Mei Mei Chinese Restaurant in Liverpool

Had the Royal Banquet for two - which was far too much to eat if I'm honest. Place is fine - loads of staff and yes perhaps not so keen on idle chatting or smiling but did not spoil anything. Food was OK - Dim Sum part was better but the rest was quite average and disappointing. The addition of a bill service charge is not that unusual and we didn't mind.

Diego Gordon likes this place so I don't like it

We went to the restaurant for lunch 11/04/24, we have been treated like a prisoner as questioned by the stuff "Jade" verr rude, we walked out straight away to "Chung ku" better dimsums over there stuff nice. never go to Mei Mei again. I suggest the restaurant hire your stuff more carefully, he looks like fresh off the boat.

Great restaurant, large room with large table. The decoration on the windows is magnificent with fish. The prices are very fair. The service is fast and efficient.

We were looking for dim sum in Liverpool City and were told of this restaurant. It was extremely busy inside and it indeed served dim sum but the quality was not to my usual expectations down south. Overall a bit disappointing and you feel they could do better. Service is good though

The food was delicious. 😊 Staff was friendly and very helpful.

Best Chinese Ive had in the UK. Service was quick, friendly and efficient. I'm American so I don't mind the 10% service charge as much as others, especially when everything was great.

Service charge is ridiculous bec there’s no service 🥲

I love this restaurant the food is very delicious

Great chinese food in a nice clean restaurant.

Lovely food and very friendly staff the best in the city

Got starter and had to ask for my main while others who I was with got theres

No queue time when we arrived during lunch hour on Saturday. Serving within 10 minutes upon ordering We ordered seaweed soup, and it was delicious. Fantastic cooking soup skill as seaweed still maintain its juicyness and freshness. 4 stars We ordered Roast duck and roast pork rice. First impressions when the rice was presented, it just liked a leftover dish. We never eat any hong kong restaurant in so many continents that present food like this. For taste wise, roast pork was terrible. Each slice just like leftover and the pork outer layer was too salty. It seems like reheat. 1 star. For the roast duck, we found 2 slices really taste delicious. Other slices were terrible. 1 star

We were looking forward to a Chinese in Chinatown as we thought it would be a good experience and we are adventurous eaters. Indain food from Curry miles is always so wonderful. However to say we were disappointed is to understate it significantly! My chili beef was average at best. The other dishes were absolutely disgusting to be generous. The chicken dish was congealed and gloopy. The mixed meat consistted of 99% undercooked offal. The staff were pretty rude and we couldn't get out quickly enough and it spoilt what was otherwise a lovely trip to Liverpool. Sadly there's not a zero star rating on this site otherwise I would have chosen this!

Decent food but very small portions.

Bland overpriced food. Poor vegetarian selection. Not child friendly.Didn’t enjoy it at all.

Bog standard Chinese food. Slightly one up from the all you can eat buffet.

Good food...Good staff...Nice place

食物質素不錯， 飯點時間需要等候，雖然價錢偏高，但還是可以解鄉愁

Was busy food was good well cooked and well presented

Had duck in plum sauce, delicious, food excellent and service .

Authentic Cantonese Dim Sum. The service is quite good.

Tried this place for a change, food is ok, price acceptable. Went again the following week, prices were hiked 15-20% !!!!! Will post pics of menu prices later. Not going again especially when need to pay for street parking.

Very busy every nights proof it's popularity and attraction of returning customers. Great dishes and dim sum at good size and favour. Original Hong Kong and Southern China cuisine at the centre of town. Free parking on nearby streets from 6pm onwards every weekdays. Will definitely come again.

Mei Mei is a must visit if you like Chinese food and are in Liverpool. Located just by the gates of Chinatown by the Anglican Cathedral, it is your classic large, efficient and almost always full Chinese. The fact that around of 75% of diners there are normally of Chinese heritage says a lot. The food cannot be faulted, and the dumplings are excellent! Go for it. 😎👍🏻

We were mostly ignored. Always had to wave down someone when ready to order. Food was average.

The best Chinese food I've had in a very long time. Everything we order was outstanding

Freshly cooked to order. Good sized portions. Dim sum all as it should be. Very tasty and authentic.

The place was packed on a weekday afternoon compared to other Chinese restaurant nearby so decided to try. Soup dumplings were great and flavourful but other dishes didn’t impress. There were some communication issues with menus (for dim sum menu the paper that you fill the order in is in Chinese so you’d be ordering to a staff if you don’t read Chinese) which led to some incorrect order. Asked for chilli oil and vinegar, and was provided something different. We also had to ask for bowls, chopsticks and spoons whilst other tables seemed to have these as a standard.

Dish portions are so small I had to use my magnifying glass. Just Boiled rice for 4 of us cost us £15 and drinks are half filled with ice.. never seen a restaurant so stingey..

