Located in China town. Mostly fried food and stir fry vegetables. Service is good. Refill of food is done frequently. Pay Cash only. Highly recommend the bbq pork, shrimp with head, and sesame bread. More tables on the basement, and restroom for guests. Reasonable price. Changes plates. Black tea was good. Refillable sodas. An assortment of regulars and first time diners. Simple buffet service and table set up. Pay 11.95 per person read more

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The food was disgusting made us all ill The rice was overcooked the chicken wings are under cooked it was greasy and bland We ordered drinks there was no ice they were warm and tasted weird The staff were rude One of my friends only had chicken wings and couldn't eat them I refused to pay £12.95 for him The staff became really aggressive and rude but I stood my ground as I have been a chef for over 35 years My advise Stay Away !! read more

Mr Wu's for some reason has become a staple within our friendship group. I'm still unsure as to why - yes it's cheap but the food for me is completely average and overly greasy and yet we continue to frequent this place and regularly. Annoyingly they didn't have chicken and sweetcorn soup so I gave the vegetable soup a whirl. WARNING: It's frickin hot. I burned my tongue and my fingers but it was actually quite nice so I finished the bowl. I then gave the duck and the ribs a whirl. The duck was way too fatty and the ribs lacked meat. Then for mains I had the paella, thick noodles, chicken curry and beef in black bean sauce. The paella lacked flavour and the noodles were over greasy but the curry was nice. I'd be worried if they couldn't get this right though. One thing that they do do well however is their prawns. Customers will literally pile plates full of them and sit there peeling and chomping away. They're fresh, juicy and well I have to say it, pretty damn good! It's £8.95 all you can eat so for what they're offering is what you get. Nothing more, nothing less. read more

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All you can eat chinese! Ah.........eating here can truly satisfy the urge for oriental cuisine. Especially if you have a big appetite. They have a good variety in the buffet for £8.50 extras include any drinks. The foods really good and the few times I've eaten here I've never had a bad tummy. So I suppose it qualifies as being a good restaurant, the interiors is quiet oriental with dark colours, bamboos and the statues in painted gold; with music tingling away in the background. The waiters add a personal touch to the place cause you can access them for drinks or green tea. Best for groups, in case you don't want any haggling with the bill in the end. Pretty straightforward and 'Kings' in their own world. read more

Mr Wu - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

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AVOID WITH YOUR LIFE A best friend of mine who I trust and is a chef wrote this, I also added a bit, so we could put it up on Yelp as a Health and Safety warning. Evidently Westminster Council are too useless to do anything. Maybe bribes, they just want their business rates or something else? Do not eat at Mr Wu`s chinese buffet restaurant on Shaftesbury Avenue, London.I had a meal there yesterday Saturday 27 December at about 5pm. The food was cold. I went to our waiter and quietly said " im a chef, your buffet food is cold, you need to check the temperature, it should be above 75 degrees celcius or at least over 63 degrees. ( between 5 and 63 degrees is what is known as the danger zone, its when bacteria multiplies and causes food poisoning) I hadnt eaten all day and was very hungry so i had some food. Afterwards i went up to the cashier and explained the situation. Three girls came up to pay for their dinner and said " why should i pay service charge? the food was cold" I then said " Im not the only one complaining, these girls have said the same and then another guy also said the same. The cashier said " well if you dont like it, you can eat somewhere else" One of the waiters started raising his voice at me, saying you just want free food. I said " il pay for my food if you get a thermometer and check the temperature" All of the customers heard our argument. Myself and my friend only paid for our drinks and then left. Judging by other peoples comments on trip advisor im surprised the place hasnt been shut down. There is a sign up saying they charge £5 per 200 grams of food left on plates. So you are left with two choices, either eat the cold food or leave it and get charged. I very rarely complain in restaurants as i know what its like from a chefs point of view. If they would have said sorry and tried to rectify the situation then i wouldnt of kicked up a fuss. A disaster waiting to happen. I was amazed by the rudeness of the staff, trying to tell me if you dont like it then go somewhere else. I wish i had a thermometer on me, i was so tempted to quickly go and buy one. Ive just left a review on trip advisor. read more

Mr wu is a fucking roach to be sure. I paid £6.95 to be denied tap water and the use of a knife, be borderline force-fed next level spicy-ass beef and ultimately ingest some extra skinny noodles (hair). To top it all off, some Gestapo fucking KGB looking motherfuckers are walking around checking you don't break the rules because that shit ain't allowed in the Republic of Wu. Also the plates are kind of small. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to deny tap water in the UK. This restaurant must be a front for something, like for realsies. Saw some scary looking Russians walk in there and they weren't packing nerf guns from Hamleys. If you don't finish your food they charge you so by the end of the meal you have to cram harder than an AS student in mid June. Seriously considered tactically chundering. This is the type of food that tastes better on the way up. Definitely check your health insurance plan before eating at Mr Wu. 5/5 would recommend read more

