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Feng Shui

Chinese Restaurant in The City
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Address
1a Pudding Lane
The City
London
EC3R 8AB
Map
Current
Cuisine
Chinese
Region
The City
Nearest Station
Monument
0.03 miles

Chinese fine dining restaurant in the heart of the City. With a dim sum menu and exotic cocktails.

Feng Shui Picture Gallery

Feng Shui Picture
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All In London Review

Feng Shui’s dishes are not your usual Chinese, but are very satisfying

The City has a new upmarket Asian restaurant. Basement eatery Feng Shui has only been open five weeks when we visit, taking over a site on Pudding Lane that used to be a nightclub. It’s kept a clubby look, darkly lit but with dramatic neon hues projected onto tables and diners, in fact it’s far more glitzy nightclub/celeb haunt than somewhere you grab a bite to eat.

There’s a suitably exotic cocktail list with ingredients like cucumber foam and lychee puree; we try the strongest-sounding drink on the menu, the Jasmine Sazerac with cognac, Peychaud bitters, absinthe, and jasmine water, which balances robust booziness with a lovely, flowery aroma.

On the food menu there are interesting combinations like the pan-fried duck breast prawn cake, where slices of tender duck breast are wrapped around minced prawns. It’s really stodgy, in a good way. Better known is the Szechuan spicy fish roll, pan-fried white fish rolled with a centre of asparagus and crunchy carrot, with a sweet and spicy sauce on the side, a filling, very pleasing dish.

Elsewhere, Wagyu beef pops up grilled with pak choi, and in a salad. But there are lighter, veggie choices too, such as “Three Treasures” salad, which piles cucumber and lotus root with the vegetarian version of abalone, also known as sea snails. Non-marine abalone is made from soybean protein unsurprisingly, and is mushroom-like and far tastier than it sounds.

There are a couple of small mishaps. Ling chi mushroom tofu is a large hunk of Feng Shui’s homemade tofu, braised till it’s crumbly, with a heap of fleshy, wide-capped reishi mushrooms on the side. There is so much tofu it gets tiresome after a while and could do with more flavour. And on the side we order stir-fried ramen with bean sprouts and shimeji mushrooms, but find the noodles are still dry in parts, as if out of a packet. The mushrooms by contrast are a thing of beauty, with elongated stems and small, soft caps with a mild earthy sweetness.

We’re too stuffed for dessert once we’re done with the hefty portions of tofu, minced fish and fried duck. This isn’t Chinese as you know it, but the flashy décor, fancy cocktails and food that seems tailored to soak up booze will appeal to City folk and hungry appetites.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on Feb 7, 2013

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