Dragon Castle

9 Reviews on “Dragon Castle”

• Kim Charmaine Miller

  Brilliant food, pricey but you get a five star service so what do you expect! No negatives, i’ve bee going for years, whether it be a meal with a friend…my 19th birthday party or a family meal it’s always the place to go if you want a good chinese.

  April 13, 2017, 2:10 pm

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• Luke

  Great spot for a family meal of dim sum and other goodies. Try their sweet custard buns and the caramelised Szechuan prawns and cashew nuts, real comfort food and all at a very reasonable price.Hint, it coming from Elephant and Castle tube, take the Northern line shopping centre exit, as it’s just around the corner.

  September 22, 2015, 3:34 pm

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• Fiona He

  i adore the food at dragon castle its always so tasty! going for dim sum is one of my favorite things to do and i always make sure to go here for it. I haven’t found any better even in china town!

  September 4, 2015, 1:57 pm

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• Jeanne-Marie B

  One of my favourite dishes from Asian cuisine is dim sum. I always thought when I moved to London Chinatown will be probably a kind of paradise for me with dim sum at every corner. Unfortunately I was very disappointed. Most of the restaurants in Chinatown don’t know what their dim sum are made of… I went to many places and they couldn’t tell me what was in their dim sum as they are not homemade (they are probably all frozen from the supermarket next door).Having an intolerance to some seafood ingredients, I have a very limited choice in those restaurants.My favourite dim sum in France have always been pork and prawn xiu mai and prawn hakao.Recently I heard about a Cantonese/Chinese restaurant that does dim sum in Elephant & Castle.It was kind of a surprise to discover E&C have ‘nice’ restaurants. I decided to call the restaurant before booking. I spoke with the manager of the restaurant who was very helpful and told me that most of the dim sum won’t be a problem with my seafood intolerance. For the first time in London I was very happy as I could order most of the dim sum from the menu. He also confirmed they were all handmade at the restaurant. I booked a table for two on Sunday.When we arrived the place has a massive door which puts you straight in a Chinese atmosphere, behind the door there was a little pond with fish and then a massive room with some Chinese decoration.As soon as we arrived the manager came to the table and advise on which dim sum I could order. Again he was very nice and helpful.After we placed our order, my friend and I looked around us and were surprised there was such a diverse range of customers : couples, families, even people dining alone . Next to us there was a massive table of people : Chinese people, I thought it was a good sign, it also looked like they ordered the full menu on their tables. Everything looked very good.My friend and I ordered pork, turnip and peanut dumplings, supreme xo scallop dumplings, honey barbecued pork bun, spinach and prawn dumplings, pork and prawn dumplings, pork fried dumplings and barbecued pork cheung fun.Pork, turnip and peanut dumplings were not my favourite but there were nice. I didn’t really like the crunchiness of the peanut inside. My friend really like these dim sum.Supreme scallops dumplings were probably one of the most expensive dim sum we ordered, and I was a bit disappointed, there were not the best scallops dim sum I had in my life. The scallop was a bit soggy.Honey barbecue pork bun were very nice, usually I always find them dry in Chinatown. These were perfect, a bit moist and the pork inside was well seasoned.Spinach and prawn dumplings were a revelation. I never thought spinach could be good in dumplings. These dumplings were by far my favourite. I know next time I am going to Dragon Castle I will order probably two of them and I’m not sharing!Classic prawn and pork xiu mai were nice. You could taste there were homemade and not frozen version from supermarket. I really enjoyed them.I usually always go for steamed dumplings if I can as I always think they are probably more healthy. We made an exception on that day and ordered fried pork dumplings. No regret! They were good and not too greasy. After the spinach & prawn dumplings and the xiu mai, there were my favourite.My friend and I never tried cheung fun before and we found the picture on the menu intriguing. We ordered one portion of barbecued pork cheung fun. Texture was very interesting. It was a bit complicated to eat as everything slide off the rice sheet but overall it was tasty. I would have maybe prefer a sour sauce than the soy sauce.Overall I am very happy with my experience at Dragon Castle. Service was perfect from my phone call to the end of the meal. The team was nice and friendly, it was appreciated as in Chinatown most of the time they don’t really care about customers and are a bit cold.Dim sum were all good which is what matters the most for me, they were all fresh and homemade.All dim sum were very cheap, around 3 each. Such a bargain, 25 lunch for two with drinks and service charge.Since my last visit I recommend this place to many of my friends who are dim sum lover too and told them to order their spinach & prawn dumplings.I have already planned my next visit. My only critic will be that they should make their dim sum menu available in the evening.9/10. jeannemarieb.com

