Shun Won Chinese Restaurant

Great place for traditional chinese breakfast as well as roast pork. Prices are affordable.

Best congee I had so far. Big Wong’s congee used to be my no.1, but Shun Won definitely beat him now!

Not many Cantonese restaurants left in Flushing. This one is related to Shun Wang Restaurant in Elmhurst, NY.
They have similar menus. Only difference is that this restaurant have breakfast items, and the service is much better here. This restaurant is larger and more inviting.
Always, take out for lunch and dinner at the one located in Elmhurst, NY.
Once an order is placed and it is ready in a very short amount of time.
Will be back again here and try out their breakfast items.

Very busy place (lunch Saturday 1pm). Need to be assertive to getting a table — otherwise quick service. Dishes came out really really fast. Food is good for quick meals. I need to come back and try other dishes and update this review.

I really enjoy their breakfast and lunch food, when it came to dinner time the food wasn’t as good. Perhaps it was a night shift chef or a substitute chef? Their congee is very good and is perfectly salted.
I ordered pork and thousand years old congee, and my wife ordered the pork, squid combo congee and it was just amazing for the both of us. Just note that the congee is really hot and you’ll have to let it cool down a bit, otherwise you’ll burn yourself.
This restaurant is cash only, so keep that in mind when coming here. Everything on the menu is a reasonable price.

Shun Won Chinese Restaurant maybe the only Cantonese restaurants I ate in Flushing from my numerous visit to the area.
I kind of like the «Old School» friendly vibe. Sharing table is almost a must during prime lunch hour if you are a party of 2.
We shared:
— BBQ Pork and Roasted Duck (I like the thin and crispy skin of the duck)
— Fried Dough (Meh)
— Fried Noodle with Bean Sprout (Meh)
— Congee with Thousand Year Egg and Pork ((Meh: love the excessive ginger but the texture is gluey)
I suggest sticking with their BBQ. I had their roasted pork to go and the skin so crispy and well seasoned.
Not surprisingly most people is here getting takeout!

Lukewarm service is an essential part of Cantonese places like Shun Won. It’s not a Taiwanese place with warmth of a mother’s chatter, and it’s not a Northeastern Chinese place with close friends’ banter. It’s Cantonese service with a shot of cold realism, followed by little warmth coming up towards the very end when they collect the money. You got hot food in lightning speed for an insanely low price– I am okay with the indifference.
Regulars like my family could not walk away from their porridges (along with fried doughs and fried ox-​tougue), chang funs, Wonton noodles, beef brisket noodles, and their roast selection. However, there are less-​stellar items you should think before you order. I am particular about the rice they serve, and Shun Won uses the same rice for the porridge and the rice dishes. While their porridge is silky smooth to the perfection, their steam rice has a unflattering texture that disintegrate with no chewing. Bummer.

By far the best congee in Flushing, NY. The bbq ribs, fried dough, roast pork are decent. Highly recommend this place if you ever visit the area.

Hit or miss kinda place. I go here occasionally or the Elmhurst location when I’m looking for a quick bite. Same owners I believe. The food is inconsistent which is why I’d rank that 3 stars but everything else is fine.
FOOD ³⁄₅
Like I said, the food is pretty inconsistent. Some days, I go and the food is the best it can get. Other days, there is room for improvement. Yesterday I ordered congee, fried dough cruller, and roasted pork and duck over ho fun (wide rice noodles). Food was lukewarm at best, and the roasted meat was slightly overcooked and really fatty.
SERVICE ⁴⁄₅
I go here enough that they know my family. Always really friendly and for the most part attentive. They have a plenty of people working so service is quick.
ATMOSPHERE ⁴⁄₅
Typical Cantonese restaurant. You have your roasted/​BBQ display in the front, seating in the back, and lots of shouting people in between. The place is pretty clean and you have a good amount of small and large tables. It’s a great place for family dinners as well.
PRICE ⁵⁄₅
Great prices, then again Chinese places are only so expensive. It’s right in line with other places in the area and you can grab a quick lunch for less than $ 10.

I had wonton + roast duck noodle soup and ha-​cheung. both were really fresh and tasty. the wontons were big and had a decent size shrimp in each of them. definitely will go back again for more of those items.

