walking through chinatown and covent garden
so we took the tube from king’s cross st pancras to leicester square, and walked through chinatown.
walking through chinatown
the mood & ambience of chinatowns everywhere…
walking through chinatown
chinatown in london is pretty ok.
food is pretty good by comparison, and you can get most provisions also if you need to shop.
walking through chinatown
& whole gamut of other shops…
four seasons roast duck @ chinatown
we passed by four seasons roast duck.
(subsequently another london friend arranged to have roast duck dinner at goldmine in bayswater, so we did not go to four seasons).
four seasons started an outlet at capitol piazza 2 years ago. i did not visit. heard that it’s S$75 for a whole duck now, and most feedback i had not great. it’s something to pay £20 for a very good 1/2 roast duck in london, and something else to pay S$75 for a whole duck when so many equally good or better roast duck are available at <2/3 the price.
little four seasons roast duck @ chinatown
didn’t notice there was a little four seasons the last time.
did not check out…maybe it sells dimsum & other small eats.
so we soon found burger & lobster at dean street where we had very good £23 lobsters with our friend.
after dinner we wanted to go to monmouth for a cuppa. it was 7pm. when we googled, we realized that monmouth was closed already.
long queue at dishoom covent garden
on the way we passed by dishoom covent garden, next door to jamie’s italian.
the queue was similar to dishoom king’s cross, hard to tell, maybe less than the one & half hours at king’s cross.
in the end, we never ate at dishoom this time. my friends & i were not fan enough for indian food (or most food) to want to queue one half hours during our travels.
busker at agatha christie memorial
we passed by a quite talented busker singer who parked himself at agatha christie memorial at the junction of cranbourn street & st martin lane.
my friend said first time he gave gratuity to street performers. i gave some myself & i noticed there were several £5 notes, so perhaps the busker could collect £50 or even £100. but he was good la!
covent garden
covent garden
covent garden
covent garden a nice ambience.
most of us have been here before. the stalls were closed at this time so only food & drinking places.
a good first day in london for my 2 friends. we got back to king’s cross, bought some stuff from waitrose. the next day we set off for 9day trip to wales – to llandudno/conwy, snowdownia, angelsey, pembrokeshire, cardiff.
c.h.e.f andy
