Lung Wah Restaurant

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  Not bad food, but I was surprised they don't serve spring rolls here. It's a private menu, not the typical franchise menu you find at most chinese restaurants these days.

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  Posted on 12.09.12 Tim L.

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  This is a decent lunch spot in the land of zero food options.  I commute to the neighborhood for work each day and usually eat a sandwich in my car.
  
  I have been here many times and the service has always been accommodating even if there is the occasional language barrier. The decor is pretty dated but it is comfortable enough for a 25 minute visit.
  
  The food is very cheap in price and quite tasty. I can say with certainty that it is not 5 star dining but sure beats the Subway at Walmart (Which is similar to people watching at the carnival).
  
  My biggest complaint is the rude customers who smoke inside as it fills the entire place and my clothes now smell for the rest of the day. Guess this is one of the benefits of living in Illinois.

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  Posted on 06.08.12 Dustin S.

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  This is definitely the best Chinese place in NWI. It's a nice sit
  down restaurant, great food and nice decor and friendly staff.
  I don't come here as much as I'd like to since I live further away.
  But if you want some great food, this is a great place.

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  Posted on 02.28.09 Mary B.

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  I hadn't been to this Chinese restaurant (<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.restaurant-guide-uk.com%2Frestaurants%2FUnited_States%2FIN%2FHammond%2FLung_Wah_Restaurant1057533266.html&s=7776b115a50a5f318f4df45807e871bcd67a55b5b01f8f43a257dbbc252129fb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.restaurant-gu…</a>) in Hessville (why this would be a stop for any UK visitors is beyond me) since I lived in Hessville about 21 years ago.  (Note:  Hessville is one of the many neighborhoods in Hammond, Indiana.)
  
  Anyhow, as a child, I loved Lung Wah.  It was the only ethnic restaurant we ever went to that wasn't Mexican and it FELT ethnic and exotic.  It was dark and had red dragons all over the walls and nice wooden booths with lots of routed detail and they sold those awesome chewy rice-paper candies that got stuck in your teeth.  They also had a combo appetizer called "Tidbits for Two" that arrived in its own wooden lazy Susan and totally ruled. Therefore, I was excited to make my return with my parents on Christmas Eve a few years ago.
  
  Well, the restaurant is still there, of course, and as is understandable, they've expanded and renovated in the past couple of decades.  Sadly, now the newly bright interior is about as ethnic as that of an Old Country Buffet. Well, there were two barely noticeable dragon plaques on the walls.  Also, the food was far nastier than it used to be.  ("Tidbits for Two" was still there, but it just didn't sound as appetizing coming from a sticky laminated printout as it did coming from the "fancy" pleather-bound menus of yore.)
  
  The only thing Lung Wah has going for it are the price of the mixed drinks: $2.50.  Can you even imagine?  (By the way, you should definitely try ordering a Manhattan in a Chinese restaurant in Northwest Indiana just to watch the confused look on your server's face, as well as to see the nervous scurrying he or she performs while trying to find a bartender's guide.)
  
  Over all, I was pretty bummed out by the experience.  Well, that is until we were leaving and I noticed a glass cabinet near the door that had a green vase with a golden dragon on it.  Alas, it wasn't the tacky vase that really caught my eye, it was the placard next to it, which read something along the lines of:
  
  "This is the original vase seen in the Warner Bros. comedy 'Richie Rich.'"
  
  Had I still been drinking my Manhattan, I would have undoubtedly spit it all over the cabinet in laughter.
  
  Can you believe it?  I ate Christmas Eve dinner in a room containing a vase that may have been in the same room as Macaulay Culkin or John Laroquette!  Maybe both! Does this mean I'm only four degrees of separation from Michael Jackson's glove?  It was worth it after all!
  
  If I ever go back, I'm defintitely bringing my camera.

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  Posted on 03.29.07 MsAnthro P.

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