Wing Ho - Cowes

How to start? We are a group of ten visiting Cowes for the first time and looking for lunch. My personal input is negligible so I am not responsible for choosing this place.We walked past quite a few or more than a few inviting restaurants and for some reason ended up at this dump. The reason for the word dump was the outside had not been updated in decades and the inside was confirmation of this. The wooden wall panelling, brickwork and furniture all harks back to the glorious 1970's interior design of blandness and brown!Now to start! We were given water, that should be easy. At first we though we had been given sea water, but after a vigorous discussion we came to the conclusion that it was not sea water but pool water, with plenty of chlorine and probably human body fluids added! (We tried tap water outside later and it was perfect!)The food then began to arrive (The party was mostly composed of Thai people new to Australia) and again I had nothing to do with the selection.This is what was selected and what I and my children thought of it.Fried Rice: yes, it was rice and it was fried but the prawns contained within it were flavourless and felt like slimy lumps on my tongue.Honey Chicken: yes it was honey and maybe contained chicken, there was something inside the pieces but rubbery stuff (my daughter's description) does not always come from something that clucks.Roast Duck: looked more like road kill duck that had then been hit by a band saw. Maybe it did at one time taste like duck but greasy pieces of bone hacked into throat blocking slices were not something that was quacking in my opinion.Green things on a plate: this was supposed to be (my guess here: plant life of some sort in sauce of dishwater flavour) vegetable to go with the duck and chicken or other feather things.There is nothing more I can say about the food without feeling ill, the worst bit was reading other reviews on Trip Advisor and now feeling even worse for what I had forced down into my stomach!The toilet: My son and daughter both went to the toilets and wished they didn't. The ladies had brown things in the bowl and skid marks around the rim. The men's had cucumber (my son's word) things in there somewhere. What he meant I did not dare to find out!!!!Final comment, this has to be one of the worst places I have been to in decor, food and everything else in my entire history of commenting on Trip Advisor. Stay away if you value your tongue and stomach.PS: it is not that cheap!

The food here was awful, and actually the worst Chinese food I've eaten. Save yourself the money and effort by grabbing a jar of Kan Tong from Coles and plop it into your frypan... I can assure you you'll have a far better meal.

Came here expecting great chinese food, full of flavour and delicious and left feeling disappointed and ripped off. I could have cooked it better myself. I should have stayed home. I'll never come back again

Serves mainly tour group. 5 of us were there, 3 adults 2 kids. My kids prefer western food so we bought 2 burgers for them while we would like to have chinese food. Sound out that to the reception but was rejected as she said no outside is allowed. This is a stupid rule. Well, it depends on situation. Even if we do not bring burgers for the kids, they would bot take the chinese food. So the enterprise should know when to bent the rules....

Great food and quick. we wanted something quick and that's what we got. tasty too thanks for that....