Sorry but this place falls well short of three star; it's really just poor quality take out food…read moreput on plates rather than into containers and it's without the finesse needed to be a serious restaurant. It's a real pity as the city needs a fine Chinese restaurant. The starters were sort of goodish but instead of an intensely flavoured peanut sauce, with the satay chicken starter, it was more a spiced peanut oil from a jar. I had the salted chilli ribs and these were probably the best of the dishes we had. Our mains once again had no finesse. I had the Kung Po chicken and it was very poor. I really didn't want to eat it as it even looked grim and tasted grim too. Kung Po which is claimed to be Chairman Mao's favourite dish, is meant to be a velvety sauce, barely no liquid, with the intensely flavoured sauce coating the chicken; instead it was watery, with little discernible taste. I've had fantastic Kung Po dishes but I can't count this place as what I got was no more Kung Po than I am an astronaut. It bordered on unpleasant. It's easier to say what wasn't in the dish that should have been: so it had no Sichuan pepper, no Chinese wine nor black vinegar, no dark soy, no hoisin, in other words absolutely nothing of big flavour that makes it anything close to Kung Po - the menu should read boiled chicken in lukewarm, slightly sweet water. My wife had the sweet and sour chicken dish - this was a fair take away dish but again no refinement-the sauce was cloying, it's consistency was nearer that of a soft set jam and unbalanced; more vinegar than sugar. The fried rice too was poor takeaway quality, doused in cheap chemically made soy sauce. They offered a two and three course menu with cake being the dessert. No thanks folks. Finally the set menu has no prawn main offered - not even at an up-charge. I wish them well I really do but it's not for me. I think they'll have to up their game as a restaurant. If I want poor quality takeaway Chinese food I'm spoiled for choice in this city but it's half the price to take home rather than sitting in here. Finally when I saw the name Humming I thought Bird would be the next part but it's Humming. I wonder if they know that we North Irish use this word to describe something that stinks or is rotten - who am I to argue.

Not opened that long but the staff are quite friendly and the food nice…read more Shame about the name and there is room for improvements but happy with Humming for now.

I hd the Belfast Ramen, yum!! Excellent broth, creamy egg, crispy pork! Slurpelicious!! Oh and the…read moreduck gyoza is also a winner. It is a take away plqce but they have seats. I loved it!

Well this was a treat. My wife had been telling about this place for weeks, so on a rare child free…read morejourney passed this place we stopped and gave it a try. Certainly glad we did now. I got the spicy beef and noodles and in a moment of insanity actually tried to eat it with chop sticks, helped by the fact I couldn't see forks/spoons set out already. Somehow after years of failing I was able to use them which added a novel treat to the whole experience. The noodles, beef and veg were all bursting with flavour with the broth they were all nested in really providing a well-balanced and punchy spicy experience. I have to say I really liked it and would be back. We also got a bottle of lemonade which was not like Sprite or Mountain Dew but the sort of cloudy old school type where someone simple squeezed a load of lemons into a bottle! The guy behind the counter was friendly and welcoming despite being quite busy and the prices while a little on the higher side were reflected in the quality of the food and service. Glad I went, and I'll certainly be back.

We had reservations for our entire trip but tonight and we were struggling to find a spot to eat…read morequickly. We finally walked up to wagamama and were seated pretty quickly. I have a silly ginger allergy and they were very accommodating and double checked multiple times with their chefs to ensure what I got did not have ginger. I settled on the shrimp Thai pa and it was delicious with a little heat. We also got gyzo and edamame as a starter. The two other adults with me got various ramens that they also said were very good. The portions are fairly large and you could definitely share between two people. Lastly, price wise it was reasonable.

Fantastic food at a reasonable price. Chicken broth and ramen was good. Lettuce wraps were good…read moretoo. Great service especially if you have food allergies. I have too many of them.

Popping back from my Yelp hiatus so say that I'd catch a flight from Edinburgh to Belfast just to…read morehave dinner at Katsu Queen. For sure! The delightful veggie gyoza had us raring for more. And that velvety potato Katsu wonder for main is the stuff of this wee Scotch vegetarian's dreams. - Mmm, mmm, mmm. That dish has been on my mind since the very first bite. I'm a glutton so my travel memories largely revolve around food. - I think of Belfast and I think of Katsu Queen. Such is the power of food. Hearty, substantial portions at reasonable prices. - I'm throwing my 5 stars at you! I'm sure we'll cross paths again, KQ. My belly will be sure of it! Love, The lass with the pug pin who adored the picture of your very own beautiful pug!

