Tinseltown Quick Review

Hey guys!

This one's been sitting in my folder quite a while so I thought I might as well do a quick post. It was waaaaaaaaaay back on the day we went to see the Chinese New Year thing at Trafalgar Square. But before that Shin, my sis and I went to Queensway to have lunch at Tinseltown.

I've been hearing my sis give good comments about it and that was a good day to try it. First of all, the photo decor here is solely based on big names like Will Smith and other stars. Secondly their milkshake is supposedly awesome.

Here's what I had, don't remember the name but it was expensive! It had Smarties and chocolate and is very chocolatey. One complaint though, they used ice cream to make it but it wasn't COLD.

 Here's what Shin and my sis had. Forgot the names too but I think the one on the left is the Oreo one.

 Buffalo wings. It's so-so, just what you'd expect I guess. Nothing special.

2 orders of peri-peri lamb! Well they call it piri-piri but what the heck, potayto, potahto. The lamb were pretty good, I enjoyed them but there were some undercooked ones which is strange considering they should cook ALL at once and their sizes are relatively the same.

Overall the experience was pretty meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. In the end we had to ask 3 times at least for just some water and they brought it in a jug. How effing lazy and retarded is that!?

Tinseltown gets one lamb buttcrack out of 5.

~Fox

Taro Japanese Restaurant Review

Hey all!

Here's a review of a Japanese Cuisine Restaurant we went to the other day. Taro's situated on 10 Old Compton Street W1D 4TF, just a while from Tottenham Court Road tube station.


In my previous 3 years stay in England, I only remember having Japanese food twice. And frankly, they both were costly, and sucked.


So when my girlfriend said a friend of ours recommended Taro, I was skeptic at first until she said the friend was the one who recommended the Korean restaurant we liked.


Anyways we went as a party of 4: me, my sis, Shin and her bro. And here's what we ordered:

I got the tonkatsu ramen. Honestly, it was THE best ramen I had in my life! It didn't only look good, it tasted awesome! The soup base taste was what I imagined it was for a ramen base, and more. Sadly the restaurant back home only used miso soup. This one however, is hypnotising; a spoon full of the soup shines golden~ (or maybe that's just me) I give this dish 5 exploding volcanoes out of 5.

Sis had the bento. She thought it was pretty good but I didn't like the over sticky rice lol.

Shin's bro had tonkatsu curry. He thought it was pretty good too and said the rice was too much lol.

Shin had the chicken udon I think. She also seemed satisfied with it. The soup was miso though, so I thought mine was superior! Mwahaha.

Finally I wanted to try their sushi. This was sub par and waaay below my expectations. The front piece... I actually put wasabi and ginger on it, and realised I didn't take a picture. My sis told me to turn it over and so I did and we lol'd. The salmon looked bigger from there. So I went "LOL I should over turn the rest then!" And when I did, the top right one.... is only rice. It was the butt of the roll. Taste-wise, I've definitely had better. I did say I wasn't impressed with the over sticky rice, and coupled with the small portion of filling, made a pretty tasteless rice ball.


Conclusion
All in all, I thought Taro was pretty good! If you like Japanese cuisine for a budget price, this is the place to go! The taste and quality (for the most part) is better from the others I've tried. But do order the bento(set meals) or noodles or something. The sashimi and sushi on the other hand, will have you pay through the nose.


Definitely worth a try if you are looking for a new place to have lunch or dinner. Oh and they charge 10% service charge during evenings so dinners are more costly.

I would say Taro gets a 4/5 just because the ramen outweighs the bad experience significantly!




~Fox

Royal China Review

Hey guys,

Can't sleep tonight so might as well do something useful to make myself tired huh? This post is gonna be a review of the Royal China restaurant in Queensway, London, a short walk down from Barbican tube station.

I went there yesterday for lunch because I've been watching too much of Cooking Master Boy and was craving for Chinese food. And I must say, the place impressed me with its ambience.

From outside it doesn't look like much but once you go in, you see that it is actually quite big. The walls are polished black with golden phoenix motif and the walls are squares of mirror-like tiles.

I ordered 3 things this time, Mixed seafood fried noodles, siumai (pork dumplings) and charsiu cheung fun. Overall the I found the food good, especially the fried noodles.

This is what the noodles look like. And yes first impression was it looks great! They definitely didn't skimp on the seafood. I felt like a food critic whilst being hungry and took my time to taste it.

• First of all the noodle I ordered was crispy, meaning it quickly soaked up the sauce. It itself is nothing special.
• The sauce was nice, not too salty and slightly sweet! Just right!
• The prawns are huge! They are cleaned more or less properly and was sweet to taste.
• The mange tout and carrots were crispy and sweet tasting, really liked it's crunchiness.
• The fish was nothing special. In fact it was quite tasteless, but the texture was smooth and felt fresh.
• Finally the scallops. All I can say is... I love the scallop. If you take the time to taste it, the taste just swarms every inch of your mouth. :O~

Next came the cheung fun. I don't know if you can see from the picture, but its fillings are charsiu (roast pork) and coriander. With the sauce, it tastes quite nice, the skin is smooth but tough enough.

Finally came the siumai! I love siumai, it's my favourite dimsum dish. Just thinking about it makes me hungry at 2am TTwTT... Anyway, the siumai here was nothing special although the pork and prawn combination were a little inconsistent. But, it was tender nonetheless and the taste was quite good.

When all was done, came the bill.. £18.80 for one person. LoL it was one of those days you feel like spoiling yourself. I can say it was money well spent for the quality you get and the place gets pretty busy during lunch time. Though the forced tips charged was kinda...

I'd give Royal China a 4 out of 5 for this experience. Although this was my first time going, I would recommend Royal China to anyone who likes Chinese food and wants to treat themselves a bit. The price for the food is typical for a restaurant like this. The service is alright, at least the staff smile at you at times and asks you if you want anything else and such lol.

~Fox