China Garden

China Garden is a fashionable and popular restaurant situated near the West Pier within strolling distance of the seafront. It features plush interiors, large spaces and is famous for its Cantonese and Pekinese cuisine.

It's worth arriving early on Saturday and Sunday, when the place gets packed out, to nibble on the highly regarded dim sum. During the day, expect the place to be crowded with local Chinese, tucking into all manner of authentic morsels such as sesame toast, crispy won ton, spare ribs in sticky sauce and fried seaweed with brown sugar.

During the evening customers mill in to enjoy familiar options along the lines of lemon chicken batter fried with sticky lemon sauce, shredded duck with pancakes, paraphernalia, beef in sticky red sauce and mixed vegetables with big prawns and special fried rice.

The service is attentive and friendly and to add a touch of culture to the proceedings they even have a pianist.