Oriental Delight

Stuff here are quite expensive. No fresh food. And on one visit the proprietors stared me down because they thought I was going to shoplift their mooncakes. That’s Chinatown for ya!

Cute little shop with good range of products but more expensive that other shops in the area. The staff however are horrendously unhelpful

Good selection of Asian snacks and candies. The grocery store in the basement also has good selection. Price are OK. However, staff service is absolutely horrendous. One of the lady behind the counter practically yells and frowns at every customer. Definitely an in-​and-​out kind of shop.

I love Oriental Delight. I have loved it for years and years and years and year and years.
I wandered in here many moons ago while just ambling around London. I didn’t know it that well as I lived in Essex at the time and I was still in the tourist phase of the place, but I came back here again and again.
Mainly, to buy ‘disney’ chocolate centre cookies as I have somewhat of an addiction, but it is as much a nostalgia thing as well. I love mickey when he speaks Chinese.
But yes, a veritable cornucopia of treats, drinks and cakes upstairs and a fine selection of essentials for chinese and asian food downstairs.
I like to think of this place as the asian cybercandy. And when I say that, I mean it just occurred to me. I love cybercandy. I should review it really.
Oh yeah, like Yee Gan says there is a glass floor, but it is a bit rubbish really.

The disconcerting choas that is Oriental Delight is something to behold. When the sugar council of nine came to the conclusion that there wasn’t enough refined tooth destroyer in the world, they sent out a demonic sugar dragon. The dragon pooped out a mountain, an Everest proportion of luminescent, packaged candy of such vivid, eye-​wrenching design and irresistible sweetness, dentists everywhere declared it ‘Cavity Day.’ Have you not heard of it?
Whether you are after a pack of Hello Panda, Pockey or a mixture of the never ending supply of weird and wonderful candy, Oriental Delight is this Everest of sweetness. The enchantment of this place is so powerful, I didn’t even realise there was another floor, where groceries can be purchased. The Sugar Dragon hypnotised me with his sweet words of splendour. Can anyone save me? (I write these words as I continually fill my face with little biscuit pockets of chocolate, otherwise known as ‘Hello Panda.’) Mmmmm… there so good!

This is one of my favourite stores along this strip. It specialises mainly in asian sweets. Ranging from Gummy candy to cute Hello Kitty marshmallow lollies. I bought one as a little present for someone important. Nope, its not me…
Downstairs is full of asian groceries but I rarely go down there as there are better grocery stores in Gerrard street.

Oriental Delight really is quite delightful.
The main attraction is the ground floor. You see, it’s ram packed with Asian sweets, snacks, drinks and pastries. Sugared and preserved plum snacks seem to dominate. Chocolate-​filled biscuits in various animal shapes are a mainstay. The sugared tamarind snacks piqué my interest. But you better believe that the ‘BBQ fried dough snacks’ for £1.50 were calling my name today. Mmm… gluten and MSG.
The lower ground floor contains more traditional Asian grocery items, which I could take or leave for the selection at the larger Asian grocery stores along Gerrard Street.
If you’re looking for a comprehensive selection of Asian sweets and treats, this is the place for you.

A unique fusion of a theme park and a Chinese supermarket! For some reason, there is a glass portion of floor on the ground floor through which you can see the basement level. Similar glass floors can be found on high level tourist attractions like Blackpool Tower and the new Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth.
If you can tear yourself away from the challenge of walking across this death-​defying challenge, you’ll find a Chinese supermarket selling a good selection of sweet treats on the ground floor. There are biscuits such as my favourite ‘beh teh saw’, fresh desserts like mochi and Japanese sweets and candy. I notice that quite a lot of their biscuits come from the nearby Wonderful Patisserie.
Downstairs, you’ll find the usual selection of Chinese foodstuffs and sauces. The floorspace isn’t as big as other supermarkets but there are certain things which seem to be only available from here such as Kee’s and Delimas sauces, which are much more aromatic when cooked as they’re pastes rather than powders.
The most scary floor of any Chinese supermarket in Chinatown!

A store full of visually appealing but nutritionally lacking Chinese and Japanese snack foods. Heaven! Sign that says «More Exciting Goods Downstairs» about sums it up. The goods are definitely exciting.

Oriental Delight is a food store in Chinatown that concentrates on sweet goods (although they do sell rice, instant noodles and some other staples). It is quite a crampt store with most of the sweets on the ground floor and staples on the floor below. In addition to sweets they have a good selection of teas which are also on the ground floor. They have lots of exciting stuff to try out. I once bought a ‘Hello Kitty’ lollipop that had a fan that cooled your face as you licked; pretty cool stuff.
As with the Cyber Candy store it is a great place to find things you may never have tried or seen before. If you’re familiar with Chinese food already I imagine it is a good place to pick up snacks and cakes.

There are quite a variety of oriental food, snacks and sweets available in this shop. However, they are terribly expensive; the most expensive shop around Chinatown I would say. The Vitasoy is about £2.90 per 6 packets while the others are selling between £2.40 to £2.60 per 6 packets. The only cheaper food available is the cakes and mochi at £1.80 each This is the only thing I usually get when I go to Oriental Delight.
I am not a fan of this store, the room for circulation within the shop is very little and it is packed full of products! Very tight spaces and when it gets crowded, there’s almost nowhere to walk.