New China

This is a large, tidy-​looking restaurant in Liverpool’s Chinatown that offers absolutely forgettable food.
Liverpool, like Manchester, has a small Chinatown area with a number of restaurants close to each other. New China is one of the larger ones, I ate there in November of 2014 for the first and last time.
Service in this establishment is uncommonly friendly for a Chinese restaurant, but that’s the sole positive aspect. Next to my table there was a British trash family with two children, and the waiter attended to every whim that these vulgar people came up with.
Less positively, I wasn’t even given chopsticks in this place. There were only forks and knives. This, I thought, did not bode well.
The dishes I was offered were all edible, and all instantly forgettable as well. Even a spicy dish I ordered was utterly bland and tasteless. It hardly matters that the portions were more than generous. I half-​finished my meal, then left quickly for a downtown pub.
Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to try different Chinese restaurants in Liverpool’s Chinatown. Maybe there are some good places. But do avoid this one!