Wong Chu
63 Faulkner Street, 0161-236 2346

The only authentic HK cafe-style, open-all-hours emporium in Chinatown. All the usual favourites on the long menu, but turn to the back for the real treats. Complete rice dishes, chow mein, ho fun and noodle soups (£3.80-£6), all prepared amid much chopping and billowing steam. Roast duck, char siu, crispy pork, beef, chicken, prawn, squid, bean curd, or vegetables served atop perfectly cooked rice, unctuous crispy noodles, reassuringly fat rice sticks or wholesome mixed meat broth with soft vermicelli. Effortlessly rivals better-known establishments in the area.
Henryk Baranski
Manchester

Kwok Man
28 Princess Street, 0161-228 2620

Classy decor? Reputation? Food? For the Chinese, it's only the food that counts, with a nod to value for money. A recent meal showcased cooking of rare quality and decor that's the opposite. From the handwritten Cantonese menu, steamed minced pork with salted fish was sublime. Deep-fried pig's intestine stuffed with minced prawn and dau mui (tender mangetout leaves), stir-fried with garlic, was also fine. Good Chinese food, real Chinese food: a class act.
Fred Chan
Liverpool

Ikan/Pacific

Ikan
The Piazza, 98 Portland Street, 0161-236 1313

Pacific
58-60 George Street, 0161-228 6668

Ikan/Pacific is not a Chinese restaurant in Manchester. They are two Chinese restaurants in Manchester, both of them partly Thai, located just a couple of hundred yards from each other in the city centre. The Pacific is clean and bright, as is the bespoke food, while Ikan combines delectable dim sum with an oriental cooking style that is almost French in its conception and delivery.
Douglas B Kell
Manchester

Yang Sing
34 Princess Street, 0161-236 2200

The best dish in Britain today is steamed, sliced pig's tongue with red dates, from the afternoon dim sum card at the Yang Sing. Tiny, wobbly offal in subtle gravy that someone's granny should have made. It's a secret because the Yang Sing is seen by most Mancunians as an expensive, 'special occasion' destination, which isn't quite the case. Selective use of the tombstone-sized menu provides lots of goodies for a few pennies. Go on your birthday, but also go at 3pm for cuttlefish bumble bees and, of course, that pig's tongue.
Dean Johnson
Little Hayfield, Derbyshire

The Red Chilli
70 Portland Street, 0161-236 2888

Classy Chinese in Manchester? Men in suits, sweet-and-sour chicken, predictable dim sum, sky-high prices? No? Then try Red Chilli: packed with young Chinese, and buzzing, this small basement restaurant near the arch in Chinatown is the real thing. Beijing cooking for keen palates. Some dishes will make you blink: pig's intestines in duck's blood, fried eel with chilli or Mrs Spotty's bean curd. And if you are used to pink, limp hot-and-sour soup, it is pale and scorching here. Leave your prejudices at home and forget the tired, anaemic Chinese cuisine adapted to British tastes that is served up at the so-called 'best' Manchester restaurants. The city has more to offer.
Patsy Hammond
Manchester

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