UNIVERSITY CITY, MO – August 19, 2026 (AsianFoodSTL) In a St. Louis restaurant market filled with Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian dining choices, Wonton King has built the kind of longevity and customer following that puts it among the region’s notable destinations for Asian cuisine.
Located at 8116 Olive Blvd. in University City, Wonton King is primarily a Cantonese and Hong Kong-style Chinese restaurant. Its reputation has been built over decades, not through a recent opening or passing restaurant trend, with dim sum, traditional Cantonese dishes, Hong Kong-style noodles, roast meats, seafood, and familiar Chinese-American favorites all contributing to a remarkably broad menu.
Perhaps more importantly, customers continue to support the restaurant across multiple review and delivery platforms.
DoorDash currently lists Wonton King at 4.6 out of 5 stars with more than 500 ratings, while Tripadvisor lists the restaurant at 4.1 out of 5 stars. Other online restaurant listings drawing from Google reviews place Wonton King at about 4.2 stars, backed by hundreds of customer reviews.
Taken together, those numbers provide substantial evidence of something longtime customers already know: Wonton King has developed a significant following in the St. Louis dining community.
Wonton King Has Earned a Loyal Following
Online ratings are never a perfect measure of a restaurant. Individual experiences vary, and even established restaurants receive both positive and negative reviews.
What becomes more meaningful is consistency across hundreds of customers and multiple platforms.
Wonton King’s review history stretches across Google, DoorDash, Tripadvisor, Yelp, Grubhub, and other restaurant platforms. DoorDash’s 4.6-star score is particularly noteworthy because it is supported by more than 500 customer ratings.
Recent DoorDash customers have praised dishes including wonton noodle soup, crispy orange chicken, sesame chicken, fried rice and beef with broccoli. Other online reviewers have highlighted traditional preparations such as roasted duck, Singapore-style noodles and Hong Kong-style dishes.
Restaurant review sites also repeatedly identify Wonton King with Cantonese food and dim sum rather than simply categorizing it as another neighborhood Chinese carryout.
That distinction is important.
St. Louis has no shortage of Chinese restaurants, ranging from small carryout operations serving regional Chinese-American favorites to restaurants specializing in Sichuan, Cantonese and other regional cuisines. Wonton King occupies a different position because it combines traditional dishes, an extensive dining-room menu and dim sum with the familiar Chinese-American dishes many customers expect.
That breadth gives the restaurant unusually wide appeal.
Dim Sum Remains One of Its Biggest Attractions
One of the strongest reasons to consider Wonton King among the region’s significant Asian restaurants is its dim sum program.
Dim sum is deeply connected to Cantonese culinary tradition. Instead of everyone ordering a single entrée, diners typically share a selection of smaller dishes, allowing the table to experience numerous flavors, ingredients and textures during one meal.
Wonton King serves dim sum daily, with dim sum service from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
On weekends, the experience becomes particularly traditional, with carts circulating through the dining room and presenting selections to customers.
That makes Wonton King more than a place to pick up fried rice or General Tso’s chicken.
It offers St. Louis diners an opportunity to participate in a style of Chinese dining centered on sharing and discovery.
Tripadvisor’s St. Louis dim sum listings reinforce how specialized that offering remains. Wonton King appears among a very small number of restaurants specifically identified for dim sum in the area.
For customers who have never experienced dim sum, Wonton King can serve as an introduction. For experienced diners, it offers access to a dining tradition that is still relatively uncommon compared with conventional Chinese-American restaurants.
The Menu Goes Far Beyond Familiar Chinese Takeout
The restaurant’s regular menu is equally important to its reputation.
Wonton King serves familiar dishes such as General Tso’s chicken, crispy sesame chicken, orange chicken, beef with broccoli, sweet-and-sour pork, kung pao chicken, lo mein and fried rice.
But stopping there would overlook much of what distinguishes the restaurant.
The menu includes Hong Kong-style braised noodles, wonton noodle soup and several varieties of congee. Customers can order preserved egg and pork congee, beef congee, fish congee and other variations.
Barbecue offerings include roast duck and honey barbecue pork.
Seafood makes up a substantial portion of the menu, including salt-and-pepper shrimp, squid, scallops, and mixed seafood preparations. Traditional vegetable and tofu selections include bok choy, snow pea leaves, kailan, bean curd and Buddhist Delight.
Pork dishes range from familiar sweet-and-sour pork to Peking-style pork chops, Hong Kong-style sweet-and-sour ribs and salt-and-pepper pork chops.
The result is a restaurant that can serve two very different customers at the same table.
