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
Canton Element Chinese Restaurant Menu
Appetisers
Smoked Shredded Chicken
Salt & Pepper Soft Shell Crab
Deep fried soft shell crab in homemade butter with garlic, salt & chilli
Salt and Pepper Fried Tofu
Crispy Seaweed
Chinese cabbage sprinkled with ground fried fish
Steamed Chilli Aubergines
Steamed aubergines garnished with spring onions in a Szechuan sauce
Garlic Sesame Prawn on Toast
Bread garlic butter, prawns and sesame seed
Grilled Turnip Cubes
Fried Chinese turnip cubes served with chilli sauce
Satay Chicken on Skewer
Served with Peanut Sauce
Salt & Pepper Spare Ribs
Tossed with garlic, chilli & spring onion
Salt & Pepper King Prawns
Tossed with garlic, chilli & spring onions
Salt & Pepper Squid
Tossed with garlic, chilli and spring onions
Salt & Pepper Chicken Wings
Tossed with garlic, chilli & spring onions
Deep Fried Won Tons
Crunchy won tons filled with crab meat, shrimps, served with sweet chilli sauce
Capital Spare Ribs
Jellyfish with Shredded Chicken (Cold Dish)
Scallion Chicken (Cold Dish)
Prawn Crackers
Rolls
Vegetarian Spring Rolls
Crispy and filled with Chinese mushroom, carrots and bamboo shoots
Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Crispy filled with prawns and pork served with sweet chilli
Sesame Prawns Roll
Garlic Prawns with Beancurd Skin Rolls
Crispy Duck Rolls
Served with hoi sin sauce
Soup
Hot Sour Soup
With barbequed pork, shrimp, mushrooms, tofu and egg
Won Ton Soup
Clear broth with seasonal vegetable and prawn& pork won tons.
Prawns Dumplings Soup
Sweet Corn Soup With egg
Mixed Seafood with Tofu Broth
Prawn, crabmeat & scallop
Thai Tom Yum
Thai flavoured Soup with lemon grass, peas, mushroom, tomatoes, chilli & thai herbs
Congee
Fish Congee
Preserved Egg & Pork Congee
Steamed Chicken with Chinese Mushroom Congee
HK Steamed Claypot Rice
Steamed Chicken Feet & Pork Ribs
with Rice in Black Bean Sauce
Steamed Chicken & Chinese Pork Sausage with soya sauce on rice
Second Course
Crispy Aromatic Duck
Served with pancakes, Spring Onions, cucumber & Hoi Sin Sauce
Poultry
Roast Duck (Boneless)
Stir Fried Sliced Duck in Black Bean Sauce
Claypot Chicken With Shao Xing Wine, Sweet Basil & Spring Onions
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Claypot Chicken with Black Beans & Shallots
Sweet Chilli Kung Po Chicken with Cashew Nuts & Dried Chilli
Diced Chicken & Salted Fish with Tofu Pot
Hot & Spicy Fried Chicken “Chong Qing” Style
Deep Fried Golden Chicken Wings with Salted Egg
Meat
Honey & Black Pepper Pork Chop
Sweet & Sour Pork
Chilli Shredded Beef with Mango
Fillet Steak in Mandarin Sauce
Stir Fried Sliced Beef with Black Bean Sauce
Sweet & Sour Chopped Ribs
Salt & Pepper Pork Chop
Pork Chop in Mandarin Sauce
Steamed Minced Pork with Salted Eggs Yolks
Claypot Curry Beef Flank
Recommendation
Stir Fried Scallops, King Prawns with Asparagus
Stir Fried Black Pepper Rib-Eye Beef Steak with Red Merlot Wine
Claypot Fish with Aubergine in Sea Spicy Sauce
Claypot Braised Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetable in Soy sauce
Claypot Lamb Stew with Dry Beancurd
Red Beancurd Pork Knuckle Pot
Steamed Chicken Feet & Pork Ribs in Black Bean Sauce
Steamed Sea Bass
With ginger & spring onions in light soya sauce
Sweet & Sour Sea Bass with Pine Nuts
King Prawn with Scrambled Eggs
Wasabi King Prawns
Spicy King Prawns Sichuan Style
Sweet Chilli Kung Po Prawns
Cantonese Style Sweet & Sour Prawns
Claypot Braised Tofu With Fish Meat in Brown Sauce
Stir Fried King Prawns with Asparagus
Fillet Fish in Sweet Corn Sauce
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