![]() Order came gave the driver 3.00 for the rice. I asked the girl if I could pay the driver 3.00 when he arrived she said yes. I asked if the Chinese meals came with fried rice she said no u have to order them separate and that the fried rice was 1.50 extra. I rang the shop to see if they could read out my order to me so I know they got it right. So go ahead.Chinese food in Liverpool – bag yourself a banquet.I ordered a meal for family as it was my boyfriends birthday. We will also visit with our silver chopsticks and award them to the establishment in question. ![]() We will award a £100 Chinese banquet in a place of your choice for the best rant on the subject and a crate of Tsing Tao beer for the runner up. So let's not get city centre-centric, and let us know where we should, or shouldn't, be going. ![]() The family who run The New Star also have a place in Aintree, proving that the search for the best could be quite wide. On a fast food map we were sent this week, Liverpudlians appear in the top three Chinese food lovers for eating approximately 27 takeaways a year and spending almost £300 in the process. Meanwhile, the budget, all-you-can-eat-out-of-a-trough places, like the Buffet Star in Hanover Street, frequently have them queueing and waddling out of the door.īut the question we're asking you today is who does the best – and the worst - Chinese food in Liverpool? Is there a takeaway in Woolton that knocks spots off the Tai Pan? Have you had anything memorable anywhere - soberish, and not after a nightclub - and why was it memorable? For all the right or wrong reasons? The Far East, one time recommendation of the restaurant guides, has gone. Off the top of our heads, within a 500-yard radius of The New Star, the Mei Mei is a safe bet, the Yuet Ben even safer, and the Ma Bo and North Garden were the only choice for students, and those in the know, for years. Eating.īut unlike London and Manchester, there still aren't many places at all here in Liverpool offering a bit of different for the gwailo, ie, a menu translated into English that offers something more challenging than crispy duck and pancakes.īecause we wouldn't eat it? Give us a chance! Crucially, the place is regularly a-babble with that unbeatable marketing tool for any proprietor trying to lure punters in: Chinese people. There's a bakery in the basement where they make all kinds of confections and elaborate celebration cakes. There was friendly service from our waitress, Ping (pictured), who not once hovered over us, and left us to it, for ages. The menu threw up few surprises but the ingredients in the dishes we tried were fresh, tasty and there was lots of it. Only recently, however, we were at the New Star, in Duke Street, which could become something of a favourite. And we haven't even gone near the MSG question. By the latter, we mean bogstandard beef in blackbean sauce and oyster prawns drowned in cornflour gravy or thick sauces that could easily be sponsored by Win Yip or Blue Dragon. There's no better time to enjoy the Chinese experience.īut what of the Chinese food experience? Confidential has had good, bad and a lot of very average grub in its chopstick travels around the place. THIS weekend, Europe's oldest Chinatown will be awash with colour, noise and all the fun of the fair as thousands turn out to celebrate the Year of the Ox in weak winter sunshine.Ĭonfidential likes Chinese New Year: It seems to take care of itself and always appears to run seamlessly with little intervention, plus the restaurants and cafes around Nelson and Berry streets, and right across the city, buzz with people and travelling dragons turning up in minibuses making things go with an extra firecracker bang.
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