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Cha Cha Moon (Chinese) – London, England (7/10)

May 13, 2008 by Helen Yuet Ling Pang

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Posted in Alan Yau, Chinese, dining out, food, London, meat, noodles, restaurant, restaurant review, seafood, vegetarian | Tagged Alan Yau, Cha Cha Moon, Chinese, Chinese noodle bar, dining out, eating out, England, food, London, restaurant, restaurant review | 14 Comments

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  1. on May 13, 2008 at 6:15 pm Niamh

    I just blogged this too! I was looking forward to your review, I suspected you’d be there early on too 🙂


  2. on May 13, 2008 at 6:46 pm foodieguide

    Hi Niamh

    Just read your review – I like your photos! I’m going back next to try a few other dishes while they’re still priced at £3.50. And I want to have the Guava Collins too…


  3. on May 13, 2008 at 7:04 pm Charmaine

    I’m itching to say what I think, but sadly am bounded to Time Out.
    Re: the ‘fat and gristle’ – I’m pretty sure those were actually beef tendons, usually found in beef brisket noodles. I was a bit confused that they used beef brisket and not beef shank like they do in Taiwan!

    I may go back again sometime this week, to try out the zhajiang mian – one of my favourites that I forgot to order!


  4. on May 13, 2008 at 7:08 pm foodieguide

    Thanks for educating me on those bits. The piece I bit into was rubbery in texture, come to think of it. Still wouldn’t have eaten it though! When is the Time Out review coming out?!


  5. on May 13, 2008 at 7:47 pm Charmaine

    That would be it 😉 My mom loves it, but I don’t. I gave all of my tendons to my dining partner!
    It was meant to come out next week, but we’re delaying it by a week due to time constraints :T


  6. on May 13, 2008 at 9:14 pm foodieguide

    I can’t believe it’s been delayed! It will be old news by the time it’s published. And meanwhile you can’t write anything about it…but I’m assuming you wrote the review?!


  7. on May 14, 2008 at 10:39 am Niamh

    Thanks! And really nice to read your comments above. I want to go back and try a few more bits. I’ll be checking out your favourite Charmaine!

    Shame about he Time Out review indeed!


  8. on May 14, 2008 at 2:34 pm foodieguide

    Let’s have an update when we’ve gone back for more! I’ll be there next Wed lunch…


  9. on May 15, 2008 at 10:00 pm Charmaine

    Niamh – I went back and had the zhajiang mian, I really liked it! If it was slightly less salty it would have been better, but it was one of the nicer things I had there. 🙂

    Re: the review. We actually did something today we only do sometimes – put the review online before it’s printed. So it’s up now. I’ll be writing more in detail on my blog, soon!


  10. on May 17, 2008 at 12:12 pm foodieguide

    Great review Charmaine! Now all I need from you are the locations of those two mein dong in HK that you were writing about, so that I can check them out in October!

    I’ll try the zhajiang mian and chicken fen pi next Wed…

    Off on the Playtex Moonwalk tonight (midnight) – just a leisurely walk around London for 13.1 miles!


  11. on May 17, 2008 at 4:37 pm Charmaine

    Thanks Helen! I’ll send you more detailed addresses when I find them, but the fish ball noodle place is On Lei in Shau Kei Wan, and the second Kau Kee in Central.

    A walk from midnight?! Until when? :O


  12. on May 18, 2008 at 6:46 pm foodieguide

    Thanks Charmaine! I’m sure I’ll find them when I’m there, exciting.

    The walk lasted 4 hrs 30 mins, because there was a lot of stopping and starting as everyone waited to cross the roads. The last 3 miles were hard! So I arrived home at 6.30am today…


  13. on May 21, 2008 at 7:13 pm DSD

    We went to Cha Cha Moon as a group of 4, all from Hong Kong. We were quite disappointed with the quality of the food. Between us, we ordered:
    – dan dan mien – the soup was thin and almost watery, with very little peanut or spice.
    – zhajiang mien – the first few bites were promising, but the noodles seemed to be coated in dark soy sauce.
    – chicken fen pi – very nice, but they should lose the sliced red onion.
    – char kwai teow – arrived late, and slightly burnt! It was tasty but really needed some prawn.
    – spring onion pancake
    – szechuan dumplings – the wrapping was slightly stodgy
    – choi sum and braised shiitake mushrooms – pretty small portions, even with the promotional price!

    All in all, I doubt we’ll be heading back. If the idea was to make a HK-style noodle bar, well, the fact that each soup base was practically tasteless speaks for itself. It seems like a very homogenized ‘Asian’ canteen. I really hope the food improves!


  14. on May 21, 2008 at 7:30 pm foodieguide

    Hello DSD

    Thanks for this! I haven’t been back for my second visit yet (it was supposed to be today), so the more information I can gather about what to have/what not to have, the better. Perhaps it’s still early days for Cha Cha Moon? I hope the food improves too, but maybe it takes time…

    Helen Yuet Ling



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