Stylish and sexy, this place serves dim sum all day at equally attractive prices. There’s no booking, just join the queue and feast away.

Feast London

The atmosphere at Ping Pong makes it especially hard to set the chopsticks down; everyone is having such a chin-wagging good time, the service is so smilingly efficient and the cocktails are so enormous that you just can’t help but join in.

Reach

A slinky dim sum bar with a simple, oriental asthetic.

London Lite

Ping Pong – small chain of fabulous restaurants specialising in making dim sum sexy.

Where London

It’s a good choice for a fun night out with creative cocktails and dumpling snacks.

Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2007

Gone are grumpy waiters and shabby dining rooms, and it’s in with curved bars and slick service.

Evening Standard

A fab concept – these sleek and affordable hang-outs offer a dim sum formula (plus lovely cocktails and jasmine tea) conducive to great social eating.

Hardens 2008

Ping Pong is a cavernous dim sum palace. Service is brisk and efficient, and those prices go a long way to calming the inner gastronome.

Charles Campion’s London Restaurant Guide 2008

Having never had dim sum, I found Ping Pong the perfect introductory experience and would definitely recommend it to a friend. Or several.

G3

As soon as you walk into the uber-chic minimalist surroundings it’s like being transported to downtown Hong Kong. It’s energetic buzz makes this the perfect place for a contemporary lunch or dinner.

AXM

Serving dim sum in sleek chocolate-hued surroundings, this is a chain that’s expanding widely on a promise of little steamed parcels of deliciousness, and delicious they are.

Hill

It’s reasonably priced and rather swish. Try the bizarre ‘bubble tea’: spiced iced tea laced with fat, chewy tapioca pearls to be slurped through a special fat straw. Weird, but addictive

Metro

Ping Pong is a jolly place.  Service is brisk and efficient and those prices go a long way to calming the inner gastonome.

Charles Campion, Evening Standard

Ping Pong is to Yauatcha what Miu Miu is to Prada

Toby Young, ES Magazine

... At Ping Pong, a sleek and stylish new London restaurant that specializes in upscale dim sum,even the jasmine tea is a knock-out.When the server pours boiling water from a copper pot into the tall ,narrow glass set before the customer , a tea ball inside the glass unfurls to release the tea-and a fresh,edible jasmine flower in a lush,fragrant cloud of steam.Only one person has to order tea for the whole dining room to want it.

Restaurant Business - American issue

"This good-looking Soho dim sum specialist is spread over two floors,with diners downstairs getting a theatrical,if noisy,view of the noodle-making.The set menus ( for about £10 a head) offer an excellent  introduction to dim sum,with steamed prawn dumplings,and sticky rice,baked pork puffs and two scoops of ice-cream. Alternatively, order dim sum individually,from chicken feet to hoi sin duck rolls..."

THE TIMES ,The Knowledge

"Ping Pong is an affordable but classy dim sum restaurant. It has stylish modern interiors, a classic dim sum menu, tasty cocktails, and a selection of beautiful Chinese flower teas."
www.visitlondon.com Winter Wonderland Mayor of London.

"Had dim sum lunch at Ping Pong with Cheyok and her friends.
I don't particularly like Chinese cuisine. But when it is served in style, I like it. Ping Pong, a dim sum restaurant in Soho, is hardly an ordinary Chinese restaurant. As the design of its official website suggests, its decor is like a cafe in a contemporary art museum. What impressed us was their jasmine tea. A tall glass with a ball-shaped dried jasmine leaf in it is served for each of us. A waiter pours hot water in it. Then the jasmine leaf ball begins budding, a jasmine flower emerging. It does taste proper jasmine tea. When you finish it, a waiter adds hot water again. I should have brought my camera to show this to this blog's readers...

If you like the way Chinese people eat food, maybe this place is a bit too sophisticated and pretentious. But if you like Chinese food but don't like the messy atmosphere typical of East Asia, this is your place to go.

Oh, the bill was 15 quid each. Not too bad at all, heh?"
Econoclasm - blog

"A no booking (except tables for 8) dim sum only restaurant which has the benefit of modern stylish design, really good, if not cutting edge dim sum...but best of all, not expensive. The kids will love it!"
22 JERMYN STREET- A private hotel in London

" This friendly new comer, near Liberty's, offers good-value dim sum in a stylish and impressive setting, and was already deservedly busy on an early visit in June'05; a further site, in Bayswater, has already been acquired - the 1st of many planned for the next 5 years"Food 2 ( very good) Service 1 (excellent) Ambience 1 ( excellent).
HARDEN'S London Restaurants

“…Ping Pong serves a selection of dim sum standards all day, but charges 50 % less for them … A sure-fire winner”
Evening Standard, ES Magazine

“The aim is to offer customers authentic, top-quality dim sum (steamed or deep-fried sweet or savoury snacks, traditional to Chinese cuisine)…the drinks line-up aims to be as competitively priced as food. …Ping Pong is light on service, but in a good way – no song and dance, just swift, efficient delivery.”
BBC OLIVE Magazine

“…the visually striking Ping Pong…serves dim sum in a dramatic setting. Prices are very reasonable…bringing our bill to under £30 ,with drinks and service”
BRITISH AIRWAYS, Business Life.