Hot soup on a cold spring afternoon
N is visiting England for the first time at the end of the month. She was searching for places to visit when I saw her online this afternoon. I offered a couple of suggestions and a specific shop in Chinatown if she was looking for Chinese food.
Young Cheng in Lisle Street.
I’d stumbled upon the shop one cold April afternoon during my recent trip.
So many shops and the one I went into, I sat down and the waitress came up with a pot of tea and a bowl of something in soup. I said I didn’t order it and she said it was on the house. Oh! Nice! Especially in the cold weather. I ordered the Singapore fried noodles which was greasy. Good thing the soup had quite a bit of meat in it.
(Journal entry, 11 April 2006)
I kept going back to Young Cheng whenever I was in Central London, both for lunch (for the free soup!) and also at least once for dinner. The soup was not only hot, but also filling. The few times I was there, I made the mistake of warming myself up with the soup, so that by the time my lunch item was served, I was already full and had trouble finishing the food! But then, I couldn’t very well have taken just the soup and not ordered anything else to eat. I would not have been welcomed back there if I had!
