Tai Wu, taiwu.co.uk, formerly known as Tai Pan is Hong Kong style cuisine found sitting atop a very affordable 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. read more

Tai Pan Restaurant - Roasted duck with steamed wrappers, Beef brisket Ho Fan (crispy pan fried egg noodle version) and dinghu shangsu mixed vegetables - Chinese Near Me - Manchester, XGM

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Who knew you had to go all the way up north to get decent dim sum in the UK! I certainly didn't. 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. read more

Wasn't impressed. Not that it was bad but the pride to quality ratio wasn't what I would expect. Some of the dishes were not so tasty.

first dim sum place in manchester since i arrived! i really loved the atmosphere and the service here! i was here for lunch with two friends, one of which could speak cantonese and i could as well! we had a stack of menus but mainly chose dim sum and it was helpful to have both the chinese and english menu!! we ordered quite a few dishes and ended up taking a few left overs but overall we thought the food was good and the service was amaze! they're very efficient and there was always someone ready to come when we needed something! it was a very wholesome place for friends or family to eat and spend time talking to one another! it's very convenient to have the supermarket downstairs as well! read more

Tai Pan Restaurant - pai goo, siu mai, chive dumpling, turnip cake, custard bun, steamed pork bun, char siu chung fun, har gao - Chinese Near Me - Manchester, XGM

A great venue for a great lunch. I'll be honest with you that being a country boy from the ol' Isle of Man, Dim Sum probably wasn't something I ever thought I'd be eating for brunch. In fact I think brunch is still some way off being introduced back home but that's beside the point... Dim sum kicks ass as a brunch option! Arranged by all star Yelper Natalie W, 10 of us headed down for a selection of pork, prawn, duck and all sorts of sides. I loved the bean curd rolls and the prawn dumplings - and when the desserts came I could have eaten a million custard buns! With all of us drinking our own body weight in Jasmine tea and eating to the point of collapse - £10 a head with tip really didn't seem too bad on the grand scheme of things for what was amazing food and a great lunch with friends. Special shout out to Andy Y for helping us make some killer choices on the menu - good knowledge dude! I look forward to more dim sum brunches and going back to Tai pan sometime soon. read more

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One of my fave places to eat because their food is always on point and never disappoint! This place is my go to if I want dumplings and siomai. It's a pretty popular place especially on Sundays during lunch time so make sure you come early if you don't want to wait long for a table. This place has various types of siomai S and dumplings. I'm not sure about the names cause it's all in Chinese, but it offers shrimp and look siomai, pork/beef dumplings, pork steam buns, taro fried dumpling, and many more. They are all tasty, come in fours, and cost around £2 a serving. There are many types of noodle dishes- Fried noodles with meat or seafood or noodles in soup. We ordered the special noodle which was fried noodles with seafood and vegetables. It's a really tasty dish with crunch noodles and a thick creamy sauce with a mix of seafood and vegetables. I normally just come here for dumplings, siomai, and noodle dishes but they also have various types of dishes. The staff work hard to get the food out fairly quickly and are attentive. If you're craving for really tasty, value for money, authentic Chinese food, then you'll have to try this place! The only negative thing about this place is the parking. It has a small parking area and can be cramp so come early! read more

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I love this place but sometime the food can be hit or miss. But this time the food was amazing since we went there just as it is open around 12pm. We were like the 6th tables or something like that. Top left: #菜肉餃 - Stuffed with vegetable and prawn meat dumpling. This has more vegetables than prawns. If you want mostly prawns inside then I would recommend ordering Har Gau(#蝦餃). Top right: #潮州粉果 - Stuffed with meat and vegetable mostly would be with water chestnut and Chinese chive and peanuts with a rich gravy sauce. Front: #薑蔥牛肉買: Beef minced with spring onion dumpling wrapped with tofu pastry. It is also coated with a nice ginger and spring onion sauce. We ordered 9 dishes from deep fried, steam and chung fun dishes costed us £25.90. I gave it a 4 stars because when we finished they gave us a bill without asking. I guess they were desperate for our table to be free. read more

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Really good Chinese restaurant with very handy car parking. It also has a large chinese supermarket. At busy times it can be abit crazy and if you go e.g. Sunday lunch you could be waiting awhile for the "dim sum" trolleys going around to get to your table. It could be so busy that its all run out by the time it gets to you! read more

Tai Pan is one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in Manchester. I love their Dim Sum, there are over 20 different choices, my favorite is fried fish cake which I order every time I go there. Dim Sum is usually served before 5pm. Their dishes are not bad either. I go there with my Chinese friends all the time, usually for lunch. Other times when I go with my non-Chinese friends, they enjoy their food too. Another good thing is that they have free parking downstairs outside the Chinese supermarket. Although the price for goods in the supermarket are quite expensive compared to the ones in China Town. read more

