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    Sun Sun Chinese Restaurant

    Sun Sun Chinese Restaurant

    (2 reviews)

    ££

    Clapham, Clapham Common

    For a long while now, I thought of having a go at this near "institution" in Clapham High Street…read more("institution" means having most of the original shops here already been replaced by trendy ones, eclipsed by bigger chains, or simply closed). It finally happened last evening. From our order, the soups were tasty enough (had a Hot & Sour and Sweet Corn Crab) but the mains were rather bland despite looking and smelling promising (had a Satay Beef with Rice and Roast Pork with Rice). The Satay sauce was weak (compared to dry versions), though the meat were cooked decently in a wok one can tell. The Roast Pork were nearly tasteless, it definitely needed more flavour while roasting to seep in. Both had freshly chopped spring onions cooked with it, but even the generous servings did not make any difference on the meal. Such disappointment.

    A friend of mine once proclaimed, albeit he was 6 pints deep, that this is the best takeaway in…read moreSouth London. Now, I happen to think that's nonsense. It's decent Chinese fare - nothing hugely imaginative on offer that you can't get elsewhere and they do a decent amount of drunkard treats too - chips, chicken balls and other fried goods. It's right on the High St, never seems to be too busy in the shop itself and is usually surprisingly quick at turning your food around for you. It's actually quite expensive for what you get, so if I were sat at home and put some thought into the chinese I was going to order in, it wouldn't be from Sun Sun. Not a bad little local stop-off though. Not bad at all.

    Mama Lan - Outside

    Mama Lan

    (13 reviews)

    ££

    Clapham

    I love independent restaurants. I love hole in the wall restaurants. I love mom & pop places. Mama…read moreLan ticked all the aforementioned boxes and I therefore planned to eat at this little place serving Beijing street food as soon as I saw it Jules H joined me for dinner here over the weekend.Although there's no booking at the small restaurant, the turnover of tables is swift and we shared a larger table with some other diners The menu is small but perfectly formed, offering some noodles soups, cold noodle salads, a variety of dumplings, small snacks like pork buns and chicken wings as well as some salads. We opted for beef noodle soup, tofu noodle soup, vegetarian dumplings (pan fried gyoza style) and pork buns It's hard to know how to judge Mama Lan. On my visit to Beijing, I found the food generally disappointing. It was quite devoid of flavour compared to Cantonese, Sichuan and Taiwanese food. To be fair to Mama Lan, the taste reminded of the food I had eaten in Beijing but therefore, it wasn't the best The best dish was my beef noodle soup, which had some depth to the soup with super tender pieces of slow cooked beef brisket. However, Jules's tofu noodle soup was rather flavourless. The dumplings were nice, especially when dipped into vinegar, which was supplied on the tables. However, the pork buns arrived late, just as we were about to cancel them. They're hirata open pork buns, not like the sort you'll get a dim sum. The pork was rather dry I wanted to give the place 4 stars for being independent and different but unfortunately, the food only merits 3 stars

    If you're looking for a Chinatown-esque vast array of nondescript pan-Asian dim sum, or Szechuan…read morespiceness, or "real" Vietnamese ( clue - go to a Vietnamese restaurant) food, you're definitively in the wrong place. Mama Lan's is explicitly northern Chinese, Beijing style food - from the wheaty noodles in the noodle soups to the gyoza-like nature of many of the dumplings. This bijou Clapham outpost of the Brixton original seems to be picking up a solid crowd of regulars - I'd expect that the as-yet-unmade quasi reality series "Clapham Shore" or "Made in South Chelsea" to have scenes set here- if they can find a place for the cameras ; P The menu itself is fairly compact - if you go as a group of 3-4 people with a bit of an appetite "one of everything" is a very real option. Expect to pay c. £9 for a noodle dish, and £5-6 for the dim sum plates. Prawn dumplings were a particular high note on my visit; as other reviewers have noted, the roast pork bun wasn't a fluffy confection as one might "normally" expect, more of a bap, and the pork itself was flawless. Wood ear mushroom dumplings had a rather composty note to them. All in all we paid about £35 for two, including a drink each, which was pretty reasonable value given the quality.

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