The older and wiser you get, the more you realise that choice is overrated. Some of the most satisfied-looking things in the world - children, dogs, people in Hunan - are all without personal autonomy. This friends, is not a coincidence. Hunan is a no-menu Chinese restaurant in between Chelsea and Pimlico that takes choice away from you. It serves you 12 or 18 courses and asks only if you don’t like anything, and how spicy you can go. The menu says “trust us”. And you should. Because the man in the kitchen has been serving up crispy green beans, chilli ginger beef, and more, to punters for around 40 years. Visually, nothing about this small and plain restaurant screams out to you. Everything here is left to food, that, like a big Tesco Black Friday rush, comes thick and fast once it gets going. Pretty much all of it comes in small sharing plate form. So you’ll wolf a spicy, spinach-stuffed prawn each, before trying to savour a sweet sesame roll. It makes for sometimes frustrating eating. But remember, trust them. Because this restaurant knows that you’ll want room for later courses. Or, rather, they know that your self-control can’t be trusted with this food. So thoroughly enjoy your one steamed scallop and be ready to thank them later. By eliminating choice, Hunan also removes any capacity for food envy or jealousy. Look around the room and you’ll see a couple eating the sea bream in miso you had two courses ago. Or, spoiler alert, a table further ahead saucing and rolling their crispy duck. Everyone here is eating the same (allergies and taste buds permitting) and paying the same (around £50 for lunch and £70 for dinner). Also, dining alone here isn’t an option. Them’s the rules. All of this makes abandoning your autonomy surprisingly easy. It’s like going home for Christmas. You’re relentlessly drip-fed food, and you get to open all sorts of treats. Like the lid to a pancake steamer. Or a bag of crispy pork that leaves you slurping the sauce like a dehydrated Bear Grylls. The only thing you really have to think about at Hunan is their wine list, which, of course, offers an excellent choice.