Manna

Manna East Asia Cuisine on Smithdown Road has quietly built one of the stronger reputations for quality Asian cooking on a road more associated with student fast food. The kitchen covers Chinese, Thai and wider East Asian dishes — dim sum, noodles, rice dishes and fragrant Thai curries — with an attention to authentic flavour that distinguishes it from the generic Chinese takeaway format. Smithdown Road's dense student and young resident population provides a customer base that increasingly expects more than basic takeaway Chinese, and Manna has positioned itself for that more discerning market. Regulars note the dim sum and Thai dishes as particular strengths. The kitchen is available through the main delivery platforms and direct for collection from the Smithdown Road address.