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Totally-vegetarian Chinese restaurant a minute or so's walk from Edgware Station. They do takeaway too, and will deliver within a three-mile radius. Note that they're not licensed; not sure whether you can BYOB.

Kake and Katie visited on a Thursday evening in September 2008. There were a few other customers in, but plenty of free tables. We decided to start with soup and then try the dim sum; since they only have four dim sum options we also ordered some crispy tofu with salt and peppercorns from the starter menu.

Kake's spinach soup (£2.80) was pretty tasty; neither gloopy nor slimy, and with a good fresh spinach flavour. Katie seemed pleased with her hot and sour soup (£2.80) too. The salt-and-pepper tofu (£3.80) photo wasn't bad, with a nice creamy interior, though it might have been a little better had the pieces been a bit bigger.

Moving on to the dim sum, the steamed vegetable dumplings and the spicy vegetable dumplings (both £3 for three pieces) were merely OK according to Kake (the translucent wrappers tore very easily), though Katie thought the spicy versions were her favourites of everything we tried. Deep-fried yam paste croquettes (£3 for three croquettes) weren't bad either. Kake's favourites, though, were the deep-fried beancurd rolls (£3) - while I'd hesitate to recommend the other dim sum to a non-vegetarian who could eat dim sum anywhere, these were well up to the standard I'm used to (and I've eaten a lot of dim sum).

Tea (choice of jasmine tea or green tea) was £1/head. It was fine, and the staff topped up our teapot as needed.

They also offer an all-you-can-eat buffet at lunchtimes; as of September 2008 this costs £4.90 Monday to Saturday and £5.90 on Sundays (price includes one soft drink).

Accessibility: One step to get in; it's all on one level thereafter, though the corridor to the toilets might be a little narrow for a wheelchair.

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