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.

Styling itself as a place of fusion, that is, offering a real variety of Oriental cuisine - from…read moreIndonesian Nasi Goreng to Japanese Stir Fry Udon, this is a place of quanitifiable selection - but no real substance. Service was a little rushed and the food was good, but not great.

Our first time visit. Much as I was confuse by the fact that I had to order my rice separately as…read moretheir curry wasn't served with anything at all. Despite that, the food was devine & their staff were really friendly. Would definitely come back again

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.

I love Red Chilli, but my only critique is that the service can be rather slow and inattentive…read more The food, on the other hand, is incredible! Crispy chilli shredded beef is one of my favourite dishes, and that is how it is. Crispy. Spicy. Shredded. Beefy. Perfect. On my last visit with colleagues for a leaving lunch, I ordered the salt & pepper baby squid for a starter, and it was very tasty. For my main, I ordered the Gongbao diced chicken. Again, quite a spicy dish, with the added bonus and flavour of peanuts. Superb! Red Chilli offer a great lunch deal that comes with a starter and main for less than £10, however, in December they add an extra couple of pound on this, despite offering the same food and calling it the "Christmas lunch deal". Come on guys! Step it up a gear! The decor is quite bold, but offers a comfortable setting, with large round tables for groups, dark wood dividers and booths.

One of our favourite restaurants when looking for some excellent chinese food. This restaurant…read morespecialises in Szechwan dishes, so do expect that most items on the menu will have a chilli rating next to it! This is one our favourite places for Peking Duck, hanf carved right in front of you. i would also recommend any variety of their lamb dishes, including the lamb ribs. If you're feeling adventurous, try the cold spicy platter too. Only gripe about this place is the lack of available parking. There is a multi storey nearby but its not the cheapest place to park!

The food in here is nice and the service is fast but it is not the best chinese I have ever visted…read moreand the drinks menu is limited. The restaurant is in an ideal position to visit at the start of a night out as there are numerous nice bars near by in Stockton Heath for afterwards. They do Karaoke on some nights which seem to be busy but I haven't visited one so can't comment on what they are like. They cater well for large groups as they have a fair few large round tables making it an ideal place for a works night out. However my pet hate about China Red is the fact that you cannot see whether the restaurant is busy without walking up the stairs and the waiter is normally waiting at the top for you with a menu making it diffiicult for you to change your mind. I do not like eating in an almost empty restaurant, I much prefer a bustly atmosphere so the sheer fact that I cannot judge whether it is busy puts me off visiting this restaurant.

This is a lovely restaurant as it is relatively new the decor is superb, the staff are friendly but…read moreI have experienced slow service in here. The food is lovely but can be a bit pricey and the ambience is great. Give is a whirl

A great place for groups and celebration. The server are super nice even though every minutes that…read morethey are swamp. The food is very much liked by my western culture family. Especially the duck, every bits to the bone was all gone. Don't miss ordering that.

We went with the four of us to The Rice Bowl on a Wednesday night whilst visiting Manchester on a…read moreshort trip. Great decor, friendly service and an excellent menu of dim sum starters and more traditional, but perfectly executed, mains. A different concept than I am used to, but very much worth a return visit.

Jasmine House does (English-style) Cantonese style and while I wouldn't suggest you travel to it if…read moreyou live nearby you could do far worse (seriously, some of the Chinese places in Stockport are awful). We were warmly greeted to the pleasantly old fashioned and cosy restaurant and ordered pretty extensively off the menu while we were brought some complimentary prawn crackers. We shared a dim sum/combo platter that did old favourites like prawn toast and spring rolls really well. The dim sum (shi mai and har gau) wasn't bad either. Main courses were standard but tasted freshly cooked or at least piping hot. I didn't have that mucky feeling afterwards that you sometimes get from cheap Chinese food. We were definitely on at least three stars then right at the end, along with some fortune cookies, we were given two complimentary glasses of Bailey's. Both the boyf and I really appreciate a small business working hard to please their customers (me especially having been brought up in one) so we're definitely fans now and this is likely to become our local for Chinese food.

Far and away our favourite Chinese restaurant. The owner and staff are so friendly, the food great,…read morethe prices ok and the atmosphere fantastic. No rushing you, you can sit back, relax and enjoy your evening. Highly recommended.

A fine purveyor of Szechuan cuisine, which is one of my favey daves. R&H offers a pretty extensive…read moremenu of tasty dishes, with the ever helpful 'chilliometer' to alert you to super-spicy foods. The boyf swears by the chilliometer, and on one occasion refused to order food until he was given a vocal chilliometer by the waiter. So, you know, good work with the chilliometer, R&H. The menu is very good, offering such delicacies as eels and duck tongue (euwwwww!) alongside the more workaday ribs, prawns and whatnot. The prices here are more than I expected, with it being in a none-too-shiny area of Chinatown, and not being all to sexy itself. Expect to pay over £5 per starter while mains are all around the £7-£10 mark, depending on what you're having. My sizzling black pepper beef (£8.50) really hit the spot, and the boyf paticularly enjoyed his salt and pepper king prawn dish. The egg fried rice was amongst the best I've had in Manchester, so kudos. The atmosphere is OK, but I feel like maybe we came at a bad time, earlyish on a Tuesday. I can see that it does have the potential to be quite a happening place if busy. The staff are incredibly helpful, and service is super fast. Drinkswise, you can bring your own, but they charge £10 if you do so! Shocker. You're better off having the house wine, £10, which is alright. Pints of the usual (Tiger, Grolsch, Bud) are a reasonable £2.50. Cutely, they offer Bacardi Breezers and the like, under the heading "Romantic Drinks", yeah, romantic for a school disco! R&H is good, and well worth a visit for the food alone, but if you're aafter a buzzing, fun atmosphere, this ain't the place.

Wasn't expecting great Chinese food being from Los Angeles where Asian food is extremely good and…read moreaccessible. However, this place surprised me (despite my initial worry with the lack of customers ... granted I came around 9pm on a weekday). Every dish we ordered was packed full of flavor. Kung pao chicken was delicious, though it was a bit too sauced up for my taste. Sliced pork szechuan style was definitely my favorite dish we ordered. I could do without the onions piled up on the bottom though Water spinach was standard My friend who ordered the hot and sour soup said it was the best one he's ever had (but he's white and from Texas so I take it with a grain of salt heh) Pan fried dumplings were also tasty. If you're inkling for some authentic asian food, definitely give this place a shot.