Sakura 桜子屋（港式餐廳）

You're walking down St Stephen Street towards Salisbury House when you catch the smell of wok heat and something genuinely good happening inside. Sakura's a no-nonsense kind of place — dim sum trolleys aren't rolling past your table, but what comes out of the kitchen is the real deal. The Cantonese menu hits all the marks: silky chow mein, pork belly rice that actually tastes like someone cares, and dim sum that proves you don't need to be in Manchester's Chinatown for proper execution. It's tight, busy most evenings, and the kind of place where regulars know what they want before they sit down. Honestly, it's become the thing people quietly recommend to mates rather than shout about online.