Tai Won Mein

Very well priced. The food was authentic Chinese. It wasn’t amazing, but good enough. I got a seafood noodle soup. You can get spicy sauce if you ask. That and a bit of soy made for a tasty bowl of soup noodles.

Not a place that you would go to if you wanted Chinese food.
Definitely a place to go to if you’re drunk and is hungry.
Open till late, this café doesn’t offer fancy service but gets the job done for you.
I don’t know what made me stumble in. was it the alcohol or was it the cold? Hmm. I can’t remember but oh well, it’s okay if you’re not picky and is looking for cheap food to fill your tummy.

It’s not the best Chinese you’ll find, but the food is good. Huge plates and cheap. If you don’t care the quality of the service and you want a good deal, this is your place.
No se puede ir a este restaurante esperando encontrar la mejor comida china y el mejor servicio. Pero las cantidades son muy generosas y de precio está muy bien. Muy recomendable si estas en el bonito Greenwich.

I have been eating at this establishment for over 10 years and there’s a reason why this place is still going strong…
The meal portions are large and incredibly reasonable, the staff are friendly and very helpful…
The food itself is at a level beyond its price range and I would wholly recommend the Singapore Fried Noodles or if spicy isn’t your thing they have a large menu variety not only that they are more than happy to tailor your order to suit your own tastes…

We call this our «Cheap and Cheerful» as while it is cheap it certainly aint cheerful but that, ladies and gentlemen, is part of the charm. Don’t expect a warm greeting or a cheery hello as you certainly won’t get that but what you will get is good quality, cheap Chinese food and loads of it. Seriously the portions are HUGE. You can easily share a dish between two and still have some left over. The food is great and there is a huge selection. It doesn’t feel as greasy as some Chinese places either and while it is more fast food than gourmet, you could easily come here and have a nice meal with friends.
The tables are of a similar set up to Wagamama in that they are long and you share them with others. The turnover is pretty quick (although they never push you to leave). The décor is a little dated and the toilets are not the best in town but for these prices you would be mad not to give it a go, as long as you don’t mind a ‘no frills’ kind of service.

The Meal is cheap, but the taste was disappointed. Especially the noodles, I can not taste the salt at all.

The worst service, attitude and manners I’ve ever experienced in a Chinese restaurant.
First very disrespectful when I walked in. Then I watched three separate tables get seated and served drinks before me. I had to ask for my drink again twice.
After I watched 8 people whom arrived after me receive there food. I was told five minutes maybe five minutes another five minutes. So I went to the manager and asked for my money back and she tried to give me something else after waiting a total of 25 minutes for a simple rice dish.

After my friend and I enjoyed Greenwich market, we visited this Chinese restaurant because it was very lively with customers and close to the market!
Overall, I couldn’t have a good time there. Because they brought me a wrong dish and when I told them so, they expressed like I was wrong. After an awkward moment, they served me what I ordered without any comment.
The restaurant was clean, cheerful atmosphere and the food was tasty and very volumy, the ingredients they use like prawns looked quite nice, but the service affected the satisfaction so much to me this time.

This place does what you expect. The portions are HUGE! I’m a big eater but even I struggled. Which is good because the quality isn’t amazing. But what do you expect with these prices. It’s a good stop off, they give you value for money and it is always busy because of this is worth trying if stuck for something in area.

I went in without expecting much, it was just a mindless choice for a quick lunch with a few friends after a long morning.
I had the roast duck fried rice, the portion was large! It was very quick to reach the table. It tasted good, nothing ground breaking. I couldn’t finish and had to take it home, it costs 50p for a takeaway box and a carrier bag.
It was relatively cheap and has huge portions. However, don’t go in expecting top notch friendly service and a great atmosphere. This is just a local Chinese restaurant, with quick services, large portions and reasonable prices, nothing more, nothing less.

Right next to the Cutty Sark DLR Station, huge plates of Chinese food between £6.95 to £7.20 per dish. Good wholesome food. Uniquely, they also serve fat chips as a side dish!

The price and the food is a bit expensive for a quality in some menu but the taste is so so not as I aspect for the duck. but my frd told me tat the noodles is really deli and they give u a huge plate whichu can share with ur frds !

