Wing Fat

Sure it smells, sure it’s cramped, sure it’s confusing but without these things it wouldn’t be half as exciting.
Offering all you could ever want to build and stock a kitchen, Wing Fat is a staple for any cook. You really can buy every ingredient imaginable, equipment to cook with and even the bowls to serve it in. The choice of ingredients is embarrassing in other supermarkets around the city; even when you find the missing component to your dish, it’s very often overpriced or not quite what you were looking for.
One thing is for sure — if you can’t find it anywhere else, it’s probably in Wing Fat.
Once you’ve been in the shop for more than 2 minutes you forget where you are. The service is more efficient than friendly, the shelves are full of all kinds of weird/​wonderful fayre and I approach the till with worry that my sterling isn’t going to be accepted — the signs of a true Chinese supermarket.

Be very careful and always check your receipts here. I was charged 25% extra for 3 things that I didn’t even buy. A scam or an honest mistake? I doubt the later considering they all appeared at the beginning of my receipt and so were obviously added to the till before I even got there.
I’ll never go back and it sickens me to think that the greedy chinese reputation of immorally cheating the innocent, especially in such times of hardship, just to make a bit more money rings true particularly as one of my best friends comes from a truly honest and hard working chinese family.

Wing Fat will provide you with literally everything you need to turn yourself into a competent cook of oriental cuisine. They serve all the fresh ingredients, as well as cooking sauces, rices and noodles, and spices so that you can re-​create your china town experience from home. They also sell woks and pans and all that if you really are keen on doing it all properly. But its just as good to just pick up some quality noodles for a stir fry. I really like this place. All the food feels so authentic and fresh, and it doesn’t cost a great deal. 5 stars.

It put me off to enter as the shop quite smells. The fresh foods section (fish, meat) is not really appealing to me.
But the more dried foods (noodle, sauce) are good. Some are rather cheap than other Chinese supermarket shop. I have got a nice dried prawn noodle and scallop noodle for decent price, which I could not find other shops and these tastes are good.

I agree with Angela, this is one of the better Chinese Supermarkets, and if you like to follow a recipe to cook some authentic Chinese, Thai or Vietnamese dishes at home with your own fair hands, then you can be sure to get all those quirky ingredients here! You might need some help from the staff, as some of the packets and jars are not labelled in English, but I have always been looked after in such respects when asking politely for assistance. The fresh fruit and veg are good too, and mostly at a bargain price considering how exotic most of them are. You can also buy traditional cooking utensils too, like woks and pans.

If you love to cook Southeast Asian dishes from scratch, you need a store that supplies fresh ingredients and imported products that aren’t readily available to you at your local supermarket. Luckily, Manchester’s China Town has multitude of these stores, and Wing Fat is one of the better ones — offering products to help you recreate traditional Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Vietnamese and Indian cuisines.
I’ve come here in the hopes of finding a particular exotic vegetable or hard to find herb like Thai green basil or Asian eggplant and haven’t been disappointed. They also have a great fresh and frozen meat and seafood section, all the classic sauces, rice and noodles and even a cooking equipment section of woks, pots and special utensils.
One important thing to note, and the only thing that is a bit of a pain, is this place is closed on Fridays!

There is so much to choose from here. i have no idea what 90% of the stock is in the packets and jars but it is so cheap!
The sauces i have bought from there have always been delish!
Definatly ideal if your wanting authentic food.

yes this supermarket does offer good value among the range they have.
It is one of the cheaper ones in manchester.
Its sister branch at beswick has slightly different stock and prices.

I agree with other reviewers but with one fault — the shop sells some pretty disgusting ‘things’ in buckets inside (meat? fish?) it stinks, so if you have a delicate stomach hold your breath. Other than that a good selection of goods at good prices!

A good place to go and get all your Chinese neccesities! The selection of goods is extensive, including delicasies such as Chicken feet!
The prices here are extremely good too. A large bottle of soy sauce for example, will set you back only £1!

I love Wing Fat! It’s one of my absolute favourite Chinese supermarkets in Chinatown. I often nip in here just to savour the atmosphere, the smells, sights and sounds. Tesco in a Cheshire suburb this isn’t.
Depending on the type of food/​ingredients you stock up on at home, you can grab most of your weekly shopping here. Were it not for the fact I don’t live so centrally and the car park in th middle of Chinatown so expensive, I’d shop here every other day. Like many of the supermarkets in Chinatown, you can pick up some right bargains (usually on the fresh veg side) but also a whole host of exotic foods, a good percentage of which I’ve either never heard of or wouldn’t have a clue what to do with. Still, the staff, although sometimes struggling with the language barrier (which in turn makes it more authentic and part of the experience of shopping in the gem of an area) are really friendly. Alongside the frozen frog legs, piles of chicken legs, aisles of sauces, pickles and rice, noodles you’ll also find the woks, pots, pans and cooking implements including some fine choppers.
Marvelous store.

wing fats great for picking up genuine chinese ingredients at a low price