Royal Wok

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - Royal Wok’s not a theme restaurant, but it is one of a small number of eateries serving Dongbei dishes outside China. It even has a proper Dongbei chef, from Shenyang in Liaoning province. (Another Dongbei chef works at Gourmet San – also on Bethnal Green Road). But it doesn't just serve a few Dongbei dishes – it serves lots of seldom-seen mainland Chinese dishes, Dongbei and otherwise. The dishes we ordered represent the kind of cooking which is trendy in mainland China right now, and are all very different from the Cantonese dishes that dominate the UK.