Saw this restaurant when passing by with friends and decided to pop in and don't regret it for a…read moreminute. Food was excellent, as was the service. Staff were friendly and helpful.

Service great and food amazing, best prawn toast ever . Prices very reasonable as well .read more

My usual Friday pre-salsa food hunt led me to Royal China this week. From the outside, the decor…read morelooks slightly haphazard with different themes in different parts of the dining area. However, the warm welcome of the staff lifted all doubt the moment we walked in The menu is largely Chinese with a Thai section in the back. This is a growing trend I've noticed in Chinese restaurants recently The starter of deep fried soft shell crab was nice and crispy with sweet crabmeat but the coating was a little salty I enjoyed the roast duck in plum sauce, being used to the slightly fatty duck. The sizzling mixed seafood in black bean sauce had generous portions of large prawns, scallops, mussels and squid. The pad thai noodles were OK but not as good as in standalone Thai restaurants An enjoyable meal with good service

Amazing food! I love Indo-Chinese food and a family member recommended this restaurant for lunch…read more The staff is extremely friendly and the place has a great ambience. We ordered a bunch of appetizers and that gave us a variety of items to pick from. I don't like overly spicy food but found the dishes marked with two chilis reasonably spicy and very flavorful. Great lunch time experience!

TL;DR Delicious, and very accomodating!…read more I went for my work's Christmas do. Food was from a set menu and waiters gave us several carafes of water, which were constantly refilled. There were also jugs of coke and lemonade which they would walk around and pour for us. All this was free, but we had to pay for alcohol. A few tried to set individual tabs for themselves However, there were roughly 20 of us and 8 individuals wanting individual tabs. That would have been a headache for the staff, so we all ended up paying for each drink of our own as we ordered it (Seemed fair to me). Heads up if you don't drink: They do a big enough range of mocktails for them to be listed on a page! They sounded good and I want to try one next time. We only had a set menu but it was all delicious (And even the stuff I personally wasn't keen on was good quality)! There was a good range of vegetarian and meaty stuff and it was all surprisingly filling. Also, I got to try some new stuff. One of the colleagues I sat next to is pregnant. She gave the food a good go, but a lot of it was too spicy for her although she said how lovely it all was. The waiter asked if she wanted some milk or yoghurt, and brought out poppadoms and mixed-veg bhajis for her ( as well as a big bowl of yoghurt) and gave her ice cream instead of the dessert we were given. She even asked for his name and a business card so she could recommend the place to her friends and family. The service was very attentive and kind. I had a Kingfisher (£3-4)and a margarita (£7). Good value for booze, I think. All in all, I'd happily suggest this place for a group do! Here's the set menu we had (In no real order and possibly excluding stuff I forgot about): Starter: Poppdoms with mango chutney; soy sauce with garlic and ginger; minty yoghurty stuff and a spicy thing. Chicken tikka (Possibly my favourite thing) Strips of some chunky fibrous vegetable in a mildly spicy coating (I believe it was potato) Firm paneer (A bit like tofu) in a sticky sweet coating with peppers Little poppadoms with chickpeas, tiny sprinkles of what looked like noodles and yoghurt and minty-yoghurty stuff and sweet sauce of some kind. They were an odd mixture of sweet and spicy. I found those a challenge to my tastebuds but they were well-made and well-presented Lamb rolls Plain naan White rice Coronas and Buds that came from nowhere (I discovered I'm not keen on Bud!) Veg manchuria A chicken curry A curry in a spicy green sauce Limoncello shots with a lime in (Which I thought were tequila shots) n An Asian dessert with a thin, sweet yellow custard and little balls that had the texture of soggy sponge but might have been paneer. I personally didn't like that but it was something new Oh, and the interior is very pretty! Be aware that it can get quite noisy, however.

Great spicy Chinese food. Ma po tofu and Crosby shredded beef are must!read more

This is one of my fave spots for Dim Sum in London - well kinda London, it's in Croydon so just…read moreborderline! I've only ever been on a Sunday morning for Dim Sum so I can't speak for their a la carte menu, but it's definitely worth a trip if you're ever in the area! You get your usual bao and shu-mai here, but they are awesome! The shu-mai have chunks of prawn in them and not just generic minced stuff. I definitely must recommend you try the Vietnamese Spring Roll - this is by far my most favourite dish. They always come out steaming hot so if you're not careful you'll burn your mouth when you bite into it. It's also packed full of meaty goodness and it's dense that it's hard to hold them in your chopsticks for too long. The staff are very quick and efficient and I've never had an order wrong here. Slightly off track, but their crockery stacking skills never cease to amaze me. On a previous visit, the waitress cleared a table of 6 in one go and carried mostly everything on one arm!

Went for lunch yesterday. Had a fried noodle dish with barbecued pork…read more Very very dry with hardly any pork in it. Had to put some soy sauce on to eat. Also had ho fun which was totally tasteless. Do not think much of the dim sum.

Very nice food, well worth the priceread more

Silver Dragon is a small and friendly restaurant that serves traditional Chinese food and food from…read morethe pacific rim. It is not the cheapest place but the food is good with reasonable portion sizes and unlike some restaurants the wines, spirits and beers are not totally overpriced. Highlights from the menu include the Mussels in black bean sauce, salt and pepper ribs and won-ton soup. Silver Dragon is cosy local restaurant that serves good food at a reasonable price. The mostly female waiting staff are very polite and friendly and the food arrives at your table without much of a wait

Consistently a high standard from Silver Dragon.A small but tidy,clean decorated resturant on…read moreCroydon road in Waddon,near a public house called The Plough. The service was very good,staff very friendly and polite.Food is well prepared and proud portion's is no shy point here.The food is good and the staff very friendly.Great combination to eating out...If you hav'nt tried this resturant or taken your food out then give it a go

This restaurant is sited in a single-storey, stand-alone building which is vaguely colonial in…read morestyle. The unusual thing is, it is bang in the middle of the Addington Hills. There is literally nothing else there but this restaurant and this is it's main selling point. During the day the area is quite popular for family walks and it is (apparently) possible to see Windsor Castle from a vantage point nearby, although we could only see as far as Canary Wharf when we went (which isn't bad). There is road access and a car park so you don't have to hike to get there but my boyfriend and I decided to anyway, which added to the fun. The restaurant is tastefully decorated and has huge windows so you can enjoy the view. They encourage big bookings and functions but we found it intimate enough for just the two of us and we had an attentive waiter and good service. The menu has what you would expect from a good Chinese resataurant and was quite reasonably priced. If you're looking for an unusual venue this is a good place.

From the owner: Cantonese and Szechuan cuisineread more