Taiwanese fried chicken sits alongside Japanese pastries, Sichuan fish dishes and Malaysian roti. In the UK capital, restaurants and other businesses run by Chinese immigrants started moving west from Limehouse and the area now known as Docklands after the Second World War, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that the central London area around Lisle Street and Gerrard Street established itself as the modern Chinatown. Thanks to immigration from Hong Kong and nearby regions, the food here was once largely Cantonese, but in recent years it’s diversified, and today there outlets specialising in cuisines from all across Asia. The longest queues, though, are outside the bubble tea cafes.
