I am coming onto almost my 4th year living in London now. So I think I am qualified to know a thing or two about good Chinese food in London!
Although I was born and raised in Canada, I grew up eating Chinese food. You may or may not know that my family is from Hong Kong. Fun fact about me: I can speak Cantonese! When I moved to the UK for university in Edinburgh, Chinese food was a bit harder to come across. Being a lazy uni student, I also didn’t cook much. Let alone plan to cook any Chinese food.
Fortunately, London is blessed with an abundance of great Chinese food options. Chinese New Year and the Year of the Ox is around the corner! To celebrate, I have compiled a list of my favourite Chinese restaurants in London. Gung hay gung hay! Wishing everyone a prosperous new year!
With each restaurant I listed, I provided the following information:
- Locations: where you can physically find their shops
- Cuisine / Speciality: the specific Chinese cuisine that they specialise in
- My favourites: my favourite dishes at the restaurant
- Delivery / Takeaway: how you can get a hold of their food. since London is still locked down for the foreseeable future 😢
Three Uncles
Locations: Liverpool Street, Holloway (coming soon)
Cuisine: Cantonese
My favourites: roast duck and crispy pork belly with rice. Their lo mein noodles are good too!
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via Deliveroo
Royal China Group Restaurants
Locations: Baker Street x2 (one is Royal China Club which is boujier and you can make reservations), Canary Wharf, Fulham, Harrow
Cuisine: Cantonese
My favourites: the typical dim sum favourites; har gow, chicken feet in black bean sauce (another one that you may pass on), black and gold yolk lava buns, any of the cheung funs, egg tarts… I could go on!
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via Deliveroo
Xi’an Biang Biang Noodles
Location: Spitalfields
Cuisine: Xi’an
My favourites: boneless chicken in special sauce, smacked cucumber, jelly fish (another weird one that you may pass on), biang biang noodles (if it’s the name of the restaurant, you must try it right?)
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via Deliveroo, UberEats
My Old Place
Location: Spitalfields
Cuisine: Szechuan
My favourites: dumplings, lamb skewers, salt & pepper squid, mapo tofu
Delivery / Takeaway: No ☹️
Rice Guys
Locations: Moorgate, Canary Wharf, their food truck that goes to different food markets around London (check their IG page to confirm location)
Cuisine: a bit of everything
My favourite: Hainanese roast chicken
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via Pezu
Bao
Locations: Borough, Soho, Fitzrovia, Kings Cross
Cuisine: Taiwanese
My favourites: 40 day aged beef, taipei butter rice (Borough location only), classic bao, fried chicken bao, fried horlicks ice cream bao
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via their shop for at home kits and RiceError (their delivery spinoff) for delivery
Master Wei
Locations: Bloomsbury
Cuisine: Xi’an
My favourite: smacked cucumber, liangpi noodles, dumplings, biang biang noodles
Murger Han
Locations: Euston, Monument, Mayfair
Cuisine: Xi’an
My favourites: murger, biang biang noodles, ox tripe (I recognise that many will find this one weird, so you may pass on this one)
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via Deliveroo
Gold Mine
Location: Bayswater
Cuisine: Cantonese
My favourites: their roast famous duck
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via Deliveroo, UberEats, JustEat, and HungryPanda
Dragon Castle
Locations: Elephant and Castle
Cuisine: Cantonese
My favourites: all the usual dim sum suspects
Delivery / Takeaway: No ☹️
Four Seasons
Locations: Queensway, Chinatown, Soho
Cuisine: Cantonese
My favourites: roast duck, char siu, beef ho fun (beef noodles)
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via Deliveroo (check their website for list of Deliveroo)
Hai Di Lao
Locations: Chinatown & The O2
Speciality: Hot Pot
My favourites: laksa base with lamb, wagyu beef, iberico pork, deep fried tofu, hand pulled noodles (they pull the noodles in front of you (in dining only only obviously), it’s pretty theatrical)
Delivery / Takeaway: Delivery via Deliveroo
For more London restaurant recommendations, check out my London Food Guide.
