Wong's King Seafood Restaurant, or simply Wong's King, was a chain of Chinese/Cantonese and seafood restaurants in the Portland metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Oregon. In addition to the original restaurant in southeast Portland, the business operated in Beaverton, Estacada, and Sandy, specializing in dim sum. Wong's King was established in 2004 and garnered a positive reception. The restaurant was named one of ten "great places to welcome prosperity" by Martin Yan in 2009 and included in CNN's 2017 list of the 50 best Chinese restaurants in the nation. In 2018, the Beaverton restaurant was rebranded as Lychee Asian Bistro and Noodle House. Wong's King closed in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Description Wong's King was a chain of Chinese/Cantonese and seafood restaurants. The original restaurant, located in the strip mall King Plaza on Division Street in the southeast Portland part of the Montavilla neighborhood, had a large dining room; other restaurants were in Beaverton, Estacada, and Sandy. The menu featured dim sum and included chicken feet, congee, crab, dumplings, har gow, noodles, Peking duck, pork barbecued ribs, pork buns, pot stickers, rice cakes, beef rice noodle rolls and spring rolls, tofu, turnip cakes, and wontons. According to Robin Goldstein, "the family name that's transliterated as 'Wong' is pronounced the same way as the Cantonese word for 'king,' so the restaurant's name is actually a kind of arrogant pun. You might translate it as 'King's King.' Add to this the fact that it's in 'King Plaza,' and you're approaching real delusions of grandeur — the sorts of delusions that sometimes lead restaurants to raise prices and let service slip." History Wong's King was established in 2004. According to Michael Russell of The Oregonian, "The restaurant was born out of a small chain of American-style Chinese restaurants with locations in Sandy, Gresham and Southeast Portland, and was 'bankrolled by untold thousands of orders of kung pao chicken,' according to a 2005 review from The Oregonian, which called Wong's King Seafood a 'new benchmark for the city.'" The Estacada restaurant had opened in 1998. Russell wrote, "The restaurant got an early boost before it opened, when Andy and Fulai Wong won gold medals at the Fifth China International Cooking Contest in China, a competition featuring chefs from 18 different countries." Wong's King has been described as a "rival" to the defunct Ocean City Seafood Restaurant. Employees from Wong's King marched