Wahaha Cafe

How I miss living within walking distance of some of the best down to earth Chinese food! Their Dan Dan noodles are the best I’ve had so far out of not just OK, but also TX, AZ, AL, and NY. I gave a five star rating based on the authenticity not just of the menu items, but also the way the food is prepared, and not cutting corners on the ingredients that are supposed to make up the dishes. Their food is not gourmet for Chinese standards, in fact, the fare is quite common for an everyday dinner. That, however, is what I go there for: simple meals, not swimming in grease and cornstarch. Garlic and onion play big into the flavors of Chinese food, and they make good use of both here. I consider one of a handful of the best places to buy Chinese food in Oklahoma. Prices are very good for what we get.

I was not impressed by the outside of the restaurant. I thought it was a old fast food restaurant cos it looks like taco bell but the my husband say… .lets try this Chinese restaurant.
I was surprised that the menu was not a typical Chinese American restaurant.
If you want to try authentic Chinese food , you are in the right place
We ordered;
1… fish, steamed sole with light sauce sauce… boneless and healthy.
2…deep fried shrimp lighty coated with flour,…we even eat the crispy shell too, leaving the
tail behind,
3. grilled lamb in skewers… lightly season with cumin
4…braised pig’s ears. as an appetizer. cut into strips.
5. …white rice …
The place is not fancy but cozy and comfortable and I guess the waitress are students, speak good English and Chinese, are polite and helpful.
Would go back to try other dishes on the menu.
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First review: the dining room isn’t super fancy but it’s cozy and comfortable. I ordered the Dan Dan noodles which were amazing! The service was also excellent! I never had an empty glass.

A cold winter Wednesday saw me trying Wa Ha Ha for the first time. I have driven by it thousands of times.
It resides in what was Edmond’s original (or one of) Taco Bell. But that was a long time ago.
I ordered a daily special. I ordered sweet and sour chicken with egg drop soup, fried rice and an egg roll.
The building is crumbling as you might expect a very old fast food structure to do.
Surprisingly the food does not belong in such a place the prices are not bad considering the quality and quantity I was served.
Chicken was firmly coated with a light batter around the hot and tender chicken. An almost bland seasonless that depended entirely on the the slightly sweet and sour sauce that deserves the name.
The fried rice amazingly sticky but not gummy. It had little flavor but was impressive in its texture and size of the grains.
The egg drop soup tasted very eggy and smooth a well made version of the ubiquitous Chinese diner offering.
The egg roll was smallish with a thick crust and mildly flavored filling. I didn’t fall in love with its flavor but I could not fault it on quality.
All of the food I was served was of the highest quality.
When I was approaching the door of Wa Ha Ha I was a little afraid of what I might find inside.
Instead I was blown away by a level of quality that exceeded practically every other Chinese restaurant I have ever been to.
While the flavors are nothing to write home about I was impressed with the care that went into the food. Even the quality of the chopsticks was way above the norm.
I would come back to try to find more flavorful offerings.

For some reason, every time it gets cold I HAVE to have Chinese food. So every winter, I am always hitting up Wahaha. It doesn’t look like much on the outside, but they have really good (and really inexpensive) takeout. I normally just go through the drive thru, but you can eat inside too. It’s my favorite takeout place in Edmond, possibly ever.

very good. they have authentic menu so I would recommend to bring an asian person with you to order to get the best food they have. lunch special is more american chinese food but it’s very cheap for the price. service is friendly.

This place is great! Great authentic cuisine with excellent customer service. Don’t let the outside fool you!
Would highly recommend over chains like Dot Wo, Great Wall, Panda Express, etc.
Tako yaki is a must try!

This place deserves more hype. The interior is small and antiquated, but the food more than makes up for it. Order off the authentic Chinese foods section of the menu and ignore the rest of the selections; you won’t regret it. This is the best Chinese I’ve had in Oklahoma, leagues beyond the competition. The lamb with cumin is especially pleasing for the lamb lovers out there.

