Top Wok

Unfortunately this isn’t a good review. My friend and I were trying to decide on where to eat and decided that even though this place didn’t have the highest ratings, it was nearby so we thought we’d give it a try. The waitress was very nice and our order was taken quite quickly.
As many other people mentioned, there were very few if any people in the restaurant when we were there. I’m starting to think the hostess was so quick to take our order so we wouldn’t walk out.
Our food was so poor we spent the first ten minutes just trying to figure out what it tasted like; we agreed on gasoline. I’m a big fan of Americanized Chinese food and my standards aren’t that high but this was not good. We would never go back.
My friend and I cringe anytime we mention that one time we ate at Top Wok. If they don’t recommend this review and it doesn’t affect their score, please don’t make the same mistake I did! This restaurant’s average should be at most 2.5 stars!

Solid option among the limited Chinese restaurants in north Meridian. Took a gamble after the varying reviews on Unilocal.Ordered 6 dishes or so for pick-​up and it was ready in 20 minutes. All 6 dishes were great. Very friendly service as well. I’ll definitely be going back.

I can’t say this is my favorite Chinese restaurant in town, but I LOVE their hot & sour soup. If you are a big fan of Chinese hot & sour soup, you’ve got to try this place. I normally get a large soup to go with their hot sauce.
The lunch usually comes with hot & sour soup on Tuesdays and Fridays, egg drop soup on other days.
They claim that they don’t use MSG on their food, which is great. I just wish they have more tasty things on the menu — Broccoli beef, sweet and sour chicken, and fried rice are good.
Overall, although most of the stuff on the are just average, I do feel like they deserve a 4-​star rating for the exceptional hot & sour soup in town. Again, you must check this place out if you are a fan of hot&sour soup!

Ordered Cashew Nut Chicken and Vegetable Chow Mein as take-​out. Both were incredibly bland. I’ll also note that the portion of steamed rice was pretty measly — more appropriate for my toddler than for two adults.

Their hot and sour soup is very good. It’s thick and very flavorful.

Friday night at 6 they have one customer! Got mine to go. No chop sticks for to go orders could not even buy some. Very Rude.
Sweet and sour pork was so dry I had to toss it out. Fried rice had very little flavor.
Save your money Panda is 100% better and I’m not a big fan of theirs… Lol

If you are looking for a reasonably priced lunch choice, this is a good place. Lunch specials are around $ 6 and are substantial. The food is freshly cooked and comes out nice and hot. It’s Cantonese so a little more bland than usual Asian food. The service is good and prompt.
The special yesterday was Chicken Chow Mein, Pork Fried Rice, and Sweet and Sour Chicken with a first course of Hot and Sour Soup. The latter I’ve had in other restaurants and I think the version here is better — -spicy with a little more body!
It’s good to have a variety of foods in this little shopping strip on Chinden Blvd. And if you need a quick lunch, this is a healthy tasty option!

Have been eating here for 15-​years, it’s our Go-​To Chinese restaurant in the area. The food is consistently very good and service is prompt. The lunch specials are priced very well without sacrificing quality /​quantity. As for recommendations, I have had most everything they have on the menu and found it all to be good, can’t go wrong with whatever you fancy.

My almond chicken tasted like fish. I still ate it. It’s mediocre at best. I’d recommend going somewhere else.

Best hot and sour soup EVER!!! We have been getting take out here for years now. The owners are genuinely nice poeple. The food is very good… best Chinese we have found in Boise.

The best Chinese food in Boise bar none. You can pay more but you will not find finer taste and quality.

We wanted to like this place — it’s close by, not a buffet, and obviously a mom & pop operation. The menu was the standard stuff but we weren’t expecting innovative culinary masterpieces, just good basic weeknight Chinese food. Prices seemed about right for this type of restaurant.
We had the place to ourselves (not a good sign, even on a Wednesday) and during our visit only one person stopped in for take-​out. The hostess seemed nice enough, seated us promptly and came quickly to take our orders. We ordered an appetizer platter, wanting to sample a wide variety of their offerings, and two entrees. No tea was offered and we didn’t ask.
Portion sizes were ample, but the entrees arrived too soon after the appetizers, which is a big no-​no in our books, making us feel rushed and forcing a decision whether to abandon the appetizers or let the entrees get cold. (Maybe they were overcompensating for the complaint about long wait times?)
As for the quality, it’s not that the food was assertively bad, just basically tasteless. A bit under-​seasoned and oily. Nothing at all stood out. Honestly, we’ve had better Chinese food from the microwave. It gets 2 stars because they seem like decent people and because we reserve the single stars for food we just can’t force down. This was edible… but we didn’t bother taking home the leftovers. Our search continues.

