Restaurants

This traditional Cantonese restaurant is a treat. It has been feeding Swiss Cottages Chinese population, and others, for donkeys years. The menu contains many chicken and duck dishes, a variety of offal, and the perennially popular and highly reputed roast meats. To start, paper-wrapped spare ribs were succulent and sweet; and shredded smoked chicken was well worth breaking a diet for. The meat was battered and then perfectly fried, yet still retained an infusion of smoky flavour, intelligently accented with chilli, spring onion, salt and pepper. We also enjoyed baked king prawns in salt and pepper, which arrived in their shells, providing a nice crunchy contrast to the moist meat within. The outstanding dish of our meal was roasted Cantonese duck, from the assortment displayed in the restaurants window. The meat was served with the sauce on top, making the skin less crispy than in other restaurants, but the sweet sauce so perfectly complemented the dark meat that all was forgiven.

Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2008