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Breaking news
September 2024: the restaurant is still closed. A February 2024 report in the MEN says it was closed at that time as do current reports from summer 2024 on Reddit. The number on their Twitter is "number unobtainable".
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/chinese-restaurants-shaped-manchesters-chinatown-28602225
December 2022: a report in the Manchester Evening News suggests that the Yeung family are looking into ways to re-open, less than a year after closing.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/manchester-institution-yang-sing-reveals-25648841
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Summary
We maintain a holding entry for this Manchester icon, founded in 1977 and a mainstay of the city’s dining scene ever since. Closed since early 2022, co-owner Bonnie Yeung told the Manchester Evening News in late 2022 of hoping to reopen in 2023 or 2024, dependent on renegotiating the lease to reduce the operation’s footprint (“we won’t be across all four floors, but we really want to knuckle down and focus on the restaurant”). “We’re hoping for next year, but we’re happy to hang on and make sure it’s the right time”… “so I look forward to us being more versatile and moving more seasonally”.
Summary
“Still the best after all these years”… with “the finest most elegant dim sum in the city”, say fans of this famous Chinatown destination, which in days of yore was Manchester’s main contribution to UK gastronomy. Somewhat eclipsed in recent years, even fans may note that “the Manchester Chinese community seem to have found other places to go for lunch” and a regular noted an off-kilter experience in a late 2021 visit. Since early 2022 it has closed its doors, is shown as ‘Temporarily Closed’ on Google and its website – while wishing everyone ‘Happy New Year’ – says ‘Our restaurant is currently closed for refurbishment’. We have contacted the establishment for an update, and will post news as we have it.
Summary
“One of the grand dames of the Manchester restaurant scene” – the Yeung family’s famous Chinatown destination is no longer the city’s pre-eminent restaurant as it was for decades, but no-one has a bad word to say about the place and for lovers of Chinese cuisine it’s “still the best” (“no contest and I’ve eaten in Hong Kong”). In particular it’s a “preferred choice for dim sum, as there is a quality and refinement to the dishes – particularly the more dumpling-y ones – that far exceeds the competition”.
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“Still smashing it after all these years: there’s no better dim sum to be had in MCR” – that’s the view, particularly of some of our most consistent reporters, on Harry & Bonnie Yeung’s famous Chinatown destination: they say it’s still “on balance probably the best up-market Chinese restaurant in the north of England and deservedly popular for its dim sum and banquets”. And “closer to its roots than Manchester’s other ‘high end’ oriental places – cheaper Chinatown eating houses come close to equalling it, but lack its long-term consistency”. So to such supporters “it’s a mystery why it seems more quiet nowadays when in the past, you had to queue down the stairs”. But undoubtedly it takes more flak these days, from some who comment on its “faded glory” and “rather flat and dull” dishes – negative feedback that pulls it down from the 5/5 food rating that it enjoyed for so long. But we will leave the last word to a lifelong regular: “I have been eating the Yeung family’s cooking since they worked for Charlie Chan at the ‘San Ho’ and while there have been highs, even higher highs, and one or two meals that were merely above-average, I cannot remember anything that was disappointing over the years, except as judged by the very highest standards”. Top Menu Tip – “shredded mooli pastries have the lightest flakiest pastry I've ever come across, and how they get such flavour out of mooli is verging on the alchemical”.
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34 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 4JY
Restaurant details
Prices
| Availability | 2 courses | 3 courses |  |
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| Dinner | £30.00 |  |
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| Starter | Main | Veggies | Pudding |
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| £3.50 | £25.30 | £10.00 | £4.00 |
| Drinks |
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| Wine per bottle | £20.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £2.00 |
| Extras |
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| Service | 10.00% |
34 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 4JY
Opening hours
| Monday | 12:30 pm‑11 pm |
| Tuesday | 12:30 pm‑11 pm |
| Wednesday | 12:30 pm‑11 pm |
| Thursday | 12:30 pm‑11 pm |
| Friday | 12:30 pm‑11:30 pm |
| Saturday | 12:30 pm‑11:30 pm |
| Sunday | 12:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
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