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Birmingham Mail visited to see if Chung Ying has the best dim sum by trying our recently awarded best dumplings in the UK.

View the full article here: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/tried-12-dumplings-chung-ying-25162295

Picture below by Kirsty Bosley, features writer for The Birmingham Mail.

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It's official! Chung Ying has the best dim sum in Birmingham China Town and also in the UK! 

The Golden Chopsticks Awards awarded Chung Ying with the accolade of the best dumplings in Britain.

View the article here https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/very-best-dumplings-britain-served-25135623

Our MD James said: "It was a wild night and we got to rub chopsticks with some famous faces like Gok Wan, Ken Hom and other fantastic restaurateurs such Park Chinois. We knew we had the best dumplings in the country and now it’s official. Our Dim Sum menu has more than 100 varieties and is the largest in the country."

Pictured are brothers James Wong and William Wong from Chung Ying Cantonese Restaurant.

Many of the ingredients used at Chung Ying Cantonese Restaurant can easily be changed to gluten free versions without any loss in quality as many gluten free versions of ingredients are readily available to us.

We use gluten free substitutes in the ingredients, eg. gluten free soy sauce. All our batter is made using potato starch and rice flour which are gluten free.

We have a separate gluten free menu with over 60 choices, in fact we think we might have the largest gluten free selection in the UK! View here - to see a sample of our gluten free menu.

Is a phrase that Carlsberg would say if they were promoting our noodles!

We have all manner of noodles click here to view our menu 

Often families tell us that they take their children to eat at Chung Ying after they had such happy memories of when their parents used to take them when they were growing up.

Recently we had a reservation with 4 generations of Chung Ying fans who visited, great grandparents, grandparents, mum & dad and children and that got us thinking…… are there Chung Ying customers who visit us with an even greater number of generations than 4? If so, please email us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as we would like to know.

The most important and exciting time in the Chinese calendar is upon us once again. This year sees the year of the Rat on the 25th January.

This festive time brings 15days of celebration in China, a time for family reunions and long honoured traditions. Commonly known as ‘Spring Festival’, the streets in China will be lined with brightly coloured lanterns and decorations.

How many times have you a heard someone say that they went to a Chinese restaurant, and all that they were able to eat was rice because everything else contained meat products? This makes us so sad because Chinese and Cantonese cuisine has a long heritage of wonderful vegetable dishes. Some of the fondest food memories of people across the country involve exquisite cooking of China’s fresh herbs, flowers and vegetables. 

At Chung Ying, we want to demonstrate this incredible heritage across our menus. As we have the biggest Dim Sum selection in the UK, and possibly in the world, this section of our menu was the perfect place to start.  All of our vegetarian Dim Sums are also vegan, with the exception of our Deep-Fried Caramel Buns, Steamed Caramel Buns and Steamed ‘Liquid Gold’ Buns (numbers 72, 76 and 77 on our full Dim Sum menu). Unfortunately, the sumptuously sweet lava that erupts from these soft buns contains yolk from duck eggs. As hard as we tried, we couldn’t recreate this filling while using exclusively vegan ingredients.