Historical version 3 of Tiger Lily, SE1 5UB (view current version)

Takeaway on the Old Kent Road, advertising Chinese, Thai, Japanese, and Vietnamese food. (They traded for a while under the name Jasmine Garden, but changed this to avoid confusion with other Jasmine Gardens in the area.) They also do delivery, and offer online ordering via Hungry House.

Kake and bob tried the delivery option on a Saturday evening in August 2009. We had a little trouble locating more than a handful of non-Chinese dishes on the menu, and suspect that the multitude of cuisines mentioned here are mainly for advertising purposes (though they do have pho, which they spell "phur", and a few katsu and sukiyaki dishes, plus a separate Thai section of "X in Y sauce" dishes).

Vegetable dumplings (£3.60) weren't bad; they had nicely chewy, doughy, competently-fried wrappers that worked quite well, but the filling was a bit dull and tasted mainly of cabbage. Peking dumplings, their pork-filled counterparts (£3.60), had similarly satisfying wrappers and fairly average but not bad pork mince filling.

The main reason we ordered the "edamame in a spicy tempura sauce" (£2.60) was to see what this would actually be; they turned out to be regular edamame (boiled green soya beans still in the pod) sitting in a paddling pool of soy-sauce-based sauce with chilli flakes in — interesting and tasty enough (with the obvious caveat that edamame are better eaten immediately than stuck in a box for delivery), but a bit messy to eat.

Salt and pepper tofu (£3.60) had a pleasing texture and a competently-fried light batter coating, though the latter was a little saltier than optimal, and the pepper tasted more of pre-ground grey dust than freshly-cracked black peppercorns.

Crispy duck (£6.50 for a quarter duck) came pre-shredded, though they thoughtfully included a couple of bones in case we felt like gnawing on them later. The other components of this (pancakes, cucumber and spring onions, hoisin sauce) were fine.

Food last sampled by Kake and bob, 23 August 2009.
OS X co-ord: 533486 OS Y co-ord: 178420 (Latitude: 51.488467 Longitude: -0.077144)
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