Uncle Billy’s Chinese Restaurant

It’s your typical late night Asian food house. I personally love their fried icecream! UB’s has been around for ages so it’s easy to get to know the staff there. Open late into the night and with plenty of nearby parking, this place will always be a winner when you’re craving a good dose of deliciously salty Chinese food.

Perth’s Chinatown in Northbridge may be rather small and quiet but for as long as I can remember, it is well known for a restaurant called Uncle Billy’s.
It’s one of those places that isn’t well known for its extravagance or its culinary expertise, rather its popularity owes to the notion of reliability, consistency and availability (even in the wee hours of the early morning for late night revellers).
Many weekends we have come to Uncle Billy’s to enjoy their range of food and the mandatory one to order are usually the golden eggplant (cooked in eggyolk), sizzling Japanese tofu and vinegar chicken.
The place can be quite noisy and hectic during weekends but food is usually delivered promptly. For larger groups there are tables located upstairs.
If you’re out on the town and want some comforting Chinese food, Uncle Billy’s will have you covered.

A cold tuesday night brought us to one of the only chinese places opened in Perth at 2am. We were pleasently welcomed with a whiff of asian cooking. The place was hardly crowded; after all, it was one untimely hour. Surrounded by plain, white walls, albeit some chinese paintings, it felt like the place was once an old abandoned house.
The waitress passed us the menu to take a quick look. We knew right on the spot that a hot-​plate tofu and chilli pepper chicken rice craving was just waiting to be fulfilled.
Waiting time was decent, the dishes were nicely served out in about 15minutes. The tofu was still sizzling on the hot plate as the smoke intensified the savoury, midly burnt smell. With the right mix of crispy and silky, the mouth-​watering tofu slid down my throat with ease, erupting into flavourful explosions with each bite i took.
On to the chicken. Portion wise, you could call it a turkey. Balancing all that succulent meat with fried rice is akin to a tight rope event. Each mouthful sent fiery flames down my spine as the spicyness of the chilli overpowered my senses. The fried rice was done with sufficient wok hei to give it that nice burnt finish while the juicy and tender chicken tasted very heavenly. What an elevation of my senses!
Total damage was about 30 dollars, including a soya bean drink.
Looking down on my now expanded belly and giving it a good rub, all i can say is, thank you, Uncle billy.

Went to Uncle Billy’s tonight for the first time as Hawkers was sadly closed and we were in the mood for good chinese! Walking into Uncle Billy’s the bottom floor was full with customers left right and centre, so we were seated upstairs… where we were the only poeple aside from another table with three people. Presumably they had arrived just before us as their orders were taken right after ours.
The restaurant itself is a very clean yet still authentic Chinese restaurant with a huge amount of seating to cater groups of any size. The service was quick and efficient however… they weren’t concerned with necessarily ‘pleasing the customer’. We order a large range of dishes that came fairly quickly for a weeknight service which was great!
The food was all quite well presented, flavoured and tasty! I have yet to taste anything that I would say is not up to standard. The Jellyfish and shredded chicken salad in particular was super fresh, tasty and servings were large!
Overall I would recommend Uncle Billy’s if your nearby and your wanting to give it a go. However it is A-​OK as service I feel isn’t professional nor pleasant.

Meeeeh
Uncle Billy’s my love hate relationship continues!
Food: average some dishes are above average
Service: barely existent
Opening hours: late night Amazing!
Layout: great big tables for group dinners
I wouldn’t visit here for a date night or if i wanted amazing food but it will always be the go to for our friends for a late night post drinking/​dancing sesh feast.

Five years ago, I would’ve given this a 5 star rating. Working in entertainment, I would have averaged about 3 – 4 visits to Uncle Billy’s a week, so much so that I even started the «Late night supper at Uncle Billy’s» facebook page.
For the night creatures, Uncle Billy’s is practically a little slice of heaven at 3am in the morning, when you’ve stumbled out onto the street with a horde of drunken friends and strangers alike. Surely, someone will mumble about needing some Maccas, & like the Pied Piper of late night Perth, you lead a trail of misfits down to Chinatown & Uncle Billy’s welcomes you with open arms.
They’re pretty accommodating to rowdy groups, which can be a bit of a double edged sword for the times you’re the polite sober ones & there’s another group of obnoxious strangers that were just acting the way you did a week & a half ago…
The food is pretty consistent, delicious, and most importantly at 4 in the morning, it comes out really quick. The sambal kangkong, the golden soft shelled crabs (or eggplant for vegetarians), chilli pepper squid (or tofu for vegans), Peking mushrooms, and sizzling dishes are table staples. The Marmite chicken is surprisingly addictive, and the vinegar chicken is perfectly crispy on the outside & juicy on the inside, for more traditional flavours.
On family outings, we visit Uncle Billy’s at more regular «dinner» hours, and the service is still pretty decent even when the house is packed full.
Over the past two years though, I’ve been making an effort to eat healthier, and cutting out late night suppers unfortunately means frequenting this joint much, MUCH less. Also, with the small but constant price increases, what used to be a $ 10-​$ 15 per person share is now averaging $ 20.
Still, I will always have a soft spot if anyone mentions «late night supper at Uncle Billy’s» to me at the end of a night out.

