Xing’s Restaurant & Takeaway — Restaurant in London

First tried eating at Xing's on 3rd Aug 2024. The service was friendly and the dining area , although smaller than most other restaurants, it was clean, bright - just enough tables to make diners feel comfortable and spacious, without being too close to the next table/diners. Food was well seasoned (not too salty nor overly sweet) and I loved their chilli oil! Had the non-buffet/individual price - dishes to share: - leftovers were allowed to take home. Wonton soup, Beef hofun (with rice noodle), generous Mixed Starters (for two) and spicy crispy shredded beef were all delicious. Had a lovely dinner so decided to book for a buffet celebratory family (10 people) dinner there the following 25th August. Paid £50 deposit in advance.

The buffet was well organised. Portion was per person. Each dish that we chose were all perfectly seasoned and cooked - so no dry or tough meat! The beef in black bean sauce and the beef noodle was so soft and delicious! I would also recommend Aromatic duck with pancakes, salt and pepper squid, King Prawn and Mussels dishes, chicken satay and barbecue pork. Note: no leftovers are allowed to be taken away if eating from buffet menu. So try not to over order.

The waitresses and waiter are very hardworking, accommodating and friendly. Easy payment by card in the restaurant. (They accept cash too).

Caters for vegetarians and people who have food allergies (see photos). The restaurant is always busy with their takeaway orders too, but they still serve their dine-in customers quickly too.

Also be aware there are certain dishes that are available from the al-la-carte menu BUT NOT for the buffet menu and vice versa.

We would definitely be eating here again! Recommend to book in advance...

There was 5 of us going to this restaurant yesterday and what a disgrace of costumer service.

The first red flag, although they have a normal menu where u can just order 1 plate of choice, they only present the buffet menu.

Second red flag: the lady straight up says: " dont order too much other ways the food has to go to bin" which i believe when someone says that and after reading some reviews where they demand you bring the food back if something is wrong with it. Makes me believe its bullocks as they most likely keep it to the next guest.

Third red flag: if some of you are eating buffet and some just want normal regular plates they will place you in separate tables to make sure you dont share. And its not a table of your choice either! Its the furthest table from your group they can find with the most stupid excuse they can come up with at that moment.

To resume overall the experience was bad, prices are almost 30£ per person on the buffet alone, a small portion of seaweed will be 8.50£ and you get to be screwed and controlled by the staff.

We left without eating. Went to noodles city a very nice cosy restaurant, near by, where the food was delicious. The setvice was 5* and we paid less than half of what we would of spend in here.

this restaurant...

We took my granddaughter in to celebrate her achievements, before starting uni. She came up from lordswood. We treated her to a Chinese, The waitress run around like a headless chicken, bless her. But the wait for food was ridiculous over 30 mins for starter an ended up 2.5 hrs waiting, I had explained to the waitress several times we need to order quickly as my GD needed to get home on her own. In the end 8 pm we finally got our mains we tried to eat but her train was at 8.20pm. I asked very quietly & politely if we could have a box for her to take before she missed her train. The waitress went got another female who was extremely rude who quote said. Not for buffet you only spent £100. Well we was spending £35 weekly on takeaways regularly but never in restaurant. I will never order from there again. My grand daughter missed her train because of this. And the rudeness was un nessasary. I can’t believe they would rather waste food, than let people take what’s left. We did not order lots, but timing was important taking so long to wait for food. £1750 a year minimum we spend there, I will take our business to a place that deserves loyal customers. The food was lovely but very limited on what we could order. Rudeness crossed off recommending....