Kym's

It has taken MP quite a long time to recover from the Trip of 100 Chinese Banquets but now that the recovery is complete we were able to head to this Chinese restaurant that we hadn’t visited before. And very nice it was too. On this occasion we really lived up to our Piggy name because we started with 2 starters each. MP was adventurous as ever with jelly fish and scallops whereas I was very boring with prawn sesame toast and veggie pancakes. I love the toast because it takes me back to my childhood before we knew what cholesterol was and regularly had fried bread with a full English breakfast. The toast helping was generous and better still it hadn’t gone all dried up like it can if the restaurant isn’t on form. The pancakes were probably too big even for this little piggy so MP had to help me out and pronounced it a non greasy example of the art. So thumbs up for the starters. I wanted a main I hadn’t had before so I had scampi Peking style. I love scampi and the Peking bit was a clear sauce with ginger and garlic so I was very happy with my choice. It is a big menu so something for everyone in nice surroundings with the offer of health giving teas to follow. Will definitely come back. HP


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I think we were the first guests that evening. The staff were very attentive, soft spoken and very pleasant. Having had jellyfish in a recent trip to China, I though I would see how they do it in England. Excellent. Crunchy (now what you would expect with a name like jellyfish) and a wonderful ginger flavour. The scallops were also very good. In fact I should have had more. They were perfectly cooked, tender in the centre and with soya and green onions adding a bit of zip.
For the main I ordered beef with black bean sauce. I would have liked a bit more spice to the dish. That was probably my mistake in ordering because there was a lot to choose from and I chose something I didn’t really fancy. Having said that, it was still good. Now, the unfortunate part is the fortune cookie. I read it, but having forgot its contents I cannot tell if it came true or not. I guess we will just have to go back. MP