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Very good quality butchers when there is so few to choose from I agree. I would go there all the time when I win the lottery. Their sausages are excellent but the same price as steak in an normal community butchers. I dream in jenners food hall and would love to shop in harrods food hall but I live in the real world. I used to get my sausages and black pudding out of Langs in easter road and they were tops, cheap as chips and top quality, sadly gone now due to retirement. And yes get your turkey from crombies with a mortgage. Ask them how much a leg of lamb is and you will faint. I get a whole leg of New Zealand lamb (2.5 - 3 kg) out of sainsburys with a 1/3 off for £15. Ask how much it costs here or if they ever do money off. I do think you get what you pay for and if you are willing to pay for style, show and the disneyland experience of this butchers like baxters soup, potted pheasant, plum and rhubarb chutney, shortbready experience, all the staff dressed like that big fat dummy outside Findlays (quality butcher and better Haggis than Crombies ha ha) in portobello then go here. But your paying for what is not in your bag when you leave. Aye black pudding, get yourself to Bowyers in stockbridge outstanding. Want a pie get yourself to Mathiesons ratcliffe terrace or if you like real mince in your scotch pie Bain's stenhouse cross. I used to get all my butcher meat from a legend John Mcdonald of north fort street (Butcher to the Olympic 100m champion Alan Wells) he was in a class of his own, no messing about in his shop. Just like the famous pork butcher George Bowman of great juction st, that butcher has sadly went downhill because george is no longer here to run his shop military style.

Thanks and P.S I am getting a fresh Norfolk Black free range turkey or fresh free range Goose this year for christmas. I have my christmas dinner on boxing day and get my Turkey or Goose the same day for about £7 when the full price for the suckers on christmas eve is £70. Think about what you are doing, this is austerity season. Merry Xmas all

The food here is so fresh and the quality is excellent. I have been to all the so called great chinese takeaways in Edinburgh "Taste good, Ping on, Loon Fung and Kweillin. Although all good, they do not match in any way the Loon Wah on price, quality and portion size. The set meals are excellent value for money. I am a typical scotsman and always have to have a chicken curry and theirs is amazing, I get it hot with green chillies, they will make dishes to your liking which is great.. The rice is the benchmark of a chinese and it's tops. Get wafer paper prawns and see the freshness. A lot of people will not trust some chinese for seafood, you will not be disappointed here. The hot and spicy or peking ribs are to die for and you get loads for £4.50. This is the best chinese takeaway in Edinburgh by far, trust me, I have been going to this place for over 10 years and tried most other places by recommendation and the have never matched up. Take my word The Loon Wah is exceptional.