Water Lily Garden

Head up to Heywood Road in Prestwich and you'll find yourself in proper Manchester Chinese restaurant territory, away from the city centre buzz. Water Lily Garden does the kind of straightforward Cantonese food that doesn't need reinvention—roasted duck that's been done right, dim sum trolleys if you time it properly, and a kitchen that knows what it's doing with a wok. It's the sort of place where locals know what to order and the dining room fills up with families and groups who've been coming for years. Nothing precious about it, just honest cooking at reasonable prices.