It is always tricky to pick a restaurant in china town because you have so many options and you…read moredon't know which one is a gem and which is just about OK! I can proudly say I have tried most of them on several occasions (They might not be the most authentic Chinese but solves the purpose when you are craving for some soup noodles). Last Monday I was out for a Yelp UYE and after a few drinks I had a sudden craving for food and especially Chinese food! I couldn't help myself from getting magnetically drawn into Chinatown on my walk back home. It was post midnight on a Monday so not many places were open but Great Wall which is right in the heart of Chinatown was shining bright (I mean the lights were on) and seemed likely to serve some food to a drunken girl craving for Chinese! The menu had quite a bit to choose from, lots of options on soups, curries, starters. I went for some steamed dumplings along with hot and spicy chicken soup (you can never go wrong with these) and rice with a regular Chinese curry. The waitress seemed to be rather friendly and welcoming even at that point of the night (impressive). The food appeared in front of me within less than 5 minutes of ordering (nothing makes a hungry woman more happy than that). The price is very very reasonable because for all that order we just paid 17 pounds (very pocket friendly just like their staff). The decor is not posh but it is not like a take away either (Good for a casual meal out). Verdict: Any place that serves decent food post midnight with a smile on their face is always worth a 4 star!

Well....it serves Chinese food. It's um, got um, Chinese…read moremusic playing.....constantly. There are Chinese fans on the walls along with some Chinese style paintings of typically Chinese things like water, trees and birds. The sweet and sour pork is a little sticky and bloating but when I'm next drunk and hungry at three in the morning I'll probably go again. Is anybody getting that this is much like any other average Chinese restaurant?

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.

Gordon's Kitchen: 'Fish & Chips and Delicious Chinese Meals'. Dishes: numbered 1-208 as per British…read moreChinese take-away tradition. Menu: dirty white. Hmm, doesn't bode well... Food: absolutely amazing. Prices: unbelievably cheap. Delivery Speed: speed of light. Gordon's Kitchen is the best Chinese take-away I've been to in Manchester, without a shadow of a doubt. The selection of main meals is the same as any Chinese take-away, with nothing left out. The prices range from £4.40 to £5, for the King Prawn dishes. Also, you don't even have to buy rice separately as every dish comes with either boiled rice or chips, which can be upgraded to egg fried rice for just 40p, to Chow Mein for 60p or to Udon noodles for £1. Starters are also ridiculously cheap, with the standard prawn toast and spring roles at £2 and the more extravagant going right up to a hardy extortionate £2.50. I always get the Siu Mai pork and prawn dumplings, which are honestly as good Dim Sum as I've had in many a posh Dim Sum restaurant. For a main I recommend the Chilli & Garlic Sauce with your meat or choice, but I must warn its much much spicier than any Chinese I've had before so for those less inclined towards a pleasantly simmering mouth and a slight reddening of the ears, I would suggest the Ginger & Spring Onion Sauce, which is very similar but considerably less spicy. Also, one portion of prawn crackers is two huge bags full, enough to alleviate famine in a small desert ecosystem. I do live fairly close but they deliver in an incredibly fast time, and unlike all other take-aways I use, don't panic and descend into paranoid mania when they realize they have to deliver to a block of flats.

This is the best example of a 'Chinese Chippy'.. a gloriously northern institution. It's the…read moreendless possibilities that excite me... mixing Hollands pies with Salt and Pepper Chips..or a mixed meat curry with sausage starter. Superb. It does solid chippy fare and good Chinese food... If you want to stick to genres....but why do that! ?

A decent Chinese takeaway located in West Vale. This small takeaway is at the roadside just before…read morethe traffic lights on saddleworth road as you come down from Elland so you can't really miss it. A family run business, they are always friendly and polite. The food is good and cheaper than the Golden Dragon in Elland though not quite the same standard. The shop itself is clean though it's not very big so can get a bit cramped if a few people are waiting for food. I always enjoy my food when I order from there and no doubt will be going again at some stage in the future. They would probably benefit from providing a delivery service.

The best Chinese chippy in the North West. The food is as good as any chinese resturant. They have…read morea large selection of dishes. They also supply fish n chips. The owners are very friendly and welcoming. Reasonably priced.

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.

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.

I love Chinese takeaways and therefore I am a fan of this place as I have been quite a few times…read more As with any other takeaway, you can have Chinese food or even your standard English food like fish and chips, pies and the best; puddings. The Chinese food here is great in particular the sweet and sour chicken with egg fried rice. Also I would recommend the foo yung too which is a bit different but lovely.

