En Voyage - Issue #8
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Food<br />
Top quality Chinese food might not be what you’re expecting on a visit to a small<br />
island in the <strong>En</strong>glish Channel, but nestled on Guernsey’s east coast is China Red,<br />
a gem of a restaurant that has been voted number seven in The Independent’s<br />
top 10 UK Chinese restaurants, as well as the number one restaurant overall in<br />
Guernsey on TripAdvisor.<br />
With an impressive range of<br />
authentic Chinese food, Dim<br />
Sum and Chinese teas, China<br />
Red has been a firm favourite<br />
with Guernsey locals and visitors<br />
alike for 10 years since it first<br />
opened its doors in 2007.<br />
The extensive menu offers<br />
classic favourites such as Crispy<br />
Aromatic Duck, Won Ton Soup,<br />
Crispy Seaweed and Satay<br />
Skewers, but there is much more<br />
than your standard Chinese<br />
menu items on offer here. The<br />
chef has done an incredible job<br />
of producing a menu that sticks<br />
true to its Chinese roots while<br />
giving it a Guernsey twist, making<br />
the most of the fresh ingredients<br />
available locally. As a result fresh<br />
seafood features heavily on the<br />
menu with mouthwatering items<br />
such as Kung Po chilli prawns<br />
garnished with cashew nuts,<br />
deep-fried crispy squid with<br />
Szechuan peppercorn salt, and<br />
fresh local lobster with Szechuan<br />
firecracker chillies. Local Sea<br />
Bass, Turbot and Brill are available<br />
either steamed with spring onions<br />
and ginger or black bean sauce<br />
or pan-fried with dark soya.<br />
There’s also plenty on offer for<br />
vegetarians with items such as stirfried<br />
asparagus with bean sprouts<br />
and cashew nuts, braised bamboo<br />
shoots and Chinese mushrooms,<br />
and pan-fried aubergines in black<br />
bean sauce being favourites with<br />
non-vegetarians as well. There is<br />
also an impressive tofu section<br />
to the menu. China Red is also<br />
able to do an amazing 85% of<br />
its menu items gluten free.<br />
Those of you who suffer from<br />
indecisiveness will be pleased to<br />
hear China Red has a range of set<br />
menus which boast their most<br />
popular items, available for two,<br />
three or four people. With all the<br />
hard work of reading through the<br />
menu done for you, all you need<br />
to do is sit back and wait for the<br />
food to be brought to your table.<br />
70 <strong>En</strong> <strong>Voyage</strong> | Aurigny’s Magazine
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