San's Cafe — Restaurant in Liverpool

So, seen articles stating this is one of Liverpools hidden gems and our usual Chinese has just closed so thought we'd give here a go. Arrived and as nice and friendly as the staff were it was non stop bigging up their food and telling us it's the best and we'll be back before we'd even tried anything. We were expecting a really nice meal only to get home and find frozen chips which tbh were awful...had better at the fairground . Our main meals we hoped would be better but didn't look great. The special fried rice was less than special, no egg, no prawns, tasted floury ,bland and pretty much the whole portion got left (and my fella isn't even massively fussy so it must have been bad. The prawn curry.....well....it looked like something you would bring out the opposite end of your mouth 💩 Only prawns and a few onions, prawns were really hard and the onions weren't chunky...looked more like onion gravy. Now the taste.......this is what completely ruined the whole meal. The curry is so incredibly salty you need a drink after every mouthful. It's far too overpowing, hits the back of your throat.

Price wise......we found it to be quite expensive (even more so now almost every bit has gone in the bin) They charge an extra £2.00 just for having your rice fried rather than boiled...this seems to apply even to a half and half portion if our bill was anything to go by which is a lot compared to others.

So.....I think we can safely say we haven't found ourselves a new Chinese 🙈😂 Not giving me the option to add photos but that's not a bad thing....

Maybe don't 'big up' the food so much and let your customers draw to their own conclusions. Sad to say this was our worst Chinese take away ever.

Sometimes hidden gems should be hidden 🙈😂

I'm now off to make some cheese...

So where to begin been past this place maybe 100 tines never been in ,so yesterday I decided that I would go there and what an awesome decision it turned out to be .I had a breakfast sandwich on toast . The Lady who served me that alot of people come here for the Chinese food at that point I seen so.w gyozas on the table next to me so I said OK I will take some aswell... and wooow I have had a lot of gyozas in my life but never as good as this these where unreal so much flavour and so juicy . This was for takeaway.... This morning I just had Togo back and get some more so I had 2 portions of them 🙃 🙂 😅 And this most delightful delicious soup 🍲 😋 😍. So tasty no msg or additional ingredients Just pure wholesome 😌 amazing flavours what an amazing experience. I meet 2 people there 1 from Hong Kong and another from Singapore they where both amazed by the authentic food both saying they felt at home 🏡 😀 eating this food it was the best food they have had in the UK 🇬🇧. Iam so happy 😊 that I decided to come here Regret not coming in beforehand .all those years ..Will be telling everyone I know about this hidden gem 💎 in Liverpool.... thankyou all at sans...

Ordered a few meals to takeaway yesterday, special chow mein was fab plenty to share also special fried rice was lovely too and salt n pepper sui mai. Sadly i wouldnt recommend the beef chilli sweet/hot dish was less than half a tub of thinly sliced beef in a sauce. Not full like other 2 dishes!! Beef was sparse very disappointed with this meal choice also the sweet n sour chicken was basically a large chicken dipper sliced with a seperate tub of sweet n sour sauce. Again very dissapointed. Salt n pepper chicken was again a chicken tender battered and chopped up!! The tubs on these 3 meals were less than half full. Paid £72 cash and felt really let down with this order. Was a special occasion for my sons birthday. Had to order proper salt pepper chicken x 2 from locally chippy costing another £16. Wouldnt recommend these 3 meals for over over £7 each. Waste of a...