Noble Palace

Traditional Chinese cuisine bling style

 

Eight treasures duck

Noble Palace has slowly rising become one of my go Chinese restaurants beside Park Chinois and China Tang. The place is all about the classic approach to Cantonese cuisine cooking while using fine quality ingredients to ensure the best result. For dinner time, it offers a few tasting menu choices covering most of the iconic Chinese dishes that is known in the UK, but the real germ is in its small a la carte menu where there are some more traditional dishes that are popular back in China but not yet wildly appreciated in the UK. For my 5th visit, I asked the restaurant to prepare a special menu.

Drunken chicken, jellyfish, tofu, smoked sloe and pork trotter

Carrot and almond soup

The classic Hong Kong style wind shelter crab had a bold, powerful sweet and spicy taste. The garlic and chili worked so well with the freshness of the crab meat, and the crab roe almost acted like a rich layer of seasoning, it was fabulous. The traditional eight treasures duck was faultless, deboned, and stuffed with all kinds of goodness, from dried scallops, shrimps, mushrooms, chestnuts, and rice, and sealed back into a whole duck shape. before being slow-cooked for 4 hours. The result is a duck blessed with a powerful umami taste with a melting meaty texture. every mouthful was pure joy and one of the finest duck dishes I have encountered. 

Wind shelter crab

Sweet vinegar stewed pork ribs

My 5th visit to Noble Palace is the best to date so far. The duck was sensational and the cocktails here are also top-class. What this place is really good at is cooking authentic,  traditional Chinese dishes, things that not has a western makeover, just true to its classic route. The space and setting seem more like a club than a dining room, but the food is really what makes this place special. For a more budget experience, come here for dim sum and you will be in for some of the finest dim sum experiences in the UK. 

Food 4.5/5


What I paid: 
£145 per head with wine

Average cost without drinks and services:
£95


Caxton St, London SW1H 0PY