Orient London — Restaurant in London

Today I came to eat at Oriental London again! ! I would like to call my morning tea heaven! ! I have been coming here since I had it once two years ago. Wow R Wow R] There is such a delicious and affordable morning tea shop in London! I wish I could tell the whole world with a loudspeaker! !

🥧Honey BBQ Pork Crispy, this one is really a must-have! [Like R Like R] Falling in love with barbecued pork cakes for the first time is a blessing! The barbecued pork is sweet and juicy, with crispy skin. You need two portions to enjoy it!

🥧Fried radish cake with XO sauce, the radish cake is soft and chewy, and the spicy taste of XO sauce makes the whole human taste richer ~ [Shy R HAS R] A few pounds for a small portion, awesome!

🥧Steamed pork ribs with black pepper, tender and delicious! It also tastes juicy and has just the right salty taste!

🥧Crispy salt water corner, first time eating it! [Flowing Kiss RFlowing Kiss R] It’s so delicious~ Crispy on the outside, soft and glutinous on the inside, it’s really addictive to eat! Must order!

🥧Fresh shrimp rice rolls, rice rolls are smooth and delicate, [Deyi RDeyi R]The fresh shrimps inside are chewy and sweet, and a little soy sauce makes them fresh, delicious~

🥧Fried rice rolls with chopped green onions and rice rolls wrapped with fried dough sticks are simply not enough! Just use a little less soy sauce, [laughing Rlaughing R] bit into the crispy fried dough sticks and soft rice rolls, and you will love it!

🥧Preserved egg and lean meat porridge, a must-have for warm winters[色色R色色R] The preserved eggs are tender, the lean meat is delicious, and the taste is dense

🥧Serve the water spinach in the soup. The water spinach is refreshing and the soup is also salty and sweet~

🥧Steamed vermicelli with shrimps and vegetables, the vermicelli absorbs the umami flavor of shrimps and vegetables, making every bite delicious and filling!

All in all, it’s super delicious and a great deal! When you come to eat, be sure to plan your meal in advance, and save your stomach for the rest of the time! Grab your friends and family and set off tomorrow! !...

This has been my favourite address for dim sum in Chinatown for some time. My test dishes for dim sum are har gao and beef hor fun. The har gao and prawn cheung fun contain large chunks of whole shrimp and no bamboo filler, unlike some places that use a fine mince made from scraps. Their hor fun has plenty of wok hei, or smokey flavour from the noodles catching on flames that is only possible when wokked at a very high temperature. This effect is impossible to achieve at home on a domestic burner.

They don't take reservations at weekends during daytime, so if you want to avoid the queues go for dim sum right at 12:00 or after 15:30. Last order from the daytime dim sum menu is around 16:45. Normally I would categorize the service as typical of Chinatown: namely, surly but efficient. However, today we arrived at 16:00 when the restaurant was near empty and service was actually helpful and attentive as well as being efficient. They brought chilli sauce, chilli oil, soy and vinegar which you normally have to ask for at peak times. And our teapot was continually refilled without having to ask, which would have unheard of at peak times.

They are modestly priced. Most of the steamed dim sum is £5.80 for three pieces--even the scallop dumplings. I would recommend ordering the har gao (prawn crystal dumplings), shiao long bao (Shanghai pork soup dumplings), prawn cheung fun, and lor bak gao (Cantonesen turnip cake). The less common dishes that I like are the taro croquettes, the fried bean curd skin coated prawn rolls, and mushroom dumplings. If you're very hungry the beef hor fun is more substantial, as is #420 from the regular menu, which is minced prawn stuffed aubergine, green peppers and tofu. This is a large portion of what is often considered a dim sum dish. When deciding how much to order, count either as 3 plates of dim sum. Our waitress suggested ordering 4 dim dishes per person.

The last photo shows the order form for daytime dim sum including current prices and our order of 12 dishes for three hungry people. You can cross reference numbers from the dim sum menu if you don't...

After giving the below review, I've discovered that this restaurant has a hygiene rating of 1 star and in need of major improvements. They do not display this anywhere in their window (I guess for a reason). So just FYI especially since COVID, as a lot of people are weary of eating out.

So we visited on a Saturday and it was our first time coming here. Saw the good reviews so thought we'd check it out.

Cleanliness and atmosphere in front of house was good, it's very different to your typical traditional Chinese restaurant. I would say it's more modern and with a more western feel, and everything down to the cutlery and food is very well presented.

The food itself were reasonable prices but compared to your traditional Chinese restaurant you're probably getting less for your money's worth.

When to comes to the taste I would say it's very average. To be honest I didn't like many of the dishes (which are dishes we always order at other restaurants). The Char Siu pork pastry arrived piping hot and the pastry was chewy and not flaky, it had obviously been put in the microwave and for too long. The Thai style chicken feet was very sour, and you get approximately 5 pieces in a dish. My favourite dish which is the Chinese doughnut in cheung fun was soft and soggy even before putting the soy sauce on, you also only get 1 row, compared to your usual 3 in standard restaurants. The Vietnamese spring roll which looked crispy were not, instead they were chewy and for some reason they seem to over season this with A LOT of black pepper to the point where that was all we could taste. The only decent dish was really the fried calamari.

All in all I personally would never come back here for dim sum, there are much better choices in China town for this. Not sure what their dinner service is like as we've not tried so can't comment on that, but dim sum is definitely a no from me. Might I add that we both were also not feeling well after eating here.

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