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My pizza didn't have any cheese or tomato on it. I searched. Really hard. None. Call me old-fashioned but to me, pizza without cheese and tomato is like a hamburger without meat. It's not a hamburger is it? It's just a sandwich. They should re-name this dish "vegatables atop bread". Then continue to sell it at 40 yuan and see how well it sells. A total rip-off and obvious cutting of corners to save a few kuai. My girlfriend ordered the Greek salad which arrived late and with so much oil/water in it that the vegetables were saturated and the Feta cheese quickly degraded into a fine powdery residue. Like someone had liberally used talcum powder instead of salt accross the top of it. I took one bite of my tastless pizza and my girlfriend barely sniffed her salad. We asked for the manager. The surly waitress skulked away like a scolded teenager only return after 10 minutes to inform us that the manager wasn't around. We decided to try another waitress. After another 10 minutes the manager, or someone of authority came to our table. We explained that the pizza was without tomato or cheese and that it was dry, tastless and basically inedible. She offered to 're-cook' it. I asked her how. She said she'd put ketchup on the top of it. No kidding. We were refused a re-fund, a change of pizza or a discount. Including drinks, our bill came to just under a 100 kuai, which we reluctantly paid, never to return. Robbed.

Upon the recommendation of a friend, myself and friends attended the 'special' night here last Saturday.

We had high hopes and were pleased at the appearance of the place, however, this was where the feel good factor ceased.

The mexican food was absolutely abysmal, neither myself nor any of my friends had tasted anything quite so revolting. Upon returning home, I decided to read everyone else's reviews and was surprised to see that they were all negative unless pizza related, (maybe I should have read them first, hind sight is a wonderful thing).

Maybe Wei's should have stayed with Pizza, but I for one and I feel I can also speak for my friends will not be returning to Wei's.

Recently, while strolling downtown, I was accosted by a young girl. At my age, such things don't happen very often, and I accepted the flyer that she offered. She had been standing outside Wei's Restaurant and I was happy to discover the new location. The old Wei's wasn't so easy to find and this one, also in a side street, needed a young girl, it seemed.

Once inside, I was impressed by three levels on four sides of an attractive courtyard. According to the descriptive menu, it had once been the officer's club of the famous Flying Tigers during the war (Hence, the free flyers outside, I guess). But, they would hardly recognize it today, because it has been rebuilt from top to bottom — that saddened me, somehow. Perhaps, in a few years, the newness will have disappeared and some of the historic atmosphere will return.

The menu offers a good variety of cuisine from a number of cultures and I ordered the cream of tomato soup and the chicken in white wine, together with an inexpensive glass of Yunnan white from the minimal wine list.

Then it was time to wait (Time to read a book from the large library?) — I noticed, of the approximately 45 tables available, that only four other tables were occupied. As is my way, I monitored the activity. The kitchen procedure was quite remarkable. It seemed that the cook's policy was to deal solely with each table one at a time, regardless that another table may have a similar order. One table had six people and, slowly, one by one, each dish was delivered . . . appetizers, and main entrees, in any order. Why (Oh why!) couldn't one cook be responsible for the appetizers, another for the entree courses, and another for the deserts — there were, at least, five of them — and thus, conveniently, provide a respectable service to the customers. There may be 46 tables in use one day . . . perhaps.

As the last customer, my order finally arrived after 35 minutes. Extremely hot soup and warm chicken at the same time! The soup seemed to have been made with fresh tomatoes but the quality ended there . . . in the chipped soup bowl — the cream was overpowered by, what seemed to be, either, corn starch or flour — I tried the standing-the-spoon test, it worked easily — it should be renamed 'tomato pudding', and was absolutely impossible to finish. The chicken's mother needed marinating in the promised white wine but, instead, seemed to have been beaten with a mechanical tenderizer for too long, causing it to break into pieces at the first sight of a knife. Finally, the vegetables looked like a simple 'garnish' that had obviously been blanched much earlier, and the French fries were at room temperature (upon delivery). If only cooks everywhere could learn the simply basic process of heating the plates.

Not surprisingly, the Chinese manager didn't seem to do anything. He needs to be told that customers are similar to guests in his home. Saying, 'Welcome to Wei's' as I'm leaving (Really!) instead of, 'I hope that you enjoyed your meal', doesn't go down any better than . . . the meal.

I guess that, if I'm in the area again, it'll be for the pizza.

Wei's pizza has kept me coming back, but I've noticed some serious inconsistency in the quality recently. Last night I ordered the "Mexican Chili" which was almost too sour to eat. A few weeks ago I had an even worse experience with the "Indian Curry." Okay, it might just be my fault for my strange taste in pizza, but now that the prices have gone up and the quality down, I think I'll be taking a break from Wei's for awhile.

The only good thing is the pizza - woodfire baked. Other things are eatable but not very tasty...

The pizza is good, but other menu items I've tasted less impressive. The shakes taste like they are made with powder instead of real fruit. The chicken or beef burritos, though pretty tasty contain little meat, and don't seem to contain any cheese, at all, and cheeseless burrito is almost an oxymoron as far as I'm concerned. The atmosphere is great though. I remember the food as being a lot better 5 years ago.

You definitely can't go wrong with the pizza. They have an extensive menu, but the pizza is always so good that I've never tried anything else! Personal favorites are chicken curry and double pepperoni.

I also think that Wei's has one of the nicest atmospheres of any restaurant in Kunming. Definitely a good date restaurant! They also have a pool table and book exchange.

I'm not sure about other items, but you can't go wrong with the pizza. 14 inches for 45rmb! Great wood-fired flavor. and when you sit down, they give you chips and salsa! Apple pie was OK, crust is not right. Beware, they serve you a WHOLE mini-pie, not a slice. One is enough for 2-4 people.