Gaze was recommended to me a couple of months ago and I've been twice. First visit was for a…read moretakeaway and I chose a Malaysian curry. I'd forgotten that I don't particularly like items bearing the name "curry" in a Chinese restaurant and so regretted my choice but was still determined to explore further. On my second visit, sitting in, I had chicken skewers for starters and vegetables in Korean kimchi for my main. Both were absolutely delicious and I don't think my third visit is very far away.

We genuinely mostly enjoyed our 3 course lunch for a tenner here. Yes a tenner. The food is ok…read morequality. Service was Concorde fast. Literally as you set down your fork, whoosh your plate and cutlery were gone. So I had salted, battered chilli ribs as a starter: good 3 stars. Lovely, my type of cheap heat with chilli flakes (no fresh chilli) spring onion, onion garlic, I mean really finger - licking good. My wife had a 3 star smoked chicken starter. My main was a Peking battered (over cooked) 2 star chicken with really 5 star noodles (£1 more for noodles) and they were really delicious. Again the Peking sauce was 3 star strong - tasting with no refinements but hey 3 courses £10. My wife had sweet & sour pork (shoulder) somewhat fatty, a bit disappointing and she wouldn't order it again 2 star. I had banana fritter for dessert and it's been a long time since I had this dessert and very long if I go again. It came with cheap ice cream. The batter around the banana was very poor and the worst part of the meal truly 1 star soggy. I left it on the side. The golden syrup portion was ungenerous. I'd have surrendered the vegetable oil/air ice cream for more syrup but we've never been here before so didn't know the portion. My wife had the ice cream. Look I really can't be too critical of this place as, put bluntly, the price charged here makes it 5 star value. It is cheap junk food, period. The prices here reflect this but it's far better junk than the comparable similarly priced highly processed junk meals from Mc D, BK, KFC etc. I'm usually critical of Chinese fast food places and my criticism derives essentially out of the fact that it's well over - priced and rip off for cheap fast food - the ingredients are mostly cheap: dried noodles, white rice, fried rice (from boiled rice from the previous day to get rid of starch with chemically induced soy sauce (not kikkoman) and msg, salt added, maybe some bits of scrambled egg. Meats include flank steak from the abdominal muscles of the cow, cheap pork cuts, shoulder and ribs, battery chicken with duck and warm water prawns being priced at the more expensive end. The sauces too, orange and lemon sauce - usually a boiled white lemonade base thickened with potato starch - the lemon sauce is actually lime cordial and the orange from dilute concentrate. Sweet & sour being vinegar/white sugar based boiled; artificially coloured with sunset yellow chemical food colouring powders, Peking sauce being a variation of sweet & sour with factory made brown sauce added (usually OK sauce) curry from plain flour, a ton of chopped onions and oil all fried together with curry power added to taste, similarly 'gravy' is the same base as curry but instead of curry powder they add liquid carmel (burnt sugar). Black bean is chicken stock based with fine chopped ginger and garlic and potato starch to thicken and on it goes - there's few ingredients that are of themselves expensive - no cream, butter, saffron. Potato starch is great for batter fry as the coated meat can be deep fried for a long period and it won't go hard - here like a lot of Chinese food we must salute the food chemists with at least two fingers. What makes the posher Chinese places 'better' are the refinements to the basic sauces but the meats usually stay the same as the cheaper places, so higher end (more expensive) sweet & sour may have had oranges and lemons cut in half and boiled with the sugar and vinegar and maybe pineapple juice added. There might be fresh red chilli and cubes of tinned pineapple. The vinegar may be a better refined product - less harsh, fried rice might have a better quality soy. The black bean may be a deeper flavoured stock and cornflour batter tends to be lighter with better mouth feel and crispy. It's almost unique to cheap Chinese places for them to use a technique of velveting cheap meats, beef is cut thin and even, against the grain, chicken too and then marinating briefly in a mix of baking soda, cornstarch (wine if you're lucky) and seasoning. I know I'm repeating myself but it was quite ok here - it's just junk food and once you get this and get that they aren't ripping you off then eat up and say thanks, or go elsewhere. We would return here and we have often paid more for much worse.

Conveyor belt sushi; relatively large menu for a la carte hot dishes; good and friendly service…read more(though we had to ask for chopsticks); cozy decor. Choice available for table seating or for "bar" seating (at the conveyor belt). The wait staff spoke mainland Chinese. Menu is in English and Chinese (but not Japanese). There are reasons to think this place is owned by Chinese. Dishes are ok but not authentically Japanese.

