Incidentally the Chinatown in Wardour St WC1 isn't the original Chinatown in London. In common with Liverpool (grim) it was by the docks. It was in Limehouse.

So when you read Sherlock Holmes and the like and they have to go to Chinatown - that's where they were going.

It was bombed flat in the war and the people moved into the, then run down, Soho.

Sadly there's nothing left of the orginal apart from this sculpture commemorating its history:

http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/..._200/H5089.jpg

JulieVikmanis:
2 more, how could I forget them! One of the nicest Chinese meals was at:
La?????, Rue Thorel, 10eme. Metro Bonne-Nouvelle.

And an evening eating outdoors(large seating) was at a chinese restaurant at Place de Costa Rica, 16eme. Metro Passy.

Sorry I couldn't remember the names but they are walk-in places if your go early-ish.

Oh, just remembered we had a FABULOUS meal at Sinotak, 39 Rue des Dames when we were in Paris this May. Wonderful personal attention and nothing was too much trouble. Wonderfully clean and modern.

Had to chuckle at a Chinese resto named Tin Tin - not quite Tintin but the same sound as this perpetual hero of French kids - talking about Herge's Tintin books that when my son was really young would read over and over.

Pal -We thought that too when we first saw Tin Tin in Belleville!
My DH loves the one in Place de Torcy (went there twice when staying at Hotel Torcy), its much smaller. I promised him a further dinner there in July next year.

Very interesting Cholmondley_Warner! BTW, Happy birthday!

''It was in Limehouse. So when you read Sherlock Holmes and the like and they have to go to Chinatown - that's where they were going.''

I didn't know that either - an interesting factoid indeed!