Min Jiang

AMAZING views over Hyde Park. This is definitely a place to impress your guests. Service was good and the place was nicely busy on a weeknight.

Highlights include the authentic & slightly sticky pancakes for their famous peking duck- unlike the mass produced ones for crispy duck in Chinatown, and the crabs are not bad either.

But beware of the heavy dose of MSG and the high prices (easily £50 per head without wine)
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7 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 5
Friday, May 13, 2011

Just come back from a dim sum blow out at Min Jiang and our considered opinion is, it was good but not great. The only stand out was the crispy duck rolls and everything else was on the good side of average. Beautiful view obviously, and lovely service but our usual dim sum venue, Dragon Castle in deepest Walworth, can still hold its head high. We saw a lot of people ordering the whole duck though so we're going to return to try that soon.
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Jane Lancaster
7 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 6
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Just had dinner in Min Jiang and it was amazing! The View, the service the food...all met my expectations to the full! Love this place
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9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Monday, January 10, 2011

Min Jiang has one of the best views of London. It also serves some of the best Peking Duck in the City. It should be a very good place to dine. But sadly it is very badly let down by the service. The staff had the rushed, discourteous manner of a much lesser restaurant and the tone with which the restaurant manager dealt with the problems which arose was especially unattractive. Avoid.
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5 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 5
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Had a great dinner in Min Jiang. Lovely view, excellent food and very good service. We ordered the Set menu 2. The best dim sum I've ever had and also the best duck. A few days later we went to "Four Seasons" and the duck there was awful compared to the one in Min Jiang.
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10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

This is a beautiful room,with an outstanding view over a 180 degree panoply of London.We went for lunch,and were well taken care of by Mr.Chun Lee ,the welcoming M d'H.Apart from the wonderful view,this is the only Chinese restaurant I have been to in London where the staff is smiling and welcoming and happy to explain all the different dishes on the menu.All the other places have sullen,barely-speak-English staff who can't/won't explain the dishes,so there is no encouragement to try anything.Thus you always drift back to the usual few dishes you know.Here everything is explained and it all sounds very enticing such that you will have a hard time deciding.The special soup is spicy enough to get rid of any lingering colds.The duck(order in advance)is presented in 3 services-the crispy neck skin with a dab of sugar;the thinly sliced breast with 2 different pancake structures;the remaining meat with rice or vegetables.Everything we had was delicious.We even threw in a lotus leaf rice out of sheer greed.Wine list is well chosen with plenty below £35 per bottle.

At £75 for 2 we were very happy with the experience.

My only quibble is that the a/c is so high that the dishes get cold too quickly.So plese turn it down.
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C.Elder
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, February 24, 2009