Wahaha is the truth!
A Chinese history professor took me here for my first time. I just let him pick from the Authentic Chinese menu and hoped for the best. The food that came out was indeed authentic, fresh, and full of flavors that I’d never had. For example, one of my favorites is the Oil Sprinkled hand-​ripped noodle. The only way I can describe the flavor is «bright” — tangy, spicy, but not necessarily «hot», and wholesome. Hot & Spicy Chicken is also great. Steamed dumplings are great. I grew up in Oklahoma City, eating what I would still consider to be good «anglo» Chinese food, but I didn’t know what I was missing until I let a Chinese person order the Chinese food. I’ll never look back. The service has always been friendly and swift. The cook (owner?) has always come out to say hi. It’s in what used to be a Taco Bell. That said, you don’t go to Wahaha for the «ambiance», you go to eat authentic food prepared by people who care and know what they’re doing.
Another note– They’ve done a great job with their website! I’d like to see descriptions for the Authentic menu, but it’s super easy to use and offers an «express dine in» option for a quicker lunch. Nicely done.

I had take out rom this place ordered the lunch special for me and the hubby.
I was very disappointed! If was awful! The meat was chewy and the «brown» rice was just white rice with some dark soy sauce type of thing. Panda Express is much better!

I’ve been here 3 or 4 times now since I was introduced to it a few months ago. The stir fried flat noodles are the best! Hot and sour soup isn’t very sour, but still yummy! I add a little salt or soy sauce to mine. The servers are very sweet, and it’s definitely not fast food Chinese. Made to order and flavored just right. :)

Medium rare mango chicken is not acceptable. When a customer confronts a waiter about something like this it is not an opportunity for the cook to prove them wrong. Pink and undercooked chicken is a deal breaker. Most restaurants would go out of their way to make things right but in this instance they chose to make us feel dumb and replace the item with a different entrée. The sesame chicken is pretty good though. The fried rice is kind of gooey. The spring rolls have no flavour.

Such a great hole in a wall place! Don’t judge it by its cover. It has some great dishes here. My favorites are the noodle dishes especially the hand-​made noodles. I love their hot and sour soup too. Their bubble tea is okay. Some days are great and some days the tea is really bitter.

I might give this place a second chance via the drive thru but my «hot» tea was very bitter and served tepid in a coffee mug with no tea bag — I expected a pot for that price. I asked to exchange it for some green tea and the young waitress who had been overtly flirtatious and focused on the boys at the table next to me said,
«Jasmine tea IS green tea…»
in an argumentative tone so rather than telling her it was cold and bitter in front of her lascivious admirers I said please take it off my bill and bring me some water. My appetizer would’ve also gotten cold if I hadn’t gotten up to get my own chopsticks after waiting several minutes on the same female waitperson. I had no desire to navigate further bs by the time my noodles arrived and asked for to go boxes. I don’t digest food well when I’m angry so I sat in the parking lot to write this before leaving on an empty stomach. My waitperson was impatient, rude and impudent; she didn’t deserve the dollar I gave her so I’m calling back to tell her that was for the cook.

The building looks horrible, without a doubt. It’s like an old Taco Mayo. We almost didn’t go in. So glad we did. We got lamb strips (ok), spring rolls (very good), white rice, hot and sour and egg drop soups (both splendid– hubby said eggcellent), general tso chicken (awesome), and Hawaiian fried rice (fabulous). The food was excellent, we will be back. Only got 4 starts because of the creepy building.

I came here after reading reviews from my fellow Unilocalers. Here’s my take:
#1: Don’t come here for the ambience. There is none! It’s old fast food restaurant, redone; clean, but not glamourous.
#2: The food is kind of plain. I ordered Sweet and Sour chicken. I got Sweet and sour chicken and some gummy rice. The chicken was deep fried and came with sauce to pour over it. That’s it. There was no vegetables at all. I found it good, but lacking enough sauce. I didn’t like the rice at all. I prefer mine fluffy. Personally, I didn’t think it was all that great.
Perhaps I didn’t pick the right course, but I won’t be back.

