Best duck in London
“New Fortune Cookie”, located right next to the Queensway tube station, has the best roast duck that I have tasted in my three and a half years in London.
Now, I’m a big fan of roast duck, and eight times out of ten that I’m in Chinatown, I eat some form of roast duck - roast duck with rice, roast duck with soy chicken and rice, roast duck noodle soup, roast duck with fried noodle. Unfortunately, most places in Chinatown serve duck which is excessively fatty, and tastes slightly waxy.
But the roast duck at “New Fortune Cookie” was perfection itself. The meat was firm yet tender (as tender as roast duck can get), the skin was delicious, and even the fat of the fattiest part of the duck was succulent and sweet-tasting, instead of stomach-turning as I have often learnt, to my detriment.
The other dishes we had that night were equally delicious.
Now, even though I’m ethnically Chinese, I have to say that I cannot order Chinese food to save my life. But this much I know: Chinese food is not Sweet-and-sour Everything (chicken, pork, fish, vegetables). So if you want a taste of some real chinese food (as ordered by my housemate), these are the dishes we had that night:
- roast duck
- deep fried squid with salt and chillis
- mixed yong tao foo
- pork ribs with bitter gourd
- stir-fry snow pea shoots (aka. dou miao or dau miu) with garlic
So I would strongly recommend trying out the restaurant if you’re in the area, or even making a special trip down, if you’re food-mad.
That they actually give out fortune cookies is merely icing on the cake. (Fortune cookies aren’t at all common here the way they are in the States.)
Of course the fact that my fortune that night read “A new romance is in the future” has nothing to do with my recommendation of the restaurant.
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You’re back on form E* Have you been out to, I think its called ‘Royal China’ in Canary Wharf? They do probably the best Dim Sum in london. However, my favourite place for Chinese food is still without a doubt Shi-Lin Night Market in Taipei.
cool blog
I’ll check it out, for sure. I’ve been past it a few times after ice skating near there.
I think I’ve been to Royal China, New World in Soho is supposed to be quite good. I’m Vietnamese so wanna check out some Vietnamese restuarants. Any ideas?
There are some good one somewhere near Essex Road.
re: sean: I’ve been to the Royal China at Bayswater for dim sum once. I loved it. But then I’m crazy about dim sum and unfortunately not very discerning.
re: steven: i’ve only been to one Vietnamese place in London - the one in Chinatown opposite Wong Kei. I had Pho. Not having tasted real Vietnamese food ever, I’m not sure how authentic it is. But this I can tell you: the “small” Pho is Really small!
By the way, I’m actually going to visit Vietnam come June! :)
Ive been going to this restaurant for years, I can remember getting stuff outa there when I was about 15, and spent half my life in the ice -rink next door… It truly is heavenly, and the stuff hanging in the windows always make me hungry walking past.