Big Wong BBQ

Please don’t be misled by the 5-star reviews. They leave notes on each table offering a free Coke if you give them a 5-star review (see my photos). That explains a lot about their ratings. We went on Sunday (24.08.2025) around 4:55pm. The sign at the front said it was open, so we went inside and waited 5–7 min. A staff member (looked like a chef) finally came out, just stared at us, and when we asked if we could order, he said “we open at 5pm.” Even though the sign said open, he took our order with no greeting or welcome. After about 15 minutes my husband’s roasted duck and BBQ pork fried rice arrived. It tasted okay but the portion size was small and had very little pork. A few minutes later my meal (chicken fried rice) was served, and both dishes were literally dropped on the table with no respect or basic service. We felt uncomfortable, finished quickly, and left without even drinking water. We’ve been to many restaurants around Hobart — even when the food wasn’t great, the service was still polite. Sadly, here the service was extremely rude and unprofessional.

The roast duck with wombok & rice was just delicious. Yum! The staff are friendly and happy especially Ariel. All the time while I ate nice music was being played. Very busy with takeaway orders.

I cannot rate this place highly enough. The waitress is so friendly and remembers my order (I’ve only been here twice). The special fried rice will change your life I promise you. Large nice chunks of egg mixed with BBQ pork and shrimp. I recommended this place to some colleagues too, absolutely fantastic!

The food was absolutely amazing. Sure, it’s not the fanciest restaurant but I would trade that any day for how awesome the food was. Delicious all around, especially the Pepper beef - Yum 😋

Excellent food. As someone who grew up with Asian food, has travelled throughout South East Asia, this place is unequivocally genuine quality Chinese food. Very well tenderised and well spiced meats. Spiced sauces. Chilli levels that don’t hold your hand. Would recommend if you live to eat rather than eating to live. 5/5

Dropped in for a takeaway - Thought it might be like some places we know in Chatswood Sydney - ordered Whole Duck, BBQ Pork, Rice and Greens - it was busy but ended up taking 55 minutes before we received the order... I mean everything except the greens were already cooked. We were nice about it and after 30 mins asked what was taking so long. The lovely waitress had to ask the chef where the greens were and he was not happy. It seems family owned however would not recommend this place.

We recently had tea here with family who have been multiple times and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately we had a terrible experience. It was a Tuesday night, not overly busy but they only had one girl (she was lovely) on at the front who was doing table service, welcoming guests, answering the phone and reheating and serving food. Alarm bells should of rang straight up when they had hand written notes on each table to "rate them 5* and receive a free can of cordial".... Special fried rice was very good but came out 25 mins before mains.. Main chicken dish as per picture could probably still of laid an egg, it was that raw, and cold! The chicken was not reheated enough in the microwave! as the lady at the front was unable to undertake the 1000 jobs at once. The sauce for the chicken also came out 10mins later We ordered the Spicy Stir-Fried Pork Belly With Chilli.. came out looking and tasting a lot like chicken, well that's if you could taste anything over the extremely large amount of ginger in it. In fact a ginger root would have less ginger than that dish. It's also has just half a chunk of onion thrown in it and like 300g of rough large chunks of garlic.. practically uneatable and very disappointing. Showed no care or passion from the "chief" I'm very conversed in Chinese food and the mains would be the worst I've had in Australia. Fried rice wasn't bad 6/10 Also disappointing the careless attitude when honest feed back was give, with no partial or full refund offered.

I really liked the friendly and personalised service here. The staff kindly helped us find things on the menu that would suit family members with specific diet needs. And I loved my dish - shredded tofu with crisp veggies on a bed of Singapore noodles! I appreciated the authentic curry taste, rather than being watered down. Will definitely be back as there’s something for everyone here and the prices were reasonable.