Recently visited but unfortunately it was closed. We have enjoyed dining there every time visiting…read moreOxford. Sad to see it no longer there.

Three stars is generous. The kitchen is very slow and people who were seated after us got their…read morefood first. Wait staff rush off like a Beijing express train. Bad English skills, can't tell beef and pork apart. Generally, food is quite tasty and comes out hot. The sweet and sour soup is a bit too gooey for me, but has a lot of ingredients, which is good, not just broth. Satay mushroom was good, but they could work on the presentation. No complaints about the wok fried duck. Same for the tofu. The lychees are from a can. The banana fritters had some oldish bananas inside, but the batter is quite good because it is thin. The lackluster service is a turn off. Why are there never any knives in Chinese restaurants? Or spoons? Like Seinfeld said: Chinese farmer goes out and works on the field with a shovel! Shovel! Helloooooo? How am I supposed to eat a massive lettuce leaf with chopsticks? Has anyone seen chopsticks with a knife on the edge of it? Pm me if you have please. A big plus here is the lunch meal deal where you get three courses for 8 pounds.

My family and I are Hong Kong Chinese and have been loyal customers at Taipan since its opening…read morealmost 20 years ago. The food is authentic and has beaten many of the Chinese restaurants I'd been to in London that were rated highly. Might've recalled only a few instances where the quality fell short, but they were odd and far in between over the two decades, I shrugged it off to probably temporary changes in management. The quality has been on large consistent. The service is also great. Never had a problem with the staff and they'd always been welcoming. Most days it seems quite quiet. The weekends at lunch and dinner hour is normally bustling.

The best Chinese restaurant in Milton Keynes and certainly the most authentic…read more The dim sum is absolutely delicious and the chef is spot-on. Their à la carte dishes are really nice and the menu is great, and they have a good range of Cantonese as well as Hokkien dishes. Without a word of a lie or exaggeration this is the best Chinese restaurant in Milton Keynes and the fact that 90% of the customers there are Chinese attests to that.

For northern Chinese food, this is truly a wondrous find: On the two occasions that I had dinner…read morehere, I can tell that the chef is the real deal. In Oxford, no less! Incidentally, the Chinese ideograms for the restaurant's name actually mean "Flaming/Burning Wine," which might not be the only thing on fire, if you get my drift... My dining companion and I tried a total of five dishes over the two occasions we came here for dinner. Some were dishes that were a little off the beaten path, what with the current mania in society for "healthy foods" and all, but sometimes, you've got to live a little and relish that incomparable taste of fat that makes a dish so iconic otherwise you won't ever know what you're missing! And of all of them, I wasn't disappointed in any, which is testimony to the chef's skill. It also doesn't hurt that the owners, Shuman and Teresa are very genial hosts and bring extra warmth to the already cozy atmosphere of dark colours in a very classic Chinese setting. In the appetizer category was the Mouth Watering Chicken which was a poached chicken that was covered in a sauce of fiery chili peppers with peanuts sprinkled over it. It certainly lived up to its name. This is definitely not a dish for those with wimpy tastebuds because they're likely to have them seared off as with a blowtorch. However, for those who can handle it, it'll provide a nice "glow" in both your faces and stomachs to start the meal off. The initial foray into the forbidden began with the Shanghai Sweet Soy Braised Belly Pork dish which we had with plain white rice (in the old and traditional days, only animals were fed brown rice or unthreshed rice). With its generous cuts of fat-laced pork belly covered in a thick sweet soy sauce and with the white rice to "cut" its artery-clogging richness somewhat, I was in Seventh Heaven. This was food from my childhood when the "fat is bad" mantra just didn't exist. It was oh-so-good and brought back memories of times past and of home in Singapore. We ordered the Mapo Tofu with its classic chili and meat sauce as a sort of counterbalance. It was another dish that didn't disappoint. The ground pork swimming in that beautiful spicy sauce mixed in with the usual bowl of rice just hit the right spots where it counted. The spiciness wasn't as intense as I've had at some other restaurants and this is a good thing because it's so hard to taste something when your tongue feels like it's been run over by a lidocaine steamroller! Not to mention that drooling because your lips don't work any more is so unbecoming... On another visit, we decided to just "go gangbusters" and ordered the Shanghai Sweet Soy Pork Hock which just made my day. It was one entire pork hock that had been stewed in the traditional sweet thick soy sauce which infused the entire hock rather than just its surface. Now, the tree-hugging health nuts will probably be turning up their noses in disgust but, as I said, you haven't had true Chinese food until you've tried the richer dishes at least once (and risk your doctor going apoplectic on your next visit)! Okay, it's not something to have daily or even weekly but once in a while, to quote Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street": "Greed is good!" And amen to that. Now we come to Tofu in Crabmeat Sauce: The silky tofu cooked with the divine crabmeat made for an incomparable taste sensation that also sent shivers up my spine. Singaporeans can summarize this feeling in one word, "Shiok!" In other restaurants that I've had this dish, they skimped on the crabmeat and/or even used low-quality crabmeat, which detracted from the overall taste. But not here. At Sojo, they use a well picked-through, high quality backfin crabmeat (this is one dish where jumbo lump crabmeat would not have worked) so that you don't end up with crab shell or cartilage in your teeth nor is there a fishy flavor. Despite its reddish colouring, it has no chilli of any sort in it whatsoever, so rejoice all ye who have wimpy tastebuds or sensitive gastrointestinal systems! This is a restaurant that I am dying to return to so that I can wander through its menu searching for another "hit" of nirvanic bliss on each visit. Since I happen to live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, I'm sure that Sir Richard Branson will be more than happy to have me add to his already bulging coffers and perhaps Virgin Galactic. Assuming his pilots park their cars on time for a change and we don't miss our departure slot again: Nothing is quite so ludicrous as hearing your flight is delayed because your pilot is looking for a parking spot for his car...it was like being stuck in an episode of Mr. Bean!

