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Canton Element Chinese Restaurant Menu

September 8, 2026
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Canton Element Chinese Restaurant is a licensed Cantonese restaurant at 48 Red Lion Street in Holborn. The modern dining room provides a calm setting for lunch and dinner, while bookable karaoke rooms downstairs add a more social option for groups and celebrations.

Dim sum is a major part of the menu, with steamed and grilled choices joined by rolls, soups and congee. The smaller portions make it possible to share several dishes, whether diners are stopping for a focused dim sum lunch or beginning a longer evening meal.

The wider menu covers poultry, meat and vegetable dishes alongside steamed claypot rice, rice plates, noodles and noodle soups. Cantonese favourites sit beside house recommendations, allowing a table to combine roast and slow cooked flavours with vegetables and staple dishes.

Desserts complete the selection, while table service, reservations and alcohol service make Canton Element suitable for both everyday meals and planned occasions. Its mix of shareable dim sum and larger traditional dishes works particularly well for groups who want to explore several parts of the menu together.

Address: 48 Red Lion Street, Holborn, London WC1R 4PF, England

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Canton Element Chinese Restaurant Menu

Appetisers

Smoked Shredded Chicken
£9.80
Salt & Pepper Soft Shell Crab
£10.50

Deep fried soft shell crab in homemade butter with garlic, salt & chilli

Salt and Pepper Fried Tofu
£9.80
Crispy Seaweed
£4.80

Chinese cabbage sprinkled with ground fried fish

Steamed Chilli Aubergines
£5.80

Steamed aubergines garnished with spring onions in a Szechuan sauce

Garlic Sesame Prawn on Toast
£8.80

Bread garlic butter, prawns and sesame seed

Grilled Turnip Cubes
£7.50

Fried Chinese turnip cubes served with chilli sauce

Satay Chicken on Skewer
£8.30

Served with Peanut Sauce

Salt & Pepper Spare Ribs
£9.80

Tossed with garlic, chilli & spring onion

Salt & Pepper King Prawns
£10.80

Tossed with garlic, chilli & spring onions

Salt & Pepper Squid
£10.80

Tossed with garlic, chilli and spring onions

Salt & Pepper Chicken Wings
£9.80

Tossed with garlic, chilli & spring onions

Deep Fried Won Tons
£8.80

Crunchy won tons filled with crab meat, shrimps, served with sweet chilli sauce

Capital Spare Ribs
£9.80
Jellyfish with Shredded Chicken (Cold Dish)
£12.80
Scallion Chicken (Cold Dish)
£11.80
Prawn Crackers
£3.80

Rolls

Vegetarian Spring Rolls
£5.80

Crispy and filled with Chinese mushroom, carrots and bamboo shoots

Vietnamese Spring Rolls
£6.10

Crispy filled with prawns and pork served with sweet chilli

Sesame Prawns Roll
£7.90
Garlic Prawns with Beancurd Skin Rolls
£7.90
Crispy Duck Rolls
£7.90

Served with hoi sin sauce

Soup

Hot Sour Soup
£5.80

With barbequed pork, shrimp, mushrooms, tofu and egg

Won Ton Soup
£5.80

Clear broth with seasonal vegetable and prawn& pork won tons.

Prawns Dumplings Soup
£6.80
Sweet Corn Soup With egg
Chicken £5.80 / Crab £6.10
Mixed Seafood with Tofu Broth
£7.20

Prawn, crabmeat & scallop

Thai Tom Yum
Chicken £5.80 / Prawns £6.10

Thai flavoured Soup with lemon grass, peas, mushroom, tomatoes, chilli & thai herbs

Congee

Fish Congee
£8.30
Preserved Egg & Pork Congee
£8.30
Steamed Chicken with Chinese Mushroom Congee
£8.30

HK Steamed Claypot Rice

Steamed Chicken Feet & Pork Ribs
£10.50

with Rice in Black Bean Sauce

Steamed Chicken & Chinese Pork Sausage with soya sauce on rice
£10.50

Second Course

Crispy Aromatic Duck
Quarter £13.80 / Half £26 / Whole £45

Served with pancakes, Spring Onions, cucumber & Hoi Sin Sauce

Poultry

Roast Duck (Boneless)
Half £19 / Whole £35
Stir Fried Sliced Duck in Black Bean Sauce
£13.80
Claypot Chicken With Shao Xing Wine, Sweet Basil & Spring Onions
£13.80
Sweet & Sour Chicken
£13.80
Claypot Chicken with Black Beans & Shallots
£13.80
Sweet Chilli Kung Po Chicken with Cashew Nuts & Dried Chilli
£13.80
Diced Chicken & Salted Fish with Tofu Pot
£13.80
Hot & Spicy Fried Chicken “Chong Qing” Style
£13.80
Deep Fried Golden Chicken Wings with Salted Egg
£11.80

Meat

Honey & Black Pepper Pork Chop
£13.80
Sweet & Sour Pork
£13.80
Chilli Shredded Beef with Mango
£13.80
Fillet Steak in Mandarin Sauce
£17.80
Stir Fried Sliced Beef with Black Bean Sauce
£13.80
Sweet & Sour Chopped Ribs
£13.80
Salt & Pepper Pork Chop
£13.80
Pork Chop in Mandarin Sauce
£13.80
Steamed Minced Pork with Salted Eggs Yolks
£13.80
Claypot Curry Beef Flank
£13.80

Recommendation

Stir Fried Scallops, King Prawns with Asparagus
£17.80
Stir Fried Black Pepper Rib-Eye Beef Steak with Red Merlot Wine
£17.80
Claypot Fish with Aubergine in Sea Spicy Sauce
£14.80
Claypot Braised Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetable in Soy sauce
£16.80
Claypot Lamb Stew with Dry Beancurd
£17.80
Red Beancurd Pork Knuckle Pot
£15.80
Steamed Chicken Feet & Pork Ribs in Black Bean Sauce
£12.80
Steamed Sea Bass
Half £12.80

With ginger & spring onions in light soya sauce

Sweet & Sour Sea Bass with Pine Nuts
Half £12.80
King Prawn with Scrambled Eggs
£15.80
Wasabi King Prawns
£15.80
Spicy King Prawns Sichuan Style
£15.80
Sweet Chilli Kung Po Prawns
£15.80
Cantonese Style Sweet & Sour Prawns
£15.80
Claypot Braised Tofu With Fish Meat in Brown Sauce
£14.80
Stir Fried King Prawns with Asparagus
£16.80
Fillet Fish in Sweet Corn Sauce
£14.80