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    Hard Wok Cafe

    2.7 (15 reviews)
    InexpensiveChinese
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    5 months ago

    The crispy salt and pepper shrimp was basically fried batter, hardly any shrimp and cold. The egg rolls were cold.

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    3 years ago

    Good and hot and ample. Won't go hungry for sure! Would recommend to anyone that like Asian food.

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    4 years ago

    Decent fried rice. Didn't like the wonton soup. Bamboo Garden in Anderson is much better

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    9 years ago

    Very friendly! I always get the chicken lo mein or the salt and pepper shrimp. They are delicious.

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    This was my first time trying this Thai restaurant and I was extremely pleased. I had the wonderful…read moreconversation with the owner Helen. What a beautiful person. We had a lovely talk about food and how wonderful the food was. The food is authentic and spice can be adjusted. It was my bf first time having Pho and he would definitely be ordering it again. He ordered chicken pho and the broth was clean and flavorful. Had plenty of noodles and chicken in it. Came with bean sprouts, cilantro and jalapeno. Siracha and Hoisin sauce on side. Next we had the pork shumai. Boy was this delicious. Came with 5pcs and a delicious plum sauce. I definitely will order this again. Last I ordered the Sesame chicken. I would easily say the star of the show. The breading on the chicken was light and crispy with a perfect thick glaze sauce. The side of jasmine rice made it a great hearty meal. All in all it was a great meal and if you haven't tried it please support this local business.

    Stopped here for a lunch after visiting the Biltmore so we worked up an appetite. It's a pretty…read morecausal place with a good amount of seating and wasn't very busy. This place was a fusion of Asian foods so I'm usually a bit reluctant to order anything too crazy so we stuck with what we knew. Spring rolls were fresh and tasty. Haven't had it with bell peppers before but it was good with the sauces. Green curry had good flavor but a touch loose for how I usually like it. Ginger salad came really overdressed so we didn't eat too much of that but we really liked the cucumbers. Whatever that sauce it was tossed in was very pleasant. We also enjoyed the stir fried eggplant dish with shrimp. It had a nice sweet and tangy flavor. Lastly I ordered the pad see ew, noodles cooked really well and all the textures were there. I could taste the char from the wok but it did lack that "sweet soy" flavor I'm looking for in this dish. I would say overall we enjoyed most of the dishes and some just needed a bit more flavor but it was still a good experience.

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    Lunch specials on a Saturday? Say less! Easy parking. Prompt service. PLENTY of options. Great…read moreportion sizes. Excellent customer service. Clean restrooms. Superb flavor!!!

    Unquestionably, the Roti Canai is the delicious signature dish here. Tip: order an extra "pancake"…read moreor "roti". Roti is a general, broad (Sanskrit) term for any type of bread or flatbread, whereas "roti canai" is a specific, popular type of flaky, layered flat bread from Malaysia. This is served with a curry chicken sauce, but really there is not a lot if chicken, android the pancake is crispy, layered, fluffy, piping hot, and unbelievably good. The curry is like a butter chicken, Indian influenced curry. As mentioned, this is at heart a Malaysian restaurant but also served Chinese and Thai classics. Also unquestionably, the decor could use some serious help by the Restaurant Impossible crew. It feels cramped and like a Halloween costume of a Chinese or Asian restaurant, lacking any character or charm, almost a caricature. The service is attentive, but most likely students from nearby Furman University and less experienced, but nice. It is somewhat amusing to me for some reason when, mid-meal, the waitress arrives to the table with a pitcher of ice water and looks at our empty water glasses to ask "would you like more water?" It was lunchtime. Not very crowded. The roti was superb. The $4.00 "pork egg roll", howevre, was a single, skinny, overcooked, under stuffed appetizer with a thin duck sauce accompanying it and tasting like a commercially premade dish or a frozen selection from the grocer. Never to be ordered again. The main I chose was the chicken bulgogi lettuce wrap, which was served with romaine lettuce (not the classic cold, crunchy iceberg as at most places. The bulgogi was overly ratioed with diced water chestnuts in excess to the chicken pieces and it was also very sweet and nothing like classic bulgogi about it. The ingredients for bulgogi might be in this dish, but the composite wasn't the thinly sliced "fire meat" (what the word bulgogi means) I expected. It had chunky chicken, not slices and the sauce was overly sweet and gloopy (too much corn starch) and no heat spiciness. I really did not care to finish this dish. My wife had a serviceable Tom Yum soup that she said she would never order again. We do eat out frequently at Korean and Thai restaurants and these dishes really are not on the same level. But, the Roti Canai is so good, we will definitely be back to eat again. Five plus stars for Roti Canai.

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