Local and reliable.
We all know these type of places; in your neighbourhood & you don’t feel robbed of the £5−10 you just dropped in there for acceptable food. I like that because I don’t want to eat anywhere and by the time I pay the bill I’m hungry again.
Nothing new to add; the portions are huge and food is tasty (yes, it is tons better than Noodle Time — why are they still in business anyway?)
Busy — I don’t care because I never eat it anyway. Take mine home & chill.
Located in the main drag of Greenwich High Street, it’s a tourist nightmare but it also has some homestyle charms that I like…
–I come in & promptly someone is asking what I want
–I pay, take a seat & wait for my grub
–Get handed my bag & sent on my way
Those eating in will get their plates chucked down in front of them. Forget the flowery chit-​chat cause you won’t get it in here from the staff. Just your food in a large enough to accomodate restaurant that is clean & tidy.
No muss, no fuss — it works.

All points go to the portion size, (which is HUGE!), as well as its reasonable price. Other than that, the food is just of ok-​quality, this is not the place if you want some genuine tastes of Chinese cuisine. Another good thing is the food being served very fast most of the time

Huge portions! Food is just okay; it’ll keep you satisfied, but it’s nothing out of this world. In fact, there are 2 or 3 other Chinese restaurants within walking distance if you want.
There was a lot of people when I went that day, but I’m not sure if it’s like this everyday. Nonetheless, we had to wait. A long time.
Menu items include fried egg/​rice noodles, fried rice, rice plates, noodle soups.
If you want something cheap and filling, come here! Otherwise, if a tourist, I would recommend really getting your day in Greenwich by visiting the Greenwich market and stopping by all of their food tents!

Giganticos!
For a few quid you can have enough to last you for a day. They tell me this is the equivalent of a working class canteen or food hal if you will back in the land. So the food doesn’t taste ‘gourmet’ but heck I pay extra money for messy burgers I’d pay extra money for messy chinese!
Its a bit out of the way — close to the Cutty Sark. But definitely worth trying out on a weekend you don’t want to cook. For around 10 quid you can have enough food for a meal and then to take away the rest as well.
One thing I found very interesting was that when I asked them to pack up the remaining food, they said its 50p for this — which is fine by me. A minute later she tosses a foil container and a lid in my direction and leaves. Packing is DIY! Lovely!

cheap cheap cheap… the portion of the chicken satay with rice was FxxxxxING huge!!! i only ate the rice and onions, i couldnt even start on the chicken i was so full! very cheap, very fast service, i definitely agree wit the comment below about how you could come here if skint and just eat one meal a day! hahaa!

Came here because my friends said it was really cheap, quick and tasty. Well, it was cheap and quick but I’m not sure about tasty! I got fried chicken noodles, my friend got fried meat noodles, and we got prawn toast, prawn crackers and BBQ sauce to share. As soon as we ordered the food was on the table — yup, it was that quick! So, the food — prawn toast greasy and very bland, BBQ sauce tasted of nothing (we were both quite amazed at how it tasted of nothing!), crackers were greasy. The plate of noodles was HUGE, but again I felt like I was eating a mouthful of oil. My friend put salt on her noodles and she never salts her food. If you want a really quick cheap meal and don’t really know how good properly cooked Chinese food can taste then by all means visit here, but this is just not for me, I don’t care how hungry I am!

Back when I was a student, Tai Won Mein was my sanctuary — well that and Goddards, the ultimate Pie & Mash shop (R.I.P). After all, there aren’t many places in London where you can get a mountain of Sweet and Sour Chicken noodles with a pot of green tea and still have change from a fiver.
Plus, there was the fact that my tastes were slightly ‘unrefined’ back then, meaning that a pile of gelatinous crispy chicken basted in MSG felt like the height of luxury for a poor skinflint like me. I could even cope with the surly staff and the fact that my food was quite often slammed down in front of me. If I had a good book, plenty of tea and my favourite seat by the window, it was heaven.
Then I went back there a few months ago in a fit of nostalgia and it just wasn’t the same. The food was soggy, overly sweet and made my mouth fizz — and not in a good way. It made me feel dehydrated, hungry within ten minutes and made me really really REALLY need the toilet.
As Sian said above, Tai Won Mein may be cheap, but at the end of the day you get what you pay for. But if you’ve only got a fiver in your pocket and are looking for a relatively noodly way to fill your belly, you could do a lot worse. (And yes, in case you’re wondering, it is much much better than Noodle Time).

Three reasons you should come and eat here:
1. If you have virtually run out of money.
2. If you can only have one meal a day (the portions are HUGE).
3. If you are craving greasy chinese food.
I can’t say all the food on the menu is worth a try, but some certainly are. You’re not going to get amazing quality for the £4.50 price tag (for this you get a mountain of noodles or rice and meat in your choice of sauce) but it really isn’t that bad!
The dishes are definitely big enough to share between two, unless you have bottomless pits for stomachs, so you could end up paying just over £2 each for a hearty lunch or dinner!
SCORE :-)