Wild Ginger China Bistro

Went back recently for an early dinner. About 4pm.
Place was empty. Food was as good as always! I got Szechuan green beans and it was dynamite! The only reason for ⁴⁄₅ was since we were the only ppl there the flies wouldn’t leave us alone.

If this restaurant were in a different location people would flock to it specifically for their sushi. Sadly its surrounded by chain fast foods places (cracker barrel, chipotle, steak n shake, panera and more) so its always a dead atmosphere. The dynamite roll was seriously delicious. My boyfriend had the pad thai and wasn’t very impressed as it was a little «too saucy» and the sauce itself was a little watery. Otherwise, I will definitely go back — for the sushi if nothing else.

Horrid food!!! I shouldn’t have to add a TBSP of soy sauce to my food so that I can actually taste it. Me and husband are actually a little worried that we could get food poisoning here.
The tables and floor were dirty. And the food lacked any flavor. I didn’t mind that we were the only ones here… But I would at least enjoy some flavor in my food.
We ended up ordering:
Chicken lettuce wraps
Szechwan chicken
Mongolian beef

This place used to be SO GOOD. Sadly over the past few years its really not stood up to previous visits. The sushi was always fresh, but no longer. The dinners were seasoned well and presented nicely, but recently they have been over salted and kind of sloppy. Not sure what happened, but its been months since we’ve visited and I dont think we will return.

Omgosh!!! The food was not to live for but the sushi was!!! The dishes were not clean and the waiter was too old to be waiting tables. The greeters clothes were dirty but I like how involved she was with making sure we got something delicious. We did… the sushi.

There were a few things that could make this place great, and some things that could not change.
The best thing about this place is that it is warming and very friendly. I enjoyed the food though it was very Americanized. The portions were big and very filling, leaving a lot to take home which is always good. I say it is a good bang for your buck! I came with 3 other people and the food arrived promptly. The server was very fast giving us refills and the check when we were done. The aesthetics are pleasing also.
That brings me to the next point…
The menus were pretty dirty and sticky, and so were the glasses. No traditional music was playing and I just didn’t feel like I was actually at a Chinese restraunt.
Besides some stuff being sticky, dirty, and no tradition music was playing everything else was great.
I will return Tuesday for the half off sushi, I can’t wait to try it out!
One more edit: The atmosphere is cool, but there isn’t many people here… I think the only reason for that is location.

I love Wild Ginger, despite all their faults. Yes, it is always empty. Yes, the service is slow. And yes the service is slow, including if you order take out. But the food is fantastic for what it is.
Yes, it’s typical Americanized Chinese food. You’re not going to find traditional Chinese food here and honestly I’m unsure if there are any restaurants like that in our area.
The atmosphere is absolutely wonderful inside. Rice lanterns everywhere and it’s very modern and clean.
To me, the food is hit or miss but the stuff that is a hit is really good! Their general tso’s and sweet and sour chicken are both really good, and I love their fried rice — It has an interesting sweet taste to it. The dumplings, both fried and steamed, are awesome and their wonton soup is the best I’ve had.
Their chicken lo mein has a good flavor but is so overwhelmingly greasy I find it hard to eat. And their egg rolls are honestly the worst I’ve ever had and too heavy of a hand on the pepper.
All in all, it’s my favorite Chinese joint. Yes, it’s typical american style Chinese, but it’s better quality and taste than your average take out joint.

Very good food. Had the pad Thai and it was really spot on. The jasmine tea is Devine and the chicken dumplings were also great. Some of the best miso soup I’ve tasted in awhile. Service was quite slow but as they have a sign out looking for a new server, I will not let it reflect too hard on the score :)

In the great tradition of Chinese food during the holidays we went to catch a bite late Christmas Eve. Admittedly the resturant only had two 10+ parties but they mercifully stayed open. This place does the whole gambit of Asian cuisine well; pad thia, sushi, Singapore noodles, salmon ragoon, and General Taos chichen. It seems that every dish had that extra something to elivate it to the very good level. The ever flowing pots of tea were also a respite from a cold windy night.

Wow.
I don’t know how this place even stays open! The food here is so lousy & it hasn’t always been that way. I remember going here during the first year it was open & the food was very good. It started to go downhill since then. The service is very slow too which I don’t understand because there’s nobody even here in a Saturday night! Not only that, the dishes don’t come out all at the same time. You have to wait 10 or so mins to get each dish it seemed like. Don’t bother getting anything with seafood in it because it won’t be fresh.

ok i have lived in california for a period of time. i am use to the more ethnic flavors and going into a place to eat where the menus did not have one lick of english on them. forks and spoons were a special request. this place is very good. considering its on ohio. one of the best places i have been to. if you want a close taste to what asian food should be like go here. i read the reviews and was so sad for what other people who have never tasted the real thing thought. the hot and sour soup was not sweet yeah, not as hot and eye watering as i have had it before but for ohio the best i have had so far, good job, the crab ragoon was not sweet either. thank you for not falling into american ideals. i got sushi which was awsome. i chose the eel cause it is my fav. which was just so good they do have a few sushi items with cream cheese. but i guess they have to cater to those who have no clue. but i i stayed away from those because i know better. what i did order was great.
the staff was great.
this place was empty when i showed up which was a shame because if you want something close to real asian food you should eat here. not what what has been adapted for american taste. i noticed most ppl from out of state gave it higher reviews. trust in them. this place is really good.

Not sure how this place stays in business other than the Half Price sushi deal on Tuesdays. Sushi is decent for the price (on Tuesday), wonton soup was pretty good. Everything else is basically no better than greasy Chinese take out food. We ordered the Kun Pow Tofu which was absolutely flavorless, just spicy heat without taste. The tofu tasted like it had been fried ahead of time and then thrown into the vegetables and what they call ‘sauce’ (read: cornstarch and cayenne pepper.) Thai Basil Chicken was a little better, but not much. Still lacking flavor, drowning in cornstarch, but still better than the Kun Pow. Vegetarian Pad Thai and Fried Rice are better choices. Skip this one and get take out from one of the hundreds of Chinese places in the area.

