This is one of my fave spots for Dim Sum in London - well kinda London, it's in Croydon so just…read moreborderline! I've only ever been on a Sunday morning for Dim Sum so I can't speak for their a la carte menu, but it's definitely worth a trip if you're ever in the area! You get your usual bao and shu-mai here, but they are awesome! The shu-mai have chunks of prawn in them and not just generic minced stuff. I definitely must recommend you try the Vietnamese Spring Roll - this is by far my most favourite dish. They always come out steaming hot so if you're not careful you'll burn your mouth when you bite into it. It's also packed full of meaty goodness and it's dense that it's hard to hold them in your chopsticks for too long. The staff are very quick and efficient and I've never had an order wrong here. Slightly off track, but their crockery stacking skills never cease to amaze me. On a previous visit, the waitress cleared a table of 6 in one go and carried mostly everything on one arm!

Went for lunch yesterday. Had a fried noodle dish with barbecued pork…read more Very very dry with hardly any pork in it. Had to put some soy sauce on to eat. Also had ho fun which was totally tasteless. Do not think much of the dim sum.

Super cheap, high-quality dim sum including shanghai dumplings - bite into them and slurp hot soup…read more(so moreish). My regret of the evening is not ordering a set to myself. I always get the excellent char siu pork buns. Sweet and fluffy outside, sticky and sweet inside. Plus, there's fishball soup! Another childhood favourite. As Mr Jamie Oliver would say: loverly.

Just shared an amazing meal at Lovely House, situated in my favourite part of Peckham. A tiny joint…read morewhich may not appear particularly promising from outside, hosts a feast of Chinese treats within. My girlfriend and I shared a meal with my mum and sampled amazing Chicken Shu Mai, griddled pork dumplings and har gao. All were delicious and extremely fresh. After this we shared a variety of mains including a delicious Duck Ho Fun - so tasty! The staff are lovely and so friendly, they overheard my mum discussing that she had sore throat, and suddenly they brought over a small bag of special Chinese tea they said would help her sore throat - so kind! The price is so reasonable as well, we paid about £16 a head and that includes two alcoholic drinks each, if you skipped the booze you could eat even cheaper.

The food is incredible - the mapo tofu, broccoli ham and seabass roll and sweet and sour chicken…read more Gorgeous food, service and atmosphere just as brilliant. Highly recommended, Book up as soon as you can!

From the owner: Sanxia Renjia Chinese Restaurant Bar is the place to go for authentic Sichuan Cuisine…read more Sichuan Specialist All You Can Eat ( cooked to order) £15.99/person Hot Pot Goup Order Takeawy/Delivery availalbe The restaurant can hold up to 100 people. It's the ideal place for parties and family get-togethers.

Visited here for a quick lunch with my partner who works around the corner. The layout and ethos is…read moresimilar to Wagamammas. The food is fresh, tasty and authentic. If you love noodles then this is the place for you! The menu has a good selection of dishes including noodles, rice, dim sum and lots of side dishes such as gyoza, squid, wingand Edamame. I ordered Singapore noodles, which I really enjoyed especially as it was on the spicy side and Gyoza dumplings with I love and they did not disappoint partner was very happy with his meal too. The prices are average for this type of cuisine and the portions plentiful. Service was friendly and quick and ideal for a quick lunch/dinner. Would highly recommend.

Portions on mains are great (aka big!!) and good value for money despite the price noticeably…read morerising. In terms of pricing for sides, you're better off just ordering another plate of mains seeing as it's not too much of a price difference. If you're after something quick, then this is the place to go for. Food is knocked out quite fast so there's no worry about not making it back to work on time. The menu is fairly Asian infused with Korean, Singapore, Japanese and Chinese dishes being offered. It does take away the authenticity as this restaurant chain tries to be overly ambitious and who tries to cater to a wide range of customers. I'd go here if I was really hungry but if I had to choose, I'd opt for a restaurant that sticks to one cuisine.

I can't believe I've not reviewed this before, as I'm regular here…read more This is a fairly large restaurant for the area, with a slightly twee waterwheel at the entrance. Don't be put off though, because inside it's a proper old fashioned restaurant with white napkins and tablecloths. They don't do dim sum any more, but have a familiar Chinese menu with Szechuan specialities, including some of the more challenging spicy offal dishes. But there are plenty of familiar favourites for the less adventurous. It's frequented by local Chinese families, which is always a good sign. Staff are friendly and efficient. Expect two courses with coffee and wine to be about £25-30 a head.

