Now I'm hot footing it around the globe again in one taste assault. I'm just wondering where my…read morenearest Mongolian watering hole is so I can complete the set. For now I'll stick to some Asian eating of the Chinese variety. Now I'm pretty excited to write this one up because I am loving their work. The Great Wall is fronted by some of the friendliest staff I've encountered in months and they can't do enough for you. So full marks on the service front. As for the food, again I can't fault it much at all. I personally find good Chinese food quite difficult to hunt down as it can be a bit too greasy or bland but not here. It's all very reasonable as well on the old wallet. If you want to maximise your pennies even more I suggest the banquet. Outstanding value for money without losing the taste. If you can see the real Great Wall from space then I think I'd probably recommend this restaurant to the Martians as well.

Superb Chinese food. The staff are friendly and helpful and the prices are very reasonable. Most…read moreimportant of all the food is of excellent quality whether you buy to eat in or take away. Will certainly keep visiting here.

It's really difficult to put this amazing restaurant into a category. It doesn't serve average…read moreChinese cuisine, it serves some of the best Chinese cuisine I've tasted in Manchester, and it doesn't stop there. Laughing Buddha offers all kinds of Asian cuisines including Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Singaporean and even Mongolian. The menu (once you get over the quantity of dishes and the squashed typesetting) offers the most varied and unusual choices I've ever seen. Where else can you try Shanghai Pork Pies (£4.90), Duck with Minced Prawn Stuffing (£12) or Mongolian Lamb (£10.80). Not only that, they have 9 different varieties of spare ribs and no less than 19 sauces to choose as accompaniments to your meal. Unpretentious decor, authentic cuisine, and no sight of MSG anywhere. Winner.

I can't actually rate this place highly enough. 5 stars doesn't seem to do it justice. If you're…read moreafter delicious, authentic Chinese then look no further. It is very slightly on the expensive side but after you've tried the yummyness you'll understand why. I've made the horrible mistake of trying new take-aways and always leave disappointed if it's not from here. Don't make that mistake.

点心 鼠 Dim Sum Rat say:…read more Old school dim sum and Cantonese buffet restaurant with attached cooking school. Make sure you ask for the dim sum menu. Standouts: Truffle with gold dumplings heavenly (they are the price of gold too!) Mushroom dumplings rich and delicious Not so good: Interior is very run-down Service Can be lackluster; good if you are assertive

Having finally climbed down from the ceiling after my last pink gloop injection at Crown Buffet I…read morehave decided to give it a review...and I was rather surprised to find myself the first to do so. Can it be that only a select band of us are propping this business up with our monthly pilgrimage to Pork and Prawn Land? Or is it simply that the regular clientele are so coked up on MSG that they are too syndactylus to operate a keyboard. Both are viable explanations. To find Crown Buffet you will need to wander into the ZombieLand behind the bottom of the Headrow, where once there was a thriving Chinese community with supermarkets, restaurants and a crackingly kitsch pool hall. Thankfully Leeds Council stepped in to 'redevelop' the area. So now there's nothing. In true Never Ending Story style you have to walk past 'The Nothing', under the ring road and there amongst the Squirrel Storage (who knew they had gone high tech?), abandoned office blocks and people who want to save on parking and are prepared to walk you will find a fantastic old school board building that has been converted into the only functioning chinese restaurant in the area. Crown Buffet is not going to win any internal style awards, unlike my digestive system- which I have been told personally by a Gastroenterologist is "Fabulous!". Think school canteen where the children get to eat nought but sugar and you have the idea....in fact you have the review right there. For around £6 during the day and £10 after 6pm you can gorge your sweet ass senseless on some frankly pretty well prepared, cleanly presented and varied Chinese and Mongolian classics. And there was me thinking I would never ever get to use the term 'Mongolian classics' in my entire literary experience. There's even a Mongolian grill where you can pick your meats and choose from exponentially hotter sauces to be combined in front of you by a very warm person wielding a very large pan over a very large flame for your amusements. And there's a wide choice of pudding from fruit to cake to ice cream. So why just 3 stars? Well I just can't get past the bright lightbulbs, trestle tables and overwhelming feeling that I'm sitting at an oriental Butlin's feeding trough. The food is GREAT, the staff are friendly and you'll waddle home hugely content if not more than a little uncomfortable but it lacks that one key thing.....being an actually vaguely Chinese experience. Come on Crown Buffet. Give me a few fans on the walls, a splash of red, some plant life and that Whitney Houston type singer belting out show tunes in Mandarin as I cram your various good and tasty things into my excited maw. Or at least give me chopsticks. Pretty please?

