Wu’s Kitchen

Top-​notch food. The servers are always friendly, and they even remember you on your following visit.
Most Chinese restaurants do not have Gluten Free options available– this place does! If you and/​or your dining partner is hindered from eating Chinese food due to Gluten, you have your new home. You’re welcome.
Also, this place is an established restaurant. For those unfamiliar with Wu’s, their location prior was in Tigard, right off Scholls Ferry. Loyalists have followed them to Beaverton, but I’m afraid not everyone did. They’re new to Beaverton, but they’re not just any new restaurant. It may not be as lively as before (more takeouts?) but this place is worth the drive, wherever you are.

Tried the item on the menu called «Hunan» — it was not Hunanese. Tried the Four Treasures With Garlic — it had a strange and un-​Chinese taste. Tried the Bhuddhist Delight — Buddha were to taste it, he would hate it. If Wu’s ever did put out good food, it has gone sharply downhill. I’m not coming back.

So glad wu’s is so close to work and home. The food is delicious inexpensive and can be super spicy if requested for chili heads like me. Friendly staff and convenient location great food this is one of my favorite restaurants. I will continue to be a regular.

Best sesame chicken and sesame beef! great service. Nice ambiance. Everything is good.

The staff is great — very friendly and attentive.
The food flavor is fine; edible, definitely not exciting. The flavors are all pretty much the same — salt and underwhelming.
The portions are REALLY small for the price.
The Kung Pao chicken tasted like the broccoli and beef and like the orange chicken and general tso’s chicken — It all tasted the same. The good part is they don’t fill it with celery like a lot of Chinese restaurants do, you get meat. It’s pretty salty and mediocre flavors.
The Kung Pao chicken is advertised as spicy, but there is literally none. It’s bland. I like Panda Express better.
I don’t know if they use MSG or not but it had that flavor and texture to it.

I’ve been eating at Wu’s for over 10 years now. They have the best twice cooked pork and hot and sour soup I’ve ever had a Chinese restaurant. It’s flavorful, whimsical and it dances on the tastebuds. Truly marvelous!

We walked in around 5:15 and were the only people there. The menu is small, so I was expecting everything to be handmade. We ordered a salt and pepper chicken, fried cuttlefish balls, black bean noodles, and a stir fried vegetable dish on their specials menu.
The salt and pepper chicken needed more salt and more fried basil. The dish would’ve been better if it were crunchier.
Fried cuttlefish balls were disappointingly not homemade. For the price we paid, we were hoping it would at least come with a sauce.
Black bean noodles were made Chinese style — the sauce is more brown and not as flavorful as the Korean-​American ones.
The stir fried vegetables on the specials board had tofu, squid, and celery. Texturally, it was nice, but not worth the price.
Summary: Overpriced and limited options. I would come back if I were desperate, but there are better options for Chinese food in the area.

I am a fan of Wu’s Kitchen and here is why:
I love that they have a Taiwanese eats menu and their flavors are consistently good. I know there are tons of good Asian food here in Portland, and all of the good ones are all over by 82^nd. But I am so super ectatic that there is a good Chinese Restaurant that thought of us Taiwanese people and start serving good Taiwanese eats.
I love it love it love it! The dishes to order for: 1) Bawan (taiwanese meat ball) 2) Braised pork rice 3) Braised combination plate (the way they braised the seaweed is absolutely amazing)
I know there are tons more dishes for me to try and I will keep going back until I have tried all of them!

We had a great experience here today when we stopped in for lunch and ended up reminiscing about Taiwan.
In addition to the regular menu there is a paper menu you can ask for that has favorites from bawan, green onion pancake, braised pork rice, to beef noodle soup and pork pickled mustard soup.
We’ve tried a few places with Taiwanese dishes in Beaverton so far — this is the one I’ll come back to.

Great food. Great customer service. Great atmosphere.
We came here to try it out because their restaurant caught our attention. Huge castle like structure. Gotta love their cocktail menu. Just the right amount of alcohol. Can’t beat their prices as well.