We had reserved a table for 7pm on Friday but arrived a little earlier. We were seated straight…read moreaway. We barely had time to look at the menu before being asked what we wanted to drink. We requested a couple of minutes, which was literally all they gave us before they came around again and then again. They are way too attentive in this place, perhaps to a fault. I was ordering off of their gluten free menu, which is refreshingly extensive. In the end I went for the BBQ ribs to start with and the sichuan crispy beef and rice noodles for mains. When they bring out the food they are very explicit in telling you which dishes are gf, which is reassuring. The ribs were coated in a thick sweet tangy sauce which was full of flavour. The ribs had quite a bit of meat on them. They could have done with being a little less chewy and a bit more tender, but to be honest when you've not had Chinese food in sooo long the flavour was enough to make me think I'd died and gone to heaven. This dish is good for sharing cause after a while the sweetness gets to be a little too much. To follow, my beef dish was amazing and you can't really fault it, it was just well cooked. The noodles on the other hand, whilst delicious, could have done with being a lot less salty cause these probably contained enough salt to make up my entire weekly allowance. Overall a great Chinese meal was had. My friends also enjoyed their meals.

Sweet Mandarin is a Chinese restauraunt in Manchester's Northern Quarter, which is basically behind…read morethe Crowne Plaza of Rochdale Road and close to the Holiday Inn, owned by three sisters it has gained a lot of publicity on television which was the reason I wanted to try it. They were featured on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word and were also on UK business show Dragon's Den twice, advertising their ready meals in 2005 and more recently advertising the sauces they sell in supermarkets and use in restaurants - the story behind their products and the three sisters working together to produce "great quality Chinese food catering for allergies such as gluten-free" was appealing to me, however my high expectations were far from met, infact my experience here was so disappointing, it made me feel sick. The prices here are a little high, with mains generally between 10 and 20 pounds but the presentation for me is a little poor and sloppy, for example, I ordered a lemon chicken as my main, all it was was slices of chicken, it comes with nothing other than the chicken and sauce - no sides etc which were all extras. The "mains" are more like big sharing boards for groups, rather than mains for one person perhaps. For my starter, I ordered gluten-free spring rolls, is excited to try them have never tried them before, being quite a newbie to Chinese cuisine, I found out this was basically fried puff pastry containing vegetables and spring onions. For me, they were basically inedible, I found them to first be extremely hot and even after they had cooled, they were hard and the vegetables were too wet and stringy. My friend ordered seaweed as her starter, I found it to be far too salty but she appeared to enjoy it. For my main, I ordered the lemon chicken which was once again dreadful, the chicken was a little hard and bland but what made it worse was the big thick sauce, it looked like a thick discoloured bodily fluid rather than a nice, enjoyable sauce - the USP of this restauraunt and the brand as a whole is the sauces, and if they can't even get that right, I'm astonished and lost for words. It was basically a sickly and ugly mess. The rest of my party seemed to order the chow meins, one mixed meat, one just with chicken, a group of four people all complained about the chicken which was amongst the poorest quality of chicken I've had in a long time, the portion sizes again were huge - it is a real shame the waiter seemed more interested in what money they could get out of me, rather than offering ideas and warning us about what to expect with the portion sizes - knowing how big the plates were we could have ordered a variety of things, or less food. Even if the food was remotely pleasant, it still was far too large in size for a portion. I decided to order an extra side to go with my chicken, the salt and pepper chips which I found to be probably the only edible part of my meal, the chips were decent quality but it just was the vegetables which were not, they once again were thick, and also hard. The overall decor of this place seems a little cheap, it is slightly small as you walk in through cardboard barriers, and it just doesn't have the overall feel of a restauraunt. It's slightly strange and not the nicest of places that's for sure, it certainly doesn't give the high-end feel, infact the only thing about this place which is high-end are the prices. With tea being a huge export in China, I was pleased to see a huge and great selection of iced tea for just £4 each, I decided to opt for a pear iced tea but it was incredibly sweet and filled with sugar, it was a watery and sugary mess to the point those awful flavours basically made the tea hard to taste and the drink once again an abysmal mess. The opening hours are also slightly restrictive and they also appear to open after 5 only, and a lack of an online booking system makes it hard to arrange a table as you have to communicate with email, which I don't like and shows not only is Sweet Mandarin lacking with the competition in terms of pricing and food quality, but it also lacks behind in the technology form too, and the egotistical act of boasting of their own achievements seem to outweigh everything else, including making the experience better for the customer, I can't help but feel a sense of arrogance too, Sweet Mandarin might have won many awards years ago, I can't comment having not visited before today, but I feel these awards have added a sense of arrogance, making the owners slightly arrogant when really they're food was a dreadful, overpriced mess, which meant I'd leave the restauraunt hungry and feeling sick. When making a reservation via email I was told "We look forward to welcoming you to Sweet Mandarin for some delicious Chinese cuisine" but my experience was an insult to Chinese cuisine and is enough to put anyone off from ordering Chinese food, being a mess from start to finish so I sadly feel Sweet Mandarin is somewhere to Avoid at all costs!