Hi peeps, Happy Lunar New Year & hope you like some Chinese food! In the spirit of keeping us on our toes & improving on our future vlogs here are our thoughts on this vlog from a technical perspective: Overall we felt this vlog has a decent pace, pretty suitable music pairing & is filmed & edited decently well. Perhaps sound recording during the Bun House segment could've been better as it was a rather small, enclosed area & there was echo. The montage at the end could also have been done better as we lost a tad connectivity between the scenes there. That said we were generally pleased with this episode :)

Love how extremely critical and nuanced their reviews of the food are.

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hi Manuela👋, glad you’ve enjoyed this vlog & thanks for the kind comment ☺️. See you in the next food adventure! 😋

Four seasons has the best duck ever😊

Great reviews! Really appreciate the honest opinions!!

Thank you for this video I have enjoyed watching it.

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hello Mojgan 👋, glad you’ve enjoyed this one!

thanks for taking the time to review a few places in Chinatown. Will be going to London in a few months.

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋, glad you’ve found this vlog useful! We have other food vlogs covering foods in London as well, do check out our channel to watch them! 😉

i am definitely going to try the duck after how excited he got eating it, loved watching his reaction

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hello Christine 👋, glad you’ve enjoyed this episode! Do let us know if you like Gold Mine’s roast duck after you’ve tried it😋. Hope to see You in our future Food Adventures too!

Excellent

Great content! And also it stunned me 6:50 where you sycned the drum beat to match the sifu's roast duck chopping! What a great effort in editing the video!👍

@TheGourmetPlate

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it & thank you for the kind comment! We hope to see you in our future vlogs! 😋

That roast duck looks exquisite. Looks like good value for the price as well.

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! And on a good day it tastes exquisite too! 😋

Great

Im going to chinatown soon! This video as so useful, thank you so much

@TheGourmetPlate

11 ай бұрын

Hello there 👋, glad you found this video useful! Have fun at Chinatown!

Great video - I usually prefer Gold mine over Four Seasons as well. Other favorites are Good Friend for the fried chicken and Tsujiri for the matcha softie. Cheers

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hi there 👋, glad you’ve enjoyed this vlog! Thanks for the recommendations as well, we’ll keep that in mind & try them out in our next London visit 😋

Great video 👍🙏

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hello, glad you’re enjoying our vlogs haha! See you in the next one! 😝

I highly recommend the other goldmine branch in Queensway near Hyde park.

love bao

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hello Liz 👋, that was some decent Bao 😋

Good video. ❤❤

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kenneth, glad you’ve enjoyed our vlog! See you in the next one! ☺️

Definitely gold mine duck > four season duck! I would recommend trying the Bayswater gold mine as I find it a bit better than the Chinatown restaurant.

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hello there 👋, yes we did hear that Bayswater outlet is better & also the original store. Will definitely try it out when we visit London again 😉 Hope you’ve enjoyed this vlog & we’ll see you in the next one!

@crabapples1995

8 ай бұрын

Good shout fellow Gooner.

I don't think the custard bun is correct. I think you guys ate the Liu Sha Bao (Molten Custard Salted Egg Buns 流沙包)

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kenny 👋, it’s actually Custard Bun 😂. We were surprised by the texture because it held the texture of a 流沙包 filling, however flavour within is custard with no trace of salted egg 😅. Hope you’ve enjoyed this episode & we look forward to see you again!

Try Three Uncles near Liverpool Street. I think it's better than both Gold Mine and Four Season. Maybe the best in London

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hello there 👋, thanks for the recommendation! Will keep this in mind & try it out when we visit London again!

looks so good. wish i wasn't on this diet. i miss rice so much.

