Ho Wah

This is great Chinese food. The pot stickers are excellent, the service is excellent. What’s not to love? Our favorite East side Asian place. I

Been here a few times. Service was forgetful but very pleasant. Food was just a bit better than the typical shitty take out. Egg rolls were very good. Prices a little high.

Basic Americanized bland Chinese Food. Tastes like P.F. Chang’s Frozen Entrees from Target.
Service is good. Portions are large. No shrimp egg rolls!!!
If you want more taste for your $, drive a little further to Hunan of Solon or if you want real Chinese, drive to the Siam Café.

I always seem to go back to Ho Wah once a year that I have lived in Cleveland, most recently with my wife and mother-​in-​law. If Ho Wah could ever improve their service and drop their prices a couple bucks per entrée they would stand a very good chance at a 4 star review, because their food can be really good. In particular, I think their Mu-​shu pork or chicken is very good and so is the Mongolian beef. The food always tastes freshly made and hot, but a lot of the dishes all taste the same, like they are made with the exact same sauces, or at least the same base. Really hard to enjoy/​differentiate a Kung Pow, Cashew or hunan chicken that all taste the same except for one does not have nuts in it. Parking is plentiful at La-​Place and when you want dessert… face it you are always hungry 30 minutes after you eat Chinese. You can head right up the escalator to Mitchell’s Ice Cream.

I used to go here once a week for pad thai. Last time I went for lunch and the pad thai was so bad I couldn’t eat it. Lunch cooks are ruining it. Service was horrible too. Here’s a clue– if a customer leaves without eating more than one bite and doesn’t take it to go– then there is a problem.

Service was great but the food me and my companion ordered was very salty and unappetizing. I was very disappointed and won’t be back anytime soon, save your money and go to another place for Chinese food.

Quick and fast food. Food was average. Pricey for take out. Pot stickers spongy per hubby.

Service is poor but food is great. Wor Dip Har (butterfly shrimp), the gauge by which I judge Chinese restaurants, is a tad better than average. No Dim Sum. Portions are better than skimpy, but not overly generous. Prices are slightly above average making value dubious.

Took the family there because it has better décor inside than others in the area. But what a sad example of Chinese food. I was the only Asian customer there as my wife is white. The Chinese wait staff just stared at me and wondered why an Asian person would want to eat there.
Well, the food is so Americanized that it may as well serve pizza or burgers, cause every dish has the mystery brown sauce like cheap tomato paste on pizza and mystery ground meat in a burger. The only redeeming factors are good service and not the stereotypical looking cheap Chinese glorified takeout join.
Now that there is a great and authentic Chinese restaurant (Sezchuan Café) at Asia Town, I will not be coming back!

I try to give honest ratings on here and I do not like to give ratings lower than a three, but I have to report we were not impressed at all. General Tso chicken should be spicy and the chicken should be done at least a little crispy. We ordered lunch, and according to their website, where we got the number to call, was WAY off on pricing. 3 General Tso lunch specials and 3 bowls of wanton soup should have been $ 25 according to the website. The price we were given was $ 37. We asked why such a difference, they had no clue even though we said the website was different. We were still charged the $ 37.
When we went and picked up the take out and returned to work to eat in the break room. We opened the containers and I was surprised to find two dried out scoops of rice and some battered pieces of chicken and about 5 pieces of broccoli in a brown sauce. The chicken was soggy and the sauce lacked flavor and NO heat. The wanton soup was like chicken flavored water with no flavor. The wanton’s were good, but thats it. VERY blan.
Would we go back: Probably not.
Would we recommend: Probably not
Looking through the other posts this seems to be the norm… Jeff B in 2011 reported the same thing. «Definite Meh. If you like under seasoned, overly thick sauces, and bland soups, this place is for you»

The food is delicious, fast and plenty. Not sure why such low ratings. The service was great and it’s even family friendly.

Went for X-​mas even and the food made good left over but nothing to write home about. Also they had a whole list of food items they ran out of.

I can’t understand these low ratings others are giving. Ho Wah is my favorite chinese restaurant. I now live in the Chicago area and I still crave Wor Sue Gai and the egg drop soup withe the shrimp chips. Love it! I lived on the west side but still drove out to Beachwood when I had a craving or had a rough day at work. The waitresses knew me on sight and some even knew my order before it came across my lips. Between the food, which was consistently good, and the people, I count Ho Wah among my top 10 restaurant experiences and I will go back every chance I get.

Fried rice they brought us was simply spoiled, caused 2 day diarrhea but nothing serious.

Had friends tell me this place was the best!!! We ordered take out. Now to me general tso’s chicken is a staple food, but it was average, it really didn’t have flavor or season to me. And to get Carry and pay over thirty dollars, not worth it. This was my first time and maybe I’ll try again one day, but first impressions are everything. Maybe I’ll try something different

I’m going to have to disagree with some of these lower rated reviews. Ho Wah is very good, freshly prepared Chinese food. Its a good break from the crappy «China One’s» of the world that operate a crappy lunch buffet for cheap. This is a giant step up from that — Its been in business for 30 due to consistent quality, attentive management, and cleanliness. Just try the orange chicken!

First time we decided to get food here, First thing we had to eat was the wonton soup that had NO flavor. Next we had the best Crab Rangoon we ever had. Finally the main course orange chicken was terrible, it was hard to eat and we had to put more then half in the garbage… will not eat the EVER again! Only reason it got one star was because of the Crab Ragoons.

Although I live close to this restaurant, I have never went into this restaurant. I finally gave in the other weekend and my bf and I went in to try this restaurant.
It’s the fact that it’s an Americanized Chinese restaurant. I always walk by here on my way to caribou or Mitchells, but… meh.
The décor is nice. The tables are nice as well. We ordered the orange chicken and the honey walnut shrimp. Oh man– both of them came out overly fried– so much breading. Way too much breading. After two bites, I was already full.
The waitstaff, on the other hand, were definitely very attentive. If you want fast food Chinese food, this is the place to go. If you want authentic, definitely not your place.

Definite Meh. If you like under seasoned, overly thick sauces, and bland soups, this place is for you. Its what Chinese food was like 20 – 30 years ago, you know served with metal lids. The egg rolls are pretty good!
The portions are decent, but a little overpriced compared to my favs! The service is pretty efficient. This place has been here since the beginning of my time! It kind of has a cult following definitely an Orange, Pepper Pike, and Beachwood crowd.

I’ve been to this restaurant about 3,4 times this year and I can’t even name a dish to try. The food was decent, but it wasn’t authentic and not a restaurant I’d think to recommend to my friends.
If you are just looking for a typical chinese restaurant or a semi-​fast bite to eat restaurant or just reallyy craving chinese restaurant, then this is the place to me. But if you’re visiting and craving authentic chinese food, you probably don’t want to end up her.
PROs: cheap, good service, friendly staff, food comes out quick
CONs: not authentic food