2 stars purely for the dine in experience.
Ordered the house special congee, char siu (bbq roast pork) lo mein, fried dough, and basil wrapped noodle.
Let’s start with what went wrong. First is the worst… The basil noodle came. Took a bite and there was still dirt on the basil veggies! I don’t think I’ve ever sent anything back but this was immediately sent back. Ordered the dried shrimp noodle and that was average. Second is certainly not the best. Service. I don’t expect much in flushing but eh, this was a bit more subpar than flushing Chinese restaurant expectations. The fried dough was not brought along with the congee, like every other restaurant knows to do. We had to ask for it after we realized it wasn’t coming after the congee came. The waiter spilled tea on the table. He was nice about it and did attempt to clean… But that was pretty much it. He took away the plate and spilled cup but never brought us new ones.
The food was. okay. Like it’s not bad but it’s not anything special either. I do know this place is popular for their take out of the roasted meats. Stick to that.

Woo Hoo~! Finally, more authentic Cantonese food has arrived in the heart of Flushing! I am beyond happy that I get to order my favorite Thousand Year Egg Congee, Zha Leung, and Pan-​Fried Soy Sauce Noodle for breakfast without trooping all the way to Chinatown or Brooklyn. I also like their Roast Pork, Roast Pig, Roast Duck, and Soy Sauce Chicken for dinner. The Wonton Noodle Soup is also good for lunchtime. The menu has everything you want! Must you be warned — the service can be slower than other places because they do have a lot of customers on a daily basis. Just be patient — good food come to those who wait~! =)

The fat guy with glassed has a temper problem. i flagged him down for the check and he said, «can’t you see im busy? I’m taking order for this table». WTF? Sure, stay busy, cause you ain’t getting the tips.
Food was mediocre at best. Roast duck and Chasiu sucked pretty bad.

My mother told me about a new place that serves roasted meat and that it was good so I came to try it and never again. It doesn’t taste good in my opinion and I hate that they put all the sauces on the meat already when it should’ve been on this side like how corner 28 does it. The 3 meat choice was also so much $. $ 8 and change damnnnn. Corner 28 is cheaper, tastes way better and they give you a free bottle of water.

Great Cantonese cuisine! Very affordable too. Came here to celebrate my friend Eva ‘s birthday. Food was delicious & tasty. We ordered Braised Tofu, Shrimp Lomein for Long life & Triple delight, Roast Pork, Barbecued Duck & Chicken.
Service was prompt & the waitress was very pleasant. Located right next to the Queens Library in Flushing. Easy commute to the subway & buses.
Place was cozy & clean. Would u go back? Definitely!

Gf got sick over the weekend and we decided to get something soupy. Nice big Cantonese restaurant located on the main street side of the library. Wontons are big and a hearty amount of «hor fun» noodles to the point where we struggled to finish the bowl. The wait staff plentiful, attentive, and friendly. Good cheap meal alternative to eating American fast food.
Not many restaurants like this in Flushing. Similar menu to Big Wong in China Town. So happy to have an authentic Cantonese rest like this in Flushing. Will come back to try their other menu options.

Decent cantonese food in Flushing. There’s a branch in elmhurst and is also related to the Dai Wong (Big Wong) branch in Manhattan Chinatown. Majority of the food in Flushing is «mandarin cuisine» or non-​canto food, so it’s good that there’s a place like this in Flushing. Also, this is a good place if you’re not a fan of spicy foods.
The restauarant format is like the Elmhurst location. You can sit in or take out and there’s a section where they showcase the hanging bbq meats. But given the location, it can be hectic/​crowded. The type of congee they serve includes fried cellophane noodles (which gives good texture and thickness), and you can order this anytime during business hours (some places only offer it in the morning-​early afternoon). Honestly, you can’t really find a place with this taste and style in Flushing, which is a shame because Flushing used to have a lot of canto places to eat but the area is shifting/​changing.
I encourage people to go during off hours or buy food to go. As I’ve mentioned, it can be crazy crowded. I came on a Saturday around 11:30pm and it was crowded. A lot of elderly Chinese customers, an old lady grazed my butt to ask a waiter for a table. The employees here all speak a mixture of languages (english/​cantonese/​mandarin/​taishanese) if you listen closely they kind of mix up all the languages up sometimes.
One unique thing about this place is that they offer char sieu cheung fun (roast pork wrapped in rice noodles). They also offer jia leurng (fried cruller wrapped in rice noodle). Saw a cook carry 2 huge trays of freshly fried crullers. The restaurant overall is bright, also expect to share a table with other customers.

