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Chinese restaurant on Gerrard Street in Chinatown, serving good dim sum. The dim sum is better here than at the New World, but alas they don't have trollies; instead, you order from menus. Dim sum is served between noon and 5pm.

Kake and three other Perlmongers visited for dim sum on a Thursday lunchtime and had no trouble getting a table. We were seated in the first-floor dining room (seating is also available on the ground floor and the second floor).

Stand-out dishes were the scallop cheung fun (£3.50; plenty of scallops, tasty sauce, good texture to the noodles) and the miniature roast pork pies (£2; good pastry, not too much sweetness, and a fairly decent amount of pork). Fried taro paste (£2.20) was also good. Ginger beef dumplings (£1.90), crab meat and coriander dumplings (£2.20), and barbecued pork cheung fun (£2.50) were all quite competent. Shanghai-style meat and vegetable dumplings (£1.90) were fairly devoid of soup, unfortunately. Overall, though, everything was pretty good.

Tea was fine, not too strong, and the teapot was refilled promptly. Service was efficient and not unfriendly. We ended up paying £10 apiece for slightly more food than we actually needed. Will definitely come back.

Accessibility: steps up to get in, and the toilets are up two narrow flights of stairs.

See also:

• Time Out review
• London Eating comments
• Kake's photoset of the dim sum menu as of February 2008
• Photos of the food: lotus leaf rice, char siu pastries, fish maw dumplings

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