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It's located in a purpose-built space on Upper Brook Street to the south of the city centre near the University and has a large free car park. This is one of Manchester's largest restaurants seating 300 people and is the first of the successful Chinese concept supermarkets -meets-restaurants. The food is classic Cantonese most of the staff are from Hong Kong and the dim sum here is a specialty. They have a large selection of dim sum presented on a separate menu divided into sweet steamed, and fried.The food and service are excellent, it maybe slightly pricier than the rest , but it's well worth it. Tai pan also offer good-value business lunches on week days at bargain price of £5.95. read more

Admittedly chinese restaurants rarely cater well for vegetarians, but the Tai Pan, I find, is particularly limited. There is a generous lunchtime set menu which my omnivorous friends are big fans of but unfortunately exludes us vegetarians unless you like eating the sickly, sweet and sour offering every time you visit. At lunchtime, service is slow, staff unfriendly and the food deserves little comment. read more

Yummy! My mates and I had a selection of dim sum & a bottle of wine. My favs were defo the crispy ribs, spring rolls and scallops. This place is very big inside. I'm not keen on the banquet style seating arrangement but it doesn't take away from the yummy food & good service. Very good lunch option that set us up for the rest of the day. read more

Disappointed at the lack of trolleys, but not at the quality of dim sum. Siu mai and har gau were very excellent, although I wasn't so keen on the char siu bun. We tried a scallop cheong fun which was delicious and I think the favourite of the meal. We also tried a pork and oyster fried cake which was a New Year special but weren't so keen. I forced my friend to try chicken feet which I love; she wasn't convinced. It probably didn't help that they were massive and looked like they came from some kind of genetically modified super-hen. Would definitely go back for dim sum and recommend, the supermarket looks good too. read more

The proximity to Uni has led me to this Chinese restaurant for a dinner with a couple of friends, to chill out after a working day. The venue and the furniture is absolutely impersonal, with few elements that remind of Chinese culture. The staff has been quite impatient because we were a bit undecided about our orders. Luckily we haven't had to wait much for food, but it was definitely not the best Chinese cuisine that I've ever tried; if anything, the opposite. My dumplings were extremely chewy and not very tasty, therefore not too pleasant to eat, while the honey roast pork was excessively sweet. My friends haven't been impressed by their dishes either. However, the place was almost empty, and the staff has been doing some work on the unused tables in the room throughout our dinner; hence it happened frequently that entire tables were dropped on the floor causing crashes, often startling us. Anyway, it must be added that student discounts are provided, and this is a very positive aspect since, in my opinion, the prices are too high if compared to food quality. read more

Came here in a group of 10 for Sunday brunch thanks to the lovely Natalie organising it. We were glad we'd booked and were in as soon as the place opened at 11.30 as the popularity is unquestionable - by 12 it was packed! We had a variety of steamed buns, dumplings, ribs and other dim sum between the table and I enjoyed every bite - This was my first dedicated dim sum experience so although I have limited comparatives I can certainly say that it didn't disappoint. And at less that £4 per dish (about 3 buns or 5 dumplings for instance) it doesn't break the bank either. For dim sum aficionados I do have to mention that we chose from a menu not a trolley. Chinese tea all round for about £1 a person rounded it out and if you leave the lid of the pot open when you are done the staff go and refill with hot water. (By the forth or fifth pot it's a bit weak though!!) read more

When I don't have chinese food-- I'm ok. For the first week. I start to fidget on day 10... And the twitching and Tourette's start on day 12. Tai pan has definitely led a colorful life, just google it. Cockroaches and 70,000 quid fines, topping it all off with fires ? It's definitely been hopping. There's a happy hour dim sum and they have a solid dinner menu. Dare I say, the dim sum was better than San Gabriel. No joke. Order: Hot and sour soup Black bean ribs Scallops King prawn anything Peking duck Avoid: Singapore style vermicelli Located next to a chinese super market so you can get your pickled mustard stem and tiger cake on. Manchester. You Rock. read more

Not as good as last year. Poor service and the dish taste is awful, although dim sum is OK. The price is cheap but it is not the excuse of such bad way of served. read more

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Half price dim sum every day before 5pm? Yes please! and free unlimited tea to boot! This place is fantastic. Sited above an ugly looking, but very handy, asian cash n' carry, Tai Pan is actually quite a posh restaurant which is often packed with Chinese families (unlike most of Chinatown, which is a good sign), especially at the weekends. I've never eaten of the a la carte because it's too expensive. The dim sum are amazing though. I've tried all of them at least 4 times. Top tip: if you can read chinese then ask for the chinese menu as it offers twice as many delicious things as the english version. If you can't read chinese then still ask for the chinese menu and pick things randomly and you won't be disappointed. The formula for working out how many dim sum to order is: 3n (where n = number of people). Recommended dishes: Chicken feet, Cha Shao Bao (sweet BBQ pork dumplings), Shao Mai, Tripe with chilli and spring onion, and the Steamed black bean ribs. read more

