Fast Wok

Reasonable prices, good wanton and hot and sour soup. Can't go wrong with Beef/Chicken and broccoli.

Fast Wok has been around forever and is a good local place to get Chinese take out. A few years back the owners move to NY and a new family took over the shop. Since then the quality has gone down a bit but all in all it is still a good place for take out.

Yikes, the sign says:  Fast Wok:  Chinese Gourmet

I walk in any ways, against my better judgement.   First thing I see are 4 chairs and a table against the wall.   Ok...this is just take out.   Immediately I notice that it is hotter inside the restaurant than outside.  Its 87 F today.   The burners are going inside....but looks like they turned off the air conditioning to save money...and I am the only customer at 11:15 on a Saturday in the place......ut oh..........but

This is good basic Chinese food here.   I hate to say cookbook Chinese but that is what it is.  

I ordered take out kung pao chicken and broccoli beef with fried rice.   The kung pao had a variety of chicken pieces from an inch to about the size of a grain of rice.   Looked like left over chicken pieces to me....but it tasted ok.   The peanuts were done correctly, quickly browned and crunchy ....placed over the top of the dish, not mixed in to get soggy.   The broccoli beef was good nothing special.   The egg roll and spring roll were predictable for a chinese restaurant.   These are sold frozen and seems like every chinese place in Wash DC/Baltimore get it from the same distributor.

Overall, this is 4 stars for out in the middle of nowhere in Maryland and being a very good value for the price....3 stars if it was in Los Angeles.       The prices are very very reasonable.   $4.95 for lunch (one entree and rice) with egg roll.  An egg roll in Wash DC by itself costs that.

A good place to get Chinese food if you have a hankering for some and are in the area.  But not worth going out of your way or a drive over 10 miles.