Loong Kee Restaurant

4 Reviews on “Loong Kee Restaurant”

• SweetRamekin

  Loong Kee has a wide ranging menu of Vietnamese dishes but the particular draw card for our visit was their famed bahn cuon rolls. We had a plate of pork rolls which came steamed and with the traditional dipping sauces and tasted great. Service is polite and quick, and they allow BYOB for beers and wine which is a nice surprise among London’s busier restaurants. While the decor is somewhat lacklustre, the quality of the food and convenient location more than make up for it. SpicyRamekin

  February 20, 2020, 2:30 am

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• Carmela

  The food was ok nothing special. Years ago this place was one of the first places I tried vietnamese but obviously by the taste they have become complacent and samey like most other vietnamese restaurants. This is my favorite type of food but it’s getting harder to find a place that takes me back to those amazing flavour combinations and unique dishes. Maybe it’s time to go get the real thing instead of the London versions lol

  February 20, 2016, 5:02 am

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• Margarate1967

  An honest thought. The good news is the price is really cheap. But the con is that the food does not taste that good. Unless they seriously upgrade the cooking, I can’t see it being a favourite.

  February 17, 2014, 1:03 am

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• NunheadNeil

  We like …….. Last weekend saw our little supper club 9 strong and heading over to Hackney for a Saturday night feast at Loong Kee. After a couple of beers at The Dove, which was a very pleasant pub and comes highly recommended, we wandered a couple of minutes down the road to the brightly lit restaurant. Fortunately we had taken the precaution of booking because at 8.30pm Loong Kee was absolutely heaving.It was all hustle and bustle, and fairly chaotic, but we were soon found a table in the basement area (like a lot of basement rooms this one had a bit of a musty whiff about it which the owners had tried to ward off with incense – not so bad that it would put you off your dinner but worth noting if you have a sensitive nose). Menus and jugs of tap water soon arrived as did glasses for the beer and wine we had brought with us; no corkage charge here if bring your own.Service was friendly if a bit hit and miss all night, but we kind of expected that on a very busy Saturday night. You might need to work on catching the eye of passing staff if you want to order or they have forgotten any dishes.Various different starters were ordered and most were met with nods and smiles of approval. I particularly liked the soft shelled crab with salt and chilli which went down a treat. I ordered 12 of the pork and shrimp steamed rolls, a classic Vietnamese dish of stuffed steamed rice batter, which I shared with the group. Now these were certainly not to everyone’s taste, but when teamed up with the accompanying dipping sauce I thought they were very tasty and I would recommend that you give them a try.By now the wine was flowing and conversations were getting louder and more heated throughout the restaurant; all good fun if you are with a group but I would probably give Loong Kee a bit of a wide berth if you are looking for a romantic Saturday night supper.Without too much of a wait our mains began arriving in a fairly random and haphazard fashion. No worries though as we were all in a very good mood by this point in the evening and we tucked into anything and everything that arrived. My main of the Hanoi Grilled Fish was a real winner; crispy, full of flavour and pretty authentic – I liked this dish a lot. B had the duck which was tasty, had been well cooked and was just the right shade of pink. Various different noodle and rice combinations were tried and all seemed to go down very well.When the time came to pay the bill we were all more than happy to stump up our share. The starters and mains are all very reasonably priced and if you bring your own wine you will have the pleasure of a very cheap, very tasty supper. It’s not somewhere I would recommend for a special occasion but it’s a great place to eat with a bunch of pals at the weekend or for a quieter experience, come and fill your boots with quality Vietnamese cuisine on a mid-week evening.

  February 9, 2012, 9:24 pm

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