
Historical version 3 of Super Nova, SE1 4TP (view current version)
- 78-80 Tower Bridge Road, SE1 4TP (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
Chinese restaurant/takeaway on Tower Bridge Road. They also do delivery, and you can order online from Just-Eat or from Hungry House.
Prior to Autumn 2008, it was known as Sanh Hing, and despite the change of name the menu seems to be pretty much exactly the same.
Kake and doop have ordered twice from Hungry House with no problems, once on a Friday evening in November 2008 and once on a Thursday evening in March 2009. Food arrived hot, sensibly packaged, and on time.
Grilled peking dumplings (£3.50 in November 2008) were fine, with thick, chewy wrappers and decently-seasoned filling; they were a little haphazardly fried, though not in a way that really made much difference (the browned part is supposed to be on the bottom of the dumpling, whereas here they seemed to have just browned a random surface). Kake would happily order them again.
Spare ribs peking style (£4.50 in November 2008) were a bit rubbish; the meat was very dry and overcooked, and there seemed to be some attempt at a batter coating which had completely failed to stick to the ribs. Wouldn't order these again. Spiced salt and pepper chicken wings (£4.20 in March 2009) weren't bad, but were a little dry.
Gluten mock "chicken" with mushrooms (£4.80 in November 2008) and mock "duck" with black bean and chilli (£4.80 in November 2008) were both fine - a definite improvement on the rather rubbish mock "pork" we had from the previous incarnation of this place a year and a half ago. Most of the mushrooms in the chicken dish were just plain old button mushrooms, but there were one or two more interesting ones as well. The chilli in the duck dish was not very apparent.
Choi sum with garlic sauce (£3.80 in March 2009) and fried aubergine in sea spice sauce (£3.30 in March 2009) were fine - although the choi sum erred on the side of saltiness and the aubergine on the side of oiliness, there was nothing really to complain about.
Steamed rice in lotus leaf (£5 in November 2008) was OK but a little disappointing; they'd just used normal rice rather than glutinous sticky rice, but it was fine apart from that.
Kake's verdict: Will order from here again if I fancy mock meat and/or I don't feel justified in dragging Dream Taste's driver all the way to SE16.