Manchu Wok Inc. is a Canadian fast food restaurant chain that specializes in Chinese fusion cuisine.
The first store was opened by Dr. Jack Lew and other Hong Kong immigrants in 1980 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
[4] Lew hired food service equipment consultant Alfred Grech, a Maltese immigrant, to design and help with the building of the first 33 stores.
[5] By 1996, there were 245 Manchu Wok units when parent company Scott's Hospitality was acquired by Laidlaw Inc.[6] In 2000, Laidlaw sold the company to a group of investors headed by Ken Fowler and Café de Coral.
In 2003 and 2004, Manchu Wok expanded its operations to US military bases in Santa Rita, Guam; and Okinawa, Japan, respectively.