May Sum Buffet Restaurant

loved this place, lots of foods to choose from and at a great price, go with out breakfast and save yourself as this place is eat all you want, will be going back again

Typical Chinese buffet. Lots o oily & fried foods. Wish I would have gone to the world buffet just a couple doors down again. Now that place was awesome. May Sum? Not so awesome.

if i was rating just the food i would give a 4, been 3 times can’t fault the food myself although a friend i once went with found a hair in her food when we complained to the staff they couldn’t even understand english, the service you get here is the worst ive ever experienced, they made me and my 70 year old mother pay up front as soon as we sat down, whereas everyone else paid after they have eaten, talk about making the customer feel unwelcome! i’ll go here again simply because i like the food but if you want to be treated nice then don’t come here because the staff are terrible and dont care about the customer just want their money!

I love going to may sum. love the food prices pretty good. i will be going there again soon

Good quality food, nice atmosphere and all for reasonable price.

Came here for their £6.45 Sunday Chinese food lunch buffet. I’m often skeptical of buffets, but I was pleasantly surprised at the vast array of options including entrees, soups, a moo shu bar, full salad & fruit bar, Asian desserts, and even a chocolate fondue fountain – not very Chinese, but fun nonetheless. The restaurant itself was large, modern, and clean. If you go right at noon on Sunday, the restaurant will be less crowded with plenty of freshly made dishes.

The two of us went to May Sum for the 1^st time on Tuesday evening. Loved it.
Much nicer atmosphere and décor than Big Wok. Worth paying slightly more for to feel like you are in a proper restaurant and not a school canteen.
Service was good. Replenishment of dishes was continually going. Tepanyaki was on the go and a lovely selection of dishes inclusing sushi area.
Excellent selection of dishes, I particularly liked the enormous mussels in chilli and garlic and the range of starters including yummy prawn toast and spare ribs.
Similar range to Red Hot Buffet Shack and you pay less.
Would definitely recommend this and visit again.

I think May Sum is pretty good, as far as all you can eat chinese buffets go. Much better than Big Wok, a little more relxed and the décor is a lot more tasteful! Also you can use your student discount card there, another reason why I like it :)

It’s Big Wok for grown ups.
The upholstered interior gives out a forboding visage to any passing teenagers. The thought of maybe having to use a knife and fork properly scares them all the way to Big Wok, and that is for our mercies.
The food selection is slightly less broad than Big Wok, though the quality is perfectly normal for the price charged.
It costs a tiny bit more than Big Wok which seems to be very succesful at keeping the annoying chimps at bay. Peaceful respectful clients enjoying a low priced rough and tumble all you can eat canteen in warm surroundings.
The pricing is perfect. Cheap, but more than Big Wok. Keeping the riff raff firmly where it belongs.
Overall, I say 4 out of 5, because you can’t score 5 without topless waitresses. Got it?
EDIT:
DATELINE 29^th November 2009 4pm.
Attempted to eat at May Sum for the first time in a month. Left immediately in shock at what I found.
It’s turned into Kids Delight™. Saw more pushchairs and prams than I saw seats, and many of the dishes were empty. They attempted to seat me in a deep corner, but I couldn’t keep up with the seater as kids kept running into me covering me in various colours of food. Thanks again breeders!
I actually went from May Sum directly to McDonalds, and McDonalds had less kids and was quieter.
So that about wraps it up for Chinese Buffets in Nottingham, a big thank you to the teenage chav & breeding community for utterly ruining yet another beautiful thing.

I was disappointed with this may sum, the one in Derby is excellent. The food was only just warm, the rice and noodles were nearly cold. I did complain and the manager switched up the heaters under the food and replaced the noodles and rice — so customer service was excellent. Food did taste nice with replenishments on going. Although I did find the drinks expensive and it is rather small and the food area tended to get congested very quickly.

As I love May Sum in Derby I had to try out the new restaurant once it opened up in Notts too.
I must say on first impressions it looks fab inside. A very nice interior with sofas by the door and a much bigger bar area than Derby. The toilets are very small but really clean — Actually a little too clean as there was a very strong smell of bleach in there.
We thought it would be nice to sit by the window but as the restaurant filled up it became evident that was a bad idea. As Lunchtime brought in the crowds it became obvious how small this restaurant is and how they have packed as many tables as they can into a smaller space.
We were hemmed in at our little window table and so each time we wanted to replenish our plates we had to squeeze past other diners. It also meant the staff couldn’t get to us to collect our plates so we just took them with us.
I can’t fault the food at all. There is a great selection of dishes with my favourite prawn toasts there. In fact there is so much of a selection that I missed a lot of the choice. My friend found the crispy duck and pancakes which I missed completely, I also missed the crispy seaweed and we didn’t find out until it was too late that all the seafood and salads were hidden by the dessert sections.
Of course as they are trying to squash as many people in as possible, there were tables along the window next to the food and not much space to walk up and down so you had to be careful not to tread on people’s toes or kick over bags.
Unfortunately even though the place was full to bursting, they didn’t have the chocolate fountain going and the dessert selection is very poor with a few fairy cakes and lumps of Orange and Apples.
Also the Ice Cream machine wasn’t working but as there was an employee trying to fix it, we decided to wait and see if we could still get some.
Eventually we did get some ice cream. There was a selection sweet sauces so that made up a little bit for the lack of dessert choice.
At the end of the meal we went to pay and were gobsmacked that it came to £17 for 2 of us. This broke down to £2 for 2 diet Cokes and £6.50 each for the food. This is more expensive than the May Sum in Derby and it is also £1.50 dearer than the Big Wok right next-​door. No wonder there is nowhere in the restaurant that actually states the price per person.
In all — Great food but not very spacious surroundings and a little too pricey in comparison.