A dinner at Newcastle China town

As far as I know there are three major Chinatowns in England: London, Manchester and Newcastle. The one in London is the biggest one, but still smaller than my impression of ‘Chinatown’ when I first went there about three years ago. Never been the Manchester one so can’t make any comments. But the one in Newcastle can actually be called ‘China Street’ rather than a ‘town’, seriously it’s only one street.

Tonight Lee and I went to the one in Newcaslte to meet up with his friend and had a dinner together. He said there is a nice restaurant that we should really try out, so we did. It was at the corner of one side of the street, called ‘天天’ (tian tian?), can’t remember its English name. It was a typical Hong Kong style restaurant which means not very fancy furnitures but nice food! It was funny when three of us sat down, I got served a set of chopstick whereas they got knifes and folks. I don’t know whether this is in their regulation or not but just found it really funny. Lee was not very happy about it because he can use chopsticks.

The food was indeed very nice, not like those greasy buffets I mentioned before. Here is a little tip, if you want to have proper Chinese food at a reasonable student price in England (or anywhere in the world), don’t go for buffet, but those full of Chinese customers. And the more they are, the better food that restaurant offers. Normally those offer student price ones aren’t in a decent decoration, but the food still nice.