If you build it, they will come. Well, Ken Heck built Kosher Chinglish, opened it during the fall of 2020, and the Jews of Las Vegas came in droves. For the first time, truly authentic kosher Chinese food was available!

Heck was inspired in 2017 when he was sitting shiva for his mother. His Cantonese in-laws, Anna Lam, and renowned Chef Po Fai Lam were concerned about him having enough food, so they flew in to cook for him. He worked with them to make their traditional dishes kosher, and the result was over ninety people showing up on the final nights of shiva because the food was such a draw. 

Heck and the Lams knew they hit on something, and Kosher Chinglish was born. 

This isn’t your typical American Chinese restaurant. There’s no sesame chicken or beef and broccoli on the menu. The food isn’t syrupy. It isn’t western fair disguised as Chinese food. This is authentic, traditional Cantonese cuisine.

One of their most popular dishes is Poh Poh's Chicken Dumplings. They are listed as “Grandma’s recipe,” on the menu, and Grandma clearly knows what she’s doing. The dumplings are hand-folded daily, with chicken, chives, and mushrooms on the inside. They’re hand-folded daily. Another popular dish is the Sliced Beef Rib with Green Beans, Stir-fried. This contains crispy green beans, tender and juicy beef, enoki, and button mushrooms. If you’re looking for something a little spicier, you might want to try the Beef Short Rib in Yellow Curry, Stewed, which has slow-cooked boneless beef rib stewed in an aromatic house-made yellow curry.

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