Hoh Won Chinese Restaurant Kensington

"Extremely horrible Chinese restaurant. The restaurant feels very Chinese given its decoration and location, but don’t be fooled - the food will disappoint you dramatically. The very first thing i noticed about this place is, they did not serve us “fresh tea”. What I mean here is, usually Chinese restaurant offers you tea with new tea leaves for every new table. This place gives us old tea from the previous customer as the tea is light in colour and missing in flavour. We have then ordered several dishes, most of them sucks and the below are the highlights. 1. salt and pepper squid: batter is flavourless, squid is not fresh (expected but is very tasteless) and there is NO salt and pepper. 2. Pork in sweet vinegar sauce (京都排骨). This dish is supposed to be dark brown in colour, and they served us red sauce. This is already weird, and the pork chop is extremely hard to bite on. 3. Fried Chicken with crab meat: fried chicken is as horrible as the squid. They gave us crab stick as crab meat. We all know crab stick is not made with crab meat. The dish name is a false statement. 4. Dishes all have very small portion. Totally not worth the price. Overall this place is purely horrible. You have heaps of better choices 1km down south to Kingsford local centre. I will never visit again."

"Amazing food! Delicious and good portions! Highly recommend it!"

"My first time trying this restaurant tonight and my first impression upon entering was not good. The elderly man at the cash register ignored me when I approached and acted like he didn't want to talk to me but I assumed maybe it was autism or extreme shyness so I thought nothing of it. I proceeded to order takeaway and then he added up the total using a calculator without even looking at the menu. I thought yeah ok maybe he knows all the prices off by heart. When my food was ready he told me he had under charged me and asked for an extra $2. Again, he didn't look at the menu or anything else, just said it as I went to get my food. So I wonder if this was a scummy way to extract some extra cash from customers or if it was genuine mistake. If the latter, I feel it was very unprofessional. At least show me the receipt and/or menu to verify the total. The quality of the food was decent, but unfortunately I will never return because of this experience with the cashier. There are other Chinese restaurants in Kingsford which have same quality food with better customer service."

"Delicious food and friendly customer service. Decent size portion for the price. I would come back to try other dishes. Family friendly, high chair available."

"Love this small Chinese Restaurant, try and go here regularly with my housemates and just has such a warm and familiar vibe. The food is great and so is the service, BYO and they'll chill your drinks. Can recommend the duck and the sizzling dishes. Reasonable price, but bit odd there is no cash discount but still always look forward to coming back to Hoh Won."