Top Wok is a family-​owned place, started and maintained by a wonderful Chinese immigrant couple. They are living the American dream, coming over with nothing, scraping up savings by working for others, then starting their own shop a couple decades ago. The wife manages the front, and her husband is the chef. The owners are quiet, gracious hosts that take pride in each and every dish that is served. We’ve seen their daughter through the years grow up as she’d play in one of the corner areas while her parents slaved away. I recall talking with the owner after about 5 years into their business, when the big Chinese Buffet moved in down the road. I asked her if she was worried, and she quietly answered, «No, people may flock there initially, but they will remember the quality they have had here, and come right back.» She was right — the big buffet was only here for 3 – 4 years, and then went out of business.
The place doesn’t look like much from the outside. The inside is simple, clean, and tidy. This is not a place with amazing ambiance — it is a no-​nonsense, practical setting to have a nice, high-​quality meal and intimate conversation with friends. I’ve spent several a lunch with co-​workers at Top Wok, solving the world’s problems (haven’t quite accomplished our objectives. .. yet).
Top Wok dishes are cooked to order, with fresh ingredients, perfectly prepared. It comes to your table piping hot. My favorite is the Seafood with Tofu Clay Pot — extraordinary. Their Won Ton Wor is hearty and tasty, and the Top Wok Special Fried Rice is exceptional — my daughter’s favorite.
Top Wok can seem nearly vacant at times, but an observant person will notice the brink take-​out business they do. When my family is a bit under-​the-​weather, Top Wok is on my go-​to list to provide great «get-​better» dishes.

Went to Top Wok around 7-​ish on a week night, there were only two other tables in the restaurant, they had already eaten, but it still took us over 30 minutes to receive our entrees. Our server apologized over and over for the wait, but that seemed to irritate me more. The food was very mediocre, barely warm, just like the previous Unilocaler indicated. Wouldn’t go back, go to P.F. Changs instead, pay a slight bit more, but receive a much more phenomenal experience.

Strip-​center location wedged between a deli sandwich place and a Pub. If I didn’t have a cold I would have hit the pub for a cold one, but tonight figured I’d save the company a few $ and hit Chinese.
How many Chinese restaurants are there in the US anyway? And how many have the word Wok in their name?
Like its average, run-​of-​the-​mill exterior look, the food at Top Wok is average, run-​of-​the-​mill Chinese. Walking into a restaurant that is completely void of other diners at 7:30 pm is never a good thing, and often would cause me to reverse my tracks, but in this case it was a Thursday just a couple days after New Years and the restaurant is located right in the middle of a corporate park area and the hotel I’m staying is running at 20% occupancy so I figured it was empty because all the other corporate drones like me are smarter than me and still on vacation (so I guess I’m not like them?).
But I digress. I walked in and the owner? at the hostess booth looked startled as I walked in. The place was empty after all, he was probably asleep! He quickly recovered and seemed genuinely excited to have a living customer. He called to the back and my server came out, presented me a menu, and after literally 30-​seconds she came back and asked me if I was ready to order. I politely declined as I like to peruse menu’s for their House Specials. None of them caught my eye so I went with a Hot and Sour cup of soup and Mu Chu (sp) beef. Now, ordinarily I’m a Mu Shu (sp?) pork kinda person, but what can I say, I guess I was feelin a little crazy and on the edge tonight! Whoah, I’m the only customer in here tonight, look out world!
Well, the cup of soup was barely warm, the pancakes with the Moo Shoo (sp?) were like none I have ever had before – really thin and tasteless, and the dish itself was quite bland.
Its tough to judge a Chinese restaurant off of just soup and one dish, so I’m going to err on the side of caution and give them the benefit of the doubt and venture to guess that some of their main plates are better.
4 stars for value — lower than average prices
3 stars for atmosphere – standard booth/​table set-​up
4 stars for cleanliness – nothing scary here
3 stars for portion size — pretty standard
2.5 stars for flavor
Overall, I would say that this is a restaurant to go to only if you are staying or working in the area and don’t feel like driving anywhere else.