Leaving cooked meat siting next to bins with back doors open to public alley

Dim sums are hot and delicious. Sliced pork chow mein and baked seafood fried rice must be ordered.

坐很久的火车来吃叉烧酥，但是开门半个小时就没有了，蛋挞也没有。说可以提前预定，但是别的地方来的人也不知道这种规矩…既然没有了应该要提前说吧。已经是第二次来了，上一次来也没有这种规矩，叉烧酥也还有。 本来就是为了这个来的，上了二楼之后也没人服务，隔壁有party所以三个服务员围着一个没有人的桌子站着……叫半天叫不来一个人吃完撤桌子倒是挺快的，就这么想赶我们走吗？ 全程的饭都吃的莫名其妙，豉汁排骨还有大麻的味道，一上来就很明显，不知道是这道菜的什么步骤还是蒸笼有。 总之非常不满意，也吃得很生气。

First time dining here, but wont be the last! Service was excellent, the food was fresh and delicious, and the atmosphere was relaxed and friendly :-)

Pretty typical Chinese restaurant in the heart of Liverpool. Service great, and pretty quick. Been here many times and every time it’s been a great experience. The menu is great, not the cheapest however it’s not too expensive. There are great choices of starters, which are absolutely delicious. The mains are also good, however I usually order many starters which fill me up. The atmosphere is pretty good, with a lot of space so not much worry on whether you will get a table or not.

XO udon noodles are my absolute favourite - 100% recommend

Out of expectation as the portion is very generous, enough to feed 1.5 person for a rice/ noodles dish. The 焗飯is really impressive as a lot of details can be found for this. Fried rice base, instead of plain white rice. A lot of seafood, which has been cooked/ fried and seasoned with flavour. Then the rice is baked for a crispy taste.

Probably the best sweet and sour king prawns in the UNIVERSE. They, to my palate are just fabulous❤️❤️❤️

Food is OK, portions are generous but they close way too early over the weekend.

Just finished an excellent meal at Mei Mei. Staff was attentive and very helpful. The food was hot and tasty. Huge menu so there is something for everyone.

Absolutely fabulous food. Great service. Had set menu and dim sum. Would recommend this Restaurant. My sister and her husband who live in Bulgaria really enjoyed everything .

This place is incredible. Great location. Friendly staff. Tasty food with so much variety. If you just want a fuss free with no gimmick Chinese. Here's your place. We ordered curried fish balls, dim sum siu mai which were huge, roast pork, roast duck char sui on a bed of crispy noodles and wonton noodles. Knocking off a staff as there weren't accessible toilets, up some steep stairs. Will definitely visit again.

Excellent range of food on offer and very good quality. Service is excellent.

Our waitress there, Wenly was very accommodating & made sure our request was taken care of.

Very busy at times, so you might wait for a while but once you are seated you will feel like a culinary haven! Everything tastes amazing and melts in your mouth releasing undiscovered very balanced tastes! I recommend it to everyone who loves Asian food!

Worst service ever in a Chinese restaurant. Food is okay, when it turns up.

Yup, another update : But this could possibly my last one on this restaurant, why ?Find out below. Mei Mei used to be one of the go to restaurant in Liverpool, unfortunately it had gone downhill steadily. Long story short, Dad wanted to try the Update 25 January 2020: Back here for a Chinese New Year lunch meal with family. We were shown to a table upstairs (as the lower floor is full, understandably). Wasn't too bothered from previous good experience. Well, we were very wrong. From the off, trying to catch the attention of the waiting staff to make an order is near impossible as they hide in a corner not visible from the customers. We spent a good 10 minutes trying to make an order. The food arrived relatively quickly. By then, we were out of tea. You can imagine trying to catch their attention again to fill the teapots. In the meantime, the table next to us walked out as they had enough trying to order their meal. The thing is it was not even half full upstairs, so no excuse there. To be fair, the food were up to standard, the dim sum were tasty, so we try to enjoy ourselves. Forgot to mention last time is that you don't ask for the bill, but pay at the reception. Interesting. The bill comes to a little over £100, it seems about right. But examine the bill more closely, a 10% service charge was included which was a bit of a joke. We couldn't see any advertisement of the service charge anywhere including the menu. And the service we received was more in line of the 1% mark. We didn't want to make a fuss for it is CNY, so we left it at that. Is it so hard to get a up to standard service at a Chinese Restaurant nowadays ?! In summary, service is a bit of hit and miss, so be informed. And ... remember to check your bill !! _________________________________________________ Update 5 January 2020: Went to Mei Mei for a quick Dim Sum lunch on Monday, it was unusually busy with both floors opened and had to wait for a table. After the previous experience, we were expecting the same non-service from the staff. To our surprise, the staff were very attentive; all the things they missed last time has been done quickly and professionally. Almost like two completely different sets of staff. As we were ordering our Dim Sums, we couldn't find one item on the sheet and we were talking amongst ourselves. But it was overheard by one of the staff and quickly show us where it was. I think a praise is in order, and it is little things like this that gives a good impression to customers. Overall, a very enjoyable experience.

