Got some steamed buns with a bean paste filling and ho fun noodles.
Located in a rather conspicious back alley, but having taken them home and prepared the food this was really great.
Enjoyed the taste of the steam bun and prepared some veg and chicken with the noodles. Really lovely taste to them.
Would like to come back and try the other items on the menu.
河粉廠 Lo’s Noodle Factory is literally the only place you should get your Ho Fun noodles in London!
It is deliciously authentic, bouncy and flavoursome. They have been a Chinatown landmark for years and any local Cantonese Londoner can direct you to this hidden gem in the heart of Chinatown, London.
Their price is affordable and the noodles are freshly made on their premises daily. I love making Beef with Beansprouts Ho Fun and Malaysian style Ho Fun with their noodles - it elevates your Ho Fun dish to another level.
It is a MUST buy when food shopping in Chinatown.
(Other recommended items to try are both the Cheung Fun noodles腸粉，淨腸粉, the Steamed Cake 馬拉糕and the Chinese Rice Pudding 砵仔糕.)
Always a stop for me to stock up on ho fun, plain cheung fun and radish cake.
So tasty, quality and such great value! The noodles are so fresh and silky!
Bring cash. You’ll need to bring a plastic bag or pay for a carrier bag.
It is indeed down an unwelcoming alley, but keep going, you’re definitely not lost!
Definitely the best Cantonese dim sum / rice noodle factory in London, preserving old Cantonese traditional way to produce. Radish Cake and Rice roll is highly recommended. They also have Lunar New Year pudding in January.
800g of top-notch Rice Noodles for £3! This place takes you back to HK.
There's plenty more to try, but the noodles are the main draw here. This is what I call a hidden gem!
One of Chinatown's hidden gems that is well known and respected amongst the Chinese community is Lo's Noodle Factory... tucked away in one of the side alleys of Chinatown where you'll usually find a large queue of Chinese Asians queuing outside a rather unassuming entranceway waiting patiently to buy ho fun noodles, char siu baos, lor back goa and other goodies... The owner Wai’s great uncle (then a restaurateur) opened Lo’s in the late 70s, essentially to out-do his own noodle supplier who was charging him too much. The rest is history and now Lo’s supply their Ho Fun and Cheung Fun Noodles to 90% of Chinatown’s restaurants and the Chinese community (from overseas Chinese students to expats) for over four decades...
Hidden gem and a must visit! Apparently a couple of asian restaurants order their noodles from Lo’s. Super affordable and yummy chinese kuay tiao and bao. Highly recommend to get the radish cake, very authentic and best eaten pan-fried!
Great place for authentic cantonese dishes at an economical price point, sans hygiene.
The yam cake might as well have been a flight ticket because it sent me back to the streets of Hong Kong when fried with eggs and topped with spring onions and XO chilli sauce. Throw in some spinach for your five a day!
Char siew bao, nice bun but dry filling, not bad.
Cheong Fann, buy.
Steamed cake, delightful on a cold day, slap it on a steamer and soon you have a fluffy slice of cake with notes of molasses and caramel.
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I only heard of this place through word of mouth. This became my to-go place if my OH or I were to visit London.
My OH went there at its earliest, bought one of everything to try and brought them all back to Manchester. As by name, it's not a restaurant so the food items are for you to take home for reheating. He said he only spent around £35 for 11 products. The price is very reasonable such as £3 for 6 baos, £4 for entire roll of glutinous rice bao and £3 for 8 mini boot chai go (砵仔糕) and etc. This is cheaper than Chinese supermarkets in Manchester let alone being in Chinatown in London.
Our verdict:
Rice noodle roll (腸粉) and Ho fun (河粉)- Made fresh on the day. Really fresh and smooth. Not too greasy and it was so good; better than dim sum restaurant. Same for the Steamed Sponge Cake (馬拉糕), they were so soft and fluffy just like the ones served in dim sum restaurants.
Boot chai go (砵仔糕) - QQ texture, not chalky and not too sweet. A bit different to the ones we usually have with red beans elsewhere but they're still as good as they are.
Glutinous rice roll (糯米卷) - the glutinous rice wasn't too soft/sticky and you can still see the whole grain. It had this hint of savoury flavour; not strong at all. I enjoyed them but it's a personal preference.
Taro cake (芋頭糕) had this savoury flavour but texture was all smooth and I would prefer some small pieces of taro whilst Mooli cake (蘿蔔糕) tasted quite plain by itself but there were pieces of mooli.
Both Chinese sausage buns (臘腸卷) and
Char Siu bun (叉燒包) meat was either chewy or dry as there wasn't much BBQ sauce but the softness of the bao dough made it up.
Both Custard bun (奶黃包) and Red Bean Bun (豆沙包) were my least favourite. The fillings were mediocre and gloopy. I only enjoyed the bao dough itself which was soft and fluffy.
You have to go down a dingy alley to get there. You can buy FRESH ho fun noodles which are delicious. I preferred these to their cheung fun. The bao buns are also freshly made as well. You can get pork, chicken and red bean. This is not a restaurant. You buy it and take it home to cook. Such good value. Really worth trying…..
Lo’s Noodle Factory (河粉廠 ) is like a landmark in China Town, London. The food is fresh and authentically delicious, good value. The only issue is that the environment of the alley is not decent. Don't forget to bring cash if you are buying anything.
A hidden gem! I bought Taro cake because never seen anything alike in shops. This is actually a savoury food, so don’t let the name mislead you. It is very yummy, slight taste of shrimp, just pan fry both sides.
Cash only!
Decide what you want to try before you go, owner not going to explain in detail what each food is but you can see them all laid out in the shop.
I've been coming back here for a few years now. At first I only bought the ho fun (he fen or rice noodles) and then gradually bought more and more baos! They have never let me down on price or quality so I would recommend them 👍
Hidden gem in Chinatown! Buying goods made from white powder in a shady alley way with cash makes the experience all the better. The guy handing off the goods is nice and talkative. Really cool spot to buy your carbs.
Bought the red bean buns. The store was located in a back alley but its easy to find it with google map. Apparently they only accept cash so remember to bring some in your pockets!
Lo other noodle will be good enough after Lo's!! Thick cheng fun for snacking or stirfrying, thin for soup noodles. So fresh it's still warm from the steamer. Byo plastic bag and don't mind the smell of the resident rubbish bins
Affordable Hong Kong style takeaway. Very good homemade radish cake(蘿蔔糕) and ho fun. Cash only.
Very legit place! As a Hong Konger, I can confirm this is where you’ll get nice and buns! I got their sponge cake, char siu buns, red bean paste buns.. all decent considering the cheap price!
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