Lo's Noodle London Ltd

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...

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.

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…..

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.

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) andChar 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.

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.

I used to really like 河粉廠 Lo’s Noodle Factory in London.However recently their quality and food hygiene have dropped a lot.One of the two Lo Noodles that I bought this week had a MASSIVE LONG HAIR, see pictures below.No one in their 'industrial kitchen' uses kitchen hair nets or sth similar, I think that is a must and a mininum.It is very disgusting seeing hair in food, and per my picture so embedded into the food.

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!