Inside Salt & Chilli Oriental in Shawlands

Third Salt & Chilli Oriental for Glasgow’s Southside

Chef Jimmy Lee has Cantonese street food business and is open in Shawlands. The new outlet joins the original site in Glasgow’s West End, Salt and Chilli Oriental Edinburgh at St James Quarter and a pop-up venture in Glasgow Hamilton, Salt and Chilli Oriental Southside is the third permanent Scottish outlet for the award-winning chef’s expanding brand.

Image Credit Reece Buchanan – SKAPA

Salt & Chilli Oriental Southside serves Cantonese street food as well as comforting Chinese classics and fusion concoctions combining traditional Hong Kong street food with modern Scottish. 

The site, where McFly’s Chicken was on Kilmarnock Road.

Salt & Chilli Oriental Shawlands
Image Credit Reece Buchanan – SKAPA


On the menu are Peking ribs and chicken satay with spicy dip to bao-filled katsu chicken or pulled aromatic duck as well as the signature ‘Salt & Chilli Menu’ with options of chicken, king prawn, crab, calamari or tofu salt & chilli – all served with yutaka slaw. The Salt and Chilli Oriental menu has ‘small bites’ available for £5 and ‘big bites’ including katsu chicken curry and Macau beef curry. 


Salt and Chilli Oriental Southside

67 Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow, G41 3YR

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