Went to the Korean restaurant Ban Di Bul the other week for some Korean BBQ. Until relatively…read morerecently, I had never had Korean BBQ - first time was about 3 years ago. Since then I have had it about 3 times and its always good. Tasty food and lots of it. I had walked passed Ban di Bul many times and always been on my list to check out but its taken until now finally to try it. Since we were generally new to Korean BBQ, I think I was the only one who had had it before, we went for one of the set menus - Set 2. Was easier and ensured we can a variety of things. The only decision to make was the type of soup you wanted - the seaweed soup or the spicy one. I went for the seaweed one. The mushroom and veg dish was really tasty - lots of garlic. Maybe a bit too much garlic? I personally not the biggest fan of kimchi but did try each dish. Not really my cup of tea. The sweet and sour spring onions were nice and the mashed potato dish was OK - was quite sweet. (Also really liked the dipping sauces! Asked waitress what they were and she said one was Korean sauce and one was "Korean BBQ" - bit generic!). On to the "main course" and the beef, belly pork and spicy chicken. My fav and the fav of the table was the beef. Full of flavour, tender, yummy! The belly pork was also good. By the time we got to the spicy chicken I was really full. It was pretty good, sort of a medium spicy-ness but after you eat several pieces of the chicken, the heat builds! Previously when I have had Korean BBQ, its up to you to cook the meat yourself - although they sometimes provide some assistance. This time, maybe because we all looked like newbies, they started cooking the meats for us and kept coming back to turn the meat etc. Towards the end, I decided to "take over" and started turning the meat. So overall, I really enjoyed the Korean BBQ at Ban di Bul. I have to be honest and had heard some mixed things about it but I would recommend going.

I have eaten Korean food all over the world, and this is very close to authentic. I usually order…read moreChampong if they serve it, but they don't serve it at Ban Di Bul, so I ordered what I considered the next closest thing, Spicy Seafood Ramen, and it was excellent. Noodles were perfectly al dente, the seafood was a little sparse, but there were mussels, shrimp, and calmari. I always take in the locale and give some leeway. However, this was excellent. I wish that they would've included banchan (side dishes) like they do in many countries.

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.

This is the best chinese buffet i have been to. The amount…read moreof food is second to none. There are plenty of starters to choose from, including duck pancakes and sea food. The best bit for me is the mongolian (i think thats wat its called!) buffet, where you choose the fresh ingredients and they cook it infront of you. There is also a decent selection of desserts. Can get very busy, but service is good.

Great restaurant. We always have the buffet menu. Huge choice of dishes, all delicious. My children…read morelove the ice-cream machine & the big fish tanks. Staff all friendly :)

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.

Bad food, bad service and bad food hygiene ratings finally led this place to close in 2023.read more

This isn't the most convenient Chinese takeaway for where I live so I had never thought to try it…read moreuntil my daughter asked me to. The menu is amazing. All the usual favourites are there but there is so much more. My particular favourite is the Mongolian Lamb curry but The Royale has also introduced me to frogs legs (something I swore I'd never eat) which were delicious. We now use the Royale when there are a lot of us eating as large orders don't seem to faze them, I normally pick up to save on delivery but there have been occasions when laziness happens and I have found the delivery to be very timely. I have noticed that the restaurant always seems empty (it doesn't help that it's so big) and I am now determined to do my bit to fill it as soon as I can by taking the family or friends (or even random friendly people) there for the all you can eat banquet.

This place truly deserves three stars to me because there were certain aspects of it that were…read morereally good and others that were not so good. My first impression when I walked into it was that it was a really beautifully designed restaurant. I'm used to buffets in the states being very rundown and basic looking, but I will say this place was actually quite beautiful and you can tell there was intentionality placed into how they decorated it. However, I have been depending on Wi-Fi during my UK trip and everywhere that I've gone, they've always had Wi-Fi, but this is the first restaurant that I've seen after almost a two week trip where they do not have Wi-Fi for customers so that to me was a bit of an issue. They also didn't have the best customer service. I won't say the workers were rude, but I just felt like they could've been a little friendlier, especially with some of the logistics of things at the restaurant...Things could've been a little bit more customer friendly. The food was pretty good definitely not amazing but I generally enjoy buffets so it didn't disappoint but for sure it wasn't the most amazing food or buffet food I've ever had so again this place truly deserves three stars to me.

I've been here countless times, its ok. But hygiene needs improvement as the sushi section has…read moreflies everywhere, the service is ok but they rush you if you're time limit has ran out. Overall I'm giving this restaurant 3 stars

Huge variety of Chinese food (some Mongolian, some English) to take away - it all tastes…read morewonderful!! It's cash only though so pop to the bank first.

If you want good chinese food call into Lee Laus in Irby Village just phone your order through…read moreabout 20 minutes before you want to collect it and it will be ready and waiting for you.The Sweet and Sour Dish i had was delicous and the chicken chow mein my husband had was the best i had ever tasted.Staff are so friendly and helpful and from what i can see of the kitchen it looks clean.