Wong Kei

Wong Kei is a bit of an institution in London, it is located at one end of the rather gaudy and tacky Chinatown area of central London in Soho, if you walk down the main drag of Chinatown from the Leicester Square end of the street and walk past the arch then straight ahead of you on Wardour Street you will find Wong Kei. You do not go to Wong Kei for the finest Chinese dining in the capital, instead you go for the fact that it offers good basic, cheap Chinese food and a rather unique dining experience. Having said that the food is good and I can recommnd their Won Ton Soup and Szeuchuen Beef as if I want a quick but filling lunch while in London this is ...  Read the complete review

Wong Kei is one of the first restaurants I have bene to London and it is probably the only one I still visit after nearly 20 days in this city. It is a Chinese restaurant in one of the most well known streets of Soho and Chinatown, Wardour Street. It is open all day until 11pm and only serves Chinese food. Over the course of the years Wong Kei built a reputation for few things. Cheap food, fast service, but, most importatnly, rude staff. I am one who thinks that, having seen them in the old days before they sold their shirts in the restaurant with "Upstairs, Downstairs" (I will come to that in a second) they have been ...  Read the complete review

I want to give a Chinese perspective to this great Chinatown institution. Being a BBC (British Born Chinese), I grew up with this place. My family absolutely adores Wong Kei and you'll find that, a bit like that "you're 7 people away from knowing a famous person" saying, a Chinese person is related to Wong Kei in some way or another. For example, my dad worked as a waiter during one summer holiday in the 1980s whilst he was studying at uni, my mum, to her horror, bumped into an ex-boyfriend which she had ditched in her hippy heydays one pre-theatre dinner, and finally, I myself was caught with my boyfriend-now-husband by my uncle when I should ...  Read the complete review

Wong Kei tips:
It's the best. Drink your tea fast, when empty, leave the lid up and another arrives within 2 seconds, it's bottomless.
The chilli sauce cannot be repicated in any other place. I've tried to buy, and have failed on numerous occasions.
Fast super great tasting food. If you order right, it can be healthy or a danger for the belt... but will always taste great.
It's one of those places you don't want to lose, but at the same time... once a month / 2 mths is perfect
K

Rumour had it that Bruce & Demi were unceremoniously kicked out of Wong Kei and that wouldn't surprise me after myself and at the time 'fiance' ended up being ushered onto a table with 3 American lads opposite us, I'd been warned so immediately ordered a bottle of finest white Vino and rattled off our entire meal as soon as I could and was pleased to get the correct wine and undamaged glasses after they came skipping across the table! what followed was one of the funniest things we had ever seen, the 3 opposite us didn't have a clue and had no prior warning of what they had let themselves in for! after taking 20 minutes to order, their menu's were grabbed back by the ...  Read the complete review