Has been consistently good from opening many years ago until now. Not many other places to enjoy real Cantonese food. Mei Mei rarely disappoints.

a very good small Chinese restaurant and the dim sum was of high standards. for a small scale restaurant it is very good. not sure what the a la carte items are like.

No service foods not that good. I have been there many times, i don’t mind to pay the service charge but they always extra charges on my bills(they usually got 1 or more items on your bill which you’re not ordered)so please alway checked your bill

Lovely dim sum! Authentic cantonese food.

Best chinese restaurant in Liverpool. The wonton cha sui noodle soup is tremendous!!! The staff are welcoming and the atmosphere is great.

Been here today for are first time will definitely be the last, the service was absolutely awful atleast half hour wait for starter, are sharing platter was taken away when we hadn't finished another long wait for the mains, to top it all they then brough one off the meals wrong so yes another 30 min wait in which time rice was cold no apologies for wrong meal and then a 6 pound service charge for the worst service weve had definitely wouldn't recommend.

Stale pancakes that fell apart and were like cardboard, 1/2 duck also distinctly didn't taste fresh. A mushroom dish that was just British style mushrooms swimming in soy - disgusting. Lamb on sizzling platter was so chewy that we stopped trying to eat it altogether. This was the worst Chinese food I have ever eaten in the UK. The price for these dishes and 3 glasses of wine was £76. The service from an older lady was cold to the point of rudeness, but the two young lads who brought stuff too were fine. The restaurant decor is very tired and a little bit grubby. There are far, far better options for Chinese food in this area.

Beautiful restaurant in the inside. I came here from the US on vacation. I went here last night was taken back by how awful the service was. The waitresses were EXTREMELY rude and unpleasant with massive attitudes. Never checked on us one time, and made it seem like anything we asked for bothered them. Food was okay, not the best, but the chicken with the Lemon and Honey glaze was amazing. I don't think I'd come back.

Top class, proper chinese restaurant, not takeaway standard, the food was delicious, but a wee bit pricy.

Ching fun is too thick but not a bad alternative to closed down Tai Pan

This is a nice restaurant but I felt let down by them on my latest visit. We got there about 8.40 and were giving seats and menus. Waiter came along and asked if we wanted drinks while we read the menu. Shortly after this another waiter came over asking if we had decided and we would have to hurry up because they close at 9.30! If that's the case why didn't they tell us then when we arrived and shown to our table. The food was good but the experience was definitely rushed and just to make things worse they wanted us to pay before we had even finished eating. A lesson was learned maybe I should of checked the times but maybe the staff need to tell customers rather than making them feel like they need to go ☹. Got to change this 5 star review to a 3 unfortunately

Food ok staff not very friendly

The location is great. Food was good, compare to Hong Kong is a little over price tho.

Been rushed because you want to close it's very unpleasent. Food quality very average and very overpriced. Lots of better chinese restaurant in the area

It's always good to find a restaurant the locals use and the food was absolutely excellent 👌 loved it

Great food, exceptional service, always.

First time visit but definitely NOT the last. Our Dim Sum was absolutely delicious. Totally recommended 👌

Day trip to Liverpool and fancied eating in the famous China Town area. This restaurant is just on the edge of it and was REALLY busy, always a good sign. Despite how busy they were, the service was fairly fast. The food is great, good value and generous portions. Will definitely visit again next time we are in Liverpool.

I ate at mei mei many time Good foods and service

Super bad service especially the woman with short hair at the cashier. What an attitude. If you want to pay for bad service, then by all means come here.

We rolled up rather late (9pm) but were made very welcome. Our drinks order came quickly and our food order followed very soon after. The food was fabulous, the four of us ordered different dishes and shared. The portions were so generous, we couldn’t eat it all! I highly recommend you try this restaurant.

Food is great Service is poor - whole bunch of staff standing around waiting for food to come out from the kitchen. They don't check if you would like a drinks refilled or if need anything else like extra utensils Atmosphere is dull

We supposed to take my husband for treat but it turned out to be my worst experience in a Chinese restaurant. Who say that they are racist. They didn’t even smile to their own Chinese people. It looks as though we are getting free food. They didn’t even bother to let you sit down and seem so impatient that they waiting for us to leave. Most unacceptable!

