Yang Sing Cathay

First time at this restaurant. The service was prompt even thigh it was fairly busy on a Saturday afternoon.
I ordered the vegan chicken in curry sauce with boiled rice. It was tasty and a decent portion.
However I did find a stand of white hair in the chicken which was a disappointment.

We came in a big group and chose this place in the Trafford centre because it was packed. Always a good sign, so I thought. Abit pricey to be honest they had a set menu but nothing on it that was amazing in my opinion. The menu is huge! Had the war tips (pork fried dumplings) which where good but the sauce that came with them was awful it was like vinegar. I thought it was soy and dipped the whole thing in it and immediately spit it back out. I got fried squid tenticles that where like rubber I could have bounced them off the wall and I told the waiter and he asked did I want some more? I couldn’t help but laugh he just walked off and it was still on the bill at the end even when I left the full plate. They where unedible! The Peking duck was good but nothing we haven’t had before! Staff just smile and ignore you and rush you out the door by placing the bill as they lift your plates.

Oh Rana for once in your life. WILL YOU PLEASE for the love of God refrain from giving full marks. for once!!!
Nay I say, for what shall be shall be.
On a mothering Sunday I taketh the mother bear for an evening of dining and … well, more dining. The much visited haunts such as Rice and Tampopo were brimming full of folk passionately munching away on their spoils, which led us to a conundrum. Where to go, where to go? My last visit to Yang Sing involved not full on consumption but a mere passive eating experience when I turned up late for a meeting (resulting in finger dipping and friendly fire on plates of accommodating dinner acquaintances)
So… sensing a weakness in the queue length we parked ourselves outside the aesthetically pleasing exterior. The aromas that magic carpeted their way from the kitchen unto our nostrils did excite the rumble in the stomach jungle much, after we’d convincingly devoured the menu with our eyes. After a 15 minute wait we were seated by the most polite gentleman ever to walk the face of Yang sing Cathay. Only a few seconds elapsed before I began waving impatiently at the nearest waiter… (My stomach now staging a full on rap battle in sound effects)
The food here was arguably the best Eastern restaurant food I have consumed… wait for it…*Gathers American accent momentum* Period!!! I’m not sure whether it was the empty stomach talking or what not, but the four mains we ordered between us were healthy in proportion and delicious in content (tion?). The Beef fried rice I had were rich in texture yet not too oily…
El Madre went Chicken Kung Po on us whilst the other two mains were: shredded fillet steak with spicy yellow bean sauce and the Taiwenese sizzling chicken… The Kung Po chicken was tender and very loving towards my tastebuds… The sizzling Taiwanese chicken thighs clothed nicely in egg fried rice went down a treat also… However the show stealer was most definately the Shredded fillet steak… I cannot remember all the ingredients (there were red peppers) that ignited the tonguelar sensory glands .in fact I cannot remember much aside from the intense culinary pleasure of this dish… I cannot recommend highly enough… With Mains ranging from £9-£13 you’re looking at a dinner for two with drinks @ anything between £30−50 depending on the hunger scale you’re operating at. which isn’t bad considering the high quality of food on offer.
Trafford Centre despite the quantity of eatery options is in fact not so varied in terms of what is on offer. Yang Sing Cathay however has at least provided another option for me aside from Tampopo, Rice and the ever present and reliable Nandos. So indulge your yin and YANG & SING and purrr like a CAT wHAYyyyyyyyy (now put the capital letters together and you’ve solved the puzzle for where you should dine next time you’re in Trafford. Simples)

The worst Chinese food i’ve ever had with poor ignorant service to match. Tasteless rubbish with the cheapest chewiest Beef in the curry. You know how restaurant food is miles better than takeaway, this one is streets behind any of the local takeaways. Please dont waste your money on this place. Believe it or not, its expensive too.

its a hard one to review, but i think my 1^st gripe with the place is the name, cathay, nothing wrong with that, but the yang sing bit at the bottom, kinda lead me to believe it was of the same standard as the big yang sing in manchesters china town. or part of the yang sing restaurants.
though we enjoyed all the food, i would not class the food as restaurant standard. its more of your good take away style food, we only had the 1 dim sum dish, the char sui b0’s and they where nothing special?
in fact the char sui chow mein, on crispy noodles, the noodles had been put into fat that was not hot enough, to crisp them instantly, so they had absorbed some of the oil, before just going hard.
the singapore vermicelli was a very good dish! with a choice of heat/​hotness.
the char sui reminded me of the 70’s, when some take aways had it on the menu, but just dyed the meat in red food colouring, so looked rather naff?
on the whole it was an enjoyable meal, the settings where a little, corny. the service was very good. portions, though not small, they were not exactly generous