Mr. Lee’s

Diners craving delicious Chinese won’t know about this place unless they search online. It’s tucked away in a lovely basement setting of stone and carved woods. Only one wait staff who wouldn’t have explained how the hotpot dish should be done except that I asked him. Lots of variety, good sized servings, delicious food for a good price!

im from Taiwan. I tried their beef noodle, its tasty and original. and i also ordered their fried noodle, noodle is thick version (unlike chinese always eat round noodle, we Taiwanese oftenly eat think noodle) i like that fact that its trying to differentiate the chinese & Taiwanese cuisine.

Situated in a basement near Bagatela Mr Lee’s has a certain amount of novelty value. The first novelty is bubble tea. I didn’t try this, but it certainly looked cool…
The other novelty is that to order your food you are provided with a clipboard and a survey type representation of the menu where you cross off what you would like. In practice the waitress filled this in for us. The first thing that struck me is how do they know who is having what and what order to serve it in? You just get your food when it’s ready (normally a group of dinners would all be served their starters and mains at the same time).
I ordered Shao Mai pieorogi with prawns and a beef soup with noodles. I was expecting the soup first. But, no, that didn’t happen. The pieorgi arrived first. There were tiny and only four of them. Nice though :)
When my beef soup arrived I could see when they served it in that order. It was a very big bowl indeed. Very large pieces of beef which were soft from being cooked for a long time. For dessert I had «pudding», which was a cross between custard, crème brûlée and panna cotta, with a coating of hundreds and thousands. It looked more like a dessert for children, but I’m a big kid anyway. It was doused in a nice syrupy liquid.
There were a few minor niggles. Service seemed a little slow. There was some loud drilling/​banging noises next door (though that didn’t last long). Our table was right in the corner which made access difficult for patrons and waitresses alike. My friend’s tofu was swimming in grease. There menu was a bit limited and confusing, where were Thai green curries for example?
Like one of my fellow diners I would advise you against choosing something that you could quite easily get in a typical Chinese restaurant, it probably won’t be as cheap or plentiful at Mr Lee’s. Overall it was quite a good meal (and came in at just under 50 zloty for three courses including a drink). The waitress were both nice and helpful too.

One complaint I constantly have living in Poland is the lack of any decent Chinese restaurant in the country. After seeing the positive review in Gazeta Wyborcza, I’ve been meaning to give Mr. Lee’s a try. I did today. Oh man, what a disappointment…
Flipping through the menu, I couldn’t really find anything interesting. I happen to be fairly familiar with Taiwanese cuisine and I failed to see a single signature dish. They do offer bubble tea. And they do hotpot. Experiencing the latter is probably the only reason to patronize this place.
The beef noodle soup looks appetizing in the picture so I decided to go with that. Telling the waitress that I wanted makarony z wołowiną got me a plate of fried noodles instead though. My bad. I wouldn’t actually mind some beef chow-​mein if that’s what it were. But Chinese don’t cook tagliatelle, which was what’s on the plate. The result didn’t taste bad, but then again, I could have gotten better tasting pseudo-​Chinese food elsewhere at a lower price.