The Weo Ping

Leave the kebabs to Ishtanbul Inn, but for Chinese takeaway food, these people are hard to beat.

Weo Ping is one of my favourite Chinese takeaways in Belfast. It has been around for as long as I remember. This is probably one of the first Chinese takeaways I ever tried and it’s a brilliant one to start off with. Their salted chilli chicken is fantastic. The chicken is perfectly cooked, and despite in being a dish without a sauce it’s never to dry. The best thing about Weo Ping however, is their curry sauce. By far its the best curry I’ve ever tasted and could possibly make an old trainer just tasty enough to eat! Their prices are brilliant, the delivery charge is barely noticeable. The only problem I have (if you could even be a problem) is their enormous portion sizes! This is only a problem because of the guilt I feel, throwing out their epic grub that I just couldn’t fit into my belly!

The Weo Ping is somewhat legendary in North Belfast. Legend has it that during Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’, a local paramilitary group known as ‘The Provies’ tried to rob the Weo Ping one night. The Chinese owner behind the counter tried to make them leave by saying, «No hurt me, me Provie too, me Provie too!» This myth has literally travelled the world over so that whenever I’ve been in Irish bars in North America, second generation Irish kids will ask me if i know «Provie Charlie’s» (the Weo Pings’s nickname).
For a chinese, the food isn’t bad at all in the Weo Ping. It’s of a much higher quality than other Chinese takeouts in the surrounding area. But I agree with the last reviewer that it can tiresome after a while, but I put this down to the fact that North Belfast’s takeaways offer predominantly Chinese food with very little variety. So if I’m not screaming about how great this place is, it’s only because I’ve grown up on it.

A local Chinese of ours, we’ve been ordering from Weo Ping for years. We get a bit bored of it every so often, and tend to go and have a brief flirtation with other Chinese takeaways in the area, but we eventually come back to Weo Ping, like a homing pigeon.
It’s really good value, and tends to taste a little fresher than some other Chinese takeaways, with lots more vegetables featuring in thier main dishes as a proper element, rather than just being an afterthought. Their Sweet and Sour chicken is really lovely, and thier Beef, Green Pepper and Black Bean Sauce is recommended too. Plus, thier portions of Prawn Crackers aren’t too stingy either. Only downside is it’s taken a while to arrive when we’ve ordered it to the house, either they don’t have enough drivers or they are very popular.