Royal China (Harrow-on-the-Hill)

"Food was good and great Service was ok Atmosphere was good too We started with the pork Dumplings it was good and the sauce with it was amazing. Shame that the waiter took away the plate without asking if we were finished The shrimps rolled and deep fried was amazing The mixed meat Crispy fried noodles were fantastic The mixed seafood and chicken fried rice was great too We did taste and love the amount of msg in the food We were very happy to pay the bill which was about £49 Great place loved it Also the warm saki we had was nice..."

"Unbelievable how the standards have dropped at Royal China. Once a bustling restaurant was was all but empty yesterday and I can only think it's the quality of the food. This restaurant uses the cheapest ingredients, and bulks up food with cheap ingredients. We ordered stir fried foods and it mostly contained chunky onions. Aubergine peels were mixed with few pieces of aubergine, cucumber for the duck came as peels because the cucumber flesh was used to make some other dish. It seems the chef was given a challenge to make as many dishes from 1 vegetable as possible. The lettuce for lettuce wrap was limp and old. Even cheap Chinese buffet restaurants serve better quality of food than Royal China. The only nice thing about the restaurant was the staff."

"I am a regular here for lunch, that dim sum menu is something special. We got the prawn and chive dumplings, prawn dumplings, prawn cheung fun, sesame prawn toast (my favourite), soft shell crab, salt and pepper fried green beans and squid in black bean sauce. The squid wasn’t great as it was too chewy but everyone else was on point and delicious. Make sure to ask for a bowl to mix some soy sauce and chilli oil in! Our total bill was £60 which is reasonable. Came back for dinner, unfortunately they don’t do many dumplings for dinner and one of the servers isn’t the nicest. We got the szichaun prawns which were good but the portion of prawns was quite low. I have amended my rating to 4 stars."

"The food is ok here, with a good range of dishes on the menu. It didn’t blow my socks off. But as a first time at this restaurant I’d personally like to see them refresh the paper menus so they’re not as beaten up. As for the overall experience, it feels very typical experience for a Chinese restaurant"

"Excellent char siu buns, delicious sichuan style lamb and the egg fried rice is fantastic. Fast and attentive service, came to about £29 for lunch for just me. Came here for lunch on a weekday after walking past the restaurant every day for 15 years I’m glad I popped in."