooked as well and did not taste well. I ordered a stir fried dried squid dish, but what I got was stir fried fish. Although it tasted somewhat all right, it was not the dish I initially ordered. I did end up ordering my stir fried squid dish for dinner later on, but it was bland. The fried cruller and rice rolls were nothing to rave about if you’ve eaten dim sum in these Chinese parlors. They’re all the same. Although I did not take photos of the dishes I ordered for dinner, the roast pork lo mein was not lo mein. The prawn with walnut and salad cream was also bland like the stir fried squid. The salad cream didn’t save the prawn from lack of flavor. The mushroom with mixed vegetable casserole was just a sloppy wetness of a casserole. Overall, the food just lacked flavor and I would only revisit as a last resort, but it should not have to be my last resort considering the location of this restaurant and other restaurants to eat at in the area.

Order everything else but the below. Foods was so so. Congee was a little watered down. Rice casserole is personal size and not worth the price. Beef chow fun was not mixed thoroughly, blocks of white broad noodles still. Noodle with fried dough (Ja leurng) was good when it first came out, but the fried dough got hard and stale after. That might mean they microwaved it to warm it up. If you've microwaved any variety of bread before you'll know how this is. This was lunch at 3pm. Rice casserole and congee is literally 6 inch pot for the price of expected bigger pot or at least enough for 2, only good for 1 person portion, able to finish. Maybe at an earlier time the congee might not have been watered down or fried dough may be fresher. Place is also very tight, kept getting bumped. Thought they would have redesigned spacing with the tables and arrangement by now. They went more down hill since the last time we visited about 9 months ago.

Stopped by for lunch at 1130, and the tiny dining area was packed! Ordered shumais and shrimp rice rolls, which took a bit of time. It was worth it though. The shrimp rice rolls were a bit too grainy for me, but the shrimp was flavorful. The shumais are easily the best in the area. Definitely lives up to the restaurant's name.