Eat Out London!Dragon Castle
Traditional Chinese Dim Sum restaurant based in Elephant & Castle, South East London.
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Cheese and Biscuits: Dragon Castle, Elephant and Castle
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Yesterday at Dragon Castle, a cavernous and clattering space on the otherwise bleak Walworth Road, six of us worked our way through 26 individual plates of dim sum, as well as three huge servings of roast pork, roast duck and stir-fry beef in black bean sauce, washed down with a beer or two.
Steamed prawn and chive dumplings, ethereally translucent and containing crunchy fresh veg; delicately steamed siu mai, meticulously uniform, with more fresh prawn flavour; char sui buns, impossibly fluffy and containing a heady filling of smokey pig; there is someone in the kitchens at Dragon Castle with years and years of experience studiously checking each and every dish and making sure they all arrive at the table piping hot.
By the time the larger plates of roasted protein arrived, we were reaching capacity, but the sight of the perfectly browned duck and colourful stack of beef and black bean was too good to resist.
My enjoyment of, and gratitude towards the generosity of places like Dragon Castle is tempered only with the memory of hideous, sloppily presented meals I've suffered elsewhere for far more money.
At Dragon Castle you will find a large menu of exquisitely prepared dim sum, served in pleasant surroundings, and costing a pittance.
Dragon Castle - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
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Everyone knows that Southwark has large Black African and Black Caribbean populations.
(London's only ward in to have more than 5% Chinese population, is turns out, is nearby Millwall in Tower Hamlets.)
The lunchtime population at this improbably large and grand new Elephant & Castle Chinese seemed a fair reflection of the prevailing local mix - half black and half oriental (plus the Harden table).
What we can say, however, is that absolutely everything we had - including dim sum from the extensive lunchtime menu - was realised to a standard equalled by relatively few other Chinese restaurants around town.
Whether you're looking for a emblem of multi-cultural London - of just a decent Chinese dinner - you're unlikely to do much better than here.
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Sesame Prawns on Toast £6.50 Crispy Seaweed Served with Caramelized Cashew Nuts £6.00 Vegetarian Lettuce Wrap (V) £8.00 Diced Chicken Lettuce Wrap £8.50 Vegetable Spring Rolls £6.00Popular Grilled Chicken Satay SkewersServed with spicy peanut sauce.
£6.50 Prawn Crackers £3.00 Spare Ribs with Mandarin Sauce£6.80 Dim Sum Platter (6 Pieces)£10.00 Seasoned Jellyfish with Cucumber (Cold)£8.00 Honey Roast BBQ Pork£9.00 Edamame Beans with Crushed Sea Salt (V)£4.00 Roast Meat Combination £11.00 Wafer Paper Prawn Rolls in Sesame £7.00
Review: The Chinese Restaurant That's Only Good Till 2pm ...
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Review: The Chinese Restaurant That's Only Good Till 2pm We'd always wondered what the fuss was about with Dragon Castle.
The puffs at Dragon Castle, when fresh, are soft, flaky and filled with just the right amount of sticky honeyed pork.
Another favourite is fried dough stick cheung fun, that playful version of the filled, steamed rice noodle rolls, more often stuffed with the hot Chinese ingredient double act of prawns and pork.
Their prawn toast, for example, is oddly ten times better than other similar restaurants, the dainty sticks of toast topped with huge pieces of shrimp.
Yes, there are too many quirks here to make Dragon Castle worth a trip across town, but locals love it, and for the first time in years, we've actually worked out why.
Restaurant review: Dragon Castle | Life and style | The Guardian
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7/10 (one point deducted for Hoover and use of music as aural riot-dispersal device) Telephone 020-7277 3388 Address 114 Walworth Road, London SE17 Open Mon-Sat, noon-11pm (11.30pm Fri and Sat); Sun 11.30am-10.30pm.
So distressingly seldom do we hear from Jim Davidson these days that catching his two penn'orth on Clive Anderson's recent Radio 4 dissection of political correctness came as a relief.
In its way, Dragon Castle's presence in so dispiritingly hideous a centre of urban deprivation is just as incongruous as finding Jim's sitcom crumpet on the bridge of the USS Enterprise.
Chicken fillet with sweet chilli sauce had a gratifying kick but the meat was average - the same failing that did for grilled lamb in a sour, opinionated Tibetan sauce.
Sweet and sour pork belonged to the upper end of the takeaway market, crispy noodles came with strips of mediocre beef in black bean sauce, but aubergine in a smoky, border-trangressing teriyaki sauce were squidgily caramelised and divine.
Dragon Castle | Restaurants in Elephant and Castle, London
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Once you’re past the impressively ostentatious entrance (koi carp pond, gigantic gold-studded wooden doors flanked by a stone dragon statue) and into the slightly cold-feeling dining room, you’re treated to food that’s either great or a bit disappointing – with seemingly nothing in between.
Duck taro croquettes were nauseatingly oily, spring rolls were bland and the filling to the BBQ pork cheung fun was scanty and dry.
A main course of ‘Chairman Mao pork belly’ turned out to be intensely rich and melt-in-the-mouth soft; with his kitchen talents, the totalitarian leader was clearly wasted on politics.
Is it possible to have delicious food here?
But it’ll involve a bit of chance and canny picking.