Ma Po

Greatest Chinese in London!
Have been leaving here for about three years and tryed different Chinese restaurants, in my opinion this will be the top!
The staff is very nice and the food is amazing and very tasty.
The menu seems very original and with some dishes you will just have to take the chance and try because its difficult to guess what will it be like.
Highly recomended!

I love spicy food… and for those of you in the know, that’s exactly what you get when you order Sichuan.
We initially popped in because for a late lunch after seeing the hot pots and deciding we needed a try, however at £18 for all you can eat hot pot and no other smaller option, we reverted to the main menu and the hot pot was put on the back boiler for another occasion.
My favourite dishes have to be the cucumber with garlic and spicy sauce, the broccoli with minced pork, dry beef with chilies! They definitely leave a bit of a sting, so you’ll need some rice!
If you’re after something less spicy I’d suggest you ask. I tried the won-​ton soup with noodles that was ordered for someone who doesn’t like any spice, and I found this very bland however.
The place isn’t that homely, more functional, however it’s always full of Chinese people and is run by Chinese people, which is a good sign for a Chinese restaurant!
Great food, from a very niche restaurant, well worth the trip out of town, although luckly this place is just around the corner from me!

The restaurant was a bit of a disappointment visually, the outside looks nice bit the inside is very plain and looks like if it wasn’t finished in terms of decoration.
The food quality was ok we had mini wok and Chrissy duck. The wok was «fun» because we got the good on an actual wok and it was large but it was a bit greasy bit that might be because we went with lamb option. The crispy duck was nice and good size.
Surprisingly they have many milk shake options and they tasted very nice, definitely recommend them especially if you order something spicy.

Crammed full of London Chinese, MaPo is serving up spicy and interesting Sichuan dishes in an unspicy and uninteresting location (Surrey Quays). A rather empty conversion of an old Vietnamese place on the main road gives an echoey room full of noisy contented diners and intriguing oily aromas.
With no booking we had a short wait on NYE 2013 before getting our table for two and ordering coke and Tsinghua. The main menu was completely ignored in favour of the all-​you-​can-​eat hotpot deal which weighs in at £18 per person. Spicy broth and clear broth came along with plates an plates of mostly frozen meat, mushrooms and seafood. Nothing tasted like good quality and the service followed the Chinese London pattern of being borderline aggressive, but hey, we weren’t in Surrey Quays for fine dining and locally-​sourced ingredients; we were here to stuff our faces with as much cheap and super-​spicy stuff as we could. Deal with it.
So bottom-​less spicy hotpot does exist in London after all. It’s not that good but still awesome that it exists. Don’t eat for 2 days and then come here and don’t stop eating for hours. That’s how Elites do it!