We visited for the first time last week for dim sum on a Sunday. The restaurant is huge. I am guessing that it easily seats at least a few hundred people. Even so, it was packed and the wait was about an hour to be seated. Fortunately, there is a great Chinese market downstairs and getting some shopping done was a good way to kill some time. Upon being seated, you are presented with a pile of menus... there are banquet menus, dinner menus, specials, dim sum... some in English and some in Chinese. The good news was that the dim sum menu was in English (I don't read or speak Chinese) but the self-order dim sum sheet was only in Chinese. Therefore, a waiter had to fill the sheet out for us. After that, it was smooth sailing and the food came quickly and was wonderful! As an aside, the restaurant seemed very understaffed. I noticed that it took 10-15 minutes for them to reset a table after a party left - even though there were still dozens of people waiting for tables. Also, they have one bartender that was responsible for both taking drink orders and delivering them to your table - very inefficient and slow. I would have had at least two more beers had I been able to flag him down over the course of our meal. Despite the wait and inefficiencies, Tai Pan is putting out a great product. I should mention that about 90%+ of the patrons were Chinese... that is always a good indicator of authenticity! read more

It is nice deco but the service was not that good. I went there with half dimsum offer just before 5pm. I could see the staffs eating their foods and the foods looks nicer than what we ordered! Dim sum is fine but some of them do not look that fresh. I ordered Chinese menu, I really do not like the restaurants which have different menu for Chinese and English. As I want to eat Chinese meals!! The food is all right and the service is all right , we had quite a lots and the bill was just 10 pounds with a pot of chinese tea thanks to half price offer! It is good to enjoy reasonable dim sum! read more

Nope, not the most-inspiring location for a Chinese restaurant - on the constantly-choked A34 and sat on top of a concrete cube of a cash n' carry - but don't let it put you off; you will not be disappointed. The menu range is astounding and I would seriously recommend the banquets if there's a team of you going; if you haven't eaten for a week then the Chicken Chow Mein should be right up your street. Of the two I have had, I have never managed to finish one yet! Getting in by car isn't a problem as the parking facilities are excellent, courtesy of a secure area around the back. read more

For the price it is a good quality restaurant, the decor could do with a little updating but thats not why i came to a restaurant! Food came quickly and service was friendly.\ read more

For the price it is a good quality restaurant, the decor could do with a little updating but thats not why i came to a restaurant! Food came quickly and service was friendly.... read more

We come here a lot and the food is consistently excellent. We always order a couple of dim sum and a ho fun dish, and jasmine tea. It's always very quick, despite always being packed - a good sign! Definitely recommend! read more

Very nice Chinese Cuisine with reasonable affordable price. The MaPoToFu definitely worth trying. They offer the best tasting MaPoToFu in Manchester. read more

I was a regular here for years 2 to 3 times a week for dim sum and 2 to 3 times a evening for a evening mealcant cook me. Quite often I had complaints about the food. One thing u need to be careful of are the charges on the bill. for one u cannot see how many dim sum they have charged u so its up to them really. Once I ordered in the afternoon a noodle dish off the promotion menu at I think about £5.50 a dish. Ate it and when I went to pay the bill had on it Noodle dish £7.80ish.. so i asked about the price difference. He asked me if there was any preserved veg in the noodles I had, I said yes and so he said well thats the prices then but I did point out I had only the promotion menu to look at and didnt even get to see the normal menu.. Anyways just paid and left. Still carried on going until one occasion the roast duck, pork and BBQ pork rice dish was not nice. I told the waiter the roast looks like its been deep fried, he answered that it had no way been deep fried but maybe has been microwaved!!!!!! Even my daughter had to laugh at his answer. And he did nothing like change it for us or ask us what we want him to do. So when I paid the bill she asked if I wanted to leave a tip i told her we were not happy ad she said next time to tell the staff.......I said no more next time!!!! After being a regular for so many years I abandoned them!!!! read more

if you love chinese food...this is the place to go! grt taste , grt service , but sometimes u need to wait till you gt a place...always packed! read more

Realy enjoyed our meal here tonight, had dim sum starters (beef with Ginger and peanuts plus some spicy meat ones too) both very fresh and tasty. Seabass steamed plus pak choi with garlic for mains and for us this was the best Chinese meal I'd had outside of china. Simply wonderful food and great service. Not cheap but great quality. read more