Fu’s Chinese Restaurant Café

I went with my twin teenage daughters. I haven’t seen them eat so much food in a long time. We tried only things we never had and or never heard of. The crispy duck was first. My one daughter who never try’s anything new, thought it was chicken. After saying how good it was I explained it was duck. Being blown away she quickly tried all the other plates we ordered. The pork buns are so light and fluffy totally amazing. The décor of the place is not so appealing to me. I picked the place based on reviews I read about the food. The place is clean, excellent service. I think it was the owner who took our order. She was very patient and explained some of the dishes. I paid the bill, which was half the amount I thought it would be for the amount of plates we ordered. My picky eating daughter asked if we could do an annual trip to this place! Go…

A lovely evening spent at Fu’s. Enjoyed chatting with the staff as they brought us our top notch food. The crispy duck starter with julienne cucumber and spring onions was remarkable.

I do like this place — and over the years it has definitely become my favourite Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown (I probably prefer Red Chilli but that’s Schechaunese… a big difference!).
Fu’s is quite small and not decorated in your traditional Chinese style. It’s modern with a strange mix of sporting memorabilia and pictures of turn of the century China. There’s also a large TV showing BBC news. Very weird.
As you sit down you get given a standard menu. That’s if you’re white. You have to ask for the ‘other’ menu where you get given a piece of paper with more unusual dishes. Nothing too way out but definitely the more things that Chinese people eat. Lots of congee as well.
Over the years I’ve been working my way through this other menu and I’ve never really gone wrong. My favourite to date has been the roast duck served with Chinese greens. Amazing.
It’s one of the cheaper places in Chinatown but that’s not why I’m recommending it. I’m recommending it because it’s clean, the service is good and the food is gorgeous.

Fu’s is by far one of my favourite restaurants, ever. I have eaten here (literally) 20+ times and cant recommend it enough!
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Atmosphere ⁵⁄₅ Myself and my fiancée always order the same thing salt and pepper chicken /​pork chop with udon noodles (AMAZING) but all the other dishes look equally as amazing! In summary When I die and I go through those pearly gates, if I enter Fu’s restaurant I would be a happy man!

Food was okay… I had the Pork ribs with black bean sauce over rice, it doesn’t have the black bean taste. I was very disappointed. But my friend has the Singaporean fried rice noodle, that was pretty good.

A brief history of Chinatown favourites…
I was introduced to real Chinees food — I mean proper Chinese food, not gwailo-​style, westernised stuff — in the late eighties, by my old friend Ronnie Chan. Ronnie and I would go weekly to Win Wah on Portland Street, an astoundingly cheap place where dishes cost £3−4, and I learned very quickly to use chopsticks (out of necessity — otherwise Ronnie would have eaten all the grub before I had any chance). Then Ronnie moved back to Hong Kong, Win Wah disappeared, and I was in the wilderness.
After some years of searching, I found a new home at Wong Chu. Cheap, no-​nonsense, with high-​quality offerings — the noodle dishes, and the duck /​pork /​squid were always spot-​on, I wandered the streets, checked the menus, and tried the other places — but always found myself returning to Wong Chu, because it was cheaper and better than the competition. I dined there hundreds of times.
One Saturday morning in 2001, I opened my newspaper and saw the headline «Hacked to Death by Triad Maniacs». It was Mr Wong and his family. I’d seen Mrs Wong go through her two pregnancies, watched her kids scurry excitedly around the place, and I was devastated. But the restaurant re-​opened, now managed by Mr Wong’s adult daughter from a previous marriage, and continued to deliver great dining… for another 5 or 6 years. Then it went into a sad decline — I have no idea why — and by the end, it was a pale shadow of its former self. Back to the wilderness.
Now I have a new home in Chinatown. As good as Win Wah & Wong Chu at their respective peaks, with the same format — no-​frills, low-​end prices, but great quality, a relaxed and friendly informal atmosphere, and a menu of Hong Kong-​style Chinese dishes that are a world away from the MSG-​laden gwailo junk that’s so ubiquitous in UK Chinese restaurants,
Fu’s is the real deal. Welcome home.

A blink and you’ll miss it gem. Not named after whoever that damn person Mr T was referring to when he got annoyed, Fu’s is instead a traditional Hong Kong style café with a huge amount of hot, yummy options including your usual szechuans and sweet and sours, chow meins and hoi sins, and they’re all lovely enough, but what you want to try here are the more unusual, authentic dishes.
My favourite is the fish stew, done hot pot style and just so delicious you’d happily force yourself to eat too. Combos and sauces you might not have encountered before are the order of the day here and the creativity pays dividends. The secret trick here is not to be given the blue menu. They’ll automatically pass it on if they think you’re English, but it’s the red one you want; that’s what harbours all the wonderful stuff.
The drinks are interesting too, especially the traditional Hong Kong iced tea, it’s über refreshing. And with wicked prices and smart service to boot, this is one gem you should ensure won’t stay hidden long. Get stuck in.

Fu’s is easily missed in Chinatown when you are looking for somewhere to eat.
A lot of places in Chinatown had special offers on and Fu’s doesn’t.
What they do have in an excellent menu — not the blue leather bound one that they give you automatically if you are English, ask for the A3 sized menu in red.
On this one is a long long list of dishes, kind of one big plate each whether it be soup noodles or rice or other types of noodles. You can get your standard dishes like sweet and sour here but there are some fabulously authentic dishes here, like the stewed fish hot pot, the meat congee and my favourite, the pork and aubergine dish.
They also have some great Hong Kong style drinks, like Iced HK style tea, Root Beer HK style, and Tao Pearl drinks (just try it it won’t kill you!).
This is a great way to have a filling, yummy Chinese meal. Prices are also very good, around £5 for a big plate.