BEST London Roast Duck & CHINATOWN Food Tour!

Today we're headed for Chinatown for some mouth watering Cantonese Roast, more specifically the famous London Roast Duck! We're also going to eat through Chinatown, starting with some Bao, followed by some Chinese Crepes before heading over to our favourite London Roast Duck spot, Gold Mine! We think this spot serves the best London Roast Duck in Chinatown! Of course we'll also be trying out Roast Meats as well! We'll end the tour with a delicious pastry spot that is a must visit when you're in Chinatown!

Join us as we go on this awesome food tour & don't forget to watch till the end to see how we felt about each spot!

Chapters:
00:00 What we're doing today!
01:32 Bao from Bun House
03:55 Chinese Crepe at Lin Lin Crepe
06:37 Roast Meats at Gold Mine
12:28 'Plating Time' Score Board
12:37 Pastries from Buns From Home
14:25 'Plating Time'! Our thoughts on the foods!

Location:
Bun House
Opening Hours: 12:00pm - 9:30pm, Closed Mondays
26-27 Lisle St, London WC2H 7BA, United Kingdom

Lin Lin Crepes
Opening Hours: Undetermined
5 Newport Pl, London WC2H 7JR, United Kingdom

Gold Mine Chinatown
Opening Hours: 12:00pm - 11:30pm
Phone Number: [phone]
45 Wardour St, London W1D 6PZ, United Kingdom

Buns From Home
Opening Hours: 9:00pm until sold out (usually 7:00-8:00pm)
140 Long Acre, London WC2E 9JT, United Kingdom

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Gourmet Plate Score Guide:
0 🍛 : Nothing noteworthy
🍴 🍛 : Decent, worth a try if you're nearby.
👌 : Good Quality Cooking! Worth a try!
0.5🍛 : High Quality Culinary! Recommended! (This is where we start getting excited!)
1 🍛 : High Quality Culinary with glimpses of genius! Highly Recommended!
2 🍛 : Sophisticated culinary inducing multiple mouthgasms!! Must Try!!
3 🍛 : Absolutely mind blowing culinary! Once in a lifetime!!!

Music from Epidemic Sound:

[TheGourmetPlate]

Hi peeps, Happy Lunar New Year & hope you like some Chinese food!

In the spirit of keeping us on our toes & improving on our future vlogs here are our thoughts on this vlog from a technical perspective:
Overall we felt this vlog has a decent pace, pretty suitable music pairing & is filmed & edited decently well. Perhaps sound recording during the Bun House segment could've been better as it was a rather small, enclosed area & there was echo. The montage at the end could also have been done better as we lost a tad connectivity between the scenes there. That said we were generally pleased with this episode :)

[manuelahelenafernandes]

Love how extremely critical and nuanced their reviews of the food are.

[MultiHDstar]

Great content! And also it stunned me 6:50 where you sycned the drum beat to match the sifu's roast duck chopping! What a great effort in editing the video!👍

[whiteshadowfare]

thanks for taking the time to review a few places in Chinatown. Will be going to London in a few months.

[TheVileOne]

That roast duck looks exquisite. Looks like good value for the price as well.

[serenadedkris]

Great video - I usually prefer Gold mine over Four Seasons as well. Other favorites are Good Friend for the fried chicken and Tsujiri for the matcha softie. Cheers

[christineclifton]

i am definitely going to try the duck after how excited he got eating it, loved watching his reaction

[Goner]

Definitely gold mine duck > four season duck! I would recommend trying the Bayswater gold mine as I find it a bit better than the Chinatown restaurant.

[vwmusicplaylist]

Great reviews! Really appreciate the honest opinions!!

[crabapples]

I highly recommend the other goldmine branch in Queensway near Hyde park.

[mojganjazayeri]

Thank you for this video I have enjoyed watching it.

[zuzia_ismentallyunstable]

Im going to chinatown soon! This video as so useful, thank you so much

[kennywong]

I don't think the custard bun is correct. I think you guys ate the
Liu Sha Bao (Molten Custard Salted Egg Buns 流沙包)

[kayflip]

Try Three Uncles near Liverpool Street. I think it's better than both Gold Mine and Four Season. Maybe the best in London

[lizkeith]

looks so good. wish i wasn't on this diet. i miss rice so much.

[miket]

It’s like SGD 40 in London….. it would be like almost 2x more expensive in SG

[sowhodecidedthat]

Very nice video. I didn't know the Jian Bing place - will go next time. London roast duck and Hong Kong / Cantonese roast duck are the same. They use 5 spice and other seasoning. It's Peking Duck that is different. I was very disappointed to eat Peking Duck - it's the style they use with the pancakes and spring onions and cucumber and is in many U.K. buffet and takeaway restaurants. Whilst there is a speciality where they pump the skin away from the meat to make it more crispy, they don't put seasoning into it, so essentially, it doesn't taste very nice and you rely on the hoisin sauce when making the pancake. In Beijing, in a restaraunt they will have someone carve the duck into small pieces. They also sell it en masse after cooking and cooling in tight sealed plastic. Very famous, but I do not know why. Also, if you go to Hong Kong, they will sell roast goose - this is the super tasty but super fatty difference compared to duck where they will cut away the fat. In the U.K. there is 3 roast - usually duck, roast pork and BBQ pork. In Hong Kong, there is 4 treasure roast where they add either soy chicken or white cut (Hainan) chicken. BTW, I agree with you that Four Seasons, whilst the most famous, and they bought a second restaurant in China Town and there are queues out the door and they are also in Leicester and in Bang Bang Oriental, I don't think it's that great. Maybe as they have expanded, there don't have the same high quality chefs as the first one they opened? Not sure. But I like HaoZhan a few doors down personally over Four Seasons. Possibly personal preference, but I don't think it's worth queueing to go into Four Seasons - it's not that good. Again, really enjoyed your video. Keep it up!

When I was a student in the UK in the 70’s, there was this famous roasted meats eatery, a quite tiny & compact place called Lee Ho Fook located in Macclesfield St. to which I would go to when the craving for Cantonese Roast Duck hits me. After having tasted the succulent duck here (a hometown friend introduced me to this place) I told myself, hey, this isn’t anything like the emaciated duck — unlike the fatty Moulard duck breed — used in Malaysia, where you get mostly bones plus almost an absence of the Ng Heong Fun (mandatory spice!) from the roast duck whose fragrance delights you (to no end) the moment the waiter at Lee Ho Fook places the plate on your table! Yes, there was the suckling pig too, here, which I would indulge in once in a while. Then, any order at LHF would come with a free pot of jasmine tea & a bowl of piping hot soup. Ah, talking about the soup: I remember one particular time when the soup didn’t arrive, so I gestured to the waiter and asked him where was the ‘tong’ but me being a Hokkien speaker with little grasp of Cantonese, got the tone wrong and instead asked him where was the sugar, at the same time pointing to the table where the soup bowls were place. This waiter — apparently a proud Hongkie, and a supercilious one at that! — at once upbraided me in no uncertain terms for my faulty Cantonese and let go a tirade…..”tong, tong, tiu, tiu….”! Still, I will never ever forget the wonderful siew ngap sold here at the now defunct LHF!

[ovyeysh]

Do they accept Credit Cards for payment?

[mmbzpfy]

The BBQ duck and pork in Malaysia are way way better.