This venue has closed.
Lost Heaven Silk Road, the
newest addition to the Lost
Heaven Restaurant Group, is a
big, sleek operation focusing on
popular dishes found along the
old trade route, but with a strong
representation of specialities from
Chinese cities including Urumqi,
Dunhuang and Lanzhou.
We recommend starting with
the Tang Wei Hu Bing (40-80RMB),
described on the menu as ‘Western’
bread stuffed with ‘Chinese
flavours’. What arrive are tasty,
doughy pockets stuffed with pork,
lettuce and coriander. They’re filling
and full of flavour.
Elsewhere, the Persian chicken
and pea croquettes (50RMB) plate
small deep-fried balls skewered
with colourful cocktail sticks. The
croquettes themselves are dry
without the fresh tomato sauce
served on the side, but thankfully
tastier when eaten with.
From the larger dishes, the oat
noodles with lamb (78RMB) are
hot, saucy and delicious, however
the dense noodles make this more
of a winter warmer than a summer-appropriate
combination. Another
offering that doesn’t quite hit the
mark is the pomegranate chicken
(68RMB), which dishes up battered
chicken in a sweet and sour sauce
with pomegranate seeds. It’s
sweet and sticky, and feels like it’d
be more at home in an American-Chinese restaurant than a Silk
Road-themed one.
Cocktails – as per the other
Lost Heaven branches – are good
(though we’re left wishing there were
more ‘original creations’ for this
location), and the atmosphere is
as well-judged as the other outlets
in the group. In sum, Lost Heaven
Silk Road looks set to be as popular
as its counterparts (it’s already
getting busy at weekends), offering
an accessible array of dishes that
somehow blend together to form a
harmonious, if perhaps not the most
authentic, meal.
