Chop Chop Dumpling Restaurant (the Chinese name is much better - 饺子王 translates as 'dumpling king'). Haymarket, Edinburgh.

The Szechuan. Tollcross, Edinburgh.

China Garden. Preston Street, Brighton (you can see the ruined West Pier in the background).

Famous Sichuan. Queen's Road, Brighton (this was definitely not here when I was a student in Brighton!).

Fuzhou Restaurant (Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian province, where many early Chinese immigrants to the UK came from). Chinatown, London.

Young Cheng. Chinatown, London (the Chinese businessmen you can see going into the restaurant were the end few of a very long line - must be a good place...)

Note: I only ate at one of the above restaurants (the Szechuan, more on which still to come), so cannot recommend any of the others!