Good Place an order at Wonton Gourmet and it can arrive as quickly as a meal at a fast-food franchise. Owner Frank Ting says that on some weekdays a table can be turned four times during lunch. As speedy as the meals are, Wonton Gourmet, in Mt. Prospect, deserves its name because the food here is first-rate.
Every entree is cooked from scratch.
Then, you can kick back and enjoy its rustic, tiled floors and open kitchen. You'll notice the steam billowing from the huge soup cauldrons in the kitchen as soon as you enter. Seconds after you place your order for noodles in soup, it is shouted back, and the line cook will drop the order of noodles or dumplings into boiling water, swirl them, then scoop them out into a tureen-sized bowl and ladle in a tasty soup stock. The menu spells out many of these options, including roast duck, braised beef or soy-glazed chicken. A popular combination is noodles with barbecue pork and shrimp wonton.