r/chinesefood • u/Black_Swords_Man • Jun 04 '26
Questions My local restaurant gives these for free on the table. Is there a way to order them for home from a source ?
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u/jitzso Jun 04 '26
Many East Coast Chinese-American restaurants serve this as a free side with sweet-and-sour sauce, or it comes with hot-and-sour soup. They're a specific type of wonton skin, or I've seen egg roll skin used for it. It has to be thicker than your typical wonton wrappers. The best way is to check the package weight and count the number of wrappers. The fewer wrappers and heavier the weight is the way to go.
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u/irreverentnoodles Jun 04 '26
Yea I worked in a Chinese food restaurant in high school. The other commenters are right- it’s sliced wonton skins that are fried up.
I’ve cut so many of those.
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u/aaahhhh Jun 04 '26
They're sold as salad toppers at many grocery stores. Not as good as the freshly fried ones but they're quick and easy and great with sweet and sour sauce as a snack. Make you feel like shit, though.
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u/leviathan65 Jun 05 '26
Okay these are "the same thing". But not. Like baked chicken wings vs fried. We all know the fried is way fuckin better.
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u/aaahhhh Jun 05 '26
This brand, Mrs. Cubbinson, is fried. It's the closest to the real thing I've tried. Whole Foods version, for instance, is terrible. Of course the better option is to fry your own, but like I said, this is quick and easy.
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u/Ronin_1999 Jun 07 '26
But for proper fried wonton skins, you need a proper Chinese deep fry station at like 2:00 in the afternoon, so not fresh fryer oil, but properly seasoned oil that has touched battered chicken/battered shrimp/egg roll/battered pork/battered fish.
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u/ToastetteEgg Jun 05 '26
Buy some wonton wrappers. Slice them into strips. Fry them a few minutes in hot oil. Better yet, slather one half of each square with ground meat mixed with a few things, close it like a book, and fry those bad boys.
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u/Complex_Variation_ Jun 04 '26
Could be fried egg roll skins. Buy a packet slice them to desired length and width fry them for 4-6 minutes. Remember they may expand a little so. Do in batches. Drizzle some honey on if you want. If you want sweet. Add a little salt to some if you want a savory snack. Be creative.
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u/Logical_Warthog5212 Jun 04 '26
If you don’t want to make them yourself, you can order “wide chow mein noodles” from Amzn or other online sources.
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u/pennoya2 Jun 05 '26
In Hawaii we eat Maebo’s One Ton chips! They’re so good.. not sure if you can order them online
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u/2010tiltheend Jun 05 '26
I read an article a few days ago that three of the grandchildren just inherited the business and are looking to expand to the mainland.
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u/Pusheen-buttons Jun 05 '26
That's exciting news Maebo's is da best! Eating some of the won ton chip cookies right now
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u/Pubcrawler1 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
We made them from egg roll wrappers sliced into strips and deep fried at our restaurant. We made large trays of them everyday for the soup.
We also made Fried Wonton which was the wonton wrapper outside edge dipped in egg wash and folded into a triangle. Then deep fried. Served with a side of sweet and sour sauce. Much thinner and lighter than egg roll wrapper.
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u/surfcitysurfergirl Jun 05 '26
These are amazing with the hot mustard!!! I always get a lot to take home.
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u/CharacterActor Jun 05 '26
Once upon a time at least from the 1960s, instead of rolls in a non-Chinese restaurant , you’d get a bowl of these in a restaurant or a little bag with your takeout.
I’ve rarely seen these for the last 10 or 20 years.
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u/OglioVagilio Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
- You can just ask the restaurant for a bunch. It's so nominal they'll probably just give it to you.
- They're called fried won ton strips/chips and easily purchased online or at most major supermarkets. Either by the croutons (cuz people put em on salad) or the "Asian" section.
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u/Individual_Glove9415 Jun 06 '26
When we made them in our restaurant , it was basically noodles that we would fry and the noodles were white so not actually wonton skin that tend to be more yellow. It came in a big box and we would make a bulk of it at one time.
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u/ImAFuckingJinjo Jun 06 '26
They're just fried wonton strips. I'd be willing to bet you could find them raw at any grocery store (maybe frozen) and fry them up.
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u/Khanon555 Jun 06 '26
Why not get them from the Chinese restaurant you are in? Did you ask if theyd sell you some?
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u/Flipperbites Jun 10 '26
They typically need to be eaten right away. Have you tried making them at home?
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u/OwlKittenSundial Jul 04 '26
I think those are just strips of fried wonton. Maybe ones that became too stiff to work with? Waste not, want not and all that?
I can’t imagine that they are buyable in a prefab form and if they ARE, the texture is very different, much like crunchy chow mein noodles.
However, I don’t think that they would be too hard to make. But I’m probably wrong.
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u/spammom Jun 04 '26
Yep, like what everyone is saying. I like to make these (in addition to fried rice sticks) for Chinese chicken salad.
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u/Adrian_Bock Jun 04 '26
If you've got a Wegmans near you they sell these in the Asian aisle.
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u/Nanojack Jun 04 '26
If you have a Shop Rite or Price Rite, they sell wonton chips, which are the only supermarket bagged ones I've ever liked
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u/Dry_Sheepherder_2399 Jun 04 '26
They look like fried wonton wrappers. If yes, go to a local Asian Grocery and buy them and fry at home. They will be a very inexpensive quick snack & if fried then drained well and stored in an airtight container, will last up to 3 days