Chinese

• Mao Chow vegan Chinese brings its devilled eggs and sashimi to Behind The Wall

  

   

  East London's popular vegan Chinese restaurant Mao Chow broke the hearts of plant eaters across town when its last pop-up at Pamela finished. But now owner Julian Denis whose self-proclaimed "inauthentic Chinese Food" broke Instagram with shots of incredibly realistic looking vegan 'eggs' in various Chinese dishes has moved it to a more permanent footing.

  They open at Behind the Wall in Hackney on Thursday for an

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• Pleasant Lady are bringing their jian bing trading stall to Spitalfields

  

  They've been doing a storming trade out of their street hatch in Soho, but now Pleasant Lady Jian Bing Trading Stall are bringing their Chinese snackage to Spitalfields. They'll be opening a stall in The Kitchens at Old Spitalfields Market.

  If you haven't made it down yet to the original Soho hatch in the wall, what you've been missing out on are crispy skin crepes, stuffed with savoury fillings - including aromatic Iberico Char

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• Pleasant Lady Jian Bing Trading Stall hatch opens in Soho's Greek Street

  

  Given how popular they are in China, it's actually a little surprising that London doesn't have more places serving up jian bing. Essentially crispy skin crepes, stuffed with savoury fillings, they're folded and wrapped and designed to be eaten on the go. A quick google showed that there's a hatch on Newport Street doing them, but when Pleasant Lady Jian Bing Trading Stall opens on Greek Street today it doesn't appear to have too much in the way of

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• Shu Xiangge arrives in Chinatown with authentic Sichuan hotpots

  There are 80 ingredients for you to build your ideal hotpot from at this sizable new Chinatown restaurant, from traditional tripe and aorta to Wagyu beef and seafood.

• Bubbledogs are running Chappett’s Café for one night only to celebrate Chinese new Year

  

  Here's a one-night pop-up that you'll want to get in your diary. Bubbledogs have hosted special events before, but this is the first one that will see both Bubbledogs' Sandia Chang and James Knappett (of the Kitchen Table behind the curtain) in the kitchen together. It's all as a one-night-only Chinese New Year celebration that sees Bubbledogs become Chappett’s

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• Poons is back - iconic restaurant returns as a Clerkenwell pop-up

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  If you've lived in London long enough to remember the days before pop-ups, when fine dining was French dining and we were all clambering over each other to get past the clipboard nazis at one of Oliver Peyton's gaffs, then the name Poons will have some meaning to you. Back in the day (the day in question being the 70s, 80s and 90s), Bill Poon built up a mini empire of Chinese restaurants across London, even gaining a

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• Test Driving Duddell's In London Bridge - the Hong Kong restaurant comes to town

  Originally hailing from Hong Kong where it's picked up a loyal following, big things are expected from Duddell's in London. We head over to its Grade II listed building to find out what you should expect. 

• 17 reasons to head to the Chinese Food Festival in Potters Field Park this weekend

  

  This weekend sees the Chinese Food Festival take over Potters Fields Park by the river for three days of food celebrating London's Chinese food scene. And the line-up's impressive enough to make this a definite date for your diary with 17 old and new restaurants turning up.

  • Ugly Dumplings
  • Bun House
  • Ekachai
  • ZingZing
  • Freshasia
  • Happy Lemon
  • Kova Patisserie
  • Bufle
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• Test Driving Lucky and Joy - a tour of regional China under the arches in Cambridge Heath

  Tucked in under the arches at Cambridge Heath is a pop-up inspired by travels around regional China

• Test Driving Bang Bang Oriental - we check out Colindale's huge food court

  The huge Bang Bang Oriental food hall has come to Colindale - but what's it really like? We find out...

• Art of Dining's Lucky and Joy comes to east London

  After a run at the Institute of Light, there's a new spot for Art of Dining's Chinese pop-up. They'll be setting up shop in the arches on Cambridge Heath Road. 

• Sandia Chang's Chow Chow Chinese takeover of bubbledogs

  

  Normally she's the one responsible for serving up the wonderful grower champagne at bubbledogs, but for a special one night event Sandia Chang is transforming the hot dog spot with a Chow Chow Chinese takeover.

  Chang has come up with a 12 plate feasting menu of her favourite Chinese dishes, paired with a selection of grower Champagnes and sparkling wines. The blowout menu includes Taiwanese salt and pepper fried chicken wings, Potstickers, Scallion pancakes, Hunan

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• The Ugly Dumplings take over the Little Pitt site on Newburgh Street

  

  What: The Ugly Dumplings

  In a nutshell: Anglo-Chinese dumpling and noodle joint

  Summing it all up: Street traders The Ugly Dumplings are opening their first permanent site, taking over the old Little Pitt site off Carnaby Street

• Shikumen's third restaurant will be at the O2 centre on Finchley Road

  

  Here's good news for anyone in North London who loves decent Chinese Food. Shikumen (who have two branches already in Shepherd’s Bush Green and Ealing) are now opening their third restaurant at the O2 centre on Finchley Road. Expect to find their legendary dumplings on the menu - Fay Maschler called their Xiao Long Bao 'superb'  - along with a range of new dishes devised for this opening.

  On the robata they'll be grilling dishes like Beef with Crunchy Chilli,

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• Test Driving Park Chinois - Alan Yau's pleasure palace in Mayfair

  Is Alan Yau's latest restaurant an overblown vanity project or great fun. Or both?