London's Gerrard Street in the centrally located Chinatown offers a wide selection of authentic dishes for those yearning for a taste of home while exploring the British capital. Golden Dragon 28 Gerrard Street Although Gerrard Street is packed with Chinese restaurants, the popular Golden Dragon maintains the ambience and style of a good Hong Kong eatery better than most. A meal for six, including Peking Duck and a few bottles of Tsingtao, costs about GBP25 (HK$385) per person. The skin of the bird wasn't as crispy as that served in Hong Kong, but the meat was tender and served in more generous portions. New China 48 Gerrard Street With large windows perfect for people-watching and traditional-style green-tiled eaves, New China stands out at the Leicester Square entrance to Gerrard Street. It's a modern dim sum restaurant with a full menu, but minus the squeaky trolleys stacked with bamboo containers. It offers deep-fried yam dumplings, barbecue pork buns and beef tripe with ginger and spring onion - all for a mere #2.40. Other selections include crispy red bean balls and wrapped ducks' feet in black pepper sauce. Tai Ka Lok 18 Gerrard Street If you like your meat dripping in fat then the Tai Ka Lok (above) is a must. And in the best tradition of Cantonese cuisine, the pork, chicken and duck are chopped up and hung in the window. The management proudly proclaims that it has 'recruited the famous BBQ master, Mr Tham, from Hong Kong'. Tham is billed as specialising in 'flat' roast duck, suckling pig and golden roast duck prepared, naturally, to a special recipe. Such fare, 'once eaten, never forgotten [is] unique, aromatic, crispy and smooth', so the blurb runs. Set meals vary from GBP7 to GBP15 per person for six to eight dishes, including rice. China China 3 Gerrard Street Part of the fun of eating here is watching the two chefs in action at an open food-preparation area at the front windows. One chops his way through a seemingly endless supply of meat and vegetables, while the other manages two steaming cauldrons of stock. On the corner of Gerrard Street and Gerrard Place, China China is a typical Hong Kong-type eatery, offering dim sum, goose, chicken, duck, pork, squid and beef dishes. A set meal for two of chicken and sweet corn soup, fried beef with mushrooms, chicken and cashew nuts, sweet and sour pork and fried rice is GBP9.50 per person. A five-diner spread of 11 dishes, including sweet and sour prawns, crispy aromatic duck and baked spare ribs, costs GBP17 per person. Kowloon Chinese Cafe-Cake Shop 21 Gerrard Street For those who miss their Cantonese treats, the Kowloon Chinese (below) is the place to go - a favourite with Chinatown residents, Londoners and tourists alike. The takeaway section offers freshly made egg tarts (70p each), sweet rice pastries (75p), sultana twisted buns (75p), chestnut cream rolls (GBP1.10) and lotus moon cakes (GBP1). The family-run outlet has a seating area where customers can enjoy preserved duck egg with lotus pastry, plus a drinks list that stretches to Taiwan foam pearl delight iced tea and iced sesame pearl delight.