Magic Wok

Birmingham, United States

3.8

16 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards

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Telephone:
+1 205-327-5000
Address:
401 19th St S, Birmingham, AL, 35233
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
390 ftNW Corner of 20th St S & 5th Av S
490 ftNW Corner of 20th St S & 4th Av S
490 ftSE Corner of 20th St S & 4th Av S
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Takes Reservations
No
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Lunch
Bike Parking
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
No
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
No
Waiter Service
No
Caters
No

Today

Today –
Local time (Birmingham) 17:56 Sunday, 1 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 10:30 am – 9:00 pm
Tuesday 10:30 am – 9:00 pm
Wednesday 10:30 am – 9:00 pm
Thursday 10:30 am – 9:00 pm
Friday 10:30 am – 9:00 pm
Saturday 10:30 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday –

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16 reviews of Magic Wok

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Place rating: 4
Childersburg, AL
I have eaten many dishes from here. Never disappointed. Quality food. Good prices. Always hot. Best egg rolls and spring rolls around. Great location. Parking is available in the back. Turn off 5th by Milos. Back door to milos, Magic Wok and Subway. Eaay walk from medical center.
2 big positives: 1) They still have Heavy duty forks. So many places, especially Chinese, have started using litlle, cheap flimsy fork. Good work. 2) They have the local CHRISTIAN RADIO station playing. Its kinda low volume so most probably dont even hear it. But I sure did.
Place rating: 2
Rockville, MD
It was hot, and I recognize that it is fast food Chinese, but can’t recommend. Got beef and broccoli — beef was so fatty and vegetables so overcooked I could hardly eat it. Maybe I chose poorly, but will not go back.
Place rating: 5
Birmingham, AL
I went there with my sister and we both ordered their Garlic Chicken & Kung Pao Empire. The food was super delicious, fresh, and hot! Large portion, super fast service, and the people were very friendly. Highly recommend Magic Wok if you’re in the downtown area.
Place rating: 4
Pelham, AL
I have tried several menu items and everything has been great so far. This is not a buffet and everything is cooked when you order. It comes out hot and fresh. They have a large selection on the menu and the portions are supersized. The staff is nice and the restaurant is clean. Don’t be confused, there is a small buffet restaurant on the next street over, but it is not as good. I call it the soggy buffet! Magic Wok is pretty darn good!
Place rating: 4
Atlanta, GA
Stopped by tonight to grab some quick dinner, and really enjoyed what I got.
Good quality food, very reasonable prices, and nice /​quick service
Egg rolls were like $ 1.50 or so, big and had a nice crispy texture and a good taste
The dumplings were very tasty and I loved how crispy they were as well, but they could be bigger. The soy ginger sauce that accompanied it was tasty.
The Mongolian beef was tender was a variety of big and smaller pieces and it came with onion and green onion, fried rice and an egg roll– all for under $ 9. I wish the mongolian beef had those crispy rice noodles on them, as those are my fav– but that’s a personal preference and it was otherwise really saucy and flavorful.
They brought my food to me as I waited in the dining room for my order, and it was probably 5 minutes or so for my food to come out.
Recommend!
Place rating: 3
Orlando, FL
Fast food Chinese food. The food was average, though it was fast, and you have to love fast.
Place rating: 3
Montgomery, AL
Trying to find a place to eat downtown (ish) and we saw this place among others across from the medical centre.
We ordered the sweet and sour chicken and Thai coconut curry chicken. We should have remembered that portions here are bigger than we are used to and we could have shared one.
Both dishes were average, other than their enormous serving size. The Thai dish, to me, tasted nothing like curry or coconut, but it wasn’t bad per se.
It was fast and the facility was clean. We would eat there again if in the area… but order only one plate.
Place rating: 3
Birmingham, AL
For a lunch spot this place is great. It is Americanized Chinese food which is okay sometimes thats what a girl wants. I love that the food is fresh and hot. Staff is friendly and the wait is not ridiculous which is important when you are grabbing lunch at the hospital. Solid place
Place rating: 5
Birmingham, AL
Fast and friendly service. Everything you order comes with an egg roll [or spring roll] and the rice is typically always fresh unless you come right before it closes. Pretty packed around lunch time because of the overwhelmingly large crowd of UAB hospital employees, but despite that the food comes very fast.
Place rating: 4
Birmingham, AL
Magic Wok is a great place for a quick lunch if you are working in the UAB medical campus. The food is reasonably priced and the service is quick. My personal favorite is the garlic chicken. The only caveat is that the utensils are plastic (not normally an issue, but my group had several broken plastic forks during our dining experience).
Place rating: 3
Pasadena, CA
Came here after a major fail of walking a half mile to a closed BBQ joint. Chinese food was the last thing I thought of eating after traveling 2000+ miles from Los Angeles. The food was surprisingly good, maybe I just had really low expectations?
I ordered the kung pao chicken. It comes with fried rice and a vegetable egg roll. All the ingredients seem fresh, but the overall taste was kind of bland. It seemed to be over powered by oyster sauce.
This place is quite clean and with quick service. If you’re visiting someone at the hospital, not a bad place to go to escape hospital food.
Place rating: 4
Eastside, Las Vegas, NV
Quick and will make the food the way you want it. It’s not the best in town but good enough for what’s available in the area. Their Mongolian beef is ok, but chicken is good. Beef dishes in general I haven’t been happy with. Just chicken dishes. Also I’ve had one issue where the egg roll was cold inside. But the owner took care of it right away and apologized. Unlike Hunan Cuisine where not even manager came up to me to apologize when I returned 4 egg rolls.
Place rating: 4
Birmingham, AL
This place improved the quality of their food tremendously! It was nothing special at all and frankly tasted bland but I think they are under new management now. They even have spicy dishes now like thai curry chicken. The portions are huge too and it would be quite a feat if you could finish it all in one sitting.
Place rating: 4
Birmingham, AL
Good lunch joint.
Good amount of food, at a good taste and a low price.
It doesn’t build up too much line, even in rush hours.
Nice and polite people. Clean and cool.
Nice lunch place
Place rating: 5
Montgomery, AL
Chinese comfort food whenever I’m in town. Get. The. Eggrolls. They’re like heaven in your face. Their menu items are a little more diverse than other typical places in Birmingham, for example, they have a lemon black pepper chicken I’ve been wanting to try, and I’ve never seen that at other places. This place literally satisfies my soul whenever I’ve had a bad day at work or class and just want to be comforted.
Place rating: 4
Birmingham, AL
Located in the heart of the UAB «walk to lunch» area, Magic Wok offers Chinese food freshly cooked to order and served fast. There is no buffet or steam table but to me that’s a plus. Cooked to order means no soggy food and the ability to specify certain items be added or deleted from the dish. And if, like me, you are sensitive to the MSG used extensively in most Chinese restaurants, they will happily leave it out on request. The food has been consistently good, the service is always friendly, and there are a few tables outside if you like.
Oh, and one more thing… This place is always spotlessly clean. When someone leaves a table an employee is there almost immediately to spray with cleaner and wipe the dirty table (not just wipe it down with a dirty wet cloth).