Chinese Restaurants in Beaconsfield

“Had a lovely meal, food was wonderful and service was great by Tate. Defo be back again soon!”

“I took my wife here Wednesday as it was our 20th Wedding Anniversary, pre-booked beforehand. We were welcomed and shown to our seats, shortly after asked if we were ready to order drinks. The food was amazing and the staff were well dressed and attentive but not in your face. Only thing that could be improved would be background music and a couple of fortune cookies. Would we come back, definitely.”

“Chinese restaurant serving Beijing (Peking), Szechuan, and Cantonese cuisine. Will be celebrating 40 years this September (2024).

Inconspicuously located in Beaconsfield old town. Hasn’t got the usual large, flashy sign outside. In fact it would be easy to miss!

Similarly inside, it is not littered with cheap Chinese decorations. I’d go as far as saying it looks very high class.

The front of house staff are very attentive, regularly (but not annoyingly often) coming to check if everything is ok or if you need any more food or drinks.

We went there for the Sunday buffet on the August bank holiday weekend. Got there about 1pm. It wasn’t busy at all, but as we were eating a number of people turned up. Talking to the waitress, we were told that Sundays, and the whole weekend in general, is usually very busy.

So booking a table in advance is recommended. If you do it through the website you’ll be directed to a third party site. This site ‘warns’ you that that the Sunday buffet ends at 1.30pm. Ignore that! It’s not true. The buffet is served all day Sunday.

How it works, is that you’re offered a mixed platter of Peking ribs, spring rolls, deep fried vegetables, crispy seaweed, chicken satay skewers, and prawn toast according to the number of people at the table.

Then you get a “tick list” (see photo) where you mark which dishes you’d like to order. So it’s a kind of “a la carte buffet”. Once you’ve finished what you ordered, you can order more, including topping up your starter mixed platter. There’s no limit how much you can order- as long as you eat it all!

We chose Chicken with ginger and spring onion, Crispy chilli beef, Szechuan beef, and Twice cooked pork.

What’s our thoughts?

Definitely much better than your usual Chinese fast food from ‘down the road’.

Yet, perhaps not as good as I had expected.

From the mixed platter the giant spring rolls, seaweed, deep fried vegetables ,and the peking ribs were the best. The prawn toast didn’t really taste of prawns, the satay sauce didn’t even have a hint of peanut flavour.

From main courses: the Chicken with ginger and spring onion tasted of ordinary chicken soup. The Crispy chilli beef was crispy and tasty but I couldn’t tell if there actually was any beef! There was no “chewiness” in the crispy bites.

The Szechuan beef was tender and flavoursome, not overly spicy. I couldn’t see any Szechuan peppers…

The Twice cooked pork was also tender and tasty.

Dessert is also included - deep fried apple and banana with caramel drizzle and ice cream. Pretty bland, to be honest. Disappointing, as I was looking forward to it.

Overall, all the dishes had flavour but there was just that “little something” missing to make it stand out.

Also, typical of many buffet meals, it left us both rather thirsty. I think the idea is to make the dishes a bit saltier (or use MSG?) to make you order more drinks and eat less food = more pofit.”

“I'm new to this Chinese takeaway. I live 20mins away and I probably pass 15 Chinese restaurants on my way. But one day I took a punt and changed from my regular Chinese and went out my way.

I kid you not best Chinese around. ? unreal.

It's not a sit in and dine but as far as takeaway goes. This is my new number 1.”