Food is so fresh… not like most chinese restaurants. Great sushi and chinese food. They will pretty much make anything you ask. Wish they had delivery though

Great place. Good customer service. Not so much people when I came here. However, it’s a hard place to find because it’s behind everything. Food’s good. Mongolian Beef rocks!

I’ve now been here three times. The food is okay but the service seems to be very, very slow. Today I went with 7 girlfriends for an anti-Valentine’s Day dinner. They didn’t have enough menus to give to everyone. Each time I’ve gotten the same thing: An order of the worlds smallest crab rangoon and the honey pecan chicken. At the risk of sounding like a size queen, the crab rangoon are VERY small in my opinion and have little filling. The honey pecan chicken is good. The one highlight is the plum wine. Yum! I’m sure I’ll be back… and when I do go back, I’m sure I’ll question why I did… *sigh* …the story of my life.

Please, someone tell me how in the world this place stays in business?
I’ve been here a few times and always seem to be the only person dining here. Unless it’s a front for a mob operation, or they do a killer drive/​thru & carry out service, I just don’t see how they are still around.
I mean the food is decent, heck for this town it’s amazing Chinese food. I’m highly skeptical of their sushi, I just don’t see how they could cycle through enough of it to be fresh.
Otherwise, I’d return, I’d just hope others would be there.

1.5 stars. Meh, I’ve experienced way better.
After finding that the Korean and sushi place in Parma were closed on Sundays (why oh why???), we quickly looked on Unilocal,looking for an Asian place to go. Having passed Wild Ginger by the entrance of the freeway before, I said, why not? And off we went.
It’s a nice restaurant– not your typical authentic Chinese restaurant which is usually small and kind of dirty. Also, their food wasn’t very authentic at all. Sigh. I don’t even know why I had hopes it might be good.
First, my friend ordered all calamari. It was completely a deep fried … thing. None of us couldn’t even find the calamari in these big pieces of deep friedness. Bleh bleh.
Next the entrees:
Singapore noodles: Usually I love singapore noodles. But man, here… it wasn’t flavorful and just kind of… blah.
Sesame Prawns and Scallops: That actually was okay. Still… not authentic, but that was alright.
Chow fun– um no. I’m Canto– and those were NOT Cantonese noodles. The noodles were these weird skinny consistency, and it seemed like they cooked with dow see. I mean, I love dow see, and I like it with the fish in the can it comes with, but… ummm…on chow fun? I think not.
The service was rather slow– and there was only one other party in the entire restaurant at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon. And our water wasn’t getting refilled. Boo.
Yeah, not a fan. Maybe if you like the non-​traditional stuff, go ahead… but if you like authentic Chinese places, this is not the place to go. I should have known when she started recommending the General Tso’s chicken (which is NOT a typical Canto dish, by the way… ugh).

I came here on half priced sushi night. I appreciated that it was inexpensive and I was actually able to get a table. It really wasn’t anything special though. A little of a disappointment after just eating at Sushi Rock two nights before. If it weren’t for that perhaps I would’ve liked it more. I was also a little disappointed on the lack of choices in sushi. I wanted a little more. The one roll that I really did enjoy a lot was the spicy beef.
They have a wide variety of other things on their menu which is awesome, but I didn’t have the chance to sample too much. I did have the vegetable tempura and dumplings and was disappointed in both. Both seemed kind of greesy. I’d give it another try though.

My wife and I came here with a couple of friends who recommended the place. We went on a Tuesday for the half-​price sushi and were disappointed.
The service was really bad. There were large delays between sitting down and ordering drinks and between ordering our drinks and actually getting them and then between getting our drinks and ordering our food and then ordering our food and actually getting our food. Even after waiting nearly 30 minutes for our food to come, my wife still got her food about five minutes after the rest of us.
I have only been to a couple of sushi places on their half-​price night, but this was the only one where «half-​price» also meant «half-​the-​fish». I’m talking seriously meager portions.
Another strike against them came when I realized their Philly roll wasn’t even made with smoked salmon (they used imitation crab). Philly rolls are one of my favorites, so I was kind of bummed.
Meh.

Great Chinese food!
We ordered from Food Fetchers tonight. The pictures on the website and on Unilocal look so NICE. This definitely seemed like a P.F. Chang’s stepchild. Not that I’ve ever been to P.F. Chang’s. But whatever. It seemed nice, and a little unconventional, with several different Asian cuisines available. (I would have liked to have tried the sushi, as I am always on the lookout for good sushi in the Cleve, but I have a strict no-​takeout sushi policy. I could explain that, but i won’t.)
I ordered my go-​to meal I always have when trying a new place, for the comparison factor: wonton soup and chicken with broccoli. Bo-​ring!
The soup gets a 2.5. There was tons of crap in it, and unnecessary crap at that. I don’t want greens in my soup! Was it seaweed? Or kale? I dunno. There were too many scallions. The broth wasn’t flavorful enough. The meat in the wontons was weird. Etc.
However, the chicken with broccoli gets a 5! Delicious and plentiful. It had white sauce, but no carrots or water chestnuts (gag!), for which I was thankful. Also, the rice was steamed perfectly. No hard and crunchy rice here.
My husband had lettuce wraps, which LOOKED dumb (iceberg? Really?) but tasted GREAT! And he also had a really healthy and good looking salad, the jerk. Making me feel bad about myself.
All in all, very good! Very fresh tasting, not greasy in the least. It seemed… what…healthy. I’ll take it.