Tonight I had a craving for wonton soup so, I decided to call up Hon's and also get a few other things with delivery. I remembered that I had ordered from them once before and the food seemed decent. The person taking the order could not decipher a 0 from a 4 (slight language barrier, but no big deal) in our phone number and after many attempts to clarify, we gave up thinking that at least they had our apartment number correct. After an hour or so, we called to inquire about our food.. a woman apologized and said they had tried to reach us - they had the buzzer number wrong as well. When the food finally arrived, to my dismay the sauteed beans in garlic were obviously canned. $10 FOR CANNED BEANS! I was so upset, because they are usually my favourite and after waiting so long thinking about them, it was very disappointing to receive gelatinous garbage. The war wonton soup we got had a strange aftertaste and very few wontons. I am actually pretty mad about wasting my money.

We went here today, after not eating at Hon's for about a year. We were seated very quickly and water and tea were brought to our table. We went there on a Saturday at noon time and the restaurant, which was normally very busy in the past, was pretty empty. Not sure if this was a good sign.

We ordered one of the set combo menu's for one, 6 potstickers and an assorted beef with noodles in soup. The price used to be just under $7, but now it's nearly $9. Also ordered, a dish of pan fried flat rice noodles with beef and a plate of bbq pork on rice. Noodle dish was $8.50 and the rice dish was $7.95. The potstickers were pretty standard, quite greasy though. The beef in noodle soup was very good. Lots of tender soy sauce stewed beef flank/brisket type of meat and tripe in a dark tasty broth. The good thing is that they didn't serve any weird liver/spleen type of meat anymore like they used too. I like tripe and other weird cuts of beef, but draw the line at liver/spleen. Yuck. The rice noodles were good, as was the bbq pork on rice, but how the hell can you screw that one up?!! The bad thing was that the portion sizes were tiny, compared to the price. You used to be able to count on Hon's for providing large portions for cheap prices. The rice noodle and rice dish was about 25% smaller in size and the price increased by about 30%. To me, that is not good value.

Service was quick and efficient, nothing outstanding. You order your food and they plop it on the table. Ambiance? What ambiance? The restaurant is clean, but utilitarian and they have those plastic plates, spoons and chopsticks.

Lunch for 2 adults and 2 children came out to $31 after tax and tip. We were full, but a year ago, the same meal would have cost about $5 - $6 cheaper, HST notwithstanding. The kicker was after I had paid, I wanted to get a chinese donut (yuo tuo) at the take out counter. They used to have great yuo tuo, about 14 inches long, crispy, yet chewy for only 80 cents for 1 pair. I asked for one order, expecting 1 pair of donut. What I got for $1.20 was a single donut, not a pair, about 8 inches long, very dark, dry, and overcooked. Not good.

I'm not sure what happened to this place. It's been declining in value, quality and quantity for the past several years now. I knew they had some financial problems a few years ago with rumors of insolvency and bankruptcy and unpaid wages to workers. Maybe they got out of trouble, but with the way things seem to be going now, they probably won't be in business for very much longer. And that is a shame for a what used to be a Vancouver tradition.

I was happy that they had Hon's in Coquitlam cuz I was around that area and craving for Buddha's Feast w/ crispy noodles. But boy was I immediately disappointed. The way the restaurant was set up feels like I was in Hong Kong or something. It was disorganized and all over the place. Their Buddha's Feast's veggies were not fresh and limited and they used a different kind of noodles. It didn't taste right. It seemed like they ran out of ingredients so they just winged it. Terrible.

I only recommend the Robson Location.

On a cold, rainy night this week I headed to Hon's for my wonton fix, something I have enjoyed many times in this restaurant and I had come to expect reasonably priced, decent food and really quick service. The place was always packed so you knew it was popular. Well be warned; they are now under new management and after my bad experience I would never go back to this restaurant.

As I reviewed the menu I noticed that the prices have increased and when I finally placed my order the waitress mumbled as she walked away that my food would take 10-15 minutes even though there were barely five tables of patrons in the place. I was so surprised that I actually asked her to confirm that I heard her correctly because I have never waited more than 5 minutes for my food before. After waiting 15 minutes my veggie spring rolls came out but no soup, I noticed right away that they were dry and tasted awful, nothing like I remember. Then the waitress came over to ask me if I had received my wonton soup, which I hadn't (obviously cause it wasn't on my table), so she ran around trying to figure out what happened to my order. After about another 5 minutes she brings over my wonton soup, which I can tell right away upon tasting is nothing like Hon's quality and then it dawns on me that they are under new management because so much has changed. I decided to ask on my way out to confirm my fear and the woman at the register confirmed that yes - they are under new management. I told her that I could tell and that I would not come again because the food was so poor.

