Taiwanese restaurants in London
4 places
Good Friend Chicken
£Taiwanese popcorn chicken fried to order in Chinatown - salt, pepper and fried basil, eaten standing up.
Leong's Legend
££A Taiwanese snack house hung with Water Margin murals, where the all-you-can-eat hot pot runs around GBP 25 a head - among the cheapest sit-down pots in Chinatown.
Mr Bao
££Gua bao and Taiwanese small plates in Peckham, at a price that makes it a regular rather than a trip.
If everything else is full
Reliable rather than remarkable. These are chains — worth knowing about when you need somewhere open, not worth a journey.
Din Tai Fung
£££Xiao long bao folded to eighteen pleats behind glass - the Taiwanese chain Ken Hom put in the New York Times' world top ten, and its first London site.