Mei Sum, Liverpool city centre

Chinese dish is seen as a very rich and diverse culinary cuisine by the Brits. Even my English colleagues knew terms such as chao mee, chao fan etc. I guess they were popularised by those chinese bufffet restaurants and chinese takeaway shops which grow like mushrooms after rain in liverpool city center.

It was an impromptu decision that my housemates and me decided to go for a chinese meal instead of the common English fastfood after a day of shopping. To be truth, its quite cheap for a buffet style meal in a classy restaurant, with only 5.95 per person before dinner time.

The inner decoration

It was quite funny that they even have the proper instruction on how to eat buffet printed on the menu.

1. Try a little to begin with of you are unsure.

2. When happy with your choice return to the buffet (if not happy can just walk out of the restaurant???)

3. EAT as much as you like (of course ler, abuden?).

4. Not waste as much as you like ( wastaige will be charged seperately).

When it comes to the range of dish they offered, well, i can’t really say its a highly recommended compare to other chinese buffet restaurant in Liverpool. There are 5 main section of food available, starting from the starchy stuff like fried noodles, beehon, rice, potatoes, spaghetti etc, followed by the fried food such as spring rolls, fried banana (round pisang goreng!), mushroom, bread coated with minced shrimps etc.

the main dish consists of different range of meats (such as fried chicken wings, char siew, pork ribs, beef) and vege (mixed vege, salad etc ). i like the char siew chicken the most, but nothing special as the taste is quite plain, i get a mouthful of sweet char siew taste with only a bite of the chicken.

There are three different soups, namely, wan tan soup, spicy and sour soup and chicken and corn soup. They are so stingy with amount of meat inside the wantan and the soup is quite tasteless; the chicken and soup corn taste nothing but the starchy taste of corn flour; The sour and spicy soup was so spicy that my housemate chloe nearly puke it out after she taste it a spoonful.

Well this is how much we ate, not really up to the value of what we paid for, plus the customer service is a bit too much, when i just finish my plate, *puff*, and the plate was gone, *puzzled*

anyway, if you dont mind the extra lipid that you will get after the meal, this can considered as a nice generous meal.