As I said, this place used to be a great restaurant for fairly decent Chinese food at reasonable prices, it was a guaranteed thing - but no more. Don't waste your money!

Hon's might not be the most relaxing, sophisticated place to eat, but like the description says, it is a cafeteria style restaurant. They pack as many people as possible into the restaurant and pack as much food as possible into them.

The food is consistently good. I recommend the deep fried cod in spicy bean sauce. Also good is the wonton soup and the vegetarian chicken with diced vegetables with cashews. All really good staple dishes, maybe not the most authentic but I always get a tasty meal for a really good price.

The service is efficient though not particularly friendly. They get the job done though and the food comes very quickly.

The ambiance is mediocre but its too be expected in this type of restaurant. You aren't paying to be doted upon in a fancy restaurant, Hon's is for quick tasty eats for a really good price.

This place is so efficient that it allmost makes it unrelaxing. The servers are at your table in a minute and they send the orders in via hand held computer & usually the food arrives under 10 minutes. The portions are huge and under $ 10.00. As you finish your last bite they are there to clear off your table & present your bill. Great if you are in a hurry but sometimes I find it a little rushed but I always go back.

You can feel the buzz of the energy as you enter Hon's restaurant. The young woman at the door told us we could expect to wait about five minutes for a table; in less than five minutes we were seated at a table. We were given the daily special menus as well as the voluminous regular menu; there are far too many choices for me to comprehend so I try to stick to the specials.

Tea was quickly brought to our table; however, when we asked the tea server about the dinner menu she curtly told us that she was not our server and then turned and walked away. We were a little taken aback at this attitude but were quickly reassured by the woman who then arrived to take our dinner order.

We asked a couple of questions about the menu and our server readily answered them with very good suggestions. She recommended that we start with six of the vegetarian pot stickers and then for us to have the vegetarian hot and sour soup (which turned out to be fabulous!). For the main dishes we had a dish of gai lan with prawns, cod and squid. This was also cooked to perfection with the gai lan crisp to the bite but not too raw. To round out our choices we added a dish of Shanghai noodles with vegetarian ham. The food was excellent and filling; we were able to leave with a container of noodles and a small bowl of the soup for lunch the next day.

As is the case in all the Hon’s that we have visited in the past, the amount of noise from the myriad conversations that are taking place was loud but not unpleasant. However, the constant roar coming from the kitchen was really extraordinary. It almost sounded like there was dragon caged in the kitchen and being forced to cook everyone’s meals with bursts of flame.

Overall, another very enjoyable dinner was had. You know going into Hon’s that you are not going for a quiet evening. Hon’s Wun-Tun House provided us with another very enjoyable meal.

We eat here regularly, there usually is a lineup on the weekends but you get seated pretty quickly. The fried pork potstickers are really tasty with the sauce, the wonton soup is always steaming hot, the shrimp egg rolls are crunchy and delicious. We usally order chicken black bean sause on crispy chow mein or seafood chow mein but lately we've noticed they don't give you a lot of topping like they give you a total of 4 small shrimp, 3 or 4 pieces of squid and fish, and a few vegetables. We like our chow mein noodles pan fried and crispy like the way they used to do it but for the past few years it seems like Hon's deep fries their noodles and they come out in little tiny pieces instead of whole noodles. The last time we had chow mein, they didn't give us enough gravy and it was really dry and hard to digest. I usually order their sweet and sour pork but the last time it wasn't very crispy because there wasn't enough batter on it and the portions now just didn't seem that big compared to like years ago when the food was piled high on the plates. Its still a good deal though..

This place has a wide variety of "authentic" Chinese dished made in the fast food fashion. The prices reflect the quality of the food though the quantity is decent. Crowding is invariably an issue given its mass appeal. Bottom line: This is the Chinese equivalent of the golden arches. No more, no less.

i came here on xmas day with some friends....what were we thinking? we should have known better, but nothing much was open and hon's was (sadly) on the top of the list in the coquitlam area.

as i said, it was xmas lunchtime so the restaurant was only 25% full, so the service was decent. i gave it a 3 because i'm used to crappier service in asian restaurants.

we ordered some special which came with wonton soup, chicken curry with coconut milk, and braised deep-fried tofu in XO sauce. the wonton soup was surprisingly good compared to other chinese restaurants, but it was all downhill from there. the curry was pretty plain despite teh coconut milk and didn't have any kick to it compared to other curries i've had. it wasn't bad, but just didn't satisfy me. the fried tofu itself was good (freshly deep-fried too, not the pre-fried stuff)....but everything else in the dish was plain or bad. XO sauce is hard to mess up....but somehow they did by diluting it with sauce (or water with corn starch). everything tasted too westernized which isn't what i expected from hon's. i know better now.