Hung Tao

Food

Hung Tao has your typical Chinese noodle house menu, and we decided to go for the classics. I had missed wonton soup since being thrilled by the lovely bowl I had in HK, so I was hankering for more. The Won Ton Noodles in Soup (£4.60) didn’t disappoint. A generous bowl of about 6 wontons arrived, each wonderfully flavoursome, with a generous amount of pork and prawns. The noodles and soup of course, did not live up to the legendary HK version, but they were more than passable. Fried Ho-Fun Malaysian Style (£4.60) didn’t let the side down too much. Again, a generous amount of ingredients, and definitely freshly cooked, were the good points. There was not much wok taste here, and the flavour of the dish relied a lot on chilli hit rather than any complexity in flavours.

Rating - 6.5

Atmosphere

We were dining at 2:30…so the place was not packed. Made up mostly of non-Asians when we got there, so I was a bit comprehensive. However, more Asians did arrive, and the fact that all the waiters spoke Chinese and were acting rude, and behaved in that efficient manner, added some reassurance.

Rating - 1.5

Service

Typical London style Asian restaurant rudeness. The food took longer than I thought it would, considering it was just wonton noodle soup, and we were the only customers…

Rating - 2.5

C-factor

For the amount of food we got, they were very generous.

Rating - 1

Brownie Points - 11.5

Info

51 Queensway
London
W2 4QH
Phone +44 (0) 20 7403 8403