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10 Reviews on “Cool Jade”
On entering Cool JADE for our booked meal on Saturday we were welcomed with smiles and great service with prompt attention to our comforts. The meal was excellent, as to choosing chicken and mushroom soup, beef curry and one chowmein, as well as Banana fritters with ice cream presented with style and elegance. I can only recommend that it is a place not to miss out on in Corstorphine. COOL JADE. WILL BE BACK Thank you to all the attentive staff.
So we entered what was clearly an absolutely mobbed restaurant at 9pm last night, with a slightly stressed woman pointing over to where we were to sit. And I was concerned. But I shouldn’t have been. It was excellent. We had the Ha Kau Prawn dim sum and spicy squid to start…both delicious. The squid was crispy and just the right amount for us both. Then onto the mains. I had beef satay, which came to the table sizzling, and with the addition of pineapple it was lovely. He had an obscure dish-prawns, wrapped in duck, in a crab sauce. By some form of wizardry -the duck remained crispy, despite having the sauce all over it. Very glad to have had this place recommended to me- finally after 6 years of searching I’ve have a really great Chinese in the neighbourhood!
In a nutshell: Great place to have lunch while visiting Edinburgh Zoo. Just cross the road and avoid the bland food in this type of touristy places. The restaurant has a limited lunch menu, but fairly decent and well priced. You can sense from the decor and style that the dinner menu is the strength of this place.Only problem with lunch is the very limited opening times, if you don’t order by 1.45pm… Well, you’ll have to head back to the zoo and get some chips or something!
Lovely restaurant, I always feel like its a special occasion when I visit Cool Jade with the white table cloths and flowers on the table. Its decor is all Indian inspired and the lights are really unusual throughout the restaurant. The food is also very tasty and Ive always liked every dish that Ive had when I visited. Dishes that I would recommend would be the chicken sweetcorn soup to start which is lovely and chunky which is how I like it or the prawn toast is also very tasty. If you like noodles I would recommend the Beef Chow Mein which is lovely or if you are more of a rice person the chicken satay skewers with fried rice is delicious. Everything is really reasonably priced and the staff are always very friendly. Another plus is if you cant be bothered going out to dinner they also do take away
Prince Gastronome. What is it, a lime flavored beverage? A Japanese pop-rock band? A shade of wall paint by Glidden? No, Cool Jade is a Chinese restaurant in Edinburgh, the last restaurant I would review during my vacation, and the best Chinese restaurant Ive ever visited there or anywhere. The range of choices, the quality of delivered dishes and the overall dcor cannot be praised enough. In less than two hours we enjoyed a range of Asian dishes Id never seen in the many Westernized Chinese restaurants Ive visited in my home town (and Ive been to them all). Unfortunately, without an online menu or even a website, its difficult for me to detail the specific dishes ordered at Cool Jade, so Ill have to go on memory and photos.The dcor is classy, presented as a top-notch bistro rather than a brunch-buffet location where casual eaters shovel chow mein and chop suey via forks and ladle-sized spoons into their distended stomachs……yeah, I admit having a tendency to offend those that support and promote westernized Chinese restaurants because Ive been to China and tasted authenticity first hand. I get asked often to recommend Chinese buffets, but for me its like requesting a favored Arbys locationthey are all the same and the quality can be graded on the same scale as your next bowel movement, which in this case arrives fast and definitely furious. Cool Jade is exactly what I have been wishing for since my trip to China so many years ago (so manyokay, it was six). The initial plate was a collection of appetizers including crispy seaweed, sesame cakes, spare ribs, egg rolls, and deep fried dumplings, all resting on a warming plate. After that we were served up shredded duck with pancakes, spicy beef, and noodles. There was no real entre for each sitter, just a collection of plates the both of us shared from, as it should be and how it actually is in many cultures across the world. The meal was fun and satisfying but it was the more authentic touches I appreciated like the plastic-wrapped towelette or the fact that the chopsticks were plastic. I hate plastic chopsticks but its one thing I clearly remembered from China. Wooden sticks are a luxury of the west given our amount of timber. Or how about the carrot carved into the shape of a pagoda temple or the other one in the shape of a flower.Yeah, a pagoda temple, that level of detail. This attention is not often seen in Westernized Chinese. I had been teased about Cool Jade for weeksabout how good it was, superior to other restaurants like it. Having experience in this field I know why, because they dont compromise. They dont pander to the tasteless, cultureless masses. Westernized Chinese food is for people without culinary curiositywho think that eating Chinese is them upsetting the normal order of hamburgers, steaks, and potato chips, the staple daily diet. Cool Jade is not selling to those people. This is for people who when they leave their homes and eat out, they want something special, an event worth remembering. Its what I want. Its what I got: a fantastic experience on my last day in Edinburgh. Of course, the meal still had to end with fortune cookies. Some things never change.Did I mention there was a carrot carved into the shape of a pagoda?DECOR: 9PLATING: 10SERVICE: 8FOOD: 9VALUE: 9OVERALL: 9 out of 10
Delicious. Cool Jade is a fantastic Chinese restaurant. The staff are friendly and accommodating. The food is of a very high quality. The restaurant has style and charm in equal quantities.Dim Sum was piping hot and (clearly) deliciously hand made, as opposed to the all too common packet Dim Sum that is the norm in many Chinese restaurants. Main meals were correctly sized, and delicious. The chefs expertise shines through.Problems? None. This restaurant, and it’s kind, professional team, is a credit to Chinese style cooking.
Finally..a brilliant takeaway. We have tried so many chinese takeaways and restaurants over this side of Edinburgh and the Broxburn and S Queensferry area, none of which are that good, in fact we stopped going for Chinese food as it was so disapointing. However, after a recommendation we tried Cool Jade. Well worth it, you can really taste each flavour and the freshness is fantastic. DELICIOUS!!! Seriously, you have to try it…