Wing’s takes over
the Lincoln
Wing’s, where the Lincoln used to be in Lincoln
Square, Manchester, is a Chinese Restaurant and as you’d expect
in this prime city centre location a very smart one indeed.
The owner, Wing Shing Chu, used to be a chef
in Chinatown. He went on to open Wing’s in Church Road, Cheadle
Hulme, to great success. His wife now manages it while the immaculate
Mr Wing presides proudly at 1 Lincoln Square which must have been
a sizeable investment.
The Lincoln was always one of the smarter but
he has made big changes with lots of blond woodwork amd murals
by a Cheshire artist including the Great Wall of China, with pandas
stage left, and the Hong Kong waterfront skyline with the buildings
equipped with prominent logos. It is a few years since I was in
Hong Kong and did not remember an Arndale Centre there or such
a prominent office of Dibb, Lupton. But Mr Wing told me that he
has transferred the names of his best clients to the buildings.
Both the kitchens and wine storage are creditably
state of the art and the wine list makes appetising reading.
With sliding patio windows and now a low wall
summer dining conditions are particularly comfortable.
We started inevitably with dim sum of which
there is a wide selection, both steamed and fried. Those we tried
included prawn envelopes with mayonnaise dip, Lan Tau fishcakes,
spring roll and pak choy and prawn dumplings. All were precisely
cooked pleasures. There are three types of platter of around half
a dozen items, mixed dim sum (£5.80), seafood (£6.80)
and hot and spicy (£5.80).
We follow with a quarter of aromatic crispy
duck with pancakes, cucumber, leek and hoi sin sauce (£8.90).
It was exemplary.
We then went onto sizzling king prawns with
ginger and spring onions (£10.90), chicken breast with asparagus
pak choy and fried rice.
There is a range of vegetarian dishes, luxury
ingredients like lobster, Dover sole, monkfish, sea bass and scallops
abound and three banquet menus ranging from £20.90 a head
to £34.90.
Everything was good and Wing’s, which has already
become popular with the footballers, provides different dining
in the heart of the shopping and business centre of the city.
Brian Hargreaves
Cheshire Life – September 2004
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