Newly opened cantonese diner style restaurant. Much like the Big Wong or Wing Wong in chinatown. In my recollection, flushing does not have anything this close, in terms of taste, to the chinatown versions. The dishes are big, and very well priced. The waiters very very nice and refilled our teapot multiple times, one even came over and poured tea for us-​which never happens! Very glad flushing finally has this cuisine now, great for a quick bite and I will definitely be returning!

Came here first day with my husband and mother in law for dinner yesterday. The service was not even decent. No management on the floor. Some of the waiters and waitresses looked confused. The prices on the menu looked decently cheap but the portion is small. Don’t be fool!
You see other customers waiting to be seated for a long time and others leaving at the same time. Other customers who are seated… have to wave many times to TRY to get the waiters’ attention. There are about 13 tables and 4 – 5 waiters and waitresses altogether. Wow! I’ve never seen this bad service before… Besides watching it on tv.
I thought to ordered the roast duck noodle soup plus roast pork. The waitress said if I add one additional meat to the noodle… It would cost $ 3.00– Dag! That’s expensive! I thought it would be additional $ 1.00 but it’s not at this Shun Won Restaurant in Flushing. Then, I just ordered roast duck with noodle soup. The portion was small for $ 5.50. They gave me good pieces of duck and it was okay. Can’t compare the food portion in Chinatown, Manhattan. My husband ordered the small dish of roast pork– $ 7.50, one salted fried bread which tasted stale for $ 1.25 and one wonton noodle soup for $ 5.00. My mother in law ordered the beef stew & wonton with Ho fun $ 7.00 and one order of Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce. The Chinese broccoli was not even rinsed well. We’ve tasted the dirt. How could that dish be service??? It was bad.
This place is good for a quick take out and not a dine in place. Hope this place improves their business and learn to manage better.

Cantonese restaurants are disappearing from Flushing one at a time. There are few and far between now. Which is pretty sad for a Cantonese person like myself. My favorite Cantonese places in Flushing are all completely gone when I visited Flushing a few weeks ago. Where have they all gone!!! I was only absent from Flushing for a few years. So when I saw Shun Won today, I was glad to see it.
Flushing need more Cantonese restaurants like Shun Won. It’s cheap and very tasty. The restaurants with hanging ducks in the window are starting to be a distant memory, so thank goodness for Shun Won.
The bulk of the «over rice» dishes fall in the $ 5.25 to $ 6.00 range. The barbecue meats like roast pig, roast pork, roast duck or soy sauce chicken over rice start at $ 5.25. Congee (rice porridge) is sold here and it falls mostly between $ 4.25 to $ 5.75. Soup noodles like wonton noodles is $ 5. If you top your soup noodles with wontons and barbecue meats, it goes up to $ 7. As an added bonus Shun Won makes fresh steamed rice rolls in the morning for breakfast only. My favorite rice rolls are roast pork, beef, minced dried shrimp (which too bad I am allergic to now) and fried bread rice rolls which has a fried savory cruller inside a rice roll… YUM!
The owners of Shun Won are the old owners of Wing Wong that was on Lafayette Street in Chinatown Manhattan many many many years ago. It was over 20 years ago! Wing Wong used to make a wicked Cantonese style Chow Mein (noodle dish). I also used to like Wing Wong’s fried chicken wings when it was in Chinatown Manhattan. They closed the Wing Wong in Chinatown Manhattan and opened up a Shun Won in Elmhurst. Now they are opening a second store in Flushing, YAY. I have to try the wings at Shun Won in Flushing or Elmhurst one day to see if it’s the same as I remembered it from Chinatown Manhattan. The Flushing location is huge compared to the Elmhurst location. Just the dining area is more than twice the size of Elmhurst. Thank goodness! The Elmhurst location is too tiny for the amount of business they take in. The Flushing looks way more comfortable than Elmhurst. The parking in either location is hard. It’s the nature of the neighborhood.
I am definitely coming back here for more Chinese takeout because it’s familiar and cheap. Yay for hanging ducks in the window. I guess when I want to dine in Flushing, this is going to be one of my go-​to places for this type of Cantonese food.