We stopped in for a late lunch. I'm of Chinese heritage and liked what I saw on the menu walking around outside. There's so many options for Chinese dim sum on this street, but I was impressed by the quiet classy atmosphere. Once we stepped inside, I knew it was the right choice! Majority of the patrons were Chinese speaking which always serves as authenticity badge! read more

Royal Dragon - My Caucasian husband loved the food and drinks!! - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

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Three course meal with fried such Right in the heart of China Town in London, this restaurant did not disappoint. We found this establishment thanks to the fine folks of Yelp, and we decided to try it out. We were eager to try many things so we opted for one of the pre-set menu items that includes a 5 course meal. They brought out an array of appetizers including wontons, dumplings, and others. Our main course consisted of Sweet and Sour pork and Stir Fried chicken. Both were great, however, our intermediary course is where it was at for me. Crispy friend duck. They served it nice and crunchy with wraps and celery strips to top off with deliciously prepped plum sauce. You can add any other toppings to your duck style fajita at your leisure, and I must say, this was the highlight of my meal. Give the duck a try, its probably one of the best I have ever had and was not gamy at all. read more

Royal Dragon - Plum sauce... For duck - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

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I love this restaurant, great location in China town. It is good place to do gathering or reunion party with your gangs. This restaurant specialises on dim sum and Hong Kong style ala Carte menu too. Foods quality is great and promising. We have had a karaoke session and ordered about 10 dishes from the menu. None of us had make any complaint about the foods. Food taste and quality does not disappointed us at all. Nevertheless Karaoke ktv room look a bit dull, it need to be re-design to suit the taste of the young chinese crowd. Karaoke songs mainly chinese songs, they also has a good selection of English song too. Sound dystem seem okay. This is a good place to scream your voice out before you plan to enter to the next X factor or britain got talent show. read more

Royal Dragon - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

Have been eating in Chinatown for more years than I care to remember, and sadly there seems to be a significant ebb and flow as to where's good to eat - most of my favourites from years ago are now decidedly off the mark :-( At present, however, Royal Dragon is a solid recommendation for Chinatown. In particular, if you don't feel like the debate as to "what shall we have", I can commend their Set Meals as being both of good quality and reasonable price (not being "padded out" with vegetable dishes, unlike some I could mention!). For the brief periods of summer we get in London, the air conditioning is a bonus. read more

This is my favorite chinese restaurant in London! I especially love their crispy duck. I've tried other crispy ducks in Chinatown, but this one is the best of all. Comes with the rice "tortillas", plum sauce, carrots, and scallions and its moderately priced as well. the rest of the menu is quite extensive. I always get the Kung Pao Chicken and the Chicken with black bean sauce. read more

Lovely Restaurant. Staff were great, especially as it was gone 2 in the morning! Set Meal was a good option. read more

Royal Dragon - Royal Dragon at Night - Chinese Near Me - London, XGL

Definitely nothing special. As far as London food goes, the chicken, while certainly better than Noodle Bar, is nothing short of a hair better than Panda Express. The food is presented in a decent fashion, but the quality of the food and time taken to prepare it is obviously lacking. Some dishes have too much sauce, or are padded with too many vegetables. The servers themselves do not know the menu, and struggled with me to understand exactly what I ordered. Service: Lacking, could be more spot on. Food: Left much to be desired in taste, quality, and freshness. Price: Definitely not worth it, and they can hardly work to justify the "12.5% Discretionary Gratuity". I would go somewhere else. Me and my friend agreed that even Wagamama's was better than this. read more

Been in London for 5 days by the time I got to Soho. Was with a buddy of mine form Belfast and he was hungry. I had eaten recently so was going to just snack. We get to SoHo and start looking for some restaurant he doesn't remember the locale of. After this exercise in futility we start trying to pick on at random. We narrowed it down to two (right next to each other) and I got to choose. I went for the one on the right because it had a more Chinese sounding name with an allusion to the British Empire. :) There was one patron in the restaurant when we went in which made me nervous as you usually want to see more than that when you pick a place out of the blue. We sit down and order. I always try to go as authentic as possible and this place did not disappoint. I wanted to get my current favorite dish, but wasn't hungry enough for it. It's a cold chicken dish that is rarely on the menu but a Chinese staple. I was just happy to know they had it. I got a cold octopus starter and a shredded chicken starter. My buddy got the corn and crab meat soup and a BBQ Duck dish for the main dish. When his soup came out, I was all of a sudden hungry and ended up ordering my own soup. The starters came out and we commenced eating. The Octopus was cooked to perfection! I have never had Octopus so well cooked yet so tender. I have eaten my share of five star sushi and this dish blew them out of the water. The Chicken dish was perfect. Just had to work around the bones but that's where the flavor is. The soups were piping hot, but a perfect combination of sweet from the corn and salty from the crab. The duck was next with some fried rice. The duck continued the high quality food trend and was perfectly cooked and served with a nice demure sauce. My only complaint was with the rice. The one thing that usually is right and the rest wrong was the one that had the issue. It seemed dry and didn't stick together. The rice is the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars. I will definitely going back. Keep in mind that this was my first meal I had in the UK that didn't have some aspect that was under par. The British food has been living up to it's stereotypes so far. read more

