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Summer Of Health At Ping Pong Restaurants Review

The ‘Summer of Health’ menu has launched at Ping Pong restaurants in London. Over the past few months Ping Pong Dim Sum master Ruby Wu and nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert, founder of Harley Street clinic Rhitrition, have teamed up to create nutritionally balanced and delicious menu items perfect for summer.

Featuring fresh Asian and flavoursome ingredients that are full of protein, antioxidants and vitamins it is a vividly colourful menu that’s healthy for both body and spirit. Lots of vegetables for fibre and miso for gut health are used. Ruby and Rhiannon’s goal was to create a unique, non-boring healthy menu that leaves an overall new explosion of flavours in your mouth. Their hard work paid off with the launch of the Summer of Health menu on Wednesday 5th June.

Rhiannon was specifically asked to create two dumplings, a salad and a desert. We were fortunate to sample all five items on the new menu. The salad is called the Re-fresh Superfood Miso and Ginger Salad and costs £8.95. It comprises carrot, cucumber, spring onion, red chilli, quinoa, broccoli, adzuki beans and pomegranate seeds while the dressing is white Miso paste, vinegar, vegetable oil, ginger, lemon juice and water. It is both vegan and gluten free. We all thoroughly enjoyed the salad as shown by the clean plates.

My favourite dish of the night was the miso aubergine dumplings (£3.95). As the name implies it features aubergine, along with chickpeas and quinoa and a host of spices and herbs like paprika, coriander, chilli and garlic. I definitely could have had more of these dumplings due to the flavours. The orange colouring of the pastry is due to the turmeric powder. As the pastry is wheat and potato starch it is gluten free.

Okra and cod dumplings (£5.15) are made using the two named ingredients as well as prawns, onion, green chilli, carrot, bamboo shoot, shiitake mushrooms and goji berries. It also uses numerous flavourings like garlic, ginger, vinegar and soy sauce. As the translucent pastry is made from wheat and potato starch, they are also gluten free.

For desert there was a red date and coconut milk pudding with vanilla sugar and raspberry coulis costing £4.45. Similar milk puddings are traditionally used in Chinese New Year puddings. The pudding was well presented, firm and with lots of raspberry coulis for flavouring.

There was also a re-fresh smoothie that was a mix of kale, nashi pear, avocado, ginger, parsley, fresh lime and apple with an apple slice on top. Valued at £4.45 this healthy smoothie gets its green colouring from the green vegetables and fruits, and the avocado gives it a silky texture.

The Summer of Health menu will be available in all eight London Ping Pong restaurants from June until the end of August 2019.

Information about Ping Pong:

Address: Ping Pong, Covent Garden, 23-24 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NA.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @pingpongdimsum

Instagram: https://instagram.com/pingpongdimsumuk

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/pingpongdimsum/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ping-pong-dim-sum/

Instagram: @_rubyxwu_

Information about Rhiannon Lambert

Website: https://rhitrition.com

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/Rhitrition/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/rhitrition

Twitter: @Rhitrition

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXh5LbrcKZZPDAzeYPA4tAA

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Written by Caitlin Neal