Big Wang

A fantastic place for chinese food. Will return more in the future we ordered some traditional chinese food from north east as a reunion with old friends. is best ! Would try some more on the menu next time ;

Really tasty and authentic Chinese cuisine Near Leicester university. Lots of Chinese specials and clearly patronised by the local Chinese community which is always a good sign. I had crispy duck pancakes and Szechuan beef and both were excellent.

On entering you will be enchanted with warmth and proper aroma, ambiance of a chinese fine dine, I had couple of soups to start with as i live next door, were delicious as presented, and the Chinese family is nice and professional, loved it, full marks from me, waiting to explore more you only have to go inside to see the real resturant, from outside it might miss lead you so try it!!! its good

Best Chinese in Leicester, always ask for both menus as the "traditional" menu is well worth exploring. The service is still a little patchy so go with a patient mind. If you want fast food go somewhere else.

A two hour wait for our food, which came cold and missing one 6£ dish that we paid for and they are insisting we didn't order. Terrible customer service that outshines some decent Chinese food. Would rather drive to Birmingham For good Chinese then be treated that way again.

The only Chinese restaurant I know that makes the real Chinese food. Their patrons are mostly Chinese.... I'm a new addition because it stands to reason if the Chinese like the food it's gonna be good - It is good! Rather choose the half duck btw because 1/4 duck is not sufficient.

Leicester Mercury report of 27/10/18: Environmental health officers watched a beetle crawl across tofu in an open container in a fridge at a Chinese restaurant and drown in the tofu water. The council officials, who were carrying out an inspection at the Big Wang restaurant on Welford Road, Leicester at the time, had also found a dead moth squashed in another open container of tofu in the same fridge and asked staff to destroy the contaminated food, a court heard but the staff at the restaurant in Welford Road just removed the dead insects and put the food to one side to be used to prepare meals for customers. Prosecutor Feizal Hajat outlined the scenario to Leicester Magistrates’ Court as the restaurant’s owner Qi Xue Wang pleaded guilty to 11 charges of contravening food safety and hygiene regulations between October 18 last year and January 11 this year. Members of Leicester City Council food safety team visited Big Wang on January 10 and carried out an inspection. Mr Hajat said: “Raw uncooked meat was stored next to cooked meat. Clean equipment was stored on the dirty kitchen floor. Uncooked raw meat was being defrosted on the floor. There was a used mop next to meat being stored on the floor. Bloodstained cardboard was used as a covering for shelves in the display fridge. Walls, ceilings and floors were dirty. Grease was running down the walls in the rear lobby storeroom. Ready to eat prawns and crabsticks were placed directly on top of raw defrosting pork in the fridge. All in all, the conditions were poor." Mr Hajat said that Mr Wang’s food hygiene record was so poor over the years that the city council’s food safety team applied to the court for a Hygiene Prohibition Notice to stop him being involved in the preparation of food for the public. He said Mr Wang had taken over the restaurant and registered with the council as the food business operator in November 2010. There were five inspections and 16 follow-up visits between November 2010 and March 2014. “There were visits on numerous occasions and the conditions at the premises were found to be poor. “On one occasion in June 2012 there was a severe risk of contamination at the premises with the presence of rats in the kitchen.” He said that in 2016, the Big Wang Restaurant, which also sells takeaway food, had a hygiene food rating of three. After inspectors visited in October 2017 the rating had dropped to one. He said that despite giving Mr Wang warnings and advice on the October visit, food safety officers found the conditions still poor on their next visit in January. Mr Hajat said: “This is why we have applied for a Hygiene Prohibition Notice today. “Mr Wang said he would do what needed to be done, providing it was not expensive. That was the problem." “In October he said he would address the problems. This did not happen.” The Chairperson of the bench fined Mr Wang £2,333 for the offences. She also ordered him to pay the council’s costs of £3,840 and a £133 victim surcharge.The total bill he was ordered to pay was £6,306. Mr Wang, speaking through a Mandarin interpreter, said: “I can’t afford that.” Mr Wang was ordered to pay at £550 a month and told “You need consistency. You can’t go up and down with your hygiene record. You must be consistent. When you know better you do better and the photographs of your new flooring show this to your credit."

staff on the phone dont speak good English which results in my order being wrong 9/10. And I waited over an hour last time I ordered for my takeaway when I live down the road and they said it would take 30 mins . Food is good tho

5 stars cause the name made me laugh. After living in Canada for 10 years, I have learned that Wang in north American slang is p*nis. So essentially the name of the restaurant to a North American would be big p*nis restaurant

Love the food and a special menu for more authentic cuisines.