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| - its a hard one to review, but i think my 1st gripe with the place is the name, cathay, nothing wrong with that, but the yang sing bit at the bottom, kinda lead me to believe it was of the same standard as the big yang sing in manchesters china town. or part of the yang sing restaurants.
though we enjoyed all the food, i would not class the food as restaurant standard. its more of your good take away style food, we only had the 1 dim sum dish, the char sui b0's and they where nothing special?
in fact the char sui chow mein, on crispy noodles, the noodles had been put into fat that was not hot enough, to crisp them instantly, so they had absorbed some of the oil, before just going hard.
the singapore vermicelli was a very good dish! with a choice of heat/hotness.
the char sui reminded me of the 70's, when some take aways had it on the menu, but just dyed the meat in red food colouring, so looked rather naff?
on the whole it was an enjoyable meal, the settings where a little, corny. the service was very good. portions, though not small, they were not exactly generous
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