Wong Kei Reviews

The Wong kei. So controversial, many people christen it the 'Wanky'. Lets not beat around the bush. The waiters do NOT suffer fools gladly. They will gladly tear a strip off and humiliate you with no compunction whatsoever.(If you act like a pratt, smug, smart alek, pedantic,holier than thou, superior, impatient, dogmatic, or down ...  Read the complete review

Christmas holidays are always a time for me to catch up with friends and this one has been no exception. Earlier this week I met up with a group of university friends at the Wong Kei restaurant located in London's China Town at 41-43 Wardour St. This is just off Shaftesbury Avenue and the nearest tube station is Leicester Square, which is about a ...  Read the complete review

I was introduced to Wong Kei few years ago by somebody who had been going there for 20 years. Apparently the interior of this Chinese eaterie in Soho has never changed in all this time. Wong Kei is located in Wardour street, a part of Chinatown where the majority of restaurants offer Chinese food. It has the steamed windows with the ...  Read the complete review

Wong Kei is a Chinese restaurant in China Town, in London, in the heart of Soho,in Wardour street, just few minutes away from the theatres and the Tube stations of Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus. Some restaurants build a good reputation based on food, others because celebrities go there, then you have the ones who happen to be ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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
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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 ...  Read the complete review

The world famous wong kei is a must for anybody who has ever visited or lived in London. I have been going there for many years now and although I have had the occasional confrontation with rude/surly waiters I will carry on going there for the next 25 years because of the decent standard of food coupled with it's cheapness. I went there last week ...  Read the complete review

I visited last weekend, with a group of friends on the reccommendation of someone who had been before, we got ushered downstairs immediately to the lowest level, the food arrived very quickly, was ok, but not the best I've had and unbelieveably............ the waiters weren't rude! We were very upset as this was the bit we'd been looking forward to!!!

Wong Keis is not your average Restaurant by any means, but once got used offers possibilities that no other Restaurant can. It’s like trying your first Lager or Guinness – you didn’t like it – no? But then after your second try and third you suddenly discover that you’ve become a lager lout! – Wong Keis is much the same vein. Its uniqueness and ...  Read the complete review

I think you must be a fool or a masochist to go to this restaurant because you will just be insulted and treated without one iota of respect by the objectionable waiters. My advice would be to boycott this joint.

The food may be good at WONG KEI, and it may be value for money, but, so far as I am concerned, all of this is eclipsed by the fact that the staff is extremely rude to clients. I certainly will not be back.

How would you feel about going to a restaurant where the waiters try and get you to leave even before you've looked at the menu? A restaurant where the 'directness' of the staff has become somewhat of an attraction? Well that is what Wong Kei is all about. That and cheap, great tasting food! I went here for my hen weekend and my friends couldnt ...  Read the complete review

Wong Kei’s (pronounced “wonky’s”) is a well-known Chinese restaurant on Wardour Street, off Leicester Square in London. I had the pleasure of eating there last night, and this is a review of that visit. I have eaten at Wong Kei several times but had not visited for a number of years before last night. The restaurant is famous for its ...  Read the complete review

This huge Chinese restaurant on Wardour Street has a cult following in London. Although as a chef I normally won’t go near a place that serves indifferent food, for this place occasionally I will make an exception, if I am drunk or up for a laugh. So I will add my Wong Kei story to the others, I think everyone who goes there must have one. ...  Read the complete review

... ask for milk in your tea. Or a fork. Yet strange to say, this is my favourite London restaurant by an absolute street - this place is quite unique and somewhere I make sure I take all those who are visiting London forthe first time. A massive emporium to Chinese food, this place sprawls over about five floors, offers about the cheapest food in ...  Read the complete review

The Wong Kei restaurant on Wardour Street, just at the west end of Chinatown, has earned itself the reputation of having the rudest waiters in London, if not the country. It's not an accolade that they're in much of a hurry to lose either, because this point alone seems to be the main draw for its many patrons.On a Friday or Saturday ...  Read the complete review

Wong kei is a cheap Chinese restaurant famed for the rudeness of its serving staff. The fame is pretty much diserved as the staff are entirely disinterested. They'll tend to rush you through ordering and your meal, taking your plates away once it looks like you're done. If possible its best to avoid complaining as they tend not to be too ...  Read the complete review