Not bad Chinese. The service is very fast and always find the food to be steaming hot, nothing coming out cold. I’m a very fussy Chinese eater and seeing the restaurant always full with Chinese patrons satisfies me that they’re doing something right. :)

I have always loved two things about Uncle Billy’s. The convenience (nearly always open) and the price.
Now I have a new love.
Deep. Fried. Oreos.
Seriously.

Well… Uncle Billy, I haven’t met him but frequented his joint today to pick-​up some good authetic chinese to surprise my wife.
Ordered the following –
*Beef ho-​fun with ginger and shallots
* Pork spare ribs in schezeuan style
* Chilly chicken
The food was made ready very quickly, which is always a good feeling when you are picking up.
The noodles were well done but a bit too saucy for a fried noodles I would say.
Pork spare ribs in schezuan style was very well done. Loved the consistency of the sauce and to right extent it was sauted and strid fried. Also being topped with peanuts and babycorns made it very yummy.
The chilly chicken was just normal, and it wasn’t a dish I would either rave about or will order again. Might be not a bad try just for once.
All in all, i would say the food was above average and is not in anyways extra-​ordinary. The portions are generous.
However, the prices are on the steep side I would say. I have to think if I would like to visit again, however if the prices were kept down I would have definitely come back.
Cheers
A Foodie

Not wanting to hunt around Northbridge for a place that was open late on a Saturday night (or should I say early on a Sunday morning), Uncle Billy’s seemed like a good option at the time.
The food was a bit average but I guess if you’re still in Northbridge in the early hours of a Sunday morning, what you’re eating isn’t right up there on your list of healthy and nutritionally viable options.
Anyway, I ordered the Penang Style Ho Fun which cost me $ 15.50. I thought it was a bit more pricey than what it was worth and in terms of taste and flavour, it could have been better (but then it could have been a lot worse too).
Personally, I thought it could have been better.

Well if you happen to want food in the wee hours and have lax hygenie standards, this is the place for you.
Brought my friend (who was visiting from queensland) here on accounta there was nothing else open. Entrée came out along with some dirty serving plates. Tea arrived with (to my horror) a hair swaying gently in the steam from the spout. When i informed the waitress about this she shrugged as if thinking «whatever!» and i’m sure mentally rolled her eyes at me. She returned with a clean plate and hairless tea. Felt uneasy about eating… But reasonably priced.
It is better with beer goggles.

Who’s Uncle Billy?
Came here with a group of Chinese friends tonight literally as a last resort as every other Chinese restaurant in the area required a wait time of over an hour. Anyway I was reminded why this particular eatery is somewhere I haven’t frequented as of late. I have eaten here in the past maybe on two other occasions and can’t remember it being this bad.
The apparent highlight of the meal «Golden Snow Crab» was described by many on the table as «too oily». The tofu was pretty average at best. The sizzling beef was drowned in sauce and oil also. The last and final dish the Kai Lan with garlic was pretty average too. With the bill summing up to around $ 300 this is unacceptable.
OVERALL: AVERAGE AT BEST.
If your in China Town in Northbridge and looking for Chinese, go here only as a LAST RESORT. You should be starting at Hawkers Cuisine and working down from there just as a personal hint.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure if was going to wake up this morning after last night’s feed at Uncle Billy’s. I know that sounds dramatic, and the alcohol may well have heightened my anxieties, but I did consume two seriously undercooked pieces of chicken. The fact that a Chinese restaurant was open post two am, and thus able to fuel our boozy hunger pangs, was pretty exciting — and the chilli pepper squid and beef noodle dishes we also ordered were actually not too bad. Really salty which was perfect for the conditions. But the chicken was a write off, plus my friend wasn’t served the drinks she ordered and there didn’t seem to be much attention to detail on the service stakes. I liked the cheap décor here, but my friend vehemently objected to it. It’s kitsch and fun, and it was seriously packed out, so to you, dear reader, I say: dine at your own risk.

Uncle Billy’s is located in what was Perth’s half-​hearted attempt at creating a Chinatown. While the attempt at creating Chinatown failed, Uncle Billy’s has done quite well and regularly attracts a big crowd.
While the menu at Uncle Billy’s is authentic enough, the food quality was average at best. The jellyfish and pig trotter lacked the fresh flavour that usually accompanies the dish, and for some reason, they decided to serve the jellyfish and pig trotter along with the rest of the dishes, when it is usually served as an entrée. The roast duck was another disappointment, with skin that was barely crispy and with watery plum sauce. For whatever reason, spending $ 200 on dishes did not deserve a complimentary fruit platter, although another table who appeared to have spent that much did receive one.
While Uncle BIlly’s seems popular, the food does not justify the trouble.