DIM sum, beer and PING PONG at the Yang Sing? Manchesters best Chinese restaurant is used to bouncing back (from devastating fires and critics brickbats), but the presence of table tennis tables on two floors is surreal. As is the sight of chef/proprietor Harry Yeung, who recently turned 60, showing himself as dab a hand with a bat as a wok.
His daughter, Bonnie has teamed up the Chinatown institution with imported Chinese beer, Tsingtao (pronounced Ching Dow) to create Manchesters first ping pong residency, fusing the restaurants most popular dish, the worlds second biggest-selling beer and the nations most popular sport.
The once-a month pop-up package includes the Dragon Master (above), a fire-breathing, smoke-puffing, ball-shooting robotic dragon, firing one ball a second at you with excruciating levels of spin.
Ping Pong Cha is on the first Thursday of each month the next one is on September 5 6pm till late and is FREE to attend, but you must register.
There will be some tables free to use but to guarantee a good go you can reserve a table online or on the night for £20 an hour (unlimited players). Therell be resident DJs, mini-tournaments and dim sum and beer can be bought on the night.
