Fai's Noodle Bar — Restaurant in Colchester

The food was absolutely delicious! HOWEVER... we were given a table at the back of the restaurant and presented with a menu each, those had several pages ripped out or just generally ripped and barely legible. I asked to use the bathroom and was told there.was one cubicle downstairs for women and two upstairs, I went to the downstairs one. It led through one door having a women sign on the door, the next showed a disabled and men and sign. I went in, it was filled with boxes of paperwork, receipts, invoices etc. There was a baby changing table but it was inaccessible due to clutter. The soap dish was broken wish sharp jagged etches. The kitchen which was clearly visible from the restaurant as you are supposed to be able to see people cook was dirty, unorganised and had heaps of food and pans haphazardly stacked. Bottles of confinement were littering the counter. We had a lemonade and a diet coke, both were flat and stale. The chairs were uncomfortable, dirty and ripped in places and looked extremely old and uncared for.

The food was great, everything else was appaling! Even though the food was good I would not go back there and would not recommend it to anyone. Very...

Ordered last weekend and will be ordering again this weekend! We have had a nightmare since moving to colchester in November in trying to find a decent Chinese takeaway. These chefs really make an effort with the food.. the plain noodles actually have onion in and they gave me extra as requested.. youd be lucky if you found even 1 slice of onion in other Chinese takeaways chow meins round here. Most are too busy to even care what they're producing. My boyfriend loved the kung po as there were actual cashews and vegetables in it. The chips were proper Chinese chips, lovely! Good curry sauce too! My king prawn spring onion and ginger was delicious , my only criticism would be that fried prawns instead of boiled (I think) would be tastier. Everything arrived really fresh and quickly! This will definitely be our Chinese takeaway of choice going...

I used to live in Colchester and this was my favourite restaurant. I prefer Hongkong/Cantonese style cooking as it's more familiar to what i grew up eating back home.

I always order the same food and the waitress always know what I'm about to order. I always order hot and sour soup without meat, salt and pepper tofu, egg fried rice and chinese tea, all the time and i don't get sick of it.

If you order take away, it will be 10% cheaper than eating in the restaurant.

You can also have hot pot (cook your own food) although I've never tried it as i don't think it's worth it for a vegetarian. I've seen young university students having it at the next table and you can't help but notice the amount of fresh food for sizzling hot pot,...