A really great chinese. the food is super cheap, but that doesn’t mean it’s low in quality…quite the opposite in fact! You can get all our favourites on the menu, and the waiters are really entertaining too.

Following the reviews from Mssrs A and A Hunter in particular, I went on a date to this place. Chinese generally isn’t my favourite cuisine but I will certainly come back here. It’s as efficient in service and atmosphere as the other reviews suggest, but I really didn’t feel rushed at all, and we stayed to finish our wine with no indication that they wanted us to leave!

A pot of chinese tea was put immediately on our table, and we went for the house wine - a risk a) in a cheap chinese and b) at £7 a bottle - but it was dry and perfectly drinkable! We started with the finest crispy duck pancakes I’ve probably ever eaten, then we both had won ton soup. Delicious broth with noodles (which were slightly undercooked), with 5 or 6 giant pork and prawn dumplings. Delicious. We had chinese greens on the side - a giant pile of steaming hot stems with oyster sauce. It was all extremely tasty and we couldn’t even finish it all. And the bill? £22 inc the wine. Have already told everyone I know about this place!

This place is awesome for so many reasons. Yeah, yeah, yeah the food is great but the entertainment is even better. Entertainment, you say? Oh yes, entertainment. It comes in the form of the wait staff here who make a game out of abusing the guests as much as they can without actually providing bad service. They’re feisty, loud and over-agressive but if you know what you want to order you can guarantee that you’re going to get it in a matter of seconds and it will be exactly what you ordered. ahunter summed it up beautifully as “ruthlessly efficient.” I ordered a Tsing Tao beer and it was in my hand before I even finished the last incorrectly pronounced syllable. Oh and it came with one of those old school pull tops. Awesome.

The food is truly excellent and served in the traditional family style of throw everything in the middle and fight over it. It really made me feel like I was back living in Hong Kong. One of the most satisfying Chinese restaurant experiences I’ve had in a long time.

Great location, great food, great service.

“WHATCHOO WANT?!”

Wonky’s

Impressively cheap! Even though the food is really cheap, they have very delicious roast pork and char siu! A plate of roast pork and char siu rice is only £4.50! The ginger and spring onion pork chop with rice is also very tasty! These two dishes are normally what I have with wonton soup as the starter! Inside – A DOWN TO EARTH simple interior! Quick service and fast food! Good for a fuss-free dinner before a night-out partying! A favourite everyday place to be!

The first time I ate in this restaurant was in 1979 when they were in Blue post alley. The menu stayed the same for many years and it was finaly changed in 2000 something. My favourite dish was always 114 (Singapore fried noodles) and 112 (Fried Quai Du). I went in after the menus changed and the numbers were removed. I asked for a 114 and the guess what? I got Singapore fried noodle. I was soo pleased…I felt like a veteran coming home.
I have not been there for 5 years or so and I am hoping that the numbers have come back in the meantime. As for the service it used to be:
One? you sit here (ground floor)
two? go downstair (basement)
other numbers upstair (any of the other floors)
glass table tops so the plates would slide across, generous portions and excellent prices.
Strangley enough, the Lido around the corner had exactly the same menu, but at about 25% higher prices. Thankfuly that is now gone.
For chinese clients, there used to be a chinese menu that had a number of items not available on the english menu. I am curious if that is still the case.