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New Laughing Buddha was a Chinese restaurant in [[Locale Chinatown|Chinatown]]. It closed some time in 2010. As of July 2010 the site was occupied by a Vietnamese restaurant called Cẩm Phát <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/4797921574/ photo]</small>, which then closed in its turn. Posters for a Hong Kong style place called Café de Chine <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/5751088763/ photo]</small> went up in May 2011, but as of July 2011 this had been replaced by [[Manchurian Legends, WC2H 7BE|Manchurian Legends]], another in the [[Leong's Legend, W1D 6AX|Leong's Legends]] stable (although a month later, "Café de Chine" still appeared on the Manchurian Legends debit card slips). In mid-2012, Manchurian Legends [http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellaphon/7663227126/ moved] to Lisle Street and a Cantonese barbecue restaurant [https://twitter.com/eatlovenoodles/status/226675260303478784 opened up] in the Macclesfield Street premises. However, this didn't last long either. In September 2012, [http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/869125 Limster reported on Chowhound] that there was yet another new occupant, River Melody, specialising in Jiangsu cuisine, and in March 2013 [http://instagram.com/p/XacFP_CxAD/ Mr Noodles noted] that this had given way to [[Maotai Kitchen, W1D 5BP|Maotai Kitchen]]. The information below is retained for people who want to know what it used to be like as New Laughing Buddha. <div class="old_info"> Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, located on Macclesfield Street just south of Shaftesbury Avenue. It's right next door to [[De Hems, W1D 5BW|De Hems]], and indeed this is probably its main advantage; other than that, it's just a standard Chinatown restaurant which does the job but is certainly nothing special. [[Kake]], [[Bob]], [[Nick]], Leon, and Richard visited on a Monday evening in January 2008. No trouble getting a table; the place was almost empty. Our waiter seemed rather confused, returning to the table multiple times to check our order. The menu is very long, covering all the usual dishes; there's also a section of chef's specials which includes some more interesting dishes. We started with mixed hors d'oeuvres (I think this was around £3.50/head); lowlights of this were the rather tough and dry chicken on skewers and the overly sweet sauce on the spare ribs. Main courses were somewhat better; the cuttlefish and jellyfish dish had nice chunks of garlic in, and the frogs' legs were tender with crisp, freshly fried batter. Pork belly and preserved vegetable hotpot had a decent quantity of both pork and preserved vegetable but was let down by its undistinguished and rather gloopy sauce and its lack of resemblance to an actual hotpot. Mussels were a bit chewy. They also offer an all-you-can-eat menu, which I think is around £13/head; the way it works is that you can order as much as you like, as many times as you like, from a limited menu. Fairly small seating area downstairs, more tables upstairs. The staircase is quite narrow. Ladies' toilet is upstairs (not sure if there's also one downstairs); gents' is downstairs. The upstairs ladies' is a single cubicle which was not very clean on our visit (thick layers of dust on all horizontal surfaces). [[Kake]]'s verdict: Probably won't bother coming back here; there are plenty of other choices in the area. See also: * [http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/restaurants/review-3597.php All In London comments] <div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]], [[Bob]], [[Nick]], etc, 14 January 2008.</div></div>
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