Tai Wu

We had very bad experience there last Sat 21st Jan, we went there for a meal in the evening. We ordered a beef fried noodles, but it came up with a very dry noodles, I mean as dry as biscuit.

I asked of a manager why the noodles so dry, he said " you must not had noodles in chinese restaurants before, you can ask everyone in the restaurant, they all know that's the noodles should like" " you don't know chinese food, you must never been to china"

Hello?? I'm chinese, are you talking nonsense or insult? it only cost £5 for that dish, do you really need to treat your customer like that. He said the noodles you ordered is crispy (dry), should be like that. I asked him to bring the menue, because in the menu it didn't say crispy noodles, how can you expect people know/ guess is crispy. He refused to bring the menu, he knew he was wrong, he just being unprofessonal!
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 3
Monday, January 30, 2012

My second visit to Tai Wu restaurant. 4 of us had a selection of soups, and dim sums, and a 1/4 crispy duck, followed by 3 mains between us. The portions were all generous and the quality was very good. The waiters are really helpfull and friendly. Service was quick too, which considering it was saturday night, and the restaurant was full, was very impressive.

I noticed in another review recently that someone had posted about the "other" menu for the Chinese customers. We were given 2 menu's. One in a folder, and a second one which was just 1 sheet. This second menu was in Chinese and English, and listed the dishes that most of the Chinese customers were eating. It was noticeable that a good three quarters of the customers were Chinese, and they seemed to be enjoying food that came in large dishes which they were sharing from the middle of the tables.

Just to add, we've eaten at the buffet downstairs many times, for something cheap and cheerfull, but the restaurant here is giant leap up in quality from that. Will be going again soon.
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Peter
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Sunday, January 15, 2012

We visited Tai Wu on saturday afternoon with some friends who love Chinese food and wanted to try somewhere authentic. We have eaten in Hong Kong several times before and we were very impressed with the food and service at the Tai Wu. We were surprised to see some reviews were not very good regarding service, we didnt find this at all the ladies with the trollies of dim sum and steamed dishes did crowd the table as soon as we sat down which we could see to some people would feel a bit intimidating but if you relax and go with it you will be pleasantly surprised, the waiters will come over and help you ifyou are not sure what things on the menu are. We had the best roast pork and duck we have ever eaten and the dim sums were lovely. Even better the whole bill for all 4 of us came to £26. We have eaten at the buffet downstairs at the Tai Wu and it was also good but no dim sums a lot of deep fried dishes plenty of choice but if you want a real experience and are a bit adventurous try the restaurant upstairs you wont be disappointed.
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JLB - View all reviews by this user
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Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Monday, August 22, 2011

My wife and myself visited this restaurant just recently and found the service very good and the food plentiful and tasty. Then we started to notice that the chinese customers were receiving a different menu to that of white English which we found a little odd.

I had to find out, so I stopped a waiter and asked what was with the pink menu the chinese customers were having and how it differed from our menu. He replied that "the chinese customers have different tastes to white English and some of the foods could probably cause us tummy upsets from the way they cooked liked their food". (Hard core chinese food). I replied with "Well is'nt that discrminating white English or anyone else for that matter that, might want to try Authentic food." He did reasure me I only had to ask if I wanted to try something. But here is the dilemma the pink menu is written in chinese, i'm not sure that I would personally visit here again on principal.
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leigh family
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Food 6 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 6
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Went here one saturday lunchtime with a couple of friends - absolutely AMAZING!!! Intend to bring my partner here for his birthday next month, as he adores chinese food and will think he's died and gone to heaven!

So much choice for all courses - I have never seen so much food in one place at one time - and ALL EXCELLENT. Staff very friendly and attentive. I am not a great lover of chinese food but even I enjoyed it and looking forward to returning.

GREAT VALUE for money - price in the buffet includes a drink. AND the chinese community eat here, too, so you cant get a better recommendation than that!

HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE BUFFET.
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Margaret Ball
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, March 25, 2011

The Buffet is typical of these genres of outlets, but the upstairs REAL Cantonese restaurant is superb and a must for Dim Sum enthusiasts.
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Euuu this place in the buffet area is disgusting! Horrible horrible food and awful cheap surroundings. Staff sooo moody and not approachable. Honestly felt like a soup kithchen. Food was very low quality and felt like we were served scraps and cheapest of alternatives. We only went after the website menu promised many lovely dishes. Only had the vege dishes but everything had bean curd which did not taste too good. Felt so cheap sat there we just ate bits and ran out. I had to go somewhere decadent for dessert!

If you have certain standards honestly stay away and leave it to ppl who like it. I wouldn't let my student brothers eat here though!
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 1
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Nice food, disusting service, canteen layout!
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Food 4 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 2
Sunday, October 24, 2010

This is a positive review. I wrote a negative review of Tai Wu after trying their Sunday Dim Sum. That opinion hasn't changed. The circus that is Sunday in Tai Wu is to be avoided at all costs. Average, at best Dim Sum that you'll wait a long time to get, served in an overly crowded, noisy room.

But if you go during normal hours, and order a la carte you will get a really, really good meal. In particular, the Seczhuan menu is fantastic, though oddly is only available after 6pm.

Service is good.....helpful and friendly. No complaints.

Overall, if you avoid the Sunday madhouse (for Sunday Dim Sum go to New Hong Kong in Chinatown)......you'll get a great meal at Tai Wu. We now go there on a regular basis, and it has joined Fu's (still the best), New Hong Kong (not far behind) and Wings (expensive, but undeniably good food) on our regular Chinese circuit. Go.
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Adam Roberts
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 6
Saturday, July 10, 2010

went to tai wu for a nice romantic meal with my husband,,and as always the food was fantastic. we arrived slightly early and was shown to our table straight away and a drinks order was taken. we were left to chose from the menu and the waitress returned after about 10 mins to take our order. right from the start of our meal to the final course the service was excellent and the food was piping hot and delicious.we were there around 2 hours 15 mins but the time flew by. we werent rushed and all the time people were eating and leaving and more people arriving. excellent food,,excellent service,,,id give it 10/10,,this was not our first visit and it wont be our last,,recomend it to anyone,,be it a meal for 2 or a table for 10,,,excellent!!!!
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Debbie from manchester
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, April 10, 2010