Hop Sing — Restaurant in South Kesteven

I don't know how restaurants can put out food so bad and still stay in business. Every item of food we had was clearly from a packet or jar and even egg fried rice was identical to the microwave rice you get in a packet.

My prawns with pineapple turned up as sweet and sour, the sauce the same sickly red goo, from a supermarket jar and the prawns very clearly from a precooked supermaket packet. I say this because asian supermarkets are home to some of the most amazing invredients, including delicous large frozen prawns that are far superior to the ones we get in supermarkets. These were not those wonderful prawns. My husband, the same, overly goopy sweet plum sauce covered an over cooked piece of duck and called a hotpot.

The prawn crackers had a strange taste to them, like when an oven hasn't been cleaned for years. The sesame prawn toast actually had no prawn in it, we lifted up the sesame layer and none, at all, it just had a faint prawn taste but no actual prawn.

The decor was so dated its untrue, but we would forgive that if the food was good. We sat at a table for 4 that was cramped and extremely uncomfortable.

Service was OK. Noone bothered to check whether the food was OK, which says a lot.

I was actually worried about food poisoning after the funny tasting prawn crackers but...

It had been my birthday and I had wanted some chinese.i ordered it to be delivered just before 11:30 and it had dilivered just before 1pm which wasn't too bad since they open by 12. The food was terrible and I had completely thrown up dew to this. I had ordered some fried rice ( chicken and egg ) - this wasn't bad but there was no flavour at all and it was very bland in taste , spring roll (giant) - was completely disgusting and it was something that really put me off it was incredibly oily with an obnoxious amount of stuffing that really made me sick ,I it was tearing apart from the package itself and I hated it . Chicken balls - this came with a sweet and sour sauce which really bad since there was no flavour and felt mushy and as stuckbetween was incredibly off putting the taste felt overwhelming and had me regret buying this Ithe chicken soup wassnt bad as expected but was still mushy and all the layers of chicken or what ever kept separating from a thick gravy like texture to a diluted chicken soup which really isn't what I was expecting . I really hated my experience but I hope this improves immediately and coming from an Asian person utslef it's kinda straight forward . I know me and my family will never be returning to this restaurant when we are craving for...

I'am not really sure what the negative reviews are all about to be honest. We booked a table for 4 and from the moment we arrived we were made to feel very welcome, the front of house staff were really nice, helpful and chatty. They asked about allergies at the start. We ordered a set meal for four comprising crackers, starters soup and then mains.....all of which were superb...highlights for me was the prawn toast and won ton for starters...not really had soup at a Chinese restaurant before but that was so nice...choice of chicken or crab...then the mains....well there was 4 and then we ordered chicken balls extra....the balls were a sensation as was the duck dish...actually there wasn't anything we didn't like and the serving plates were empty. Extra special fried rice was served when we asked and that on its own was really good too. Everything we had came out hot. We all had the 'Sun lik' larger on tap which was also very nice...the lady owner was so attentive, making sure we knew what we were ordering, answering our questions and just really having abit of banter with us too. Great night.

All in all a good quality very tasty...