One person can order sesame chicken or beef with broccoli while another explores roast duck, congee, Hong Kong noodles or a seafood specialty.
That flexibility has likely contributed to Wonton King’s staying power.
Chinese at Heart, With Broader Asian Connections
Although Wonton King should properly be identified as a Chinese restaurant, its menu also demonstrates the interconnected nature of Asian cuisines.
Singapore-style noodles are one example.
Curry preparations provide another.
Wonton King’s lunch offerings include curry chicken, curry beef, and curry shrimp. While American diners frequently associate curry with Indian or Thai cuisine, curry traditions extend across Asia, including Chinese and Hong Kong cooking.
Singapore-style rice vermicelli similarly illustrates how food can cross geographic boundaries and become part of another region’s restaurant culture.
These connections allow Wonton King to appeal to customers searching broadly for Asian cuisine while remaining fundamentally grounded in Cantonese and Hong Kong-style Chinese cooking.
Olive Boulevard Is Part of the Experience
Location is another advantage.
Olive Boulevard in University City has long been one of the St. Louis area’s most important corridors for Asian restaurants and businesses.
That also means Wonton King operates in a highly competitive environment.
Customers traveling along Olive Boulevard have numerous choices, including restaurants representing different Chinese regional cuisines and other Asian culinary traditions. Surviving and building a following in such an environment takes more than convenience.
Wonton King has done that for decades.
Its longevity provides an important form of credibility that cannot be manufactured through advertising. Restaurants survive over long periods because customers continue walking through the doors, ordering food and returning.
Wonton King’s hundreds of online reviews provide a digital record of that customer activity.
Delivery Ratings Expand Its Reputation
Wonton King’s reputation is not limited to its dining room.
Delivery platforms have become increasingly influential in how consumers discover and evaluate restaurants, and Wonton King performs particularly well in that environment.
Its 4.6-star DoorDash rating from more than 500 ratings matters because delivery adds challenges beyond preparing food correctly. Restaurants must package meals appropriately, maintain temperature and quality during transportation, and consistently prepare orders without the immediate feedback available in a dining room.
Popular DoorDash selections include crab rangoon, pork pot stickers, crispy sesame chicken, fried rice and General Tso’s chicken.
Grubhub reviews similarly contain recurring praise for the restaurant’s food, including comments describing Wonton King as reliable, authentic and consistently good.
Those ratings broaden the restaurant’s reach beyond people already familiar with University City’s Asian dining corridor.
A Restaurant Built for Groups and Sharing
Another strength of Wonton King is its suitability for group dining.
Chinese cuisine, particularly Cantonese dining, naturally lends itself to sharing.
Rather than ordering isolated individual meals, a group can build a table around roast duck, seafood, vegetables, noodles, rice, pork, beef and chicken, allowing everyone to sample multiple dishes.
Dim sum takes that concept even further.
For families, groups of friends or customers unfamiliar with traditional Chinese dishes, sharing reduces the risk of trying something new. Instead of committing to one unfamiliar entrée, diners can order several selections for the table.
That makes Wonton King particularly well suited to customers who want to explore Chinese and broader Asian flavors.
Why Wonton King Deserves Regional Recognition
Calling any restaurant “the best” is inherently subjective.
St. Louis has an increasingly diverse Asian restaurant community, and different restaurants excel in different areas. A Sichuan specialist shouldn’t necessarily be measured against a Cantonese dim sum restaurant, just as a ramen shop and a Vietnamese pho restaurant offer fundamentally different experiences.
Wonton King’s case for being one of the St. Louis region’s noteworthy Asian restaurants rests on more than a single review.
It has longevity.
It has hundreds of customer ratings.
It maintains strong scores on major delivery platforms.
It serves daily dim sum.
It offers Cantonese and Hong Kong-style specialties alongside recognizable Chinese-American favorites.
And it operates on Olive Boulevard, surrounded by some of the region’s strongest competition for Asian dining.
Together, those factors make Wonton King worth a look for anyone exploring Asian cuisine in St. Louis.
The restaurant does not need to abandon its traditional identity to appeal to a broader audience. In fact, its Chinese heritage is precisely what makes it distinctive.
For longtime customers, Wonton King remains a familiar destination. For newcomers, the restaurant offers a chance to move beyond the standard Chinese-American takeout menu and explore dim sum, Hong Kong noodles, congee, roast meats, seafood, and other Cantonese specialties.
After decades in business and hundreds of customer reviews, Wonton King continues to demonstrate why it belongs in the conversation about the St. Louis region’s standout Asian restaurants.
