Chinese Food Blog

Our Chinese food blog is where we write about the dishes we cook at 45 South Bridge: what goes into them, where they come from, and how to order well whether you are eating in or taking away.

Start with the guides below if you are choosing a takeaway for the first time, or read the kitchen notes if you already know what you like and want the detail behind it. Everything here is written from our own kitchen in Edinburgh rather than scraped from elsewhere, and if a dish is not on our menu we say so rather than pretending.

If you are deciding what to order rather than what to read, the menu is the better place to start: it is kept current, priced, and arranged by section so you can move from starters to roast meats without scrolling. If you want the background first, read on.

We add to this blog when there is something worth saying about a dish or an ingredient, not on a schedule. That means a small number of longer pieces rather than a stream of short ones, and no repetition of the same list of popular dishes across five different pages.

The blog is arranged so you can read by interest rather than date. If you want to understand how Chinese cooking works, start with the piece on what Chinese food actually is and then the one on food culture; between them they explain more than most restaurant menus ever will.

If you are ordering rather than reading, the guides on popular takeaway dishes and on the most popular dishes in China will do more for your next meal than any list of fifty items. For the local side of things, the takeaway and delivery pages carry what we cook and how we send it out.

Start here: the full Chinese food menu in Edinburgh, Chinese takeaway from South Bridge, and book a table at Jimmy’s Express.