KUNG PO FROGS' LEGS is the sort of menu item that excites the heck out of me ... but I've learned from all the aghast (although usually politely so) looks of disgust that the vast majority of people don't like eating frogs. If you do happen to frogs' legs then age old Chinatown standby, Royal Dragon, has the goods. And if you don't, well the menu's full of much more mundane dishes. It's a bit hit or miss deep fried soft shell crab with salt and chilli is gorgeous. Sesame prawn toast, not so much. Even if you're just popping in for a simple stir fry (the mixed seafood stir fry is tasty) or fried rice, the menu makes a fun peruse: duck's tongue, steak, mango pudding? They've got bubble teas too! Service is fine and really speedy. Prices are okay: around £4-5 for starters and under or around £10 for most mains. Lots of restaurants in Chinatown. Some of them suck. Royal Dragon isn't one of those; it's good. read more

Up town on some business and decidedto lunch here.good decision. Normally I go into Loon Foongs, but change is as good as a rest. Excellent lunch, ( I chose a set one), and so well cooked and presented. Can wholly recommend this place. Nice to be able to read previous reviews before going into any of them!! read more

My wife and I specifically sought out a return visit to this gem. Service is fast and the kitchen's preparation is even faster; however, do not let the expedience detract from the anticipation of high quality food. Worth trying in a very touristy area. read more

We chose this place only as it topped the Yelp ratings for Chinatown. Surely some mistake? If my local chips and sausage takeaway had served up food of this quality, I'd still be surprised, but this was incredibly disappointing. Despite a lot of staff roaming, attention was hard to find. Then the food came: - gloopy Hot and Sour soup, tasted reheated - mixed starters, very meh - fish fillet in hot sauce (£12 or £13) - tasted like crispy sweet and sour - hard to believe there was a fish fillet in there unless it was a sprat - black cod - underdone fish fingers, with a spray of sweet hoi sin sauce The other mains were appalling - some mustardy prawn and mango thing that looked dysenteric, dry 'steamed' rice. The restaurant was busy-ish - Sunday pre-theatre, but this was one of the worst Chinese meals I have had in a very long time. Avoid. read more

At maximum "meh" ... we were looking for a spot in Chinatown and went here. We got a pile of menus, and they didn't have descriptions of the dishes. The prices were high but eh, London, but the kicker was that the staff brought the wrong dish, we corrected them, and then they had both items on the final bill. An unfortunate waste of time, and definitely would recommend finding something else if in the area. read more

One of China Town's finest restaurants especially if you are looking for that modern, fresh appeal. For what it lacks in lush interior it makes up for in delicious food. Warmly recommended. read more

So we were in Chinatown and I was on Yelp, using my mobile, trying to find a good restaurant to eat dinner at. This one was getting great reviews on both Yelp and Urban Spoon so we went ahead, pulled out the map and found it. We didn't have to wait long at all, we got our seat and the server came right away to get our drink order. The decor is more modern than some other Chinese restaurants we walked past and it was constantly busy which is a good sign. I ordered sweet & sour chicken, crispy chicken and some steamed rice. They were both very good meal choices, my husband and I shared it, they give you plenty of food. Our friend's ordered the chow mien (called something else at the restaurant) and kung pow chicken, also both very good. It's a good place to go with some friends, order some different things and share amongst yourselves. There were four of us and that's what we did. The servers were very nice and helpful if you had a question about a menu item. I recommend this restaurant, it was YUMMY! read more

Very poor service, it's like the staff are aggrieved by your custom! I just wish I'd checked the reviews before going. There are other, friendlier, better restaurants in the area so I don't think I need to go here again read more

We had a nice dinner here. Crispy Duck was good. Followed by great BBQ ribs, Cha Siu and Chicken and Cashew Nuts. Portions weren't big and it's not cheap but quality was good and we all enjoyed it - even our youngest who isn't always willing to try new stuff. Best Chinese BBQ ribs he has had. read more

I went to the royal dragon based on the amazing yelp reviews. Well, if you want to pay a lot of money for a little of bit of food, this is the place for you! There was nothing particularly wrong with anything any of us got--in fact, it was all quite good--it was just that there was just not a lot of it. Plus side, you will definitely not leave feeling that full feeling you often feel post-Chinese food indulgence; however, you will not be left with any leftovers...which are arguably the best part read more

Tried this place based on Qype reviews and was not disappointed. The interior of the restaurant is a little run down but wow does the food make up for it. The service is friendly and efficient and the food of a very high standard. We decided to go with one of the set meals and every course was excellent mixed starters, crispy duck, beef and ginger, szechuan chicken, vegetables, sweet and sour prawns and mushroom rice. Strongly recommended. read more

This place is not good at all and a tourist trap. We ordered a course meal for 5, which included the crispy duck (make sure you are not confused with Peking duck!). The overall meal was very bland, the duck was decent but a let down because it is not the traditional serving style. The dishes were just not tasty and were more geared toward foreigner taste, not traditional Chinese. I would steer away from here as there are many more decent choices in Chinatown such as the Tokyo dining house and the dumpling place nearby. The price is also quite steep. You do get quite a large portion, but large portion of bad food is usually not welcomed. read more

I travel much in Asia and I love good asian food. We choose that restaurant because of the excellent feedback by coffeemick (who has other interesting suggestions). Normally I do not trust recommendations if there are only a few suggestions but here we followed coffeemick and I think he is fully right: it was really marvelous. I can fully recommend this restaurant. Take the menu (I took some photos and uploaded them.) It was sooo delicious that we came back the next evening. This I do seldom since I highly appreciate variations. Have a nice time in this restaurant ;-) read more

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One of my favorite in China Town. Great roast ducks, similar to the ones in Four Season, but the skin is crispier, which might appeal to those who like crispy ducks but love the succulence of roast duck. I also love all their hot pots, and steam scallops (ask the waiter to add vermicelli, they will do that for you and this is my little secret!). Overall, food is good, service is okay, but they are efficient anyway. Recommended for those who are confused in China Town, you will not be disappointed. read more

Impressively good food and service. Not the Chinatown experience I was expecting. Modern. Fresh. Tasty

The food was nice, the portions were generous but the staff is sometimes too much in a rush of serving people. I would recommend it for a normal dinner but not for a date. The duck is delicious. read more

Came here on a Sunday afternoon because the Dim Sum restaurant next door was packed and required a 45 min wait. Really glad we tried this place. We had some standard Dim Sum dishes as well as some specials that I've not tried before. Most dishes are as I would expect from a good Dim Sum with the following notable exceptions. Their Beef Cheung Fun was great since it had a small amount of water chestnuts for a slight crunch and coriander for flavor as well as a thin wrapper. Their Woo Gwok fried dumplings, although small, were pipping hot and crispy. Loved the Vietnamese spring rolls (made with rice paper wrapper) and served with sweet vinegar dip. The rice with salted fish and shredded pork had a good amount of sauce to ensure the rice was well coated. Their dragon dumplings were also great, with thin skin and a good amount of broth in side ... make sure you eat them while they are hot! Also had their mixed meat crispy fried noodle, which had the right balance of crispy and soft noodles together with a nice amount of meat and perfectly cooked sugar snap peas. On the special side, we tried their oyster and prawn dumpling. As for service, definitely could not complain. In fact, I can't understand the complaints about service. Maybe it was because it was around 4 pm and the place was becoming quieter. We found the waiters to be very attentive and replenished our Chinese tea regularly. Would definitely come back to this place as my first choice in future. read more

I just adore the food in the Royal Dragon, it is absolutely delicious and it is always a pleasure to be there my favourite place!

I love Chinese Food! And this spot is my fav! Service is nice but a bit reserved. The food makes me smile every time though!

Didn't expect it to so expensive, but never the less it was worth every penny. The food was the most delicious chinese cuisine I have ever eaten and I so do not regret getting out of china town and exploring new grounds. The staff were very polite and welcoming, atmosphere was fantastic and my friend even got a free dessert. A definite must try is the restaurant's special trade mark salad with black mushrooms. read more

Nothing impressive, just a regular Chinese restaurant or at least that's what I thought at the beginning. You should definitely try the roasted duck there's nothing more delicious than this. Excellent service and decor. Recommend it to everyone. read more

This place is simply GOOD! the beef hot pot dish is tasty, the Crispy duck is to die for! overall, the food is GREAT!

Worst experience ever!! Waited 15 min to get a menu! Our waiter was very rude, kept rolling his eyes and snapped at us whenever we asked a question. He snatched the menus from our hands when we're done ordering and didn't even offer drinks! We got up and took our business to other deserving restaurants on the strip. Judging from other RECENT reviews, horrible service seems to be an issue at this place. I would not recommend this place to anyone. read more

The service here is attentive, the food delicious, and the restaurant is comfortable. I had a sizzling lamb and onion dish that was very pleasing. I'll be back when next in London. read more

Awful service bad food, never come back again. Extremely not recommend for Karaoke, the guys who work their especially that fat guy is totally rude. read more

We went to the Royal Dragon after the theatre, we thought we'd take a chance as there were so many places to chose from along the street... it certainly paid off. The welcome and service we're great, even at 10pm on a Wed evening. The food was excellent, very tasty and beautifuk cooked. Especially the crispy duck; very crispy skin, with suculent meat. We (wife and me) had the set Peking Meal for 2, and the portions were much better than expected. We were very fully and happy by the end of our meal. read more

Our meal started off okay. The food was good, and we received a couple of courses over a period of 45 minutes. We then sat there for over an hour without receiving any of our meals. In the end we had to leave to catch the last train, still having not been fed. By the end of the evening, I had eaten 2 small ribs and a crispy duck pancake. It cost our party of four £46 for the privilege. We were also snapped at by a member of staff, possibly the manager, when we asked where our food was after almost an hour. Steer well clear. read more

Whatever you do, don't come here alone. Waited for ten minutes just to get a menu, should have taken the hint from that and left. The food was so-so, and the service is horrible. read more