Yauatcha & London's China Town

Today I went walking around China Town, which is fast becoming one of my favourite haunts. Apart from fantastic stores that stock a wide variety of jasmine teas, exotic spices and various oriental nick knacks, the place has some truly wonderful restaurants. I found a shop that was called 'Feng Shui' and adorned wall to wall in colourful fish lanterns, which made the place seem playful and welcoming. I also found an interesting shop that sells Chinese pastries and sweets.
The smell that was wafting through street, inticed me to sit down and have a sticky bun and herbal tea. The hustle and bustle of China Town in the early morning also adds to an endearing atmosphere, despite the rumours of Chinese mafia chopping people's heads off with traditional swords. I resisted the urge to buy lanterns, fans or even silk slippers and made my way to Yauatcha for lunch.

Yauatcha is an awesome (but expensive) restaurant in Soho, on the corner of Broadwick & Berwick Street. It is both a tea house and Dim Sum restaurant, to be precise. On the top floor, one is greeted with an array of colourful delicacies, that seem almost too beautiful to eat. Here, you can choose from various cakes and puddings and a rich assortment of teas. Nothing is displeasing; a beautiful waitress, in Chinese dress, pours you steaming tea into beautiful crockery. I like the feeling of being pampered...even if I am paying for it. Below, is the Dim Sum restaurant and I can't even begin to name some of my favourite dishes. I like the atmosphere here and I also like the added snobbery of trotting off to the bathroom to wash my hands in delictable Molten Brown hand soap, which then bubbles away down a glorious basin shaped like a water feature ^^