China Red, Coventry

By Jatuporn Atipatayawong

A little while ago, I was craving for some chinese food as I was walking in the city center. There are many chinese places in Coventry city area where you can grab chinese meal. I always walk pass China Red on my way back home but I have never tried their dinner buffet menu until couple days ago. 

China Red offers chinese buffet which is somewhat differ than other chinese restaurants rather than having to walk around and picking your dish from the buffet table, here you can order anything from the buffet menu (much more to choose from than regular buffet) which will be cooked freshly and served to your table. This is like the buffet meal with a full services!! What could have been better!!

From the range of menu they offered, it was hard to decide on what to have as there were only two of us and we know we couldn't have it all. Upon waiting for the food to arrive, the prawn cracker was served as an appetiser without ordering. Although the prawn cracker was irresistible, I recommend you to just have some bite or not at all for your own benefit as this will make you full quicker :)

For the stater, we ordered crispy aromatic duck, wonton soup, and chicken & sweetcorn soup to share. Overall, I would recommended the crispy aromatic duck and the wonton soup. The crispy aromatic duck was served with the pancake, veggies, and hoi sin sauce (on the sweet side). 

The right way to eat this is to paste the sauce on to the pancake then put some duck and veggies on top then finally wrap the pancake and put it in your mouth. The salty and crispy texture of the duck combine with the freshness of the veggies together with the sweet hoi sin sauce, that is just pretty much everything in just a bite!! The wonton soup is a clear soup with wonton. From the dense taste of the duck, wonton soup is pretty light and will give you more appetite for the next dishes.

As for main, we ordered six different dishes. I couldn't remember all the name but I do remember some of my favorite. Here are what I recommended you to try: Deep Fried Shredded Chili beef, Roast Duck in Plum Sauce, and King Prawn Foo Yung. The truth is all the dishes were actually good (way better than those on the regular chinese buffet table) but the three I recommended are those I will ordered again if I have a chance to go back for another visit. For the price of 13.99, I think China Red is worth. 

For more information: 

China Red

58 Hertford Street, Coventry, CV1 1LB

Tel: 02476229333

Click on the link below for their website:

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Opening Times

Sun-Thurs: 1200 to 2230

Fri-Sat: 1200 to 2300