Liang’s Oriental Barbeque

Very good. My husband likes their roast duck, good price, about $ 21 inclusive tax, cash only. Will definitely come back again.

Was in the area picking up a package at the UPS store and pulled a U-​turn on 13 mile during rush hour when I saw this place. Walked in to the beautiful sight of 5 roasted ducks hanging in the display window. I will be back to get one. This day, however, my mind was on pork. Grabbed a half pound of the roast pork which the woman took down off the hook and skillfully hacked into pieces before depositing into a Styrofoam box. The pieces didn’t quite make it home. Single best pieces of pork I think I’ve ever had. Absolutely incredible.

I am a General Tsao’s chicken kind of lady, so all I knew about Chinese BBQ came from the Unilocal reviews of this place. I still wasn’t sure what to expect. It is more of a cooked meat butcher than a carryout restaurant, meat only-​damn good meat. Roasted pig isn’t photogenic, but I took a picture of my roast pork just in case anyone else was curious about what exactly this meat people rave about looks like.

Rating on the pork!
Pork is goooood! Quick, and easy yum yum. Came at noon on Sunday and it was fresh. This is in the plaza located on the SW corner, spot itself is on the NW corner of the strip mall.

Good, once a week for 3 years. After a long day of shopping, great last stop to take home and chow like a king or emperor or czar or whatever. BBQ pork sauce is my thing, tangy and sweet and a deep Mayberry oyster aroma? Great compliment. Mom and pops store so quality varies but great.

I was in the area shopping it up at Target so I decided to check this place out. I have the supermarket next to it bookmarked. I have been craving some BBQ Pork so I headed over here. This was like around 4pm on a Thursday. The door bell rings when you walk in. No one was there. I looked around and there was like nothing left. Sad face! The owner, «Liang» comes out. I ask him in Canto for some BBQ Pork. He goes to the back and takes some out. He offers you the option if you want it whole or chopped up. From what I observed he is pretty clean. He washed his hands. Hooray… Beware of Chinese places; sometimes they really need a visit from the health department. Anyway, cash only!
Overall, I really liked the BBQ pork. Reminds me of home! I haven’t checked out the other barbeque place yet on John R. so this place will get 4 stars for now.

I can’t believe my luck to have two Chinese barbeque shops within a mile of my apartment! I prefer Liang’s because their char siu (barbeque pork) is a little more like the taste of similar shops back in my hometown of Honolulu. Liang’s is cash only, so be prepared. I use the char siu to accompany fried noodles, Chinese chicken salad, and my version of Chinese chicken noodle soup. Tasty, and always reminds me of home! A regular stop and a place to repeat when I get the craving!

Good, fast and cheap.

This is authentic Asian food-​cart BBQ like you’d expect walking down the street in China. The person I went with had been in China for many weeks, and confirmed. The duck was certainly tender and juicy, but it was also a majority of fat, bone and cartiledge; the accompanying sauce dip was unappetizing. The BBQ pork I’ve read everyone rave about was just so-​so; its juice dip helped save the flavor. It was unarguably tender, but the spice rub/​glaze was lacking, and there was also an odd amount of fat for pork.
I wouldn’t say this place is bad, and if you walk in knowing what to expect and enjoy that kind of thing, I think you’ll be in good hands. If this place were closer, I’d be tempted to try their chicken, but you have to order it in ~3lb quantities (ie, a whole chicken), so that just wouldn’t do for lunch :)
Overall, glad I tried the place, but I likely won’t be back. The owners were friendly in their limited sort of way, so I’m glad other people enjoyed it more than me and will keep this place going. I’ve just made better smoked and BBQ’ed pork at home.

UH-​mazing. I walked in, placed my order, chopchopchop, walked out less than five minutes later with bbq pork and roast duck. Despite the gnawing in my belly, I stopped briefly at Kim’s across the way for fresh Chinese broccoli so I could have a well balanced meal.
At home as my rice cooker was a-​hummin and the broccoli was a stir-​fryin, I repeatedly (and quite lasciviously) stuck my fingers in the styrofoam containers, grabbing many a juicy morsel to shove into my mouth. The duck was moist, rich and delicious. The pork was juicy and flavorful with some quality crispy-​burnt bits. Heavens to Murgatroyd.
Small and unassuming. They know what you want, you know what you want. All meat, all cash, no conversation.

