Green Dragon Well — Restaurant in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

Have eaten here lots of times and always found the food to be reliably good rather than outstanding. It's a good place for a relatively cheap and cheerful Chinese on a Saturday night. However, they've recently gotten a new chef and standards have improved.

Went here two weeks ago with my other half. I had the three course, with chicken and sweetcorn soup to start. The soup had a lovely consistency, not as stodgy as this particular offering can sometimes be although I think it is generally thickened with cornflour. Also the chef had a light touch with the salt.

To follow I had my usual prawn, green pepper in black bean sauce, which comes on a sizzling hotplate. Herself skipped starters and opted for green beans with minced pork as a main. The beans had a nice bite and the dish was beautifully flavoured with garlic and peppers.

The two dishes made for a good sharing combo so we both got to feel virtuous having all those healthy green beans! All in all the standard of food so impressed that we went again last Saturday.

This time her indoors had typhoon shelter prawn, a dry dish flavoured with garlic and dry chillies and covered, I think, with peanut flakes, or so we were told by our friendly waiter. I think it's supposed to be coated in panko (Japanese breadcrumb). Anyway it was a flavoursome dish if a bit dry, but then that's what was advertised.

I opted for 'fried sambo' (not sure how authentically Chinese that title is, but hey that's what was on the menu!) a combination of tofu and aubergine in black bean sauce. Again these two dishes turned out to be a good combo for sharing particularly given the dryness of the typhoon shelter prawn. But both were well cooked and delicious in their own right.

In my opinion this new chef has a great touch. The food felt light and fresh in all cases. Might even go again...

Review of Green Dragon Well Chinese Restaurant This lovely place, tucked away in the upper floor of an unassuming building in the Killiney shopping center, proves that wonderful moments can occur in surprising places.

We arrived at 3pm on a Monday, as the door downstairs was open and a sandwich sign out front proclaimed that they were available for business. We requested a table for four only to find that they were not open until 4pm. But then, the first bit of magic happened: the hostess said “You know, if you’re willing to wait about ten or fifteen minutes we’d be happy to have you. It will just take a few minutes to open the kitchen. You can sit at the table and look at the menu.”

This was wonderful enough, but she continued to be friendly (offering us the option of forks and plates or bowls and chopsticks), helpful (offering advice on what we might like and what the chef’s specialties were) and kind (she offered up the Chinese menu with additional available dishes).

They brought us jasmine tea. Then a luscious wonton soup. Then delicious pan-fried dumplings and the main courses. We had dried spicy beef that was wonderfully complex while not being too spicy, and the chef’s special duck that was tender and uniquely flavorful. We finished with the Gold and Silver Buns, simple steamed and fried bread that was light and sweet.

We cannot recommend Green Dragon Well highly enough. From its surprising beauty and welcoming, happy employees and owners, to the delicious food (every dish was special and authentic), it was a perfect–and perfectly priced–dining experience....

In search of nice Cantonese or Chinese resturant we reach this place.

Ambiance is okay... not very fancy but we were looking for nice food more than ambiance.

We ordered Chicken chowmein, chicken satay, corn soup, kung pao chicken and egg fried rice.

1. Starting with soup. Taste like glue without any taste. Served not in a bowl but in a small plate. 1/10 points

2. chicken chowmein. Once again thickened glue like soup with 4 slices of chicken. To make this little better we asked if they have any chilli sauce etc, so in a tiny bowl like 2 tea spoon they gave us chilli oil. Later they charged 3 euro extra for this tiny oil (0/10 points)

3. kungpao(it was soo sweet that we couldnt eat it, pathetic food)

4. egg fried rice is basically boil rice with 3 tiny pieces of omlette on top.

5. satay is cold as ice, with extremely sweet sauce on top. Probably cooked several days ago. (0/10 points)

6. Still water costed 6 euros just for 1 bottle.

Overall the food is pathetic and value to food is absolutely a disgrace for Chinese resturant.

Never ever...