Tao Tao Ju

Aimless wandering around Chinatown is all fun and games until someone gets hangry. When that alarm bell sounds, Tao Tao Ju is a reliable spot for some sating dim sum. The banquette area is long, the lighting yellow, and you could, feasibly, seat an entire school bus on the ground floor alone. Towers of baskets go up and down its two floors, back and forth between the kitchen and tables of snapping chopsticks. While not the finest dim sum in London, it’s some of the best in Chinatown, and the pork and crab siu mai is suitably plump, while the deep-fried wonton cheung fun is as slippery and crunchy as they come.

photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch

photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch

photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch