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Oriental Palace

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16/Apr/2007

Location: London Road, near junction 4 of the ring road.

We've driven past this place lots of times and noticed the banner on the outside of the building advertising their 'eat as much as you can' evening menu. Unlike most other 'all you can eat' places this isn't a buffet. Instead you get to choose from the menu and eat as many different dishes from each course as you can. The only other place I've been to where they do this was restaurant called Raffles in Chester. Although you have to wait a bit for each course, it does mean that all the food is freshly cooked unlike at buffet restaurants where it may have been sitting in the hot trays for an hour or more.

We started with the Appetisers and chose the Dim Sum selection and some battered King Prawns. Servings were generous and the food was very tasty (although slightly salty as is often the case with oriental food in restaurants). We ordered a bottle of the House Dry White wine which started off tasting very dry but the combination of salty and spicy food left it tasting slightly sweeter as the meal went on. It went well with the food.

For the next course we had Chicken Satay Skewers and a type of crispy battered chicken. Moving on to the main course we had Sizzling chicken in wine and garlic sauce, King Prawn Thai Green Curry and Noodles & Beansprouts. After that we were nicely full so felt no need to try more dishes. I think we'll be back again to sample more of the menu. The food was excellent and was good value at £12.95 (costs £1 more thursday to saturday).