Yang Sing

Enjoy the Dim Sum here, very friendly staff (both to us and fellow customers). Will come again!

Its good guys. It will not take the hungry world by storm but lets not forget its the nearest thing to a fast food chinese. And the dishes are fresh (but not surprisingly we are ordering from a fast high turnover shopping mall site so it’s got to be fresh.) Service I agree is so miserable, hey thats chinese for you (and before you point the racist finger at me. …I am Chinese too, part of our culture is being miserable). Conclusion; it good fast food but why dont they sell more authentic plates like the traditional 3 roasts and wanton and brisket noodle soup.

I was told the place has «improved». It has. The rice no longer tastes of icing sugar, and there are some new menu items. I opted for the Thai Green Chicken Curry, and the vegetables and sauce were actually quite tasty…
…alas the chicken still looks & tastes completely alien to me, the staff are rubbish and considering the quality of the food, it’s very overpriced.
I still say the burrito place or the spud-​u-​like are better options.

I haven’t been to Yang Sing or Little Yang Sing in the city centre, but having heard (and read) amazing reviews (from Unilocalers and others), my husband and I thought we’d try out their location in the Trafford Centre last Sunday. I was especially excited about the prospect of Brunch-​time dim sum (my most favorite and fervently missed pastime from my NYC days).
Alas, «Meh» perfectly describes the experience. I guess I should ask myself why I would think that Mall food would be anything better than Mall food (although I say that, and have had quite good Mall food in my hometown of SoCal– the food court in Topanga Plaza particularly stands out). But it was just passable. We ordered a selection of dim sum (prawn and scallop dumplings, pork buns and pork dumplings) which was okay (MRN is not a dim sum fan, but he humors me), followed by a couple of main courses (salt and pepper cuttlefish and sweet and sour sliced fillet steak), which were again, okay. They were just lacking flavor and the salt and pepper cuttlefish, lacking heat– despite the chilies in the dish. The portion size was ample, but for the price (it’s not cheap), they should be.
As for the atmosphere? Mixed– literally. Half looked like a nice® Chinese restaurant, with proper tablecloths and decorative features to boot; the other half looked like– well, a Mall food court, plastic chairs and tables and cheap linoleum. I was confused by not only the contrast but also how the host decided which section you got to sit it. Since the place was virtually empty, I guess we weren’t dressed well enough (at the MALL) to sit in the «nice» side.
Lesson learned: when a restaurant is recommended, go to said restaurant, not the Mall-​based stepchild.

Trafford centre Manchester. Verdict has been out since day 1 on the place. Sugar called it a «mass market» venue in his recent episode. Hmmm not sure Lord Farkward, I’ve seen my fair share of millionaires walking around in there to know otherwise. Thus while high disposable income munchers who’ve grown out (conciously or otherwise) of mingling with the below 6 figure per annum earners club folk might consider it a no go area. I am here to report that actually it caters for every market, bar the queen perhaps.
Food court Trafford centre for a long time has been developing quietly. Only recently though the business folk have caught onto the fact that there were only two halal eateries in the whole joint. Footfall is golden with passing trade. If a place looks busy, it will attract people towards it naturally. Shere Khan and Nandos thus have been teaming with customers for a while now. The penny dropped finally and someone did something about it. Yang sing have literally stolen I’d say half of Shere Khan’s trade since it opened. Fact! They’ve clearly suffered more than Nandos, because… well, its Nandos! Take it from someone who gets dragged to this place by the women in my life at least 5 times a month.
Now I’m not going to lie, the food is nothing to write to the queen about, it is good none the less. The menu has a lot of variety and it is very tasty indeed. I won’t go into too much detail but it’s pretty much your bog standard Chinese takeaway kind of shpeel, Chow mein, chicken fried rice, curry sauce, chicken sweet corn soup et al. For those fast food munchies Shere Khan has some competition, because God help me I’d rather eat a packet of Millie’s cookies than set foot into Maccy D’s or KFC!!! Yang Sing Xpression has left me with a very good impression indeed! Chamon.

excellent value the food and staff were brilliant.
the staff are so efficient and food comes very quickly well worth ending a day shopping in Trafford centre eating here.

The Orient section of The Trafford Centre is packed full of restaurants and takeaways and The Yang Sing Orient Expression occupies the less sophisticated ground floor area. Yang Sing, wherever he is, would be horrified to lend his name to this offshoot because although I actually think the food here is okay, it is in no way related to the excellent cuisine served in the larger restaurants of the same chain.
This is just a takeaway and the staff are miserable and unresponsive. The queues here are always long and when you order you are given a numbered ticket– like the ones you take in hospitals waiting for a blood test– then your meal is nearly thrown at you, whilst the staff wear expressions which clearly say” you have your food, now get lost”. Meal deals are just over a fiver and the sweet and sour chicken is very good although the fried noodles are very greasy. Orient Expression is the Chinese equivalent of a fast food joint, tasty, greasy, production line food. It breaks the monotony of McDonalds and KFC but every time I go there, the jacket potato place next door looks more and more tempting.

Yang Sing Cathay is an offshoot of Yang Sing and Little Yang Sing in the city centre, which if I have to be honest have been a little hit and miss themselves in recent years.
Unfortunately, this is a watered down, fast-​food version of the China Town restaurants, with the food neither being as well presented or as tasty. The noodles were too greasy and the char sui very tough. Perhaps the chef was having a bad day, but I fear all too much that they just don’t feel they have to put the effort in here. Shame.