Pass!! Save yourself the nausea, headache, and money. Don't bother! In accordance with other one star reviews, I have never been so repulsed by a buffet until I went to Mr.Wu. Firstly, the seating is incredibly cramped and you have mere inches dividing you from other patrons. We had to take turns going to the buffet line, so that one person could mind our belongs at all times. The restrooms are completely grimy also and you should only use them if you are desperate. As for the buffet itself, the food quality was obviously poor, lukewarm, and super greasy. The only food I could tolerate was the low mein and sesame toast. read more

£8:95 for an all you can eat buffet seemed too good to pass up as I strolled past this place one early Wednesday evening, the place looked busy and the food looked good from the outside. Managed to get a table for two, waitress was quick and attentive, ordered some drinks which were with us in a matter of minutes, buffet obviously was self service so off I went. Plenty to choose from be it beef, chicken, pork all lamb dishes, noodles, fruit, spicy wanton soup (lovely stuff) etc. All piping hot and tasty, I wasn't too keen on the prawns though, not the meatiest I've encountered, and more than ever a pain to peel. The dishes were regularly replenished with hot fresh ingredients and the old stock discarded.The decor of the place is pretty uninspiring but for hot tasty Chinese food, and plenty of it you can't go wrong. (on reflection some of the plates could've done with a wipe down) read more

Unacceptable service and food quality! Unbelievable suck environment through an view from Chinese read more

Mr Wu - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

If I could give zero star i probably would. Maybe I'm used to the great customer service in America but it was super horrible here. We barely sat down and the first thing this one server said to us was "I will be collecting the money first" in a demanding tone and we were all so confused. She was so intimidating one of my friends rather use the same dish again than getting a new one. I tried getting 2 new one for me and him and she basically said get it yourself. The food was okay, not super great but I guess it is what it is for the price. read more

All you can eat. £5 good Quality bad Cheap eat though so still 3 stars And you can eat loads. There are better places in london read more

All-you-can-eat buffet for £8.50. Not really high quality, but the food was good and diverse. This doesn't include the drinks, and they have signs saying that they might charge you if you waste too much food. I would not recommend this place if you're looking for elaborate chinese food, but it's perfect if you're up for some Chinese and are hungry! read more

For GBP5.50, this is good enough. The noodle dish isn't too salty and the sweet and sour pork is a good enough copy of the real thing. The crispy chicken wings is pretty good as well. There aren't that many choices -- about 10 dishes by my estimation -- but for the price, this is justified. Staff were courteous too. By the way, I'd recommend arriving early so you get to get the food while they're hot and clean/spit-free;-) read more

Stopped her for some food on Wednesday with my bf and two friends. I was a bit apprehensive due to the other poor reviews however we were tired and hungry. The food was actually ok, the rice was a little cold but everything tasted good and was ready value for money. The restaurant itself isn't very nice... It's so crowded and the chairs and tables were dirty. I didn't go to the bathroom but I'm sure that would have been gross too. I probably wouldn't go back tbh.. There's plenty of better places in Chinatown read more

Mr Wu - Food was actually ok, tasted nice. Restaurant cleanliness needs improving. - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

Worst restaurant I have ever eaten in. Most of the dishes aren't even edible (e.g. the roasted duck). The buffet looks good at first sight but does taste very dry and not even asiatic. Dont dare to eat here. read more

Mr Wu - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

DO NOT GO HERE. There was no sweet and sour chicken & there wasn't a variety of food which surprised us as it's a Chinese buffet. What angered us the most was the racist comments made to us as we paid for the food. Comments such as "you people" and that white and Chinese people act in a better manner. It ruined the whole family day out, I would not recommend it. There are many options around the area to eat. read more

