The bright and cosy décor feels more like an Ikea showpiece, while staff were friendly and patient – if not quite as efficient as their more brusque Chinatown counterparts. If nothing else, Duck Duck Goose is a far more welcoming place than most Chinatown restaurants. This, along with the approachability of roasted meat, the difficulties in recruiting and keeping trained chefs and the limitations imposed by Duck Duck Goose’s tiny kitchen, almost certainly explain the proprietor’s decision to stick with roast poultry and pork. Duck Duck Goose is located in Brixton though, a part of town hardly known for Chinese cuisine (with perhaps one exception).

This Brixton restaurant focuses on Cantonese roasted meats, a staple already well covered by multiple Chinatown restaurants. This increased regional representation makes Duck Duck Goose even more of an oddity. For years it was the only kind of Chinese food widely available in the capital, with other cuisines from the continent-sized country only becoming prevalent in the past decade or so.

If there’s one thing that London isn’t short of, it’s Cantonese restaurants.

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