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A crisp, spicy stir-fry with red and green chillies and sliced peppers, served in a steel dry pot on a wooden table at Taste of Home on Clerk Street.
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Taste of Home

A Chinese restaurant at 53 Clerk Street in Newington, cooking dishes from Sichuan, Hunan and the north-east of China, open every day.

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Clerk Street, on the south side of the city, is lined with small Chinese restaurants, and Taste of Home at number 53 has one of the widest menus of them.

Its menu travels right across China. From Sichuan there's sliced fish in hot chilli oil and dan dan noodles, from Hunan a fiery stir-fry of pork, and from the north-east a slow stew of pork, aubergine and beans, with grilled sea bass and spicy pots for the table. Plates of greens, noodles and rice fill out the rest, so it's a lovely place to order a few dishes and share them between friends. It's open every day from eleven in the morning until ten at night, which makes it as handy for a late lunch after a morning in the Old Town as for dinner, and there's a takeaway too. Tables can be booked, children are welcome, and the Meadows are only a few minutes' walk away.

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Before you go

Open every day from 11am to 10pm, for lunch, dinner and takeaway.

Tables can be booked by phone.

Where
53 Clerk Street, Newington, Edinburgh, EH8 9JQ.
Open
Every day, 11am to 10pm.
Booking
Tables can be booked; call the restaurant.
Takeaway
Order for collection through its own site.
Children
Welcome.
Phone
0131 273 1163

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
11am–10pm
Tuesday
11am–10pm
Wednesday
11am–10pm
Thursday
11am–10pm
Friday
11am–10pm
Saturday
11am–10pm
Sunday
11am–10pm

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Where it is

On Clerk Street in Newington, on the south side of the city, a short walk from the Meadows, EH8 9JQ.

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