Restaurant chain Wing Wah tackle obesity

Aug 5 2008 By Mail Reporter

ONE of Birmingham’s biggest Chinese restaurant chains is giving youngsters the chance to choose what goes into their food.

The Wing Wah, in Nechells, wants to help today’s youth tackle the obesity epidemic, which is damaging the lives of future generations.

Wing Wah has been working with Nechells Infants and Junior School to educate pupils not only how to cook good food but the importance of using good ingredients.

Any viewers of Channel 4’s recent Dispatches programme watched shocking revelations concerning the ingredients used in Britain’s staple foods.

Many of the nation’s sandwiches were shown to be using excess amounts of fat and salt and manufacturing the food stuff in unsanitary conditions.

Wing Wah is one of the few restaurants in the Midlands that has been given a five star excellence award for their commitment and practice of cooking in a clean environment.

The award was given by the city council after a random inspection of the restaurant’s premises. Wing Wah even closes for business an hour early on a Sunday to do a deep clean of the kitchen.

Wing Wah’s vice-president Dorian Chan is passionate about public health and is determined to ensure that Wing Wah doesn’t fall into the trap of sacrificing food quality for the sake of profit.

He said: “Public health is the source of much debate, and we are passionate in doing our bit. I also feel it is a common misconception that to create profit, you must use cheap resources.

It is because of our determination to sell quality food, cooked in a clean environment that we have become the biggest and most popular Chinese food chain in the Midlands.”

Wing Wah created National Spring Roll Week in late May to take their thoughts and philosophies to the younger generation.