My family has been going to Wu’s various locations for 15 years — we’ve done birthday get togethers both at the old Tigard location and now that they have moved right down the street we find ourselves going more frequently to his Aloha location. It’s opposite Freddys behind McDonalds and a strip mall that seems to lose another business every month.
I would give Wu’s a 5 star review for the quality of their food, but the dinginess of the restrooms-​at least the woman’s restroom knocks it down 2 stars. It’s that bad si“m sorry to say.
I love their food-​especially the green beans which are lightly stir fried and seasoned to your preference-​we usually get an order of pretty hot and one of milder for our big get togethers.
Day before yesterday I went to lunch there with my sis, who enjoyed Wu’s Lake Grove location for years and was really pleased to find it out here in the wilds of Beaverton.
Wu’s suffers from being located in an out of the way spot-​in a monstrous venue that was overbuilt from the start. I believe 5 different Chinese Buffets, Mongolian BBQ’s and sushi joints have failed here. The place is big and cold and thats too bad as Wu’s food is wonderful and well worth going out of your way for.
The waitress was the same lovely woman who had served us for years in Tigard and service is very good. A nice hot black tea is brought to the table immediately after seating and there’s no rush to order-​we took out time with our meal and never felt hurried. Of course it helped that we were the first people in for lunch but it wasn’t a big crowd at all when we left about 90 minutes later. Food was fast in coming and sis and I got green beans with chicken and asparagus with chicken, rice and a lovely hot tea with pot stickers (truly yummy pot stickers)-we’re boring I guess, but we know what we like!
The down point, sadly, is that this place really needs a back area freshening up. The woman’s restroom was, frankly, stinky, looked dirty and things like the toilet plunger were sitting out in the stall, along with other cleaning materials. The paint is dingy and the floor just looks like it needs to be re-​done. Tile grout is very dirty. Even the hallway to the restrooms looks dirty-​it simply needs to be cleaned and maybe repainted something other than the dingy off white that it is. Air freshener doesn’t cover the lack of cleanliness and really overwhelms the scent of the great food.
I agree with other reviewers about the difficulty of making such a large space into a cozy restaurant but the use of screens and more décor might be helpful. The entry is welcoming and pleasant, there are chairs for waiting for take out-​I can’t believe there will ever be a line for tables as this location is huge!
I do love the food here-​some of the best Chinese I’ve had. Servings are large enough to have left overs and I had my green beans and rice for lunch the next day. They warm up well. Thats always nice!
They do have a full bar with typical hard liquor selections as well as several Chinese beers in the bottle.
This is an excellent venue for big family gatherings or business lunches-​there are several large seating areas aside from the 4 tops that run down the length of the restaurant in 4 rows divided by 2 half walls.
I really hope the Wu’s folks spend a bit of money freshening up the back hallways and for pets sake, get someone in to do a deep clean on the bathroom — ASAP!

Delicious food (extra spicy if requested). The price was also great, and the standard entrée comes with a bowl of soup and rice. The service was also wonderful, the staff member even packed up my left overs for me. Definitely will be returning for more!

4/​15, OK, last time I set foot in this place.
You can tell they are spiraling down, every time I go there are fewer and fewer people there. Today I met a friend for lunch and it is the last time I will eat here. There were no more than 8 people in the entire place at 12:00.
My Cashew Shrimp arrived lukewarm and there were in fact very few Cashews.
The thing that was making me feel ill is the overwhelming smell of air freshener, which makes me wonder exactly what are they trying to cover up. On the way to the bathroom I noticed a plug in thingie and it reeked of what smelled like apple cinnamon. GROSS. That super strong smell just made me ill.
The occasional whiff of cigarette smoke also killed my appetite.
Dunzo!

No better than any other Chinese restaurant. But I noticed they are expensive if you go after the lunch.
They don’t have the traditional combos.
Avoid and go to panda.

