Sorry - no photos or (I need to keep my anonymity or there’s a risk I’ll
get special treatment when I review a restaurant
video - and we don’t want that!)

Chinese food...
revealed!
Ian Fenn

About me
Work primarily as an Information Architect
But trained as a professional Chinese chef
I’m proud to own a kitchen nickname
Now write on Chinese and Malaysian food
for Time Out
Have also written for Square Meal
I’ve eaten in most of London’s Chinese
restaurants
Most is six restaurants in one day.

Ringo Lo http://www.flickr.com/photos/chopstixmedia/
Chinese Master Chef

Non-Chinese Chinese
Mixed hors d'oeuvres
Crispy aromatic duck
Sweet and sour pork
Lemon chicken
Crispy shredded beef
Special fried rice

Chinese meal
‘Lai tong’ - Double-steamed house soup (if
available)
Steamed sea bass with ginger and spring
onion
Cantonese roast duck
Dau miu (stir-fried mange tout pea shoots)
Steamed white rice

Urban myths

Cantonese roast http://www.flickr.com/photos/chopstixmedia
duck

Who to trust

This is
unfortunately
it.

What to eat

Domestic cat http://www.flickr.com/photos/powi/

Cantonese roast http://www.flickr.com/photos/chopstixmedia/
duck and pork

Stir-fried pea shoots http://www.flickr.com/photos/chopstixmedia/
with garlic

Steamed hairy crab http://www.flickr.com/photos/chopstixmedia/

Belly Pork and Mui http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredchan/
Choi Hot Pot

Butter prawns http://www.flickr.com/photos/chopstixmedia/

Chinese steam boat http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredchan/

Dim sum http://www.flickr.com/photos/chopstixmedia/

What to eat
Any steamed fish or For the adventurous:
seafood Anything with offal
Any double-steamed soup Anything with salted fish
Any stir-fried Chinese
vegetable (bok choy, gai
lan, choi sum)
Any Chinese hot pot

If you must eat sweet http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredchan/
and sour...

A final word for
vegetarians

SORRY!

Where to eat

Chinese experience http://www.flickr.com/photos/katcameron/
Shaftesbury Avenue

New Fook Lam Moon http://www.flickr.com/photos/katcameron/
Gerrard Street

Inn Noodle http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/
Oxford Street

Princess Garden http://www.flickr.com/photos/chopstixmedia
North Audley Street

Also recommended
Haozhan Mandarin Palace
Gerrard Street Cranbrook Road
Mr Kong North China
Lisle Street Uxbridge Road
Super Star Pearl Liang
Lisle Street Sheldon Square
Gold mine Snazz Sichuan
Queensway Chalton Street