Wang Fung Hong

Great little shop. I go there for my noodles. Great if you want to DIY for a occasional feast. There are always a nice suprise. Oh yeah, they also have free parking too!

Amazing Chinese food shop. Wide range of food products. Good prices. Fresh veges and bakery items on the weekend. Get there early! Also has roast duck and other roast meats for sale on the weekend. Owners helpful if you can’t find what you want.

This is another of Leicester’s hidden gems. If you like making oriental food, this place has everything you need at knockdown prices. It’s quite small as Chinese supermarkets go, but the shelves are full to busting with everything you could ever need — a litre of soy sauce or sweet chilli sauce for around a pound, every variety of rice, noodle, pickled veg, canned oriental veg that you could ever need as well as lovely fresh made oriental sweets and tacky packaged sweets (good place to find random presents for hello kitty fans!). They have a chilled and freezer section with cheap fish and even whole ducks for under a fiver! Dumpling wrappers, all manner of spices — and these are the really cheap bit, plus you won’t find a massive pack of sesame seeds cheaper anywhere else. They get fresh veg in every day, so it’s great for your beansprouts (huge bags for about 70p) and greens as well as veg what you don’t know what it is. Furthermore, going in the veg cooler is ace fun because it’s got a big slidey door.
What else? Oh, saki, rice wine etc. etc. all devilishly cheap compared to the ‘speciality foods’ section of your nearest supermarket. And they do excellent woks (real nice ones for £8), those big chopper knives, skewers, bamboo mats, chopsticks, tea pots and tea sets and even those funny cat things that wave their paws wot you have for Chinese New Year. Brilliant, I tend to go once every couple of months to restock the cupboards. If you cook from scratch this place is indispensible.