I bought cha siu (Barbecue Pork) from Liang’s after I read the reviews here. It is indeed really good. The cha siu has a fair amount of chewy burnt tips which I always like. Also, even if you reheat in microwave after sitting in the fridge for a night or two it still tastes very good. If you don’t know what to cook for dinner, get something from there and make some rice then boom! You have a very good dinner. I will definitely try other items next time I go over there.

True, it’s a dingy, small shop but it serves the purpose of fulfilling every carnivore’s fantasy. Just walking by the place draws you in with its unctuous smells of roasting meat. You’ll find your essential roasted/bbq’d duck, pork, and chicken here along with internal organ meat. The roast pork is a must try here – warm, crispy, fatty, and sinful, the way all food should be. The owners are really friendly and can accommodate even the most ridiculous request (I showed up one day during the summer and bought 5 roasted ducks on the spot and needed them boxed and bagged carefully to preserve their shape). Just be prepared to leave your credit card at home folks, cash only!

Roast Pork, Roast Duck, BBQ Pork, Oh My!!!
This take out restaurant is just fantastic in every way. If it is your first time going to this place order the pork it is outstanding. The skin on the pork is food orgasm. Yes, folks it is really that good. Ordering can be intimidating if it is your first time, but totally worth it.
When you go to the order everything is bought by the pound. I recommend doing half pound portions because that way you can sample all the scrumptious goodies. There is a lot of time going into preparing these beautiful meats. The way the flavor is incorporated into every bite is just amazing.
If you have never been to China Town in San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Chicago then this is similar representation of some of the fantastic places you find there. The best part is you don’t have to travel all the way there to sample this type of food.

This review will be shorter than I’d like because of one important fact: cash only!
$ 5 in hand, my husband and I walked in to Liang’s and stared wistfully at the beautiful offerings. If we had more cash on us we would have tried the duck. Alas, we had to make a tough decision and go with the roast pork.
Amazing! The meat is incredibly tasty, yet lean. The crispy skin must be doled out with each bite of meat or you are really missing out. We ate it in the car on the way home, we just couldn’t wait.

The pork here is utterly incredible.
We got a take out on our way back home. The smell drove us insane. The wait was worth it as we dove into a meal of roast pork and roast duck later. Yep, everyone is correct, there is nothing to get here but meat. Taking it out works as you can pair it with your own choice of homemade sides at home (or takeout ones from other places if you suck at cooking like me).
Atmosphere here is not for the overly sensitive or clean freaks. If you are the squeamish type have someone else get it for you. Actually scratch that, if you can’t handle the place you don’t deserve to partake in their deliciousness. Sorry but that is the truth.
The meat here is luscious. That is the best word I can use to describe it. Rich, juicy, melt in your mouth fabulocity. The seasoning only enhances the essence of the product. You don’t really need anything else to eat but this, food pyramid be damned.
I wish it were not such a hike.

I have a hard time explaining «oriental bbq» to my friends who are not familiar with chinese roasted/​bbq meat. I always end up with its literal translation, «burnt meat». So im gonna try my best not to make anyone think they are consuming cancer.
The big three in oriental bbq: Roast pork, Roast duck and BBQ pork. Roast pork and duck is exactly what the name implies, roasted whole pig or duck. What makes it unique is how crispy the skin gets and yet the meat stays juicy. Usually you would want to get the roasted pork belly cut. When the layer of juicy fat between the crispy skin and flavoured meat starts melting in your mouth you know its time to find that long lost gym membership cause you know you are gonna be back for more.
BBQ pork is basically marinated pork strips roasted on a fork. The red colored pork is sweet and salty and goes great with rice.
Liang’s roasted pork and duck can be inconsistent. On a good day you would get the extremely crispy roast pork while on a bad day the skin can be on the soggy side. The BBQ pork however never disappoint. Just make sure to ask for the lean meat instead of the fatter ones.
Stop by for a lb of meat, make some rice and top it off with a fried egg = an awesome dinner.
Edited: Not the only place for roast/​bbq pork. The other place on john r/​13 totally slipped my mind since ive not been there in a long time.

