Recommend me a Chinese Restuarant

[Viney]

Off to china town tonight with BBC and har mate form up north. He's playing, or at least his company are. We are off to chinatown, so wondering if any of you lovely people can recommend a nice eatery of the oriental genre?

Been to Gerards Place, and Won Keis.

Thanks in advance

[Spiderman]

DONT go to any of the big looking ones is my advice. I have no idea of its name but just before you get into chinatown proper there is a 2 story place that looks really small from outside and isnt anything pretty to look at.

BUT it has mainly chinese peeps in there the whole time so the food must be decent, right?
Thats always my main aim when trying to fina a chinese...lots of chinese faces eating there then it must be good
HTH

I use the same system, there is one in Cosham, always full of chinese people. It was bloody marvilous.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Viney

Off to china town tonight with BBC and har mate form up north. He's playing, or at least his company are. We are off to chinatown, so wondering if any of you lovely people can recommend a nice eatery of the oriental genre?

Been to Gerards Place, and Won Keis.

Thanks in advance

The Crispy Duck, just down from Wong Kei's is good

The Tokyo Diner across from that is also good.

Best food in that area is actually Japanese @ Misato, which is down from The Crispy Duck too - good value, tasty large portions (and the option to doggy bag any leftovers).

Basically avoid the main street that is Chinatown, although I have eaten in a few of them and none were bad, average was about the best, apart from The Friendly Inn, which while being an average place for food, is fun - the woman that runs the place is a nut-case - would get on well with Verna

One other option would be the CCK place (cant remember its proper name) that does Dim Sum as well as A la Carte, but can be pricy.

My top tip would be Misato - its not all raw fish

[Viney]

Cheers friendly soho type people. I have a theory about chinese people being in the restaurants in china town. They are all family as they know that us brits look for that in the 1st place

Will try the crispy duck or Tokyo diner. if they are crap, then i will let your tyres down and cut you up on my push bike

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Viney

Cheers friendly soho type people. I have a theory about chinese people being in the restaurants in china town. They are all family as they know that us brits look for that in the 1st place

Will try the crispy duck or Tokyo diner. if they are crap, then i will let your tyres down and cut you up on my push bike

The Crispy Duck is probably the more "authentic" - it has dishes involving animal bits you would normally not want to eat - so chicken feet and the likes.

The Tokyo Diner is more westernised.

[Sid Squid]

Jade Garden, Wardour St south of Shaftesbury Av.

Bloody lovely.

[SoulKiss]

So how was your Chinese ?

I know this is a late entry, but China City - it's in a courtyard off Lisle Street - is used by the Chinese Embassy to entertain visitors, so it can't be bad. I've always eaten very well there and it's no more expensive than any of the others.

[Viney]

It was great. Both the ones you recommended Dave had air conditioning issues and it was a tad warm so ended up in the Royal Garden i think it was. It was ok. The staff were a bit indifferent but the food was vely nice, and service was quick.

Will make notes of the other for future visits. Thank you alllllll