Chinese

• Poon's Wontoneria extends its residency with a new menu

  

  Updated with extension to opening dates

  We've been hearing very good things about Poon's Wontoneria which has taken over the 12 Charlotte Street pop-up space that's part of Carousel in Fitzrovia. It comes from Amy Poon, whose father was behind the original Poon's, a legendary Chinese restaurant, and who's brought the name back for this "wontoneria". 

  The residency is getting an extension to February, and that

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• London's best dumplings

  

  We've gathered together a list of London's best dumplings, from dim sum favourites to hearty Eastern European options. 

• Hainan House brings Hainanese cuisine to Islington's Upper Street

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  They've been running pop-ups and supperclubs throughout the year (including one at Carousel), but now Hainan House are getting ready to settle down in Islington. They've taken over the space that was once Street Greek on Upper Street.

  Set up by Sunny Wu, Hainan House aims to showcase the Southern Chinese cooking that she grew up eating. The

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• Galaxy Restaurant and Karaoke is coming to Liverpool Street

  

  We’re here for those of you who wish to emote into a microphone while enjoying a cracking Chinese meal. You’ll know exactly what we’re talking about if you’ve experienced Galaxy Restaurant & Karaoke in Elephant & Castle, which while you can theoretically dine in the restaurant sans karaoke offers up a choice of private rooms to belt out your favourite tunes over a set menu. It has become quite the spot

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• House of Ming Chinese restaurant comes to London via New Delhi

  

  House of Ming is a Chinese restaurant that's big in New Delhi - and now it's opening in London. Like its Indian sibling, the restaurant is opening in a Taj Hotel, The St James's Court (you'll find that in Westminster). 

  With a focus on Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine, it looks like being a luxury affair with a menu that includes:

  • Prawn truffle siu
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• Test Driving Gouqi - chef Tong Chee Hwee is back in London

  

  He headed up the food at Hakkasan for 18 years and now chef Tong Chee Hwee is back with high-end Chinese restaurant Gouqi just off Trafalgar Square. We went to check it out. 

• Gouqi is former Hakkasan chef Tong Chee Hwee's solo restaurant in St James

  

  17/2/23 - updated with launch details

  Slightly out of nowhere, a big-name chef is getting ready to open his own restaurant in London.  

  Gouqi (pronounced Goji) comes from chef Tong Chee Hwee who, after originally building his career in Singapore, came to London to become head chef at Hakkasan in 2001. He followed that with the opening of

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• Charco Charco Hot Pot opens in Covent Garden

  

  If you’re craving some quality Chinese comfort food as ballast against the daily doom and gloom, then put Covent Garden on your itinerary: Charco Charco Hot Pot is open and waiting for you. It’s a new dining destination spanning two floors, with a ground-floor sushi bar as well as a 100-seater restaurant serving regional street-food dishes and, as the name suggests, a hot-pot burner on every table for your

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• A Wong and Uncle Roger win big at The Golden Chopsticks Awards

  

  We're clearly entering awards season. On the same night as the AA announced its 2022 Hospitality Awards, the UK's East and South East Asian restaurants were being celebrated across town at The Golden Chopsticks Awards.

  Hosted by Gok Wan, the Mayfair awards ceremony sounds like a

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• The Eight is Shaftesbury Avenue's new Hong Kong style tea restaurant

  

  Just opened on Shaftesbury Avenue is Hong Kong-style tea restaurant, The Eight. It's apparently inspired by Hong Kong's 1950s-style tearooms - think greasy spoon meets diner. This new restaurant is serving up all manner of Hong Kong treats like:

  • Abalone wanton noodle
  • Rice wrapped in omelette with wagyu beef
  • Rickshaw noodles.

  “The tea rooms

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• Juk Pou brings congee and youtiao to the Greenwich Peninsula

  

  London streetfood fans searching for the next hot thing to get their teeth into are going to need to head out to the Greenwich Peninsula . Joining the ranks of traders at the Design District Canteen is newbie Juk Pou. Their USP? They're congee and youtiao street food specialists.

  Founders Shiqi Liu and Stan Yang were inspired by their childhood food memories to come up with the concept which marries Chinese

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• Chop Chop by Four Seasons is opening underneath The Hippodrome at Leicester Square

  

  They already have three restaurants in Chinatown but Four Seasons are adding a fourth, just around the corner, when they open a new contemporary Chinese restaurant underneath The Hippodrome casino.

  The new concept, Chop Chop by Four Seasons, is part of a slew of new openings at the casino in the coming months, including an unnamed cocktail bar. Chop Chop will be in the lower ground floor of the building

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• Tattu Chinese restaurant comes to London in a revamped Denmark Street

   

  2/3/22 - updated with more opening details

  We've already had Six by Nico and the upcoming Mowgli, now another out-of-town restaurant group is looking to make a stamp on

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• Test Driving Mimi Mei Fair - 1920s Shanghai comes to Mayfair

  

  Step back in time to 1930s Shanghai at this opulent Chinese restaurant in Mayfair. We popped along to try it out.

• Jinli bring their Sichuan hotpots and more to Camden's Mornington Crescent

  

  It's been two years since they opened their flagship restaurant in Chinatown. Now Jinli's Chendu-born restaurateur Yi Fei is heading to North London. He's just opened the restaurant group's fifth restaurant, on Camden's High Street by Mornington Crescent.

  On the menu you'll find a range of dishes, with a focus on Sichuan cuisine, including:

  • Sliced fish in hot chilli oil
  • Braised beef
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