Review on Kweilin

Opened in 1984, Derek Tang's restaurant is new one of the swishest Chinese eating places in the heart of Edinburgh 'new town'. The kitchen deals mainly in classic Cantonese regional cuisine, with seafood as a major player on the lengthy menu.

Specialities worth noting include lobster with ginger and spring onions, steamed turbot with black bean sauce, wok-fried monkfish slices with broccoli, and salted, spiced squid stuffed with prawn paste. Alternatively, check out the crispy barbecued pork, 'eight treasures' braised duck, and beef with ho-fan noodles.

Derek Tang has put together an impressive wine list that spans the globe from France to China; in 1997 he also opened the Noble Grape - Scotland's first Chinese wine shop and importers.

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Cuisine

Chinese

Restaurant Opening Times

Lunch: 12.00 - 2.00pm Tue-Sat
Dinner: 5.30 - 10.30pm Tue-Thu (5.30 - 11.00pm Fri & Sat)

Accepted credit cards

Visa, Master Card, American Express

Online Booking Availability for Kweilin

Facilities at Kweilin

  • Private parties
  • Vegetarian menu
  • Family Friendly

Address

Kweilin
19-21 Dundas Street
City of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
EH3 6QG

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Kweilin Sample Menu

A LA CARTE MENU

DIM SUM/APPETISERS

Shui My (Pork & Prawn) £3.20
Ha-Kow (Prawn Dumpling) £3.20
Wafer Paper Prawn £3.20
Ginger Beef Shui-My £3.20
Fun-Kor (Prawn and Meat in pastry) £3.20
Barbecued Spare Ribs £5.50
Seasoned Spare Ribs (Baked with Chilli & Salt) £5.50
Deep Fried Crab Claw each £4.70
Sesame Prawn on Toast £4.20
Deep Fried Crispy Wun Tun £4.20
Crispy Spring Roll £3.20
Vegetarian Spring Roll £3.00
Prawn Crackers £2.20
"Satay" Chicken (on 3 skewer sticks) £5.20
Steamed Fresh Scallop in Black Bean Sauce (2 pieces) £5.50
Spiced and Salted Chicken Wings (6 pieces) £6.75
Seaweed (Crispy Green topped with dry Seafood) £5.50
Chef's Mixed Selection of Appetizers (for 2 persons) £14.00
Pork Parcel (for 2 persons) - Wok-fried Chopped Pork, Mushrooms & Vegetables served with Iceberg Wrappers £17.50
Aromatic Crispy Duck (Half Duck served with 10 pancakes)
Quarter £12.50 Half £19.50 Whole £36.00

SOUP

Chicken Shark's Fin £8.50
Crab Meat Shark's Fin £8.75
Chicken Sweet Corn £3.20
Crab Meat Sweet Corn £3.40
Wun Tun £3.40
Capital Hot & Sour £3.40
Seafood and Bean Curd Soup £3.90
Vegetarian Noodle £3.20

MEAT DISHES

Shredded Chilli Beef £9.50
(with Bird's Nest £1.50 extra)
Beef Steak Cantonese Style on Hot Plate (sliced steak) £15.50
Beef in Szechuan Style (Hot, Peppery & Spicy) £9.50
Beef in Black Bean Sauce £9.50
Char Sui Pork £10.00
Ma-Po Tofu (Minced Pork & Bean Curd cooked with a hot Szechuan Sauce) £10.00
Stuffed Aubergine & Green Pepper with Black Bean Sauce £13.50
Sizzling Lamb with Spring Onion £13.95
Crispy Barbecued Pork (available on Weds. & Sat.) £10.00

POULTRY

Shredded Chilli Chicken £9.50
Lemon Chicken (Pan fried Breast of Chicken in Lemon Sauce) £10.00
Chicken with Cashew Nuts £9.50
Kung Po Chicken £9.50
Szechuan Chicken (Hot, Peppery & Spicy) £9.50
Orange Chicken with Almonds £13.50
Roast Duck Cantonese (off the bone) £11.50
Aromatic Crispy Duck (Half Duck served with 10 Pancakes)
Quarter £12.50 Half £19.50 Whole £36.00
"Eight Treasures" Duck (Braised Duck with Vegetables, Prawns & Meats £14.95

CLAY POT

Braised Monkfish in Pot (Monkfish, Bean Curd & Vegetables) £13.50
Mixed Seafood & Bean Curd in Pot £14.50
Stewed Duck Feet & Chinese Mushroom in Pot £13.50

SEAFOOD

Fresh Lobster from £26.00 (cooked with Ginger & Spring Onion Sauce or Black Bean & Chilli)
Steamed Halibut £15.50
Sea Bass from £17.00
Turbot from £20.00
(cooked with Ginger & Spring Onion in Soya Sauce or Black Bean Sauce)
Wok-Fried Sliced Monkfish with Fresh Broccoli £12.50
Two-type Monkfish with Seasonal Vegetables (Stir-fried & Golden-fried) £14.50
Deep-fried Crispy King Prawn in Light Batter £12.50
Deep-fried Butterfly King Prawn in Breadcrumbs £12.50
Wok-fried King Prawns with Cashew Nuts £11.50
Sauteed Jumbo Prawns in Szechuan Sauce £14.75
Spiced and Salted Half-Shelled Jumbo Prawns £14.75
Scallops with Cashew Nuts in Bird's Nest £14.75
Squids in Black Bean Sauce with Chilli £11.00
Spiced & Salted Stuffed Squids with Prawn Paste £14.00
Mixed Seafood Nest (Prawn, Scallop, Squid & Monkfish stri-fried with Vegetables in a clear Garlic Sauce) £14.75
Seafood Nest in Spicy Black Bean Sauce with Chilli £14.75

SWEET & SOUR

Sweet & Sour Pork £9.50
Sweet & Sour Chicken £9.50
Sweet & Sour Monkfish £12.50

RICE & NOODLES

Cantonese Chow-Mein £10.50
Seafood Chow-Mein £11.95
Seafood Udon (Japanese Noodles) £11.95
Beef Ho-Fan (Flat Noodles) £9.50
Rice Noodles Singapore Style £6.50
Wok-fried Soft Noodles £4.25
Yung Chow Fried Rice £4.25
Garlic Fried Rice £3.50
Egg Freid Rice £2.50
Boiled Rice £2.30

VEGETARIAN

Vegetarian Chow Mein £8.50
Vegetarian Ho Fan £8.00
Bean Curd with Vegetables £8.50
Stir-Fried Chinese Mushrooms with Broccoli £8.00
Mixed Vegetables in Szechuan Sauce (hot) £7.50 or
(a) Choi Sim or (b) Pak Choi in Oyster sauce £8.00
Bean Curd with Rice Noodles & Vegetables in Pot £10.00

Restaurant menus often vary from day to day, so the above should be treated as examples of what to expect in terms of cuisine and price.

Kweilin Christmas Menu

Restaurant menus often vary from day to day, so the above should be treated as examples of what to expect in terms of cuisine and price.

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