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Magic Wok

100 Queensway, W2 3RR Full details & map

Restaurant: Chinese

Time Out says 4 Users say 3/5 Rate it

By Time Out Editors Posted: Sep 29 2011

Friendly, proficient staff, fair prices and a massive choice of Cantonese food - including some dishes rarely found on an English-language menu in London - are major draws to this Queensway old-stager.

The decor is not, unless you're partial to worn brown carpets, yellowing ceiling tiles and a general paucity of space. Try to get a table in the more roomy back area, which is cheered up by traditional Chinese paintings of flowers and peacocks, or perhaps the smaller but brighter first-floor room.

We were crammed in by the front counter, with our elbows tucked in. The menu soon distracted us from such minor discomforts: we were wowed by salted fish with chicken and aubergine (one of several enticing hotpots); stewed trotter; and stir-fried goose webs with dried lip mew and sea cucumber.

Beef brisket and noodle soup was a splendid bowlful of tender meat, greenery and plentiful noodles in a cockle-warming stock - a meal in itself for £6.50. We also sampled a more mundane dish of mixed seafood (plump prawns, curly squid, limp sliced scallops) with gai lan (chinese broccoli) in a gingery sauce.

Tourists mix with multifarious regulars (some Chinese, some not, some young, others not) to produce a happy throng.

Tags: Asian, Chinese, West, Bayswater, Mid-range, Restaurant

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Magic Wok details

Address

Magic Wok

100 Queensway W2 3RR

Transport Bayswater or Queensway tube

Telephone

020 7792 9767

Meals served noon-11pm daily

Main courses £6.50-£18. Set meal £14-£29 per person (minimum 2)

Credit cards AmEx, MC, V

Facilities

Babies and children admitted, Booking advisable ( dinner ), Separate room for parties ( seats 30 ), Takeaway service, Vegetarian menu

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Comments & ratings 3/5 (Average of 4 ratings)

By Mahony family - Nov 19 2011

5/5

Amazing restaurant. Have been going for many years. Always good.

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By Jiak - Mar 29 2011

4/5

This is a less glitzy Chinese restaurant in Bayswater compared to it's neighbours. The food is generally good, I'll definitely vouch for the roasted duck -- where the skin is crispy and the meat juicy. The other dishes in the menu are good too. Price wise, it will not burn a hole in your pocket.