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Kensington’s best restaurants, from Zaika to Jacuzzi
Popular with anyone in Kensington in search of Chinese food without the Min Jiang price tag, Sichuan Popo is, as the name suggests, focused on the cuisine of the central Chinese region, but also its northern neighbour Shaanxi. That means decently done classics of dan dan noodles, mapo tofu and Xi’an biang biang noodles (the name of a sister restaurant in Covent Garden and the City), plus the signature dish of fried pork with Sichuan pepper, the melt-in-the-mouth meat given a blast of mouth-numbing heat to cut through the richness. The kitchen isn’t so purist, though, that it doesn’t serve dim sum, the daytime speciality of Guangdong, and in the evening, too, should one fancy siu mai, har gau or char siu pork buns for supper, while elsewhere the lengthy menu takes in everything from pig’s intestines to spring rolls. If you’re in the area for a Chelsea game there’s another branch near Fulham Broadway. Source link
First ever cancer vaccine administered in Britain as part of global trial
Scientists are using the mRNA technology behind Covid jabs to create new vaccines that could treat and even cure cancer – E+ The first UK patients have received a revolutionary cancer vaccine as part of a global trial. Scientists are using the mRNA technology behind Covid jabs to create new vaccines that could treat and even cure cancer. The vaccine works by highlighting specific protein markers on the cells of a cancerous tumour to the immune system so that a patient’s own defences kick in and attack the cancer, which would otherwise go undetected. Health officials said the NHS was “at the vanguard of trials of cancer vaccines”. The trial is being led by scientists at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust and Imperial College London, which said it was the first in the UK to test the jabs, administering them to British patients at Hammersmith Hospital, in west London. The study will assess the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine against lung cancer, skin cancer and other “solid tumours”, researchers said. An 81-year-old man from …