Obwohl viele Kellner bereit stehen, scheint es chaotisch zu sein. Das Essen kommt mit grossem Abstand und wurde dann zum Teil auch von uns storniert und z.B. die Cola wird auch nicht bei der Personen hingestellt, welche bestellt hat. Die Peking Ente (steht merkwürdigerweise bei den Starters) ist reichlich. Allerdings kommt sie als "Pulled Duck" daher. Relativ trockened Fleisch, welches sich in der Konsistens von der knusprigen Haut kaum unterscheidet. Trotz alledem schmeckte es ziemlich gut in der Kombi mit Fladen dem Gemüse und der Sosse.

Good service, a lot of Chinese guests and loud Englishmen. Excellent vegetarian dishes.

Disgusting behaviour. Criminal behaviour. I recommend you go for another place. We had the most horrible experience ever in this restaurant. The food they serve is from different part of China, and we haven't been advised about it. When the main course arrived, it was disgusting. I want to serve it to anybody, I will be ashamed to serve this disgusting meal. We refuse to eat and to pay, only offering to pay the starters and drinks. They locked us inside the restaurant, creating scene like we were criminals. I decided to pay because I didn't want to destroy my Sunday evening.

Déçu par les seafood's noodles, les pâtes n'étaient pas toutes cuites

Badly gone down hill man..Poor management 👋👋👋

Food is really good, you will not be disappointed and should deserve a 5 star, as a couple I would highly recommend it but many of us have families and with babies they don’t have high chairs with straps. This meant we had a 16month year old trying to disrupt everyone’s meal as he could escape, he’s usually absolutely brilliant, but with substandard baby chairs (with no straps what do ever) it meant we had to hold the baby for the entire meal, when spending a fair amount for a family of 4 you’d expect to enjoy your meal.

Food was ok, service, so, so. I didn't see the place very clean, in particular male toilets.

Food was amazing large portions. Start was the best I've tried. Services was good.

The quality of dim sum and main dishes are excellent. The service is better than my last visit.

Best Chinese restaurant in Livermore

Nicest Chinese food in Liverpool, everything was amazing

Great food, great service. Duck with pancakes a highlight.

Good dimsum but very pricey. Waiters are quite rude

Boss food, can't wait to go back 😋

Well what can I say!! Booked over the phone got told ye that's all booked in for you. Then showed up for my birthday meal with friends to be told I wasn't booked in because they had a party on for Cheltenham race. Customer service was terrible been here a few times before but won't be returning after my birthday getting ruined!!!

San Sui fan hot off the bone, Tsing Tao, wor tip good times 😎

My son and I had a very nice dinner. Service was good, food was good, and there were many large groups having a great time. One large open dining room was a bit noisy. We ordered the fixed meal and enjoyed everything. Service was well paced for a relaxed, long dinner.

After having a look at some of the other reviews, I feel slightly that I might have missed something. We were the only English in the resturant and boy is it busy so I could understand if people felt it was a bit frantic. But we certainly did not feel we were rushed and any we felt staff were quite understanding. £90 for four of us could be seen as expensive but we felt well fed and this is a resturant not a take away or all you can eat diner. We had no issues with the food, in fact, to my taste buds it was spot on and hot. The front of house watched staff like a hawk so I am a little suprised that other diners had issues. We would go again next time we are in Liverpool.

Food is native Guangdong style and good taste

One of the best chinese sit down kinda restaurant in the country, i might say. The roast duck was stunning, lovely spice and tenderness of the duck meat. Great service, the staffs were very attentive and quick response to most of things :)

Amazing food! What more could you want!

Great meal shared with freinds...a hidden gem amongst the many other establishments in Chinatown..loved it!

Food was good as well as service. Prices, reasonable.

WONDERFUL GREAT CUSTOMER CARE SUPPORT & SERVICE AS USUAL FOR 36 FAMILY & FRIENDS.

Great food but very expensive no frills could not seat our full party together

Our first visit to this Chinese restaurant. They serve dim sum throughout the day, which is brilliant. The quality of the dim sum was excellent and served hot. We were let down by other dishes; eggs fried rice (please look at the photo, you can hardly see any eggs); roast duck (it was freezing cold and fatty); kung po chicken (again very cold and literally just slapped with bean sauce). The service was not attentive. Having said that, if you are looking for dim sum, this is a restaurant for you. Otherwise, there are plenty of alternatives.

First time here. Food was good, curry could of had abit more spice and no char su and mushrooms in the special curry. This was my favourite bit in special curry. Did ask for budwiser and got appletiser and billed for 3 extra drinks we didn't have. Normally I don't check recipes but glad I did. They rectified it when I pointed it out. Would visit again though and recommend.

Good chinese restaurant with great dimsum. One of the best dimsum places in liverpool for sure.

Excellent place food lovely staff friendly clean

Absolutely awful service food was frozen inside and the staff seemed to think it acceptable to heat it up . My understanding is that you serve fresh food in a restaurant. Would not recommend