Dragon Castle

You're walking into something genuinely unpretentious here. Dragon Castle is the kind of place where Elephant & Castle locals queue at weekends, where trolleys of dim sum actually move through the dining room, and where the kitchen takes itself seriously without any of the fuss. The room's got that warm, lived-in feeling—red lanterns, tables packed close together, the sort of comfortable chaos that happens when food's this good. Come for lunch and you'll see multigenerational families working through baskets of har gow and siu mai. The roasted duck and pork are exceptional, the sort of thing you'll think about randomly for weeks afterwards.