Eat Out London!Orient London
Orient London offers authentic Chinese cuisine including Dim Sum in the heart of Chinatown, Soho, in London's West End. Visit our chinese restaurant today
Orient London - Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, London
Orient London, based in Chinatown in London’s West End, offers authentic Chinese cuisine.
At our Chinese restaurant, we welcome a range of customers from theatre-goers seeking some quick Dim Sum, to tourist groups who select one of our bespoke set menus.
Book a table and come and visit us today on Wardour Street, next to the Chinese Gate in the heart of Soho.
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Orient London Restaurant | Wardour Street | Chinatown London
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This is a restaurant you can go to safe in the knowledge that the way food is prepared and presented is true to how you would find it back in Guangdong.
The way people from Guangdong have been eating it for hundreds of years.
But Orient London’s interior is not something you might expect, if it were done the traditional way.
All prepared on the day by their two Hong Kong chefs, who arrive at 4.30am to ready the delights of Guangdong for their many hungry customers.
It’s the way they’ve always done things.
Orient London, China Town: restaurant review - olive magazine
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Wardour Street’s Orient London hopes to be just that by offering both dim sum (aimed at theatre-goers looking for a quick meal); and ‘authentic Cantonese and Szechuan cuisine’ for diners with more time to spare.
Orient London actually serves three menus – dim sum, Chinese, and a set menu – but, oddly, upon arrival we were offered just the latter, and only learnt of the other options once we’d got home and checked the website.
So if you want to try something adventurous (including braised sea cucumber with fish lips, marinated spicy duck tongues, and fresh lobster with turnip paste and pepper sauce), make sure you ask your waiter for the ‘Chinese’ menu.
We did sample the dim sum as a starter, but with the exception of a particularly juicy minced shrimp dumpling, they weren’t up to the standards of nearby dim sum restaurants.
A word of warning: the a la carte ‘dim sum platter’ isn’t just dumplings; it also comes with prawn toast, spring rolls and all the other usual suspects, despite not mentioning it on the menu.
Orient London, Soho
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Food Review: Orient London, 15 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PH ...
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Our rep in London, Mr Foodie Senior, jumped at the chance for some Dim Sum (also known as Yum Cha).
The Orient London offers a large selection of Dim Sum which they will proudly tell you are all made in house.
The Orient London offers a great choice of Dim Sum, with unusual offers such as Steamed Silver Cod Dumpling with Miso and Asparagus (£3.80) and Taro Croquette with Black Truffle (£4.00) sitting alongside familiar favourites.
Scanning the dinning room it became apparent that apart from Dim Sum, The Orient London also offers a full menu of barbecued meat, rice, noodle, Congee and Cheung Fun dishes.
+ In the middle of China Town – London – too far for Mrs Foodies Dim Sum fix
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No matter the reason, just below Soho and in the midst of West End Theatre District, London’s Chinatown has some great restaurants with reasonable prices and is particularly convenient if you need to grab a quick bite before a show.
They of course serve all of the classics, such as chicken feet, siu mai, cheung fun, and pan-fried turnip cake, but they’ve also got some with a twist, like shrimp dumplings topped with black truffle and XO chilli sauce.
Chinatown Bakery and Golden Gate Cake Shop Okay, these aren’t restaurants, but these two bakeries will be your go-to for Chinese breads and pastries.
With trays of pork buns, cream-filled cakes, and egg tarts lining the shops, they’re both great places to stop by for an inexpensive breakfast or afternoon snack.
To say which one is better really relies on personal taste, but Chinatown Bakery also sells mini custard-filled taiyaki (a Japanese fish-shaped cake) while Golden Gate Cake Shop also has doufu fa (tofu pudding) in addition to their baked goods.
Orient London, China Town: restaurant review - olive magazine
food menu
Wardour Street’s Orient London hopes to be just that by offering both dim sum (aimed at theatre-goers looking for a quick meal); and ‘authentic Cantonese and Szechuan cuisine’ for diners with more time to spare.
Orient London actually serves three menus – dim sum, Chinese, and a set menu – but, oddly, upon arrival we were offered just the latter, and only learnt of the other options once we’d got home and checked the website.
So if you want to try something adventurous (including braised sea cucumber with fish lips, marinated spicy duck tongues, and fresh lobster with turnip paste and pepper sauce), make sure you ask your waiter for the ‘Chinese’ menu.
We did sample the dim sum as a starter, but with the exception of a particularly juicy minced shrimp dumpling, they weren’t up to the standards of nearby dim sum restaurants.
A word of warning: the a la carte ‘dim sum platter’ isn’t just dumplings; it also comes with prawn toast, spring rolls and all the other usual suspects, despite not mentioning it on the menu.
Orient London | Restaurants in Chinatown, London
The classier vibe at this Chinatown restaurant is in stark contrast to many of the Chinese restaurants in this part of town, where 'no-frills' can be a generous description.
Dim sum is available at lunchtimes, with dishes ranging from sesame prawn rolls, cheung fun with dried scallops and har gau dumplings to tripe in black pepper sauce, marinated spicy duck tongues and chicken claws in Chinese wine.
The evening menu also goes from well-known Chinese crowd-pleasers to dishes many Westerners might balk at.
Expect, then, roast duck, kung po chicken and stir-fried beef in oyster sauce alongside fish and tofu soup with preserved egg, and braised sea cucumber with fish lips.