“In a short time, this restaurant has acquired a well-deserved reputation for quality, value and authenticity.”

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“I was well impressed with Chop Chop. It is a very useful restaurant – cheap, fresh, tasty, and healthy.”

Joanna Blythman. Sunday Herald Magazine.

“The perfect place for cheap and easy eating, with a conspicuously child-friendly mindset and food that is well out of the ordinary.”

Richard Bath, Scotland on Sunday.

“It’s simple, straightforward an perfectly judged. Chop Chop might well be Edinburgh’s best Chinese restaurant.”

Mark Fisher, The Herald.

“A place to enjoy sharing a meal of no-nonsense northern Chinese fare at incredibly low prices.”

Finlay Wilson, Edinburgh Evening News

“It’s simple, straightforward an perfectly judged. Chop Chop might well be Edinburgh’s best Chinese restaurant.”

Mark Fisher, The Herald.

“Chop Chop is the kind of place that generates queues around the block in exclusive London neighbourhoods.”

The Sunday Times

“Like no potato salad I have ever had before... Delicious. Far more than the sum of its parts. Likewise with the cucumber salad.”

Ron MacKenna, The Herald Magazine.

"Serving the dishes they love in China"

"Can a billion people be wrong?"

Opening hours

Tues – Fri
12.00 to 2.00 & 5.30 to 10.30

Saturday & Sunday
5.00 to 11.00

Lamb, Beef, Rice and Desserts

Lamb

Lamb with cumin seed

Small pieces of flavoured lamb. A very popular barbecue dish in China.

71	Small	£5.20
72	Large	£9.45

823	Stir-fried lamb and potatoes (s)	£8.90
831	Sliced potato and lamb Richly flavoured thin potato slices with lamb strips.	£8.45
833	Lamb and turnip broth Lamb strips with turnip and white pepper in a tasty broth	£7.50
748	Crispy Northern Lamb Crispy battered lamb strips in a soy, vinegar and sugar dressing	£9.25

Beef

Sliced beef

Beef boiled with garlic and Chinese flavours, garnished with coriander, served cold.

79	Small	£4.05
80	Large	£7.30

818	Stir-fried spicy beef (s)	£8.80
824	Stir-fried beef and potatoes (s)	£8.90
749	Crispy Northern Beef Crispy battered beef strips in a soy, vinegar and sugar dressing	£9.25
832	Sliced potato and beef Richly flavoured thin potato slices with beef strips	£8.45

Rice

135	Small Boiled rice (serves one)	£1.50
136	Large boiled rice (serves four)	£4.40
137	Small fried rice (serves one)	£1.70
138	Large fried rice(serves four)	£5.05

Desserts

Mixed fruit dumplings

Four hand-made mixed fruit dumplings deep-fried in a wheatflour pastry case.

111	Small (4 Dumplings)	£3.40
112	Large (8 Dumplings)	£6.10

113	Ice Cream One scoop of finest vanilla, strawberry, chocolate ice cream or mango sorbet or lemon sorbet.	£1.50
114	Ice Cream Two scoops as above	£2.60
115	Peanut Dumplings Six fried dumplings with a peanut butter, raisin, sugar and sesame seed filling.	£3.40
116	Sugar string apple (serves two) Cooked apple pieces in a caramelised sugar coating.	£6.80
117	Sugar String Pancake Cooked pancake pieces in a caramelised sugar coating.	£6.80
914	Sugar string potato (serves two) Cooked sweet potato pieces in a caramelised sugar coating.	£6.80