Mr Wu

Mr. Wu’s is terrible and good all at once. My cousin and I paid £4 for a buffet when we both were starving and broke. That is the only meal we ate that day and we were fine. So it did the trick. Not gourmet… pretty much the equivalent of any midtown New York dirty Chinese food spot. Probably made with pigeons… but whatev if you are poor it will give you sustenance to last the day.

Pigeon… deep fried pigeon!

Mr Wu? Quite possibly could be Mr Wuuuuuaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggguuuuhhh if you end up in here at the wrong time of day!
Mr Wu (and I believe there is another in the chain called Mr Au — I’m going to take the easy repeat joke here — possibly Mr Auuuuuugggggggrrrrrrh) is an all you can eat Chinese buffet with bulk cooked, standard asian menu staples and — erm — chips on the menu. It’s self service and all you can eat although judging by the size of the plates and the extreme rationing on napkins I don’t think second helpings are actively encouraged!
It’s cheep like the budgie so you really shouldn’t expect much. I didn’t but I also didn’t expect to find the remnants of a dish about 7 hours old mixed in with multiple fresh ones. Helpful hint #1 — if you’re eating any food that changes colours in layers that isn’t a dessert ask questions before consuming!
If you’re ravenous after a bit of a drinking session then you can do worse and there is always plenty of entertainment to be gleaned from the rather confused tourists who wander in expecting a Chinatown bargain!

For about 6 pounds, you get a buffet with all the typical stereotype Chinese foods. Beef and Broccoli. Sweet and sour pork. Hot and sour soup. Chop Suey. Rice. Chow Mein.
O, Mr. Wu. You put me to shame. This is NOT Chinese food, despite the fact that Chinese people run the place. In fact, I think Panda Express does it better than you.
Mr. Wu is all about quantity, NOT quality. So, come here when your taste buds are dead, or you’re too wasted to tell what things taste like and you just want to soak up your hangover. Honestly, it all tasted the same to me — bland and mushy.
That said, it wasn’t worth my 6 pounds. The basis of the appeal for Mr. Wu is that you can have as much as you’d like… but what good is it to have a lot of something if it doesn’t taste good? Just go to McDonald’s… At least you know what you’re getting there.
PS. It could be cleaner, too.

At £5.95, this buffet is a quick and cheap meal if you’re in the heart of the theatre district and looking to eat in a hurry before a performance. It’s edible, but it’s a far cry from gourmet — or even very good — Chinese food. I suggest you wait until you have time to dine at leisure and wander through nearby Chinatown, where any place you select will be better than this.

Mr Wu is cheap and cheerful But I do not even think it is worth the 6 quid they charge. The food is of the poorest quality. My friend persuaded me to go here as he wanted something in expensive and was ‘very’ hungry. I had my doubts but after looking at the dishes in these large silver containers I decided to give it a try.
I went up once and that was enough. If I were starving I would have probably eaten more not noticing the poor quality of the food. The chicken I swear was fake, it was really bad. The sauces tasted like they had all come out of a jar, and then watered down to make more of it.
Never again, I picked at it all and then spent the next half hour complaining about feeling ill. Sorry not for me. My friend said it is cheap and that is why he goes there occasionally, but agreed it was crap.

You can never expect much when you go to a Chinese buffet for £5.95.
Mr Wu’s is very, very basic. You can eat as much as you like, but you only get an option of about six dishes.
You get the usual rice and noodles, a beef dish, the perfunctory sweet and sour chicken and a couple of other dish smatterings.
It is debatable whether the sauce dishes are in fact just onion with sauce with a very small amount of meat. There is always a vegetarian option of vegetables in a chop suey sauce.
It is quick, minimal service and oh so basic. There are better buffets in London now. Mr Wu’s day has been and gone.

Es gab mal eine Zeit, da habe ich nur so von Mr Wu geschwärmt. Das war nach meinen ersten Aufenthalt in London und da gab es noch einen Mr Wu im Queenswayder ist inzwischen geschlossen (ich hoffe mal nicht, wegen mangelnder Hygiene) und daher wich ich das letzte Mal auf diesen Mr Wu aus. Das Konzept ist einfach, es gibt für 4,90 Pfund ein All-​you-​can-​eat Buffet mit einer kleinen, aber feinen Auswahl an Chinesischem Essen, u.a. Frühlingsröllchen, Reis, Fried Chicken, Curry, Szechuan Art und wechselnde Gerichte. In diesem Mr Wu war das Essen zu fettig und die Gemüseinhalte bestanden fast nur aus Zwiebeln. Die Frühlingsröllchen waren zäh und fade. Generell sind Mr Wu Filialen eher zurückhaltend eingerichtet und meist auch sehr klein. IdR max. 6 Tische und wenig Platz. Man sollte sich in diesem Lokal nicht zu sehr auf die Ecken und Nischen konzentrieren, denn die sind eher schmutzig. Fiel mir aber leider zu spät auf, sonst hätte ich wohl nicht weitergegessen. Dieser Mr Wu kann nicht mit dem früheren im Queensway mithalten und sollte nur aufgesucht werden, wenn man auf fettiges chinesisches Essen und sehr günstige Preis steht. Ansonsten lieber weiter suchen.

A pretty run of the mill all-​you-​can-​eat Chinese buffet based near Leicester square. This is the haunt of students searching for a 2-​in-​1 meal, tourists who are short of cash and lost film stars on the night of the première.
It’s cheap cheap cheap, and just like a fast-​food place. Fun in the same sort of way as having McDonalds for a whole day — you won’t do it again for a while, but you’ll definitely do it again!