Memory Of Szechuan - Reading

The memory of Sichuan is a Chinese restaurant in the city centre of Reading, serving traditional main dishes and hotpot. Their nets are quite authentic, with a particularly good value weekday lunch menu deal, but this week we went for their hotpot and was blown away from it. There are £22 per person for unlimited buffet (order 8 items at a time, we ordered 3 times . The most important thing I loved was the variety of offers available on their hotpot menu. You start by choosing your soup base: smooth, sharp (3 levels, plucked veg, or lamb bone soup base. You can halve each of the soup bases except the lamb leg soup. We went for half a plane, half slightly spicy. In addition to the normal thin meat slices, they had unlimited meat products, seafood, vegetables, tofu/vermicelli and even rice/noodles/pumps! Their portion sizes are huge, we made the mistake of ordering both beef slices and lamb slices and that was enough meat for the whole meal, we wanted more seafood. The fish, peeled shrimps and squids were all fantastic. And although you don't want to fill on carbs, the fact that they have Udon/Noodles/ho fun/peat rice for free is something I haven't seen before a hotpot buffet. I must say that their homemade la mian stretched noodles were fantastic to finish, and the dumplings were also quite good. Some deflectors were that the hotpot burner was not very fast and they fill it quite deeply so that the pot shimmers instead of boiled. Two times they have forgotten our Enoki-Pilz orders (or did they run out, but didn't tell us?) and sometimes they run from Sesam-Papier-Dip on the side, but you can only ask to fill them. But all in all, it's my favorite hotpot place in Britain, and I was already in London. Some other hotpot options in Reading include the Imperial Kitchen at Genting Casino and Kung Fu Kitchen, but I would be surprised if they could be better. £22 for such a variety of unlimited hotpot offers is an incredible deal, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants a warm hearty meal this winter!

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

The selection of food is great. We have visited more than six times and every new dish we try is delicious. And with a fair price. Ideal for groups who like to share.

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

Pretty unassuming Chinese restaurant near Reading station with a menu of Sichuan dishes, Cantonese dishes, Fish and Hot Pot. This time a friend and I had the hot pot and were pleasantly surprised, the soup was pretty good and we got a choice of 8 items from the menu to boil up. At about £22 per person, it’s relatively expensive but for a proper Chinese food fix I’d definitely recommend it. The waitress was friendly and there was a wide range of drinks as well as ingredients for a hot pot dipping sauce. I’d like to return and try out the Sichuan dishes.