Has anyone found a good website selling chinese ingredients
by mail? Hilary in darkest Cornwall!

www.wingyip.com is excellent

Hi Hilary11. If you can, make a daytrip to the Wing Yip supermarket in Purley Way, Croydon, Surrey. You can even have a meal in the chinese restaurant next door. It's really worth the trip.

Hi Hilary

Wing Yip is probably you best choice. The do a great mail order service. No good for fresh ingredients but great for you sauces, noodles, rice etc. Delivery is only £3.50 which I think is a bargain.

You may be closer to the store in Birmingham. It is near the M5 M6 intersection.

If you do go you must go to the cafe and have a steamed custard bun. They are amazingly good.

Good luck in your quest

Matt

|Wow, to Mrs |Woof Woof, have you any idea how long it would take to get to Croydon from Cornwall?? Day trip, blooming long one I/d say. Only about 250 miles each way! ||Birmingham is about 4 hours! HilaryII, as advised by others
try wingyip.com

I visit wing yip but find hoo hing just as good if not better. www.hoohing.com.

Never heard of hoo hing, but it looks great. May have to check it out when in that neck of the woods. May even combine it with a trip to Wing Yip. So much excitement in one day.

I think Wing Yip web site is better laid out postage is a lot cheaper. a lot of Hoohing.com was not working properly. I look forward to visiting though. Only one problem. I now have to spend twice as much money now.

Just got my order from Wing Yip. I am most impressed with the quality of their packing. Someone really took pride in putting my order together. The postage being only £3.50 you cannot go wrong. BTW I don't work for wing yip

If anyone needs chinese/japanese/indian/thai etc etc then I would highly reccomend them.

Can't now wait to visit hoohing. Must find an excuse to go to london.

Hi Matthew. Have looked at this site in the past, and as i have never bought anything online yet, i was relunctant to try. Out of a matter of interest do they have a minimum amount cost you have to spend before they deliver i live about 70 miles away from my nearest in croydon. many thanks
marie

Hi Love Grub

I am not aware of any minimum order. My order was for £31 which isn't really a lot. They even individually wrapped all the jars in corugated card. Plus I got a free pair of chopsticks, a thai recipe book, fortune cookie and a chinese shopping bag. You don't get that from sainsburys!!



In fact I was so impressed I emailed them and told them so.

My advice. Give it a go.

Sorry Matthew but can i be really nosey and asked what you bought I will defo give it a go next week sometime. where abouts do u live. marie

Hi Marie

My shopping list is as follows
Sweet chilli sauce 700ml for chicken
Roasted Seaweed Sushinori (for making sushi)
coconut milk 45p tin (half price of regular supermarkets)
Noodle and sauce pack (see their website for details)
Glutinous rice (2kg for £2.85)
singapore lasksa paste
extra hot chilli sauce
sushi vinegar
sushi ginger
lychees in syrup 567g only 59p
tom yum paste
soba noodles

I live near Swindon (south of the M4 - Nice part)

Strangley enough it is exactly the same distance for me to go to Croydon Wing Yip as it is to go to Birmingham Wingyip. there is about a mile in it.

Matt

Mmmmm lovely, shame you live so far away, I wouldve invited myself round for dinner!
I have looked at the site and I think thats its defo better and cheaper to buy from here, and as for £3.50 delivery charge, well that would be my bus fare more or less. Happy Cooking Matt.... Im starving now!!!!
Kind regards. Marie

I live just 5 minutes from wing yip and im like a kid in a sweet shop everytime i go in there,i always spend far too long in there and always come out with a trolley full.

Hi divebird

We are all green with envy at you living so close.

Please note we are now throwing virtual custard pies at you.

Hi Liverbird and Matthew,
I too am 20 mins from a branch of the Wing Yip. Can feel the virtual custard pies hitting me! Last time I was there the fish counter had bundles of fresh razor clams. I was tempted to buy but uncertain of how to cook. My thoughts were of Rick Stein and maybe Jamie Oliver searing on griddle or barbeque until they opened, dont know if I am right or wrong but any info anyone may have would be most welcome as always game to try something new. And Liverbird my Wing Yip has Peking Roast Duck boxed and hot if you get there about mid-morning!! Yummy all you need is the pancakes, spring onions, hoisin and a acouple of forks and a fast car to get home.

Oops sorry Diverbird, got the spelling wrong again

Had a lovely suprise today. After a hard day at a conference I was trying to find my way out of Manchester. I was really tired when I turned a corner and right there in front of me was Wing Yip. It really has made my day. I didn't buy much but it was great just mooching around.

Spindly, sorry for late reply, I have seen Rick Stein and Hugh FW eating razorclams raw, however if you are to cook them, flash them in a pan the same as scallops, they take little to no cooking if fresh

Bubbles,
Thanks so much for your reply. Yes I too recall Hugh FW eating them, Not Jamie Oliver as I thought. If they have a bundle of them next time Im in the Wing Yip will buy some, cook em and let you know how they were

Cool spindly I have yet to try them, although I think they will go well with a lot of scallop recipes

hi,
have you seen the recipies on the wing yip site too, well impressive, especially the one they call "cola chicken". Thought this'd be nasty but its excellent.

Ive had a few orders from wing yip cos there ain't a decent specialist chinese supermarket anywhere near where i live. ive even asked them at wing yip if they can get hold of a few items that weren't on their site and low-and-behold the guys there have sourced them and put them on especially for me. Now that IS amazing service.

Oh my post has gone I did say am looking forward to my first delivery from them Muck and thanks to all of your great recommendations