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Jenny Lo's is a favourite among Yahoo! employees, partly because it's one of the of the only decent places to have lunch round by the godforsaken wasteland that is Victoria Coach Station (ok, so that's over exaggerating, still, the nearest good sandwich shops are too far a walk to be worth the stalke ciabatta and manky chicken/mayonnaise mix they sell) but also cos it's damnably tasty.

Opened in Febuary 1995 by the eponymous Ms Lo on the site of her father, Ken Lo's cookery school, Jenny Lo's (or JLo's as it's inevitably known) sells noodles and various herbal teas from a short and simple menu. Despite that, the dishes are subtly different from what you'd see on a normal noodle house menu.

Starter's are a bit more conventional - ranging from about 4 to 6 pounds you can get Guo Tie (pan cooked dumplings), spare ribs, honey roast pork, wunton soup and delicious salt and pepper tofu, squid or prawns.

Vegetable side dishes are 3.50 UKP each for which you can get either stri fried pak-choy, stir fried french beans with garlic or spinach with garlic.

There are 5 kinds of main dish - soup noodles come in a large, almsot huge, bowl. To be honest I can't really comment on these because soup noodle's aren't really my bag. There are also wok noodles (egg and hofun), beijing (white) noodles and vietnamese (vermicelli). There are also a number of rice dishes.

I have an awful habit of sticking with my favourite dishes when I'm there. Although I'm always tempted by different things I tend to only go when I'm craving either the pungent Black Bean Seafood noodles with big chewy lumps of squid, prawns and mussels, Lamb with Spring Onions and Rice which is sticky and slightly sweet or, my all time favourite, Gong Bao Chicken with pine nuts which is tangy, tasty and pleasantly spicy.

Other good items are Sichuan Aubergine (deliciously sticky), Beef Hofun, Long-cooked Pork with Chesnuts and Vegetarian Ma Po Toufu.

Main courses range form about 6 pounds to 7.50. There are usually specials - the only one of which I've had has been a crisply light Stir Fried Cod Fillet with Chinese Mushrooms.

The teas are about 1 or 2 pounds depending on whether you go for a normal chinese tea (jasmine, green and something else) or a Therapeutic Teas (blended by one Dr Xu apparently).

The atmosphere in the restaurant is friendly and communal - it's a small property and you get wedged into a bench where there's room - the waitresses have been known to rearrange people mid meal.

A typical meal with starter, main coruse and tea will fill you up and will bring you in around the 13 pound mark with tip - which is reasonable but not quite falling into my definition of 'cheap eats' as the Time Out award stuck to the window proclaims.

Still, definitely worth going out fo your way for if you're in the area.