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From: restanurant reviews London Category: Art Date: 06 July 2008 Time: 04:49 PM Review: http://www.haozhan.co.uk/ For the word contempoary being involved you will pay double. Salt and chilli squid is crunchy and salty and chilliy but nothing special. The main courses include prawns in wasabi mayonnaise, which taste more of helmans than prawns, and the haozhan special tofu tastes like custard with some innocuous scallops relaxing on top. It really is not great just put on a ractangular plate and decorated. The chilli oil is good full of chilli (Yes this matters). You get less rice the fancier the restaurant, presumably so you can spend more money trying to full up. Really not much point in returning, the decor is contemporary dated (black wood tables etc), and the diners rather nouveau middle-class. Yes it it novel, but not much better than a short story, back to the other chinese restaurants of chinatown where the food is better if less meretricious.