Yum! Just picked up some roast pork for lunch. Goes great with sticky rice and some chinese broccoli. Pork is flavorful and juicy! Well, correction, it is juicy if you get the good cuts. Avoid the bottom half because it is too dry. :)
Cash Only!

I have been to Liang’s a number of times. It’s pretty tasty stuff. The two things that I keep getting are the soy chicken and the roast pork. Let’s face it. I don’t have a sweet tooth. I have a salt and fat tooth. How does that pan out in my choices?
The soy chicken obviously has got the salt from the soy marinade. The fat is right there under the skin. The gorgeous, sensuous nature of the oily mouth feel and saltiness of the soy just satisfy my salt and fat tooth so well. It’s flavorful and perfectly seasoned. It’s great without the supplied ginger sauce, which is a perfect accompaniment. That little tang from the ginger really helps to offset the fattiness of the chicken. Marvelous. Come to think of it, my comments are really about the dish in general. I think that Liang’s does an excellent expression of the dish. My Chinese friend loves it!
She and I also love the porky goodness of the roast pork. Okay, it’s not Cebuano lechon, which is the pinnacle of the pork pantheon – and Anthony Bourdain rightly agrees, but it’s damn good. Crispy skin, fatty, savory, umami. It’s the whole deal – everything good about roast pork.
It’s a great thing to bring home a plastic bag containing those white styrofoam containers with the roast pork and the soy chicken with the aromas filling the car, but it’s unfortunate that one can’t eat the stuff there. I would love for the Detroit area to have a Chinese tea house where we could have things like the roast pork, the soy chicken, and dim sum all under one roof. I’d love to be able to eat all this stuff there, but there is no such place in this burgh – to my never-​ending disappointment.

Ready to become an adventurous eater? Liang’s Oriental BBQ immediately makes you feel like you’re either in China town or actually in China. If you’ve never really walked around China town, you may not be familiar with butcher shops that have hanging ducks, pigs, geese, etc…, but here, you get to see exactly what you are going to eat. When you walk in, you immediately see hanging duck, pig, then underneath are pig intestines, stomach, and other things that I didn’t get to try. This place is amazing, plain and simple.
So, I had some bbq pork, duck, and pig intestines. I of course have to try as much as I can eat. Both the duck and the pork were prepared so well and packed with flavor. The duck, which I normally don’t like, was excellent. I haven’t had it in a long time, but thought it was very good. I particularly don’t enjoy the meat because it’s so greasy. The pork was by far the best part of the dish. I literally could have eaten plates of it. I didn’t want to stop. Now for the pig intestines. Well, I can’t say that I’ve tasted it before or anything like it. It was very chewy and did have a dirtiness flavor, if you will. I could really only muster what was on my plate. I really don’t think I could order it again. Don’t get me wrong, it was terrible, but if I have a choice between that and the bbq pork, I’m going for the pork.
The place is more of a butcher shop, bbq, ready to order. It’s not a sit down restaurant.

This is the 2^nd in a series of reviews of fast food in the D.
One may find it strange that I’m including Liang’s in my fast food series, but just hear me out. When I use the term fast food, I’m not really referring to the White Castle, McD’s, KFC kind of places. I’m simply referring to places that you can get good quality food on the fly (though I will admit to having a soft spot for the Quarter Pounder with cheese).
To paraphrase Janelle P., Liang’s flips the bird to those who oppose all things meat. I for one, am glad Liang’s exists so that I can walk in, ask for a hunk-​o-​pig, duck, or inner chunks, and walk out in 3 minutes. The meats are always well seasoned and cooked to perfection. I’m hard pressed to think of a place in the D, that roasts the piggy as well as they do at Liang’s. The skin is crispity/​crunchity, the meat tender, and the fat… well fatty, just as it should be. They give you some sauce for the pork but it really doesn’t need it… come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever actually used it for the piggy… I always save it to put on my rice.
Liang’s is located in a small Asian strip mall on 13 Mile and Dequindre which also contains a Vietnamese market and a Chinese bakery. It is my go-​to spot when I need Asian food supplies and a little taste of China. Go to Liang’s and partake of all the porky goodness… it will do wonders for your soul.