Lotus

This is my absolute favourite Chinese takeaway in Manchester. Mainly because I use to live a few doors down and the kind husband and wife team who runs the business acted as my substitute parents by feeding me good Chinese food. My favourite comfort from their menu is the hot and sour soup. It’s not really what it’s suppose to be like but I love the thick almost bright red soup loaded with shrimps, sweet char siu, loads of bamboo shoots, Chinese mushrooms and peas. It’s definitely hot and it’s sour — delicious! They recently updated their menu and they have fluffy char siu (Chinese BBQ pork) buns — always a nice surprise from a takeaway and Singapore fried rice if you fancy a dry and spicy dish. The place needs a bit of updating but they have gold fish to look at! I’m going to give this 5 stars cos I keep coming back here to get my Chinese!