“Everything we make here is from scratch, we prep everyday, all of our stuff. You won’t go wrong with anything on the menu. We support a lot of local businesses, either by partaking in their goods or using their services,” Wang explained of the QQ Kitchen philosophy. My family works here we do our best to buy everything local. I grew up in Toledo, my sisters grew up in Toledo. It makes even more sense when you find out that this local family uses local ingredients. Clearly, the meats are selected for quality and then expertly cooked. The veggies had a crisp snap to them, the proteins looked and tasted terrific.
The next most important attribute of QQ Kitchen is that everything we tried was fresh. The interior, which wraps like the letter “U” around an open air kitchen, is compact and always busy- your first sign that you’re in the right place. “It’s a culmination of his experience that he put into this one restaurant.” Fresh and local “Those other ones didn’t work out, but this one did,” said the younger Wang. Chalk those past locations up to Wang learning his craft. branched out to start Asiana (now closed) and 3 Happiness (still open, but with a different owner). Wang’s father, Teh Li (Robert) Wang, was the head chef at China Gate after moving to Sylvania in 1982 (he moved to the U.S. With that in mind, we thought, ‘This used to be a great location.’ When we first got here, there was nothing really in the plaza, but we saw the spot and took a chance.” The chance clearly paid off as, in the five years it has been open, QQ has become one of the busier restaurants- of any ethnicity- in town.
“The old China Gate used to be in this plaza. Josh Wang, the manager of this dine-in/takeout eatery explains that his family went out one night looking for a place to house their new restaurant. It’s one of those places where you’re not sure they’re open until you get up close, but this location wasn’t mere happenstance. QQ Kitchen is a blink-and-you-miss-it type location buried in the strip mall with the new Kira Japanese Steakhouse, sharing a parking lot with Home Depot on Secor Ave. With QQ Kitchen, open for lunch and dinner, you’ve got a terrific reason to explore Toledo’s Chinese food dining scene. While the Toledo area has Japanese, Russian, Hungarian, Irish and more, we sometimes take the more common Italian, Mexican, Chinese and American cuisine options for granted. In a city known for its food and diverse culture of flavors, more commonly accepted genres and tastes tend to fall by the wayside.
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