Tasty Bites in Belfast

Ok this is a warning to anyone thinking of going to this grim place to eat. I walked by at 10:45am and the shutters were still down but there was a considerable amount of already pre cooked food sitting in Bain Marie’s. There was a wok well filled with beef, green peppers and black bean. It was just sitting there when the ‘cook’ came over, turned on the heat and tipped in a considerable amount of white sugar and white mushrooms and began ‘cooking’. I find this disgusting and unacceptable. These places really give Chinese food a bad reputation - here only profit matters it’s one of the ‘do ya rightly’ places that has no place on any serious food scene. The main trade here starts lunch time so the food was going to sit about 75 minutes at the least - I mean Chinese food is fast fried chicken, beef and so on, with crispy vegetables certainly not meat stewed and vegetables sautéed for over an hour in sugar laced/monosodium glutamate corn starch thickened sauces. Any battered chicken (and it’s almost all chicken here) sitting for well over an hour poaching will become stringy and fibrous. The only reason this chicken will remain crisp ish in this situation is all credit to the chemical industry - potato starch that can be fried for 3 minutes to crisp or 45 minutes and remain un effected. Not only would I avoid this place at all costs I’d close it down as offensive to good food.

I don't understand the bad reviews here. I also think it's wrongly listed here - it's really not that expensive for what you get. Here are some of the things I appreciate about Camile Thai: 1. Biodegradable takeaway packaging (that is also super pretty). Nobody needs more plastic takeaway containers. Paper bag too. 2. I love that they offer a brown/wild rice mix as well as jasmine rice. 3. Great vegan options, great kids meal options. Something for everyone, in my family at least. 4. The food is really delicious. Nothing feels artificial; doesn't leave you with grease coming out of your pores or an msg headache. 5. The portion sizes are good. 2 meals could feed 3 people. There are meal deals online which they'll give you if you ask for them over the phone too (the website is iffy). Hope that helps someone!

I have used chi chi for a good few years, though I hadn't been for a while as the last few times I felt the food was below par & very salty. However, I decided to give them another go tonight, 4.10.24, and I was not disappointed ! The chow mein was lovely - thin noodles, not greasy and loads of veg and spices. I don't know if they've changed the chef, but whatever they've done has made all the difference. Back to the good old chi chi.

always get food from this place but this will definitely be the last. ordered a delivery at 17.30 specifically to arrive at 19.00 i got a call at 17.55 asking if he turned right or left to my apartment obviously he was close by so i said to him i’m sorry but i’m not at home and the food was ordered for 19.00.he hesitated and said ok. roll on 19.15 food arrives and guess what every single thing had to be out in microwave it was stone cold. the filo pastry chicken for starters we cldnt even heat up as the chicken had went hard.as for the rest of the food it was abs awfull. very very dissapointed for the fact that they kept the food probably under the heat holding lamp for an hour and sent it out again which is most certainly not within the law of catering. it’s abs disgusting what they have done and we definitely will not be getting from there again