Yangtze 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.

Stopped in here for lunch during the pride parade. Very good value £5.99 for the amount of food we got. Was very tasty and filling. Both chose salt and pepper chicken, noodles and chicken curry. All was delicious! Recommend

I stopped here to get a takeaway the food selection was good and sensibly priced the salt and pepper chicken dish I had was £4.50 and was tasty and a decent portion.