Category Chinese
Sai Kei Chinese Restaurant, Greenwich, London
Sai Kei is a popular Chinese restaurant in North Greenwich. It is based in the Holiday Inn Express with car parking spaces. Before 5pm it serves a wide selection of dimsum but then, you cannot reserve a table. Some days, like on Sundays, the queue can go beyond the restaurant entrance. This particular evening, I went […]
The Hare and Tortoise, Bloomsbury: Laksa and Char Kway Teow
It was boxing day and there were not that many businesses open – we ended up at the Brunswick Centre and into the Hare and Tortoise. We ordered Malaysian street stall favourites: Char Kway Teow (Char Kuey Tiew), Laksa and some Chinese leaves to go with them. Given that the Hare and Tortoise is not […]
London Chinatown Wong Kei: noodles and roast pork
Wong Kei on Wardour Street is not the place to go for your fine food experience. It had a reputation of having rude waiters who gives you peremptory orders to go upstairs in the old days. But I ve always found service to be effective and fast and one of the few places where I […]
Yaki sushi noodle bar: Hainanese Chicken Rice
To be honest, I ‘ve heard for some time that a sushi restaurant is coming to Coventry. I was waiting for it to happen. Previously I had to go to Birmingham for my Japanese food fix. And then, passing at Pool Meadow by chance, I realised that it WAS opened. However looking at the menu, […]
Han Dynasty: shui zhu yu, boiled fish fillets in hot chilli oil
Sometimes I think I cannot keep up with change over in restaurants. I wrote about the China Express sometime back only to return to find that its been replaced by the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty chain of restaurants started in Coventry and now is back with its specialty of hotpots and Chinese BBQ. My […]
Yauatcha, London Soho for dim sum
I’ve heard loads about Yauatcha – the ultimate place to eat dim sum, posh, the cool place to hang out. When Naomi suggested we went there for a dim sum lunch, I happily accepted. It meant going down to London but since it was to replace a trip to Paris I didn’t mind (I had […]
Red Panda, Coventry
Red Panda is tucked away in a quiet corner opposite Coventry Market. It is a Chinese buffet ‘eat all you can’ restaurant. But if you are in the know, you realise most of the Chinese clients there order a la carte. So we, Naomi and I, did, and they gave us appetisers – spicy cabbage, […]
China Express: String beans with Szechwan peppers and finely minced pork
Its been some time since I ‘ve been to the China Express. Somehow Chinese cuisine has become more and more like cuisine from mainland China, lots more Szechwanese hot spicy food, with chillies and Szechwan pepper. People I asked said it was due to the influx of Chinese students. It used to be that that Chinese […]
The Eclectic Gourmand 