Its nearing Chinese New Year so Chinese restaurants across London are starting to bring out some special dishes. We have been waiting for the golden custard buns to become available at Phoenix Palace for a while now and how happy were we to find out they were available today! But one custard bun a meal does not make so we made a slight detour to have some yum cha dishes and to sample something new. What I love about Phoenix Palace is that although it has some of the usual sorts of dishes you expect on the menu they also do some dishes, and not a prohibitive prices like Hakkasan or Plum Valley, which you wouldn’t find in many other Chinese restaurants. Our new dish of the day was Yin Yan Fried Rice (Chicken in Tomato Cooli & Prawn in Egg Glazed on Fried Rice). It was gorgeous! I’d have eaten the whole thing if I wasn’t leaving room for the custard bun …

And then the dish we were waiting for – the golden custard buns:

Remind you of anything?

The buns were delicious though we have subsequently deducted that the cause for the liquidy goodness inside was a heck of a lot of butter! However that won’t stop me having another one next time I’m in the neighbourhood …