Chinatown

Dining out in Chinatown can be a hit or miss affair. We found Royal Dragon to be a gourmand hit.

Pictures of Sunday’s Year of the Rabbit celebrations in Trafalgar Square and Chinatown from the Londonist Flickrpool.

With Year of the Rabbit celebrations coming up tomorrow in Chinatown, here’s our top ten list of favourite Chinatown treats (in no particular order except alphabetical). Have fun and eat well!

Chinatown’s getting ready for Year of the Rabbit celebrations.

Spaghetti Ga Ga photography by Chris Osburn Inviting us to lunch at the few month’s old Sushi Ga Ga – and taking precious time out of an especially buzzing schedule – was its owner and London restauranteur extraordinaire, Geoffrey Leong. While stuffing our faces, Geoff …

Chinatown already sports more plaques than Willy Wonker’s teeth, and this week saw the unveiling of yet another. The green memorial at 16 Gerrard Street commemorates the Mont Blanc restaurant, former haunt of literary types such as Joseph Conrad, Hilaire Belloc and GK Chesterton. The …

If we had a nickel for every blog post (even books) urging us to look up above eye level in London, we’d have…well, whatever a nickel is worth, times about a thousand. But all clichés have some truth to them. One place where it’s easy …

Photo by Abby Chau Golden Gate Cake Shop 13 Macclesfield Street, W1D 5BR Nearest Tube: Leiscester Square Phone: 0207 287 9862 Expect to Pay: around 80p per bun/slice of cake Chinatown is scattered with restaurants buzzing with chatter, cheesy-looking clubs pounding the latest mix, and …

Meet the frappucino’s sexier cousin, the exotic one he sort of secretly fancies. Originally from Taiwan, bubble tea is ice-blended black tea and plenty of milk shaken to a deliciously frothy consistency with soft chewy “bubbles” of tapioca at the bottom. Californians refer to the …

Photo by su-lin Rasa Sayang is one of the few Malaysian restaurants in Chinatown and Londonist ventured in one night looking for some spice; we encountered some very delicious dishes. Nasi lemak (pictured above) is a one dish meal of coconut scented rice served with …