Where to eat Manchester Chinatown dim sum in Manchester

Cantonese steamed and fried dumplings, buns and rolls served from bamboo baskets and trolleys. Manchester's Chinatown has poured them since the 1970s.

Manchester's Chinatown, the largest in northern England and second-largest in Europe, grew around Faulkner Street from the 1970s. Cantonese rooms shaped the steamer-cart dim sum tradition through the 1980s and 1990s; Mei Dim and other Faulkner Street basements still serve the rolling trolleys today. Manchester families gather in Chinatown for weekend yum cha through the year.

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Cantonese dim sum

chinatown · 45-47 Faulkner Street, Manchester M1 4EE

Basement dim sum in Manchester's Chinatown. No-frills round tables, har gow and siu mai by the bamboo basket, roast duck and char siu in the window.