Mr Kong

T.Walker (18 August 2008)

We went to Mr Kong's on Saturday and my wife was made to sit next to a large stack of chairs, and because it was full we were unable to be re-seated elsewhere. We plumped for a set menu as we both liked what was on it. We started with crab and sweet corn soup. Then the prawn toast and pancake rolls, which came with Worcestershire sauce, is not one of the better known inventions of the Chinese I must admit, I thought it would have been soya sauce. The duck and pancakes were just okay apart from the fact that the duck was dry and the cucumber had been left out all day and were dry as well. The main course was beef in oyster sauce and sweet and sour pork. The beef was rubbery and the pork had no taste and was hard and dry. The special rice was very special I would think as the prawns in it were a few days old because their taste was so strong as to make it inedible. On complaining they graciously deducted the service charge, which they charge whether you want to leave a tip or not.

Geraldine Conroy (13 January 2007)

What a great place to eat! The food is so tasty and the staff so friendly that the restaurant doesn't need to be plush and glamorous. We live in Bedford, surrounded by Chinese restaurants but whenever we want Chinese we come to Mr Kong. On our most recent visit we sampled the delights of garlic sprouts and I have been trying to buy them ever since, sadly to no avail. I had never heard of garlic sprouts before but now I want to use them as a regular vegetable. Delicious.