Tai Wu, taiwu.co.uk, formerly known as Tai Pan is Hong Kong style cuisine found sitting atop a very…read moreaffordable Asian Supermarket. The menu is expansive, covering many dim sum delicacies, lots of roasted duck dishes, including a variation that resembles Peking/Beijing duck, but without the added prep substituting a good roast duck in exchange for an on-demand item, all the seafood favorites (whole steamed fish, lobster, crab) and even some regional favorites never found on overseas menus, like Dinghu Shangsu (which is a mixed vegetable dish comprised of fresh and rare dried veggies like clouds ear, snow fungus, osmanthus, pickled Dictyophora, lotus seeds, silver needle fungus, et.al.) Service is typical efficient Asian, that if you get your order in from the start, everything progresses quickly and arrives expediently. If you attempt the Euro custom of adding this and that as the dining commences, you'll probably get frustrated trying to constantly interrupt the running servers to add just one more dish to your meal. Order up front and be happy. It's also a typical family-style banquet house, so as the crowds fill up, it will become quite loud with conversational chatter. All in all, a wonderful find parket outside of City Centre and nowhere near the Manchester Chinatown proper. Instead, this is where the local workers and families go to have a special lunch or dinner, and that's the ideal for really good Chinese food.

Who knew you had to go all the way up north to get decent dim sum in the UK! I certainly didn't…read more I'm just glad to know there actually is decent Chinese food somewhere on this island kingdom. There are two menus for dim sum. One is a tick box menu in Chinese only, the other is a laminated card that has English and Chinese, but is not as extensive as the Chinese only one. Just an FYI. Most of the standard stuff is in the English menu, but if you don't see it, make sure to ask because they probably do have it just isn't listed. Attentive and very helpful staff. This place is more than decent, it's great. I'd definitely come here more often if I didn't live in the so many hours away.

Clean, customer-service minded team, and while delivering authentic and tasty Chinese food.read more

This was the worst chinese food. They came on my friends duck and somehow messed up fried rice…read more Service was good as the food came very quickly, but that can't make you for the food. Service was good tho!

A welcome respite from the rain. They do pan-Chinese cuisine but specialize in Hong Kong style. I…read moredon't think my order was best, but I won't penalize them for it. It was still tasty, but I saw lots of better dishes flying by to the people near me. They have a ton of staff who are all very attentive and helpful. It seemed like they were also training some junior staff that day, but it wasn't disruptive. The interior is clean and presentable, if not chic. I would go back if I were in Manchester again, if only to see what else was available.

This place feels like a hidden gem. There are kind employees and a good supervisor. So many…read morevegetarian/vegan options and it's very clean and big inside. My partner and I popped in half an hour before closing and they happily served us, telling us not to rush and to take our time. The food was lovely, and the supervisor came up to serve us some rice. Really authentic Chinese food.

A brief history of Chinatown favourites…read more..... I was introduced to real Chinees food - I mean proper Chinese food, not gwailo-style, westernised stuff - in the late eighties, by my old friend Ronnie Chan. Ronnie and I would go weekly to Win Wah on Portland Street, an astoundingly cheap place where dishes cost £3-4, and I learned very quickly to use chopsticks (out of necessity - otherwise Ronnie would have eaten all the grub before I had any chance). Then Ronnie moved back to Hong Kong, Win Wah disappeared, and I was in the wilderness. After some years of searching, I found a new home at Wong Chu. Cheap, no-nonsense, with high-quality offerings - the noodle dishes, and the duck / pork / squid were always spot-on, I wandered the streets, checked the menus, and tried the other places - but always found myself returning to Wong Chu, because it was cheaper and better than the competition. I dined there hundreds of times. One Saturday morning in 2001, I opened my newspaper and saw the headline "Hacked to Death by Triad Maniacs". It was Mr Wong and his family. I'd seen Mrs Wong go through her two pregnancies, watched her kids scurry excitedly around the place, and I was devastated. But the restaurant re-opened, now managed by Mr Wong's adult daughter from a previous marriage, and continued to deliver great dining..... for another 5 or 6 years. Then it went into a sad decline - I have no idea why - and by the end, it was a pale shadow of its former self. Back to the wilderness. Now I have a new home in Chinatown. As good as Win Wah & Wong Chu at their respective peaks, with the same format - no-frills, low-end prices, but great quality, a relaxed and friendly informal atmosphere, and a menu of Hong Kong-style Chinese dishes that are a world away from the MSG-laden gwailo junk that's so ubiquitous in UK Chinese restaurants, Fu's is the real deal. Welcome home.

