Min Jiang

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1. JM

   JosephM

   London7 reviews

   4.0

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The dim sums and duck signature dish were excellent - however the main dishes (black cod, morning glory and duck with noodles) were tepid when they arrived and got cold very quickly. Such a shame! Flavours were outstanding.
   

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2. MM

   MissManners VIP

   London8 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Excellent in every way. The food was excellent. Service too. Highly recommend for a fabulous evening out.
   

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   Joy VIP

   Oxford7 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   This is a very special chinese restaurant with a wonderful view over Kensington Gardens and excellent food served by caring waiters. Highly recommended. JW
   

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4. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   London1 review

   3.0

   Dined on March 4, 2025

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 2

   Extremely noisy, service waitress not very polite, not paying attention to our water glasses. Asian waiter though very nice. Very cold in the restaurant, we were sitting right under the a/c.
   

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   Pooja VIP

   London8 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on March 3, 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   Duck pancakes are amazing. The best I’ve had. The other food is a tad oily but still nice. The service was a little slow and it’s a bit noisy.
   

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   Patty

   Chicago3 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on March 2, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Wonderful service and food! Would definitely recommend.
   

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7. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   London1 review

   3.0

   Dined on March 2, 2025

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 4

   Food was great. But service was not very good. The waiter seemed not very happy. In addition, I specified it was to celebrate the birthday in the open table app. When asked for birthday specials, they told me I have not specified. I double checked and confirmed I written it down. The table booking management is poor.
   

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8. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   London1 review

   5.0

   Dined on March 2, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 5

   A wonderful lunch experience ~ the signature duck is delicious & definitely worth trying! I highly recommend
   

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   Wicklow

   London12 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on March 1, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 5

   The best duck in London and great views- make sure to stop by for craft cocktail beforehand
   

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    INDRAJIT

    London9 reviews

    4.0

    Dined on February 28, 2025

    1. Overall 4
    2. Food 4
    3. Service 4
    4. Ambience 4

    Having lived in Singapore for a long time we know/knew the Min Jiang restaurants very well - both the original on Scotts Road as well as the newer branch in Dempsey. Min Jiang has always been an expensive restaurant in Singapore but always excellent. In fact I'd go so far as to say that their Yang Chow fried rice in the Dempsey branch is probably the best I've had. Period. And I could live on this dish. So we thought it would be interesting to try the London branch of this esteemed restaurant. Needless to say, we didn't expect it to be as good as the Singapore restaurants. And we expected it to be more expensive too. On both these fronts our expectations were fulfilled. In terms of cost, the average dim sum dish in Min Jiang London was about 50% more expensive than in Singapore. Anecdotally, I think the percentage difference between non-dim sum dishes is probably more than 50% but then it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. So what about the quality of the dishes? I would say mixed. Min Jiang is known for its Peking Duck - and to be fair pretty much every table had ordered that. But we did not. The crispy duck roll gave us a taste of their duck - and it was quite nice - though not something I've ever seen in a Chinese restaurant in Singapore or Hong Kong. Perhaps the most disappointing dish was the siu mai - surprising as this is such a stalwart of a dim sum meal. It was on the small side and rather dry - lacking the necessary juices and even a little short on flavour. Certainly not was good as, say, that in Yauatcha London. The Yang Chow fried rice was alright but not a patch on what we've had in Min Jiang Singapore. Perhaps the greatest and most pleasant surprise was the stir-fried trio of mushroom with lotus root, crispy bean-curd & macademia nuts. That was so enjoyable and a generous size portion. My one criticism was that the bean-curd was not crispy - and perhaps a crispy taro would have been better and as is more common in Asia. Service was first class and
    

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