{"id":861780,"date":"2024-07-01T09:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=861780"},"modified":"2024-07-01T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:11:38","slug":"wing-lei-wynn-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/wing-lei-wynn-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wing Lei (Wynn Las Vegas)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you think about Las Vegas\u2019 most acclaimed restaurants, Wing Lei at Wynn Las Vegas probably doesn\u2019t come to mind, but it should. It\u2019s received 5 Diamonds from AAA, 5 Stars from Forbes<\/em>, and was the first Chinese restaurant in North America to earn a Michelin Star. In 2016, John Curtas named it one of Las Vegas\u2019 \u201cEssential 50\u201d restaurants in Eating Las Vegas<\/em>. So what took us so long to try it? Well, mostly because it took this long to get a comp. Just kidding. The real reason is we plain overlooked it. We had occasion to try Wing Lei last month and it was fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Stars<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A lot goes into becoming a 5-Star restaurant \u2014 food quality and service, obviously, but ambience is a big part of it, too. This place has a great feel. For example, since plates are usually shared, every seat has two sets of chopsticks, one for grabbing food from the communal plates and the other for eating it off of yours. That makes so much sense, but the over\/under on how many attempts before you forget, or get them mixed up and serve yourself incorrectly, is 2.5. You get the amuse-bouche (free appetizer) to start, mini-pastries you didn\u2019t order for dessert, and a box with cookies to take with you. First-class all the way. You a foodie baller, bro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Order the Duck<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We asked an F&B director we know what to order and he said, \u201cYou gotta go with the duck,\u201d as in the Imperial Peking Duck. Same advice from John Curtas in Eating Las Vegas.<\/em> And before we ordered, our dining partner announced that he\u2019d already ordered it ahead. Yep, the word\u2019s out on the duck. We\u2019ve had Peking duck before, but this one was better. The glistening cooked duck is wheeled out, presented, then carved tableside in a little show of its own. Then the server prepares a few Mandarin crepes (so you get a clue about how you\u2019re supposed to eat them) and leaves the rest to you. This dish is $131.88 and, with some appetizers, it was the only entr\u00e9e needed for our party of three. Those appetizers included a sampler for $53.88, a mushroom combo for $29.88, and potstickers for $28.88 (8s are lucky in Chinese culture). Beers \u2014 Lucky Budha and Yanging China \u2014 were $10 each.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sampler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mushrooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Potstickers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Peking Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Prepared Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Verdict<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chalk up Wing Lei as another primo dining experience at the Wynn. This is a first-rate splurge and not an overly expensive one at that. Appetizers are mostly in the $20s, so an app or two and that $130 duck will get you out at around $100 per person. And it can be less: soy sea bass is $53.88, General Tao\u2019s chicken is $41.88, and Cantonese chow mein is $27.88. We didn\u2019t try them, but it\u2019s -300 that they\u2019re excellent. Check it out, and good luck with that chopstick challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you think about Las Vegas\u2019 most acclaimed restaurants, Wing Lei at Wynn Las Vegas probably doesn\u2019t come to mind, but it should. It\u2019s received 5 Diamonds from AAA, 5 Stars from Forbes, and was the first Chinese restaurant in North America to earn a Michelin Star. In 2016, John Curtas named it one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":861782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1446,1453],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-28-145827.png?fit=1052%2C563&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861820,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861780\/revisions\/861820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}