My sister and I are regulars at Confucius for dim sum at lunchtime every Sunday after church. It's…read morea pleasant walk from Wimbledon Broadway, located at the very end just before the road curves round to South Wimbledon station. The dim sum menu has only restarted in the last year and a half when they got in a new chef. The service is always prompt and courteous. Kids will be fascinated by the large fish tank and water wheel feature. The preponderence of Chinese clientele tells its own story - we are very fussy when it comes to food. The food is of good quality, quantity and ingredients - large prawns in har gau and cheong fun, crispy pastry for the char siew sow and lovely roasted meats. The food isn't greasy, a common problem for lower quality dim sum places. The pastry skins are all thin for the steamed dishes and crispy for the fried dishes. They lose a star for a slightly small menu with some old favourites missing like siu loong bow and shark fin dumpling. Also, they used to serve suckling pig and it's still on the menu but no longer available. They also do an evening menu but I can't really comment on that. It's a great place for dim sum and what they do have on the menu is first class.

Upon one of our weekends exploring our new neighbourhood, we ran across Miso Noodle Bar. It was…read morebuzzing, so we decided to try it out. It definitely has the noodle bar feel with the tables and benches, but quite modern. The menu is... eclectic. With the title Miso Noodle Bar I was expecting a more Japanese-style cuisine, but it turns out that they cover quite a bit of the Asian continent. I did notice they also have a Dim Sum menu, so we thought we would order from there as a starter and then order mains. The problem is we did not know how big the mains were. I would suggest, unless you are starvin' like Marvin, you could get away with ordering a starter or two or a side or two and one main to share. They are massive portions. We had their Shanghai soup dumplings. Those were delicious... not quite like the ones I had in Shanghai, but considering I haven't found them at other restaurants, they were a nice surprise. Mr. Snarky had one of the noodle dishes with sauce, but it looked like there was too much sauce for the dish itself. I had one of the noodle dishes with all of the different meats. It was really nice, but there was simply too much food to try and finish it. We have ordered takeaway from here and the portion sizes are not the same. There is a bit less and I assume that's because of the containers they use. To be honest, we weren't that disappointed because this was a more manageable portion. The highlight of that meal was the Char Siu Buns. Overall, good value and depending on what you order, quite good!

Where can you dine out and get a full tummy and change from a tenner ?…read more MISO - any of their branches. I think I even have my own seat in the Beckenham branch - they seem to show me to it everytime... Fabulous noodle soups - Chinese based miso - my fav is the vegetable and tofu. I suffer from migraine if I come in contact with MSG and have never had any nasty effects following my visits to MISO. They don't do a minimum spend so you can have a bowl of soup for under £5 - and when I say bowl I don' t mean any of your little dishes but more the size that you would give to a large dog.... and slurp away. I dare anyone to get to the bottom of the bowl without a big sigh... Plus point they do take away too.

I like Tofu as it is really good at what it does. The food is an Asian mix which keeps it…read moreinteresting. The portion sizes are good as I never feel hungry after eating here. But the thing I really like is this is not the place to go for that long meal this is a restaurant that serves the food as it is cooked and when you have eaten you can get your bill and be gone quickly. I think everyone who eats here knows this as there is no doubt the you are her for some good food not for a long time. If you are this way definitely worth a visit.

Tofu- Despite it's name does not just serve Tofu…read more Tofu is one of the new kids on the block in the Crystal Palace Triangle. There are lots of yummy places to eat in CP so this 'East Asian Canteen' which appeared to have a bit of an identify crisis didn't tempt me in right away. However in the window I spotted they had Ma Po Tofu which I love but rarely see on the menus. The Menu is an eclectic mix. Edemame beans, prawn crackers, Kimchee and chinese pickles all the sides to Ramen, Japanese Curry, Dim Sum and Chow Meins. Very rarely do you come across such a broad mix of Chinese and Japanese cuisines in one restaurant. I had my Ma Po Tofu (Spicy black bean sauce with sliky Tofu and boiled rice - Lush) and the Mrs had the Japanese (Katsu like) curry with about a million breaded and battered butterfly prawns. Portions were REALLY generous and good value. It's Bring your own bottle with a £3 corkage charge per bottle - so do pop along to the Sainsburys across the road before you visit. There's a limited choice otherwise but both green and jasmine tea are available. Service is a little slow I think primarily with the amount of Deliveroo deliveries they have coming through the front door, but overall a good spot. Overall it's a small but surprising spot with some seriously tasty food. :)

WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE/ EXPENSIVE MEALS/ WILL FORCE YOU TO PAY SERVICE CHARGE…read moreUNLAWFULLY. This happened yesterday at lunch. On arrival, the server just showed us the table from the entrance which is very unusual. In all restaurants we went to, they walked us to the table. Then he brought out some menus but did not hand them to us and throw them on the table. 10 minutes goes by and no one came to take our order. We had to call a server coming by to get started. Some food was okay and others were not cooked right. We ordered 2 starters- Smoked chicken and deep-fried wings. 4 main courses- 1/2 roasted duck, whole seabass, beef stir fry with mushroom & bamboo, deep-fried oyster, and 2 potions of special fried rice without pork. There was a huge wait to get the starters and an even bigger wait for the main courses. The oyster was just disgusting and the roasted duck was cold and soggy. I have roasted duck all the time and it's supposed to be crispy, not soggy and cold. The bill was £120.10 and they added a £12 service charge. Total £132.10. We told the waitress that we are refusing to pay for that because the service was awful. She was arguing we have to pay for it as it is mandatory. She started to raise her voice and say it is her salary so we have to pay. If we don't like it we should have order takeaway. She kept getting louder and disrespectful, She wanted to cause a scene and everyone was looking at us so we gave in and paid. No respect at all. I don't know their pay structure, but it is not supposed to depend on the service charge. We are not in the USA after all! According to UK law, Compulsory service charges need to be made aware to customers either by telling the customer before the meal or should be on the menu or entrance... but this restaurant is not doing either. If the service is bad, the customer is also unentitled to refuse to pay compulsory service charges. OFFICIAL GOV WEBSITE ABOUT SERVICE CHARGE: https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/national-insurance-manual/nim02915 LEGAL RIGHT EXPLANATION: https://www.daslaw.co.uk/blog/making-complaints-in-restaurants-and-food-outlets#:~:text=If%20you%20encounter%20poor%20service,the%20discretion%20of%20the%20restaurant. I called the Restaurant today and spoke to the Manager. He was very rude and did not care about the law. He said it is the staff salary so he cannot do anything and hung up in my face. I will definitely report them to ACAS (including HMRC, and HSE), and The RetailADR (the ombudsman). I will definitely do a chargeback claim as well.

It's the main restaurant in the Wing Yip complex in Croydon and you'd expect better food. My mother…read moreand I took a trip to Ikea and we had to stop off at Wing Yip for business matters and we decided to have a mini dim sum lunch at Tai Tung. It wasn't great, and to top it off, service was crap. We ordered Char siu Pastries and the pastry had been kneaded too long because the layers had all stuck together inside and there was just too much pastry to char siu ratio. (I've been watching Great British Bake-off and I'm totally a pseudo pastry identifier!) Har Gau, prawn dumplings were standard, no real complaints. The large pork soup dumpling (not shanghai ver.) was also sub-par, broth was far too salty. The worst of the lot of Thai style Chicken claws, my mother claims it wasn't washed properly because it still had a dodgy taste and they had put far too much sugar into the marinade so it was just sugary chicken claws. ew. We let the waitress know and asked if whether the chef had changed and she turned all cagey and retorted that the chef is the same, the taste is the same! Not even an apology. Also don't know whether my mother and I have the sensitive asian gene but we both felt that the msg content had been too damn high because we felt quite sick and bloated as we walked through the supermarket. I'll give them an extra star for the roast pork and roast duck takeaway we ordered, because they were quite nice for my dinner.

Came here for a group after work event on a Wednesday evening in summer. The food is not terrible,…read morebut it does not really serve traditional Thai food, as it has dim sum on the menu. Waitstaff were a bit busy, but friendly and efficient. Prices are a little bit more expensive than other standard places in Putney.

Decided on here at the last minute and they were able to fit us in. Nice looking restaurant…read more Service was great and most of it was done by the owner who was able to make good recommendations both for the food and port (the Malbec we had was very good but we selected that ourselves). We had Assorted Crispy Yum to start with (prawn, crab, salmon, duck and corn fritters). Those choices were really good, especially the crab and the duck. For the mains, I had the beef Phuket which was amazing - tender short rib of beef with a delicious sauce. My partner had the red curry but wasn't too impressed with it. He had the duo of banana for dessert which he highly rated but I couldn't eat anymore food. The owner recommended a port which my partner had and said was one of the best ports that he had tasted. Overall, a great experience and will definitely be heading back there again.

This is our go-to Chinese restaurant for delivery. The dim-sum is good, as is the prawn toast. Will…read morecontinue to order from these guys.

Best of a bad bunch of Chinese take aways in the local area…read more Meals are good from this place, not so much the noodle dishes.