Chinese takeaway reviews

Chinese takeaway reviews

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There's no noisy rabble blocking the doorway waiting for a table, the decor is modern, the seats comfortable and the parking free. You're at the Gloucester Chinese Takeaways, offspring of one of Chinatown's most famous restaurants.

To answer the big question, yes, the food is almost as good as the original, with better service thanks to a more relaxed pace. This means pure Cantonese cooking featuring a huge choice of live seafood cooked in many ways - although steamed with ginger and shallots is the purest and the best. Try the steamed oysters, scallops or prawns for starters and go on to morwong, mud crab or XO spiced pipis. The menu is encyclopaedic with a page of vegetarian dishes, barbecue meats, hotpots, regional specialties, hard to find gems like duck steamed with mushrooms and simple dishes such as salt and pepper deep fried beancurd, squid or white bait. There's a choice of Chinese grain wines and warmed Shoa Hsing is especially good.

Hours: Lunch daily noon - 5pm
Dinner Sun - Thurs 5 - 11pm
Fri Sat 5pm - midnight

review by
Catherine Keenan
Sunday Life magazine

Very LA, said my companion as we walked in. I think she meant it was big, bright and had a touch of the airport lounge about it. But the food is where it's at, at this offshoot of the famous Gloucester Chinese Takeaways.

The Peking duck was the highlight, and the only lowlight after some very fine salt and pepper mud crab was the heavenly braised vegetables, which had wilted beyond their prime. Service was patchy at times and the wine list is almost too comprehensive, but it's still a quality experience.