Peninsular London

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Chinese in London - Greenwich
85 Bugsby's Way, Holiday Inn Express , Greenwich, London, SE10 0GD
+44 (0) 20 8858 2028

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Peninsular London Reviews

Helen G.

13 reviews

Delicious Dim Sum - Peninsula may be somewhat out of the way for many (North Greenwich) but it is definitely worth the trip for dim sum. I don't know much about dim sum myelf but I went here on the recommendation of a friend who does and my dining partners also really knew their stuff.

We ordered a massive amount of food and the dishes kept on coming. Here's the best of what we ordered...

The first dish to reach our table was the jellyfish – exciting for me as I’d never tried it before. Definitely a ‘texture thing’, it has no real flavour of it’s own but comes doused in a mild yet delicious chilli sauce. The toothsome texture was kind of like eating rubber bands (I imagine), but in a nice way (honestly) and strangely addictive.

Next to arrive were yam croquettes – again exciting because I’m really not sure I’ve eaten much yam before – of any kind. Strange considering you can barely walk to my local station without tripping over piles of them. The exterior was light and crunchy and the filling sweet and moreish.

For me, the highlight of the entire meal was the ‘fried dough stick cheung fun’. This was honestly the most delicious dim sum I have ever eaten - soft and silky rice noodle roll with the sweet, fried dough stick within. The dough was both crispy and chewy - contrasting textural heaven!

I ticked another one off the ‘must-eat’ list with the turnip cake. I’ve been intrigued by this since I saw it on a few different food blogs around Chinese new year and the fried slices had the exact pleasing stodgy texture inside that I had hoped for and a mild savoury taste with little surprise nuggets of bacon, shrimp and mushrooms. The cake, although delicious did highlight my insecurities about chopstick etiquette as it needed cutting into pieces for sharing and I only realised after the meal that there was a separate pair of chopsticks specifically for this purpose. I just hope I didn’t dive right in and greedily snatch anything.

And finally, the custard tarts that I almost didn’t order – even thinking about that possibility now makes me breathe a sigh of relief. Quite different from the British version, that pastry was so very thin and flaky, like shortcrust but layered (the primary ingredient is lard, which explains why it tastes so good). This is filled with a wibbly wobbly bright yellow egg custard - I was forced to eat two. I have no idea whatsoever if these tarts were a good example of their kind but they tasted damn fine to me and I will certainly be ‘testing’ as many as possible, as soon as possible.

So there’s my small selection of the many plates which just kept on coming – steamed tripe with ginger and spring onions, spare ribs in black bean sauce, coconut mousse, squid in satay sauce, beef balls with greens – I could go on. All in all I would highly recommend Peninsula. The massive (400 covers) restaurant was rammed with Chinese families on a Sunday morning, which tells you everything you need to know really. 09-04-09

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