A blink and you'll miss it gem. Not named after whoever that damn person Mr T was referring to when…read morehe got annoyed, Fu's is instead a traditional Hong Kong style café with a huge amount of hot, yummy options including your usual szechuans and sweet and sours, chow meins and hoi sins, and they're all lovely enough, but what you want to try here are the more unusual, authentic dishes. My favourite is the fish stew, done hot pot style and just so delicious you'd happily force yourself to eat too. Combos and sauces you might not have encountered before are the order of the day here and the creativity pays dividends. The secret trick here is not to be given the blue menu. They'll automatically pass it on if they think you're English, but it's the red one you want; that's what harbours all the wonderful stuff. The drinks are interesting too, especially the traditional Hong Kong iced tea, it's uber refreshing. And with wicked prices and smart service to boot, this is one gem you should ensure won't stay hidden long. Get stuck in.

Decent dim sum in Manchester Chinatown. We had: salt & pepper squid, achoy in garlic sauce, har…read moregao, steamed pork buns, seafood chive dumplings, vegetable and mushroom dumplings, and crab stuffed hot peppers. All were tasty, fresh, and piping hot. Our only regret was that we didn't have a bigger party as there were many more dim sum we wanted to try but alas, the two of us can only go so far in stuffing our bellies. It's not a fancy looking place but service is prompt and friendly and the food is good.

We tried 2 uncommon dim sum dishes (steamed whelks and chicken feet marinated in Chinese wine), 1/2…read moresteamed chicken with Chinese greens, and oyster with roast pork belly clay pot tonight in this restaurant that is in the basement level. The restaurant seemed to have good business on a Tuesday night so we thought it should be a good indication of quality. However, the food was just average so we concluded that A-Plus that we tried yesterday was better.

The curry is delicious though they didn't sell my favorite dishes, still buy their curry rice from…read moretime to time

Wing's is a Chinese take out within the Arndale Food Market. They have an excellent variation of…read moreChinese meals on offer and they're perfect for lunch times, especially if you're in a rush. You can order from any of the set menu meals on the large board at the back or essentially mix and match anything you want - they even cook some meals to order rather than serving it from the counter. The staff are friendly and I was served and got my food in just a matter of minutes! They do get busy, which is a good sign! My noodles were fresh and had only just bee put out. I took it back to my office to eat and it was well packaged and still piping hot. I'll go here a lot whilst working in the city!

An above average Chinese restaurant in Chinatown. My favourite for dim sum. They do a larger dim…read moresum selection on the weekend with special main course deals too. Don't expect amazing service or a fine dining experience but as far as good, functional Chinese restaurants go, you won't find much better in Chinatown. They have stopped doing Thai food. Also they include a service charge except on weekends.

Decent Chinese food in an above-average Chinatown restaurant both in terms of decor and service…read more The waiter when asked for a recommendation recommended my favourite-ever Chinese dish, fried chicken with Sichuan pepper. I had actually spotted that already but decided against it because this seems like a Cantonese restaurant - they specialise in dim sum as far as I can see (which I will come back for). So it wasn't perhaps quite as good as you might get in Red Chilli or Middle Kingdom but still really tasty and my date, trying it for the first time, loved it. We also got some crispy duck which was fairly good, totally standard basically. Despite the good service earlier in the meal, it was hard to pay the bill at the end. WHY. It's the one thing that consistently annoys me about restaurants.

2nd visit within a month, every time we have friends staying with us it's our restaurant of choice…read morein Manchester. Never fails.

The attention to detail regarding our last visit was very impressive. Welcome was genuine and…read moreservice could not be improved upon. Great experience at Tattu again for my wife and myself with a special mention for Edwin who looked after us so well.

I love that they have free parking and is right next to an Asian grocery store. Service was very…read morefriendly and helpful. We were quickly seated for lunch on the weekend. Even though it was pretty full, it's not as noisy as some other Chinese restaurants. Food was very tasty. Our favorite dish was the rice roll with fried dough. It was perfect with scallion and soy sauce. We ordered five dishes and the bill came out to about $30. Can't wait to get more dimsum from here! Note they do charge for tea and gratuity.

I was surprised that I only gave three stars . Service was good , ambiance what you would expect …read more It probably deserved 4 stars I just had a very dry mouth afterwards which makes me wonder about MSG I had tea, dim sum and Singapore noodles . Enjoyed the dim sum a lot , only ate half the noodles

Love this place, the staff and the food are excellent. Everything I come to Manchester I come here…read more Keep it up! The aromatic chicken is a good cheap take on crispy duck. Number 45; the squid, king prawn and scallops in chili sauce is lush.