Memory Of Sichuan in Reading

Had a delicious meal, food was amazing, freshly cooked and there was plenty on the plate I couldn't eat.Staff are friendly and not in your face all the time.Would highly recommend this restaurant.

Very disappointed. Maybe my 20th visit here ordering the same dish. Guo Bao Rou. It has drastically changed with the new chef, pork cut very thick and drowned in ketchup, tasting of very old cooking oil. Totally inedible, we ate half then left. The waitress who I know very well offered no form of discount or compensation whatsoever . Very poor customer management and please do change your cooking oils, they become very cancerous if re used too much.

Lovely place to eat, we went with friends and had the buffet, and I throughly enjoyed it. Would highly recommend eating here.

Unusually very busy in restaurant and unfortunately not able to cope. Waited ages for food to come out. They were fine on other occasions so maybe one off.

I wanna give you half a star only but there is only 1 star. Floor star were very unprofessional with us and they discriminated us because we were asian aswell. They were nice to other chinese customers but were rude to us. Very bery unprofessional, they need to learn how to serve all customers equally no discrimination.

This is phenomenal food and a great price. All you can eat freshly cooked food is under £20 and includes all the good stuff.The staff are a bit busy all the time but are polite and professional and attentive.It's much better to eat in than get take away as it's more expensive and not as good after delivery.

It’s alright, not anywhere near as good as other Chinese Restaurants. Food was okay but nothing special, definitely not fresh as stated. Staff aren’t very attentive and you have to tell them multiple times when you want something. We had to ask the waitress about 5 times for something until she bought it to us. The staff who clean up are nice but the lady taking orders isn’t so friendly. Wouldn’t recommend but it’s not the worst.

Memory of Sichuan is a Sichuan Chinese restaurant in Reading town centre, that serves traditional main dishes and hotpot. Their mains are pretty authentic, with a particularly good value weekday lunch menu deal, but this week we went for their hotpot and was blown away by it. It's £22 per person for unlimited buffet (order 8 items at a time, we ordered 3 times).The main thing I loved about it was the variety of offerings available on their hotpot menu. You start off by choosing your soup base: plain, spicy (3 levels), pickled veg, or lamb bone soup base. You can half/half any of the soup bases except the lamb bone soup base. We went for half plain, half mildly spicy.In addition to the normal thin meat slices, they had unlimited offal, seafood, vegetables, tofu/vermicelli, and even rice/noodles/dumplings! Their portion sizes are huge, we made the mistake of ordering both beef slices and lamb slices and that was enough meat for the entire meal, we wanted more seafood. The fish, shelled prawns, and squid were all fantastic. And though you don't want to fill up on carbs, the fact that they have udon/noodles/ho fun/fried rice for free is something I've not yet seen before at a hotpot buffet. I have to say that their homemade la mian stretched noodles were fantastic to finish off with, and the dumplings were pretty good too.Some detractors were that the hotpot burner was not very fast and they fill it up pretty deep, so the pot simmered rather than boiled. Twice they forgot our enoki mushrooms orders (or did they run out but didn't tell us?), and sometimes they run out of sesame paste dip on the side but you can just ask for them to refill it. But all in all it's my favourite hotpot place in the UK now, and I've been to plenty in London. Some other hotpot options in Reading include The Imperial Kitchen at Genting Casino and Kung Fu Kitchen, but I'd be surprised if they can be better. £22 for such a variety of unlimited hotpot offerings is an incredible deal, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone wanting a warm hearty meal this winter! :)

Food is very delicious but I would give the service 4 stars as it’s not up to the level of cooking.

My girlfriend is from Chengdu in the Sichuan province. The dishes we ordered were very representative of the region and give westerners like me a glimpse of their culinary world. Far better than Cantonese typical restaurant and takeaway dishes. The dishes were not fully authentic but was a nice tasting experience never the less.