The Orient section of The Trafford Centre is packed full of restaurants and takeaways and The Yang Sing Orient Expression occupies the less sophisticated ground floor area. Yang Sing, wherever he is, would be horrified to lend his name to this offshoot because although I actually think the food here is okay, it is in no way related to the excellent cuisine served in the larger restaurants of the same chain.
This is just a takeaway and the staff are miserable and unresponsive. The queues here are always long and when you order you are given a numbered ticket- like the ones you take in hospitals waiting for a blood test- then your meal is nearly thrown at you, whilst the staff wear expressions which clearly say" you have your food, now get lost". Meal deals are just over a fiver and the sweet and sour chicken is very good although the fried noodles are very greasy. Orient Expression is the Chinese equivalent of a fast food joint, tasty, greasy, production line food. It breaks the monotony of McDonalds and KFC but every time I go there, the jacket potato place next door looks more and more tempting.