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Awww, are you on a no carb diet? 🥲

@lizkeith1356

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGourmetPlate

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

It’s like SGD 40 in London….. it would be like almost 2x more expensive in SG

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Wow, SG London duck is so pricey? 😱

When I was a student in the UK in the 70’s, there was this famous roasted meats eatery, a quite tiny & compact place called Lee Ho Fook located in Macclesfield St. to which I would go to when the craving for Cantonese Roast Duck hits me. After having tasted the succulent duck here (a hometown friend introduced me to this place) I told myself, hey, this isn’t anything like the emaciated duck - unlike the fatty Moulard duck breed - used in Malaysia, where you get mostly bones plus almost an absence of the Ng Heong Fun (mandatory spice!) from the roast duck whose fragrance delights you (to no end) the moment the waiter at Lee Ho Fook places the plate on your table! Yes, there was the suckling pig too, here, which I would indulge in once in a while. Then, any order at LHF would come with a free pot of jasmine tea & a bowl of piping hot soup. Ah, talking about the soup: I remember one particular time when the soup didn’t arrive, so I gestured to the waiter and asked him where was the ‘tong’ but me being a Hokkien speaker with little grasp of Cantonese, got the tone wrong and instead asked him where was the sugar, at the same time pointing to the table where the soup bowls were place. This waiter - apparently a proud Hongkie, and a supercilious one at that! - at once upbraided me in no uncertain terms for my faulty Cantonese and let go a tirade…..”tong, tong, tiu, tiu….”! Still, I will never ever forget the wonderful siew ngap sold here at the now defunct LHF!

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋! Nice to see you again! Thanks for sharing your interesting experience with us 😙. We love stories like this in the comment section hehe! Glad you’ve enjoyed this episode & see you in the next one! 😋

Very nice video. I didn't know the Jian Bing place - will go next time. London roast duck and Hong Kong / Cantonese roast duck are the same. They use 5 spice and other seasoning. It's Peking Duck that is different. I was very disappointed to eat Peking Duck - it's the style they use with the pancakes and spring onions and cucumber and is in many U.K. buffet and takeaway restaurants. Whilst there is a speciality where they pump the skin away from the meat to make it more crispy, they don't put seasoning into it, so essentially, it doesn't taste very nice and you rely on the hoisin sauce when making the pancake. In Beijing, in a restaraunt they will have someone carve the duck into small pieces. They also sell it en masse after cooking and cooling in tight sealed plastic. Very famous, but I do not know why. Also, if you go to Hong Kong, they will sell roast goose - this is the super tasty but super fatty difference compared to duck where they will cut away the fat. In the U.K. there is 3 roast - usually duck, roast pork and BBQ pork. In Hong Kong, there is 4 treasure roast where they add either soy chicken or white cut (Hainan) chicken. BTW, I agree with you that Four Seasons, whilst the most famous, and they bought a second restaurant in China Town and there are queues out the door and they are also in Leicester and in Bang Bang Oriental, I don't think it's that great. Maybe as they have expanded, there don't have the same high quality chefs as the first one they opened? Not sure. But I like HaoZhan a few doors down personally over Four Seasons. Possibly personal preference, but I don't think it's worth queueing to go into Four Seasons - it's not that good. Again, really enjoyed your video. Keep it up!

@TheGourmetPlate

9 ай бұрын

Hello there, glad you've enjoyed this episode & thanks for sharing your insight with us! We would love to visit Hong Kong for their roast goose one day 😋 Hope to see you in our future vlogs!

Do they accept Credit Cards for payment?

@TheGourmetPlate

Жыл бұрын

Yes they do

I know many Chinese who haven't been to London Chinatown. Ever. His statement that being Chinese, "obviously we have been here a few times...", makes no sense.

@TheGourmetPlate

Ай бұрын

Hello there, Wei Loon here. I think there's a slight misunderstanding, when I mentioned that statement I meant that we have been to London china town a few times before we filmed this episode. Hope that clarifies!

Sorry, are you guys Malaysian or Chinese?

@TheGourmetPlate

4 ай бұрын

Hi SE, we are Malaysian😉

Heavy ads every 3 minutes

@TheGourmetPlate

4 ай бұрын

Hi there, we’re sorry you experienced heavy ads which severely affects the viewing experience however this isn’t within our control as we can only pick whether we allow midroll ads…the number of ads is determined entirely by KZread 🥲

Honestly, when you're already having an accent, it would be nice for you to swallow before talking, as it can get difficult to hear what you're trying to say.

@TheGourmetPlate

11 ай бұрын

Hi David, we understand not all of us have the same accent, which is why all our videos have English subtitles 😉. Hope you’ve enjoyed this vlog & we look forward to seeing you in the next one!

@davidnguyen6823

11 ай бұрын

@@TheGourmetPlate of course! Just a suggestion as to something to improve