“It’s a bit rough ’n’ ready, in-and-out” – and with “hilariously rude” staff too – but this pint-sized Chinatown three-year-old serves up Sichuan bites that are both “cheap” and “incredibly tasty”.
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Chinatown’s Baozi Inn – an earlier member of the group that also now includes Ba Shan – “shot to fame as London’s most authentic vendor of northern Chinese street food”, the critic tells us. She has an up-and-down meal, from the “heavy and suety” baps (after which the place is named) to the “[t]otally delicious” dragon wantons. The experience is let down by the service; “basic co-operation” was absent, and it was “so fast it was basically telepathic.”
Sally Peck (26th June 2008)
5/6 stars
“The revolution continues apace in Chinatown, and the future looks bright. Where once we suffered with tired Anglo-Canto greasy spoons in sad need of a makeover, now the hub around Gerrard Street is a destination for quality food.” From the start, its pretty clear that this is going to be a corker of a review, and such it turns out to be, of a new venture from “the folk who brought us Bar Shu, the temple to Sichuanese cuisine in Soho”. “Long live the Chinatown revolution…”
Zoe Williams (1st June 2009)
Sally Peck (26th June 2008)
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