I was hoping for some tasty Schezwan themed food here but it’s not that so much. While they were nice and I liked the spacious clean atmosphere overall the food was just so-​so. I feel bad because they are nice folks and do care about the experience but I just wasn’t that impressed. Then again maybe stay away from the Schezwan style stuff and it might be good, for sure I have had far worse in Portland as the Chinese food scene here sucks.

I’ve been sitting on this review for weeks. It’s one of those experiences that was simultaneously outstanding and really, really bad. I *want* to love Wu’s, but they make it so god damn easy NOT to, which is tragic and unfortunate. So my review will boil down to one word: inconsistent.
I’d never set foot in the building before, previous occupant or not. I knew it was there, I knew what it was, and I know that buffets are definitely not my thing. Once I’d realized that Wu’s had relocated (?) to the space my wife and I agreed that we’d like to try it out. FWIW, we’d visited one of their other locations, and were reasonably impressed. A co-worker’s family are long time Wu’s patrons, and he warned me that the service will be «weird» and the food will be greasy. Both of those proved to be true.
The building itself is… well I ultimately didn’t like it. The cash wrap is fine, as is the entrance. The main dining room is just unusual. Dining tables are in the center, and booths line the walls. There’s room beyond those walls, though, and I wish I woulda taken a peek behind them, but it just gave me a sense of space that didn’t improve anything in the way of an intimate dining experience. That, combined with the absolutely cavernous ceiling just didn’t really meet my tastes.
An older gal sat us at the table. She was pleasant, and came to visit us for drinks (or so we thought) later. She asked us if we wanted drinks, I ordered, and my wife began ordering, and she suddenly dropped the ticket and pen on the table, not wholly unlike «dropping the mic» after a song for emphasis. We just looked at each other and asked «wtf just happened, and why did she pull a 2 Chainz on us?» Suddenly older fella appears, and took our order for food. Not a few minutes after that he brought our drinks, and she somehow used ESP to extract my wife’s alcoholic wishes out of her brain, because the correct drink arrived. Fuck, I don’t know, it was weird and rushed and speedy like this sentence.
Food ordered: large hot and sour soup (to split), pot stickers, General Tso’s and hell, I can’t remember what vegan wife got. Something with veggies and noodles. Instead of the single large hot and sour, he brought me an individual and my wife a single *egg flower* soup. Nope, not even close. To his credit he corrected it instantly, but it left me wondering if I ordered incorrectly…? Whatever. Still contributing to weirdness.
Hot and sour soup: Hot. Spicy. Good! 4 stars.
Pot stickers: *spectacular*. AMAZING, even. Thick, substantial and flavorful, like nothing I’ve ever had. I was blown away.
General Tso’s: Not bad. Definitely greasy, like my co-​worker had predicted. Unique, and not heavily breaded, so I appreciated that.
Older guy warmed up as the evening went on, and packed our leftovers with flair and consistency. He was funny and charming, despite being rather stoic to begin with.
All I can muster is 3 stars, Wu’s, for the aforementioned inconsistency. I’ll be back, but you’ve been around so long I doubt anything will be radically different.

I ordered take out to share with some friends and all of us agreed that the dishes looked and tasted very similar. The sauces and vegetables used in the dishes were also the same. Usually the dishes I ordered should have been quite different. Food was on the oily side too so I don’t plan on ordering from them again.
A10. DUMPLING IN HOT OIL ($ 4.95): This dish is supposed to be wontons mixed in hot sauce. Wonton skins were too thick and there was an odd peanut sauce flavor.
B4. HUNAN BEEF ($ 10.95): Completely not spicy when it should be. If you aren’t expecting any spice then it was an okay dish.
C9. MA-​LA CHICKEN ($ 10.50): Looked exactly like the Hunan beef dish with just the meat swapped out. I was really disappointed that there was absolutely no numbing ma-​la flavor.
S5. PRAWNS WITH MIXED VEGETABLE ($ 12.95): Sauce tasted the same as in B4 and C9. Prawns were bigger than I expected which was a nice surprise.
V2. SAUTÉED STRING BEAN ($ 9.75): My favorite dish but had a layer of oil at the bottom.
V7. BEAN CURD SZECHUAN STYLE ($ 9.95): Okay tasting tofu cubes in the restaurant’s standard brown sauce.

Wooooah Wu’s.
I am deducting a couple stars. I dont want to. But.
Ok. I know it was Christmas night and maybe they were unprepared for the onslaught of takeout and eat in diners.
This was just not a good experience. I called in food at 5:15 and was advised to pick it up in 30 minutes. At 5:45 I arrived to discover a milling throng of 20 or so people (people picking up takeout, people with reservations, people wanting to order takeout, and people wanting to be seated).
A poor discombobulated older lady was answering the phone, greeting people, and trying to match random tickets to bags of takeout (squinting at them unsuccessfully) while another lady scurried around seating people and bussing tables (hostesses should not bus tables).
After watching this for fifteen minutes, including observing one poor hungry man leave with no food after waiting for a long time for takeout that was apparently never prepared and he wasnt offered any apology or reparations, I suggested they call people’s names for the food they did have (5 – 6 bags) and that did clear out some people. Eventually a younger woman came and replaced the frantic woman and some order arose from the chaos. She wondered aloud why orders did not have phone numbers on the tickets, responses from the crowd indicated only about half the people had been asked for a number.
A bag of food for «Jason» sat there the whole time and was never retrieved.
I received my bag of food at 6:30. It was not hot and I have no doubt it was sitting in the kitchen for a while.
I got it home, and there was no rice in the bag with three entrees ordered. I’m not sure if I was supposed to order it separately or not but that was sad. The wonton (fake crab and creamed cheese) were not crispy any more (their carton was closed up which causes that), the orange beef was pasty and not orangey (strangely loaded with dried chiles and not spicy), the sweet and sour was kinda tasteless and I wanted to salt it (who salts Chinese food?), and the eggplant, well I dont like garlic eggplant without rice so its still sitting in my fridge… its probably ok. But I dont know. My daughter said her eggflower soup was ok. Not awesome.
The next night I got rice, crab rangoon, and angus beef from Panda Express. I was going to eat more of the Wu’s food. But in the end I decided not to. The Panda food was fresher, hotter, and more flavorful. We ate that.
Wu’s, I was so happy to have a new takeout option. But the food has to be good, hot when people get it, and you need a system up front. Hostess shows people to tables. Somone else answers phone. Someone else runs food from kitchen. None of those people bus tables. There should be a wait list so people are seated in the order they arrived. Names and numbers on all tickets. Apologies to people who’s orders were messed up.
Im not done trying but this was kinda not good. Oh Wu’s.Fix it. Please?

Stopped by for lunch. Tried the Kung Pao chicken with fried rice from the lunch special menu. It came with a cup of egg flower soup which was good. They also served hot tea along with water. The Kung Pao chicken tasted awesome and was not greasy like some places. The fried rice was also very flavorful. The waiters kept checking if the food was good. Need to try some of their other dishes.

Let me first say that I have been to China so I take my Chinese cuisine pretty seriously. I was hesitant to come here because it had just opened and I hadn’t heard anything, but I decided to take the risk and I am so thankful I did.
The atmosphere is very comfortable but also classy, great for groups but I think cozy enough even for dinner for one. The staff is very quick and very friendly, at least six different people asked how my meal was.
The menu is traditional, but with enough variety that I felt it had some things I couldn’t get anywhere else. I love that they have Peking duck and crispy whole fish! Just like in Beijing! Can’t wait to go back so I can order it again.
I ordered the sizzle plate and I was surprised when they brought the components to the table and assembled it right there, so I got to see the moment the food hit the iron and explode in aeromatic steam!
¹⁰⁄₁₀ will come back.