Before I dive into the details of my experience at this restaurant I would like to strongly advise anyone considering this restaurant to not even bother. My cousins were in the city and we wanted to go out for a lovely family dinner in central however I could 100% say that this dinner was far from that. First and foremost, they seated us in separate rooms that resembled a kennel. These rooms were dimly lit, had no natural light at all, no windows and had several flies flying around. This was strange to us as none of the main tables was reserved and we saw an Asian family being seated in a nicer area. Secondly, the variation of food was poor and though some did taste good, others tasted terrible. The prawns were not cleaned properly and we could see that they had faeces in them. Another more trivial complaint I would like to put forward was that they did not even have sweet and sour chicken which is one of the most popular Chinese dishes, but I digress. The biggest complaint I have, that surely ruined our day out, was the way the staff treated us. We were, understandably, unhappy without service and so we kindly asked the waiter to remove the service charge on our bill. The waiter then went on to talk to us in such an aggressive and rude tone, saying that the service charge could not be removed, even though we all knew that if customers are unhappy you can take it off a service charge. So I took my request to the big boss and kindly asked him to remove it and explained our unhappiness with the service. Here comes the worse part of the evening, the manager went on to say "All our customers, white people, Asian people pay service charge but YOU PEOPLE never pay. All you people do is complain. If you're unhappy don't come back". That for me was absolutely rude to bring our race (We're Black) into the matter of THEIR poor service. At the point, we felt the restaurants eyes on us and the waiters came surrounding us as if we were going to run off. We had our money ready but they continued to treat us like criminals. Long story short, I will never be returning and I will be telling everyone I know to avoid this place. read more

Food is good,only down side is that food is not served hot enough.Mens toilet was extremely filthy!

I have been to Mr Wu a total of 5 times over the years, but I will never go again. The quality of food depends on the time of the day and week you go there, too early and you may get left over from yesterday whereas 10pm on a Wednesday would result in you running out of choices and food even though you are charged full price as the restaurant is LITERALLY waiting for you to finish to close and sometimes start removing some of the food while you are still in E.g. appetisers like spring rolls and prawn. The service over the years have gone from bad to worse 1) you will be charged a service charge whether there was waitressing or not whereas legally service charge is optional 2) before 6pm you are charged a cheaper price as advertised on their windows outside, after that you are charged more because supposedly there's more variety of food; however what they don't tell you is that if you come before 6 and leave at 6:01 they charge you full evening price whether you had actually had more variety or not and they will show you their watch! 3) the staffs are rude period! 4) the manager is rude period! they don't care about your experience, their basic English could be summed as follows: you come you pay, you eat you don't eat you pay; 5) last but not least last time I went there they invented a new rule - you have 2 hrs to eat and leave the place! My friends came earlier than me and 1 of the staffs every now and then came to remind us of our time constraint and at some point even bringing the bill on the table while I'm still eating and even asking us to leave! Or otherwise interpreted as asking my friends to leave rather cause they came first! Seriously!?! 6) not only they speak basic English but the rudeness is intolerable! I will personally never go there ever again - that's it for me thank you Mr Wu! read more

This is a pathetic restaurant i have seen in my life. First, Mr.Wu has got pathetic food , extremely cold, tasteless and raw kind of meat. It is not at all cooked properly. Second, one skinny Chinese waiter was very rude and shouted on us for his own shop's fault. Which was extremely rude. I would not recommend anyone to go there. If you want spoil your mood and taste then one should go. Horrific place I have seen in the whole UK. read more

I went there last Monday ,the food was so good but one of the staff I don't like at all .I love bbq spare ribs and dessert.i can't wait for next time if I go to Chinatown! read more

On the 12th of November, we requested simply to be given water from the tap. They rudely declined our request and did not give any explanation as to why my request was declined. Food was below average with awful texture. With out a drink to wash it down leaves you feeling greasy and sticky. Your stomach will never forgive you for what you have made digest. read more

This place, for a Chinatown establishment, isn't small, but diners are seated uncomfortably close together; you could literally eavesdrop on other people's conversations. The gap between our tiny table and the ones next to ours was probably less than 15cm. There was a wide variety of food and the vegetarian selection was good, but there was way too much of the same greasy, deep fried, battered thing. Don't be fooled by the seemingly low price; they are merely filling you up with cheap, deep fried stuff that probably costs next to nothing, making you feel too queasy to eat anything else. The crockery was absolutely filthy! Nine out of 10 of the plates were grimy, dotted with conspicuous grey specks, and didn't at all feel clean to touch. The staff members also made us feel very uncomfortable. We kept feeling as if they were eavesdropping on our conversation and gossiping about us and other customers. Will probably never set foot in this restaurant again. read more

I wouldn't even rate this restaurant with 1 star. The service was terrible. I was charged 9.95 even though the sign said 8.95. The quality of food wasn't good, some meats weren't even cooked. The downstairs area of seating smelt like the toilets which is also downstairs. The restaurant is very cramped, and stomach was left upset after I ate here. My friend who had not ate all day came to the buffet with me, and then vomited in the bathroom. After a complaint was made to the manager, he stated that there was nothing he was going to do as far as giving our money back, his business card was then chucked at us with him stating "sue me" read more

cheap and cheerful, all you can eat for £5.