  April 14, 2015, 6:02 pm

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• Inher30s

  Theres really only thing to do when the excesses of the festive season get to you and that is to keep on eating! Take a break from all the turkey and pay a trip over to Elephant & Castle for some Dim Sum. Its not the most glamorous of locales, but home to some good grub.A fish pond greets you as you enter copper pennies swimming with the fish, and were in a fairly standard large scale Chinese restaurant, white tablecloths & Chinese teapots at the ready.Theres a hefty menu and we waste no time getting down to business. We kick off with Deep fried squid with Chilli & Garlic and if this is a sign of things to come, we are happy campers. The garlic/chilli topping is so good were still scooping it up long after the squid is gone. The garlic will ward off vampires later.The roast duck is served cold, which I hadnt expected but tasty, albeit a little bony. Previous reviewers have praised the Cheung Fun and the prawn version is fantastic hefty prawns rolled into a light rice wrapper in a light soy sauce.Im not a fan of the Char Siu steamed buns but thats about the only flaw in the ointment. The scallop dumplings & the bean curd rolls are good but my adulation is reserved for the Fried Turnip cake. I had a hard time persuading Husband to agree to this dish, and Im not sure he was entirely convinced, but for me, it was the best of the lot.Its a starchy, soft, shredded turnip mass cooked together with chilli, garlic, spring onions and beansprouts and Id go back again just for this dish alone.Dragon Castle now features on my list of regular eating haunts bring friends, that way you can sample even more (So speaks the voice of the gluttonous). inher30s.com

  April 11, 2014, 12:06 am

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• Amy He

  Dragon castle is one of my favourite Restaurants in london. I come here weekly and the food is amazing, especially the fresh Dim Sum. I normally come here with my boyfriend and the bill is usually around 50 with a bottle wine although you can for much cheaper there. I would recommend trying the dim sum on the week days as the weekends can get extremely busy. Try the sizzling Aubergine in teriyaki sauce and the Singapore fried noodles! My all time favourite dish is the seafood and tofu clay pot!

  March 14, 2014, 5:34 am

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• Sudipto Mukherji

  The Elephant and Castle is somewhere you go en route to somewhere else, unless you live there, in which case you are also trying to get to somewhere else.Dragon Castle occupies a ground-floor space in the kind of office block to which Stalin’s planners would have been proud to put their name. There is a huge set of red ceremonial double doors, and behind that an ornamental gold-fish pond, containing the only wildlife in the borough. The dining room is vast, and understated by Chinese standards; an Asiatic tassel here, a little sparkle there. What was most striking was the mixed crowd: southeast London black families, white couples, and then tables full of London’s Chinese . It may be a cliche, but Chinese people in a Chinese restaurant is usually a very good sign.Try their sweet and salty poularde clams, stir fried with chilli, For carbs we had some broad, silky ribbons of fried ho fun with Chinese chives and bean sprouts with that smoky, oily flavour which comes from the very hottest part of a wok.The fact remains that Dragon Castle is one of the best Cantonese restaurants I have tried in London in a very long time. And it’s in the Elephant and Castle. Think of it as a genuine diamond in the rough…

  June 26, 2013, 9:11 pm

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