Coming from a guy who's lived all over the world and have tried Chinese food in various Western…read morecountries, this is a very mediocre Chinese restaurant. Pros: vegetables and tofu selection are great, and decently cooked Cons: the Cashew chicken my friend and I ordered was very bad; it was not marinated, diced, tasted like they boiled the chicken and stir fried for 5 second with random sauces.

Came here a few times mostly for takeaway but also dined in once. For dining in we arrive at 12 pm…read moresharp on a Thursday right when they opened. The tiny space was not crowded at that time, and our order came quickly and efficiently. It's a nearly self service kind of place because you place orders by checking off a sheet (that sheet is the menu). Xiaolong bao (with soup inside) was wonderful and delicate; beef noodle very good. I also got their wonton noodle before as take out. Love their salt and pepper shrimp, too. A highlight of our dining in experience was the salt and pepper tofu. Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. They have an open kitchen so you can see the chefs at work. The whole place was run fairly efficiently though they take only cash. A slight inconvenience since all other restaurants in Oxford take credit cards (even those eateries in nearby Covered Market.

I've only had some of the dim sum items from the very limited menu and the wonton noodles. This is…read moreproper Canto taste. Hopefully my next visits will prove better. It's a tiny place with tiny table in a very cozy atmosphere. There's almost no table service. You walk in, seat yourself, and fill out what you want from the paper menu, then hand it back to the kitchen. Your order then comes out. When it's time to pay, you get up and ask how much your total is (unless you're smart enough to have tallied it up while you were ordering). I wasn't impressed with the dim sum. It's not bad, but I suspect it's just frozen fare from the freezer aisle. The wonton noodles were improperly cooked, just not snappy/bouncy enough. However, the wontons that came with the noodles were perfect. I'm planning to come back and try some of the other soup noodle dishes next time and anticipating less disappointment.

They are very friendly and considerate, food are very good and like home food from HK. Fantastic!read more

Went with my mum and sister and had the buffet which is not the standard buffet. You sit and they…read morebring you what you want off a set menu and you can order as many times you want. It's quite indulgent cos the food is delish, so after the starters (which is a plater of the common chinese appetisers )we were all full. We jst continued cos we felt we had to get our money's worth. By the second course we chose duck pancakes rather than the soup. We had a lot left over and couldn't take it away which was annoying cos they were just going to throw it away. The main course came and we were crying cos we were soo full. It's great but you'd have to be a real greedy guts to enjoy it. They initially wanted to charge me for my 3 year old who had 2 bites of my chicken and slept till the end but.... anyway if you're in northampton and want great food this is the place.

Had a chance visit to the cinema and decided to pop in to this dim sum restaurant - food is rather…read moregood and tasty and the quality is on a par if not even slightly better than the traditional large chinatowns of Brum and London. They even have suckling pig (yue je) on Sundays - even this is rare for Brum nowadays. There is a 10% service charge but they do keep your teapot topped up. Free parking at the council car park outside Sol Centre on Sundays too.

Walking to the Oxford train station, my eye caught this little gem of a restaurant. For some…read morereason, you hang a duck or a pork belly in the window and my eye jumps to it! So I knew I had to try it as the smells and what I saw in the window all gave me the high sign that this was a place that knew what it was doing when it comes to Chinese food. Also the ratio of asian to europeans customers signaled me I was in the right place. So for a little lunch we tried the pork belly and some of the duck. Both were so yummy. And the pork belly was some of the best. The skin crispy but not so hard you crack a tooth on it. The right amount of fat to lean. So yummy. The duck was pretty darn good as well. the meat flavorful and tender the the skin just crispy and yummy. We also had some dumplings and other traditional dim sum items. The shanghai soup dumplings were just ok, not enough liquid, the pea shoot dumplings were a bit of a disappointment, but not bad. But the lotus wrapped rice was so yummy and so tasty I could hardly contain myself. A real treat and a must order in my opinion. The portion size was also just right for Dim Sum and not huge as you get at some places. Just enough to make you want for more. I know some people will not like the decor of this place, but it is classic basic chinese with plain tables and nothing fancy. The food is what should bring you in, not that they have fancy table settings. Go, enjoy, tap three times with your finger when they bring the tea and sit back and let the pork belly melt in your mouth, it will be worth it.