After finding the more authentic items on their menu, I started loving this place. Yes the basic Americanized Chinese food here is subpar, but the authentic Chinese mainland type of food is awesome! You-​po mien, literally translated as spicy noodle, is amazing. The hand-​made noodles when are tasty and the dan Dan mien is just ok. The stringed lamb is quite good, great flavor and not too spicy.
I’m still wary of their bobas and other drinks, but with all of the actual authentic and amazing Chinese food, why even get a boba?

THE BEST in Edmond! I have ordered off of the family menu (traditional recipes) during the new year many times and love the sweet and sour soup! When I was still going to UCO I would go here for lunch, one of the BEST deals you can find! If you are a fan of spicy food I would ask for the spicy oil. They will bring you a little serving tray with hot chili oil, fish sauce, hoisin sauce and a sweet /​spicy peanut oil.
Order something bad ass off the specials menu and you won’t be disappointed!
Not sure why the people have given low star reviews for such good food, especially a 2 stars for the décor? AND they haven’t tried much on the menu? Are you that pretentious? A true gem in Edmond worth visiting.

The person who had the design input on Wahaha Café was either partially blind, or possibly suffering from Schizophrenia. It’s the most random incorporation of stuff that I’ve seen in some time:
— The table covers are different colors, as are the walls.
— One of the walls for some odd reason has Cat in the Hat decals on it.
— A majority of the menu signs above the counter are made with poster board and highlighters/​sharpies. It’s like they got some middle schoolers together and said, «okay kids, we’re going to be making menus today, but we’re going to let you decide how you want to do it.»
None of the above is a complaint or affecting the rating in any way. It’s just an observation.
First Visit: The Taro bubble tea was sooooooo, sooooooo bland. No exaggeration here, but If you had placed a cup of skim milk (with some purple food coloring in it) and the Taro bubble tea in front of me and asked me to differentiate between the two, I wouldn’t be able to oblige your request. And it tasted like it looked. And the tapioca was inconsistent (most chewy, some really hard). Also, the Spring Rolls were sooooooo, sooooooo bland (it tasted like cabbage. And cabbage. And cabbage). And tiny. Sooooooo, sooooooo tiny.
I was pretty disappointed, but I knew I wanted to give this place another shot (mainly because I saw that they had Dan Dan Noodles on the menu). It took a long time for me to return because I was no longer a college student (which was the main draw to Edmond).
Second Visit: We had the Dan Dan Noodles, the Hot & Spicy Chicken, and the Stringed Lamb. All of it was quite delicious. Maybe a tad more salty than I like, but that didn’t stop me from eating all the things. I’m kind of curious to know if they use Sichuan peppercorn in their food, because by the end of the meal, the inside of my mouth had a tingly, numb feeling. I don’t have allergies so I know it wasn’t an allergic reaction, and it wasn’t unpleasant or anything. It just felt… effervescent.
Oh right, customer service. On point. Absolutely amazing.

I would agree with the person that said don’t let looks fool you. I have had veggie fried rice and the crab rangoons and the delicious soups as far as food from here and they were all very good and the portion size was huge as far as the veggie rice. To add to that, I got all this through their drive-​thru. Wahaha isn’t normally very busy which I think might explain how they are able to provide service through the drive thru since the food usually takes about 5 – 10 mins to make it’s way to the drive thru depending on what you order. But I don’t mind waiting.
What I usually go to Wahaha for is the bubble teas. The flavor is very rich in the bubble tea mix and it’s thick like I like it. I think someone mentioned frozen boba clumps. I’ve only had that happen to me once and that was because I didn’t drink the bubble tea quick enough and thus a few of the bobas froze, but you can just let the bubble tea melt a little or take off the lid and scoop the tapioca bobas out and munch on them.
I think the owner is really nice and he always smiles and says come back soon and actually seems to mean it.