Greg's reviews
Review of Misato
15 Jul 07, 03:35
Loads of food, small bill. 
This place is great to overstuff your face with filling japanese food (not an oxymoron). In fact, I don't think I have ever managed to completely finish a portion of food from here. Their cutlet curries are a bit bland for my liking because they lack punch spicewise (I love chillies), though they still pass as perfectly legitimate meals. However for about £5 you can get a really big plate of japanese style deepfried chicken (available with a variety of sauces) with rice and salad. The chicken is always tasty and succulent (I think it's basically chicken thighs), and it comes with a big dollop of "homemade" mayonaise, which happens to taste just like salad creme, but maybe I'm just a cynic. If you want to feel like a proper porker for very little money go here. It's one of my regular weekend easy lunches, however, sometimes you may have to queue for twenty minutes to sit down because it gets really busy.
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Review of Crispy Duck
13 Jul 07, 10:57
Lunch is better 
This is my second review of Crispy Duck, and I was slightly disappointed that the evening meal I had there with Rik (below) wasn't as good as the lunch I had had there on a previous occasion, even though it was perfectly palatable (chiu yim baby squid). My advice is to go before five to take advantage of the wide range of scrummy Dim Sum, because after that it's just another sweet and sour tourist trap.
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Review of Crispy Duck
09 Jun 07, 12:19
Lots of lovely dim sum 
Sitting inconspicuously amid the miriad of generic shopfronts in the heart of chinatown, this is a great place to grab a bite of lunch to eat with friends. Specialising in dim sum, it doesn't pander to a British palette and is a refreshingly authentic gaffe in the sea of sweet and sour houses that surround it. Go here with three or more friends, order about four dishes each and indulge in the resulting huge variety for about a tenner. Oh, and their jasmine tea is nice too.
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Review of Wong Kei
15 May 07, 11:40
Cheap, tasty and entertaining!
I can only imagine that owner of this place is a cross between Easy Jet's Stavros and a Storm Trooper General. Let me explain, the food is laughably cheap for china town, at less than £4 for a plate of decent tasty (wok style greasy) food you can only celebrate. On the flip-side you will be welcomed like a fart in an lift, a really small lift with no air vents. You will be immediately shoved upstairs if you are sober (the place is massive about 4 floors) or downstairs if you're not. Your order will be taken as they hand you the menu, and you food delivered before the waiter can be bothered to say, "thank you." You will get free green tea (which is very tasty, and you only have to leave the lid open and they will replace it with a fresh pot at no charge!). After sniffing your food for the first time, another waiter will throw the bill down in humble silence in front of you and rush off so as to avoid the embarrassment of the copious praise you will wish to bestow upon him. Don't bother tipping they won't remember you, and don't take anything personally, just sit back and enjoy the show! Well worth a visit or two.
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Review of All Bar One
12 May 07, 13:34
Not the best All Bar One
It's like the poor relation of the chain of All Bar Ones that populate the town. It's a bit grotty, badly furnished but it's in the square so what can you expect? Its saving grace is that it stocks (as do all the other A.B.O.s), a cider of such caliber, that your own mother would swap your kidneys for a bottle of it. If one takes the time to sample the fine nose of this nectar you will not get faint traces of honey suckles or a spicy oak tree, or a bit of dockleaf. You get apples. Thats it. It's as clean and appley and crisp as they come, and it's called Aspall Cider. It's the only reason I ever patronize this particular establishment. The A.B.O on Dean Street, Soho however is one of the better of the group. With quick and friendly service and bustling trendy atmosphere on the weekends it's superior in all ways, and well worth a visit.
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