I visited Sakura, a Japanese restaurant located in Botanic Avenue over the weekend. This was only…read moremy second visit and since starting a vegetarian lifestyle this year I wanted to find out how their food fared for vegetarians. Being a sushi bar the vegetarian options did initially appear a little limited and sadly Sakura do not have a separate, dedicated vegetarian menu which is unfortunate. However, our waiter did advise us that the Chefs could do any dish on the menu as vegetarian, so that was a huge bonus. Nonetheless, clearer 'suitable for vegetarian' labelling on the menu would help. We opted for deep fried avocado and tofu tempura roll starters and mains of stir fried ramen noodles with mixed vegetables. The food as absolutely delicious and fresh tasting, wine (pinot grigio) lovely and service impeccable. I did notice a 'Chinese Kitchen' section towards the back of the main menu which included options of mixed vegetables with black bean, Szechuan, satay and salt and chilli sauces. I'm looking forward to a return visit and to trying out Sakura's lunch and take away menus as the food was scrumptious. Plus the restaurant itself is beautiful with Japanese décor, relaxed atmosphere and reasonable prices.

It was ok. I won't go back again. I disliked my meal at the start as it wasn't what I had ordered…read more I was the only customer in a faded, tired place with two tired faded staff sitting idle until I went in. I asked for king prawn salt & chilli with noodles and a salt & chilli chicken with fried rice. Both meals cost £14.30. As it was my first visit I emphasised that the meals must be dry. He confirmed yes. I insisted the prawns had only a light batter, a small amount of chilli and he said that the batter is light. On reaching home neither dish was dry rather they were an oily, sugar/water solution. I guess each meal had at least a half dozen spoons of white sugar - this is poor, cheap rubbish stuff. The meals also came with copious amounts of scarce cooked onions. Neither chilli dish contained a scintilla of fresh red chilli. Again this is food where no expense is spent - the idea is to make the cheapest rubbish possible to maximise all important profits and to heck with the customer or their health. Being sugary wet the king prawn batter which was a heavy batter (not light) became wet and soggy very fast. As was the case here. The prawns were also well over cooked. The fried rice was very good though and I didn't open the noodles. Living in a city where we have only crap rip off Chinese places has become tedious.

So, so disappointed in our takeaway last night. Chicken chow mein was just salty chicken and…read morenoodles, no onions, no bean sprouts, nothing. It was rotten and most of it ended in the bin. What a total waste of money. We have had some great meals from here but last night was dire. Won't be back.

Awful experience. Food cold and most certainly wasn't cooked when I placed order. Very bland and…read moremeat was vile and didn't look or taste like beef. Rude staff when I phoned to complain. Felt sick the following day with stomach cramps. Avoid people. Place has went down hill.

The concept is quite simple…read more.. Pay your money and eat until you throw up. Buffets usually can be famed for the fact you are not paying for incredibly delicious meals, but rather for somewhere to stuff your face until you find it hard to move and then complain in the taxi home until you fall asleep on the sofa. To me, this is a waste of time. Why bother eating to the point that you cannot taste anything anymore? Food is supposed to be enjoyed, nor gorged. For £7.80, you could get a nice lunch meal somewhere else, complete with a glass of wine. Here, you get fat people podging their way up to fill their plates with as much food as possible, before they wedge themselves into some straining little seat and then tip the plate into the abyss that scientists call their face. The food is not too bad but that is irrelevant. The point of this place is to eat and eat and eat and eat until you think "anymore eating will make me vomit" and then you roll your way home. It's a disgusting idea and no matter what choice and quality the food is, to open a restaurant whose sole purpose is to be a buffet defeats the point of a restaurant. There is no pleasure and no reason for me to ever return.

I'm a shopaholic at heart and when I have worked up an appetite in Victoria Square, my dining spot…read moreof choice is the China King Buffet on the third floor. The concept is an all you can eat buffet, with various prices depending on the time of day and day of the week. Having spent all my money on retail therapy, I love to go to China King to get a great meal without spending too much more! The choice of food is amazing and more importantly, the quality is equally good, which isn't always the case in all you can eat places. You can have soup, duck pancakes (yum!) and a huge choice of starters before you have even hit the main course! After a brief break, its time to take your choices from chicken, vegetarian, fish and meat main courses, along with rice, chips, noodles, prawn crackers and bread. If you haven't actually exploded, there is still dessert to come. Anyone for chocolate cake, ice cream, banana fritters or (somewhat bizarrely) apple strudel? If you're really struggling by this stage, you could I suppose opt for some of the fresh fruit on offer but I prefer the 'in for a penny in for a pound' approach! Service is brisk but friendly and if you're really on a tight budget, the waiters will happily bring you tap water without smirking or glaring at you. Otherwise there is a full bar with very reasonable prices. China King is always busy but turnover is pretty quick and I have never waited longer than a few minutes for a table. It's popular with couples, families, students and large groups and parties, so that would be everyone then! And yes, you really can go back up to the buffet as many times as you want!