Ypou know, I hear that this place is fantastic but I've only ever been here with large groups of…read morepeople. We used to go here with about 20 people. I think the trouble with that is that they serve everyone else before they serve the large party. We have had to wait at times over an hour for starters and even longer for a main course. Now, the food when it does come is really yummy. The menu is extensive and the preparation is really excellent. I do not understand why they always make us wait. We haven't been back for an awful long time because it is just too much to ask to be left waiting for over an hour for starters and I haven't been there with a small group. I'm sure that if you do go you'll get the fantastic food without the terrible service.

Watching a bunch of students mulling about on a Friday night deciding which bars to target, I…read morewasn't expecting to find a hotpot place in the middle of Oxford. At first, I saw the sign up top for Opium Cafe. I didn't even want to think about it. But when my dad exclaimed that they had hotpot, I knew we weren't going to go anywhere else after that moment. He hadn't had Asian food in over a week on this UK trip. I was surprised he lasted this long. There were more patrons in there than I expected--and definitely more non-asian patrons than I expected. In fact, there were no other Asians in there. I don't know whether that attests to the non-authenticity of the food or how pricey it was. Since my dad wanted the AYCE hotpot for $25/person, we didn't have a chance to try their other dishes, so I can't say anything about whether they hold their own or not. However, the hotpot was surprisingly decent. I mean, I guess you can't really screw up chinese hotpot. You give the customers raw food and then they boil it and slather it with a bunch of sauces. Oh, this place has a heck of a lot of sauces. Like 8 different containers of them! For you beginners looking for a more authentic flavor, I would definitely do a blend of the "BBQ Sauce." By the way, it ain't your BBQ sauce you throw on that rack o' ribs in case you were wondering. I like to mix it with a bit of peanut or sesame sauce and throw in some chili oil for good measure. For ordering, you just tick off everything that you want on a little checklist. If you need to order more, they will hand you the checklist back and you can check more off. We ordered a regular variety of foods you usually find in hotpot: beef and lamb, vegetables, seafood, tofu, etc. The veges looked nice and sturdy, and the seafood didn't smell fishy (read: frozen). My only complaint was the meat slices. They were so hard to chew and didn't seem to cook well. If ayce kbbq places can offer the same price and give quality meat, I feel like my standard of expectation has been set there. I guess I don't necessarily blame this place since its in Oxford and it didn't seem like they got a lot of customers who ordered the AYCE hotpot. I bet most of them have only been exposed to Chinese food made out of a wok. Anyway, if you are looking for Chinese food in Oxford, I'd probably recommend this place. A little pricey for the AYCE hotpot for what it is, but if you are craving it, I don't see the harm of giving this place a try.

2.5 . Was originally going to go to pizzahut but it was packed inside and decided to go here…read moreinstead. There was not alot of chicken options but i ended up getting the sizzling black bean chicken with plain rice which was an extra 2 pounds. It was okay, there was also more vegetables in the dish than chicken itself.

Delicious... Love the food and staff. The manager selected our dishes for us and wow! There Salt…read morechilli squid was the best I have ever had, the house noodles were perfect and the lobster, ummm my mouth is salivating as I think of it... Soooo good, definitely recommend this Chinese restaurant. It's my favorite in Beaconsfield. Oh, I found out they do dim sum at lunch time now so i'll be back to try that. :)

Fantastic food, and I know my dad's favorite restaurant!!…read moreGreat selection, great staff, just a bit pricey for your average chinese. A special occasion perhaps?

Came here for a lunar new year lunch with friends. We arrived at 11 with reservations and got…read moreseated immediately. We were handed menus and got too ordering. Unfortunately there were no carts rolling around so everything was ordered on a sheet. We got plenty of food. It's funny when they show you an and say 'this is the last one!' But they just opened. Overall the selection was just ok. Normally when I see a lot of Asians in the place it means it's really good. But just mediocre this time.

Imperial China Dim sum is one of the best I have tasted. It is even better than all the dim sum…read moredishes I have tried in California. It means something. Everything is freshly made and tastes super delicious. I am pleasantly surprised that I can find such authentic Chinese food in Teddington. Hope to come back again when I am in town.