had a lovely meal here on valentines day and have ordered several take aways since. The restuarant…read moreis really lovely inside and the waiting area is seperate from the take away. The food is excellent quality and there is a huge range of dishes to try.

Great food. Reasonably priced. The atmosphere is great and the staff make you feel very welcome!read more

Absolutly georgeous, the best chinese i've had in a long while. the food had good flavour and they…read moreused quality ingredients. only a few tables about enough for 20 people so booking is a must well worth it.

I never thought I would be eating Chinese food in the Cotswolds, but because of complicated…read morereasons, I found myself at China Town. If I had had this meal in London, it would get a one-star. The restaurant was a bit drab and looked like it hadn't been decorated since the 80s. The food was takeaway quality. Service was OK. But since we're in the Cotswolds, and this is probably the only Chinese/Asian restaurant for miles and miles, it gets 3 stars from me. At least the prices are cheap and the portions are massive. So if you're bored of all the fancy gastropub food and "modern" British interpretations that cost an arm and a leg in the Cotswolds, come here for some greasy noodles or fried rice.

We were looking for something other than pub food in Bourton, and stumbled on this place by…read moreaccident on a back street. It was quiet for diners so we opted for a takeaway and am so glad we did. All dishes were very tasty, especially the malayasian rendang which was scrumdiddlyumptious! The menu choices were very extensive, but reasonably priced. We might go back for more tomorrow!

Very tasty. This beer is mild…read more Well recommended Possibly not good for parking Staff lovely

I've have eaten here and used it for takeout on multiple times over years. It's run by a very…read morededicated and friendly husband and wife team. I cannot fault their food.

Best Chinese food in Oxford! This is my #1 recommendation for anyone looking for good Chinese food…read morearound here :) The staff is always friendly and helpful. Everything in the restaurant is clean and organized. The menu is authentic, affordable, and extensive. They specialize in dishes from the Northern region of China. The food can be on the spicier side, but SO DELICIOUS! Everything is usually prepared within 10 minutes or so from placing the order. PS They are cash only. However, there is an ATM right in front of the restaurant.

Good food for its price, although there's often a wait. Pretty authentic, and a good place to get…read morevarious Chinese dishes. My friends enjoy the spicy dishes, and they're often able to make them a bit more mild. Was really happy to find 麻辣香鍋 and 拔絲地瓜 in Oxford, and they tasted really good! Note that they only accept cash though.

Hugely popular Chinese restaurant-- it pays to book. They have a "normal" menu, but if you are…read moreadventurous (we are) the full menu has all kinds of delicious options like soft shell crab, for example. Some of the "English Chinese" staples like sweet and sour are pretty goopy and hum-drum. Just don't order those. On a busy night it gets very loud. Lots of hard surfaces.

Compared to Oxford standards, I'd say this place is 4 stars. Really tough to find good Chinese…read more(whether takeaway or authentic) in the UK. However, if this place were in a context where better abroad Chinese cuisine was available (e.g., Toronto, Brooklyn), the food here is just okay, even if the owners/cooks are Cantonese. Their dine-in choice of dishes reflect real Chinese menu items. This place is definitely one of the top most flavorful East Asian restaurants nearby. You can smell it from the outside, and you can see it in their clientele. Because of what the other options are in the area, I would definitely come again, but not that often since they are a little on the pricier side. Good size portions, though. TIP, definitely book ahead for dinner. Even at lunch time they get pretty booked up.

For northern Chinese food, this is truly a wondrous find: On the two occasions that I had dinner…read morehere, I can tell that the chef is the real deal. In Oxford, no less! Incidentally, the Chinese ideograms for the restaurant's name actually mean "Flaming/Burning Wine," which might not be the only thing on fire, if you get my drift... My dining companion and I tried a total of five dishes over the two occasions we came here for dinner. Some were dishes that were a little off the beaten path, what with the current mania in society for "healthy foods" and all, but sometimes, you've got to live a little and relish that incomparable taste of fat that makes a dish so iconic otherwise you won't ever know what you're missing! And of all of them, I wasn't disappointed in any, which is testimony to the chef's skill. It also doesn't hurt that the owners, Shuman and Teresa are very genial hosts and bring extra warmth to the already cozy atmosphere of dark colours in a very classic Chinese setting. In the appetizer category was the Mouth Watering Chicken which was a poached chicken that was covered in a sauce of fiery chili peppers with peanuts sprinkled over it. It certainly lived up to its name. This is definitely not a dish for those with wimpy tastebuds because they're likely to have them seared off as with a blowtorch. However, for those who can handle it, it'll provide a nice "glow" in both your faces and stomachs to start the meal off. The initial foray into the forbidden began with the Shanghai Sweet Soy Braised Belly Pork dish which we had with plain white rice (in the old and traditional days, only animals were fed brown rice or unthreshed rice). With its generous cuts of fat-laced pork belly covered in a thick sweet soy sauce and with the white rice to "cut" its artery-clogging richness somewhat, I was in Seventh Heaven. This was food from my childhood when the "fat is bad" mantra just didn't exist. It was oh-so-good and brought back memories of times past and of home in Singapore. We ordered the Mapo Tofu with its classic chili and meat sauce as a sort of counterbalance. It was another dish that didn't disappoint. The ground pork swimming in that beautiful spicy sauce mixed in with the usual bowl of rice just hit the right spots where it counted. The spiciness wasn't as intense as I've had at some other restaurants and this is a good thing because it's so hard to taste something when your tongue feels like it's been run over by a lidocaine steamroller! Not to mention that drooling because your lips don't work any more is so unbecoming... On another visit, we decided to just "go gangbusters" and ordered the Shanghai Sweet Soy Pork Hock which just made my day. It was one entire pork hock that had been stewed in the traditional sweet thick soy sauce which infused the entire hock rather than just its surface. Now, the tree-hugging health nuts will probably be turning up their noses in disgust but, as I said, you haven't had true Chinese food until you've tried the richer dishes at least once (and risk your doctor going apoplectic on your next visit)! Okay, it's not something to have daily or even weekly but once in a while, to quote Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street": "Greed is good!" And amen to that. Now we come to Tofu in Crabmeat Sauce: The silky tofu cooked with the divine crabmeat made for an incomparable taste sensation that also sent shivers up my spine. Singaporeans can summarize this feeling in one word, "Shiok!" In other restaurants that I've had this dish, they skimped on the crabmeat and/or even used low-quality crabmeat, which detracted from the overall taste. But not here. At Sojo, they use a well picked-through, high quality backfin crabmeat (this is one dish where jumbo lump crabmeat would not have worked) so that you don't end up with crab shell or cartilage in your teeth nor is there a fishy flavor. Despite its reddish colouring, it has no chilli of any sort in it whatsoever, so rejoice all ye who have wimpy tastebuds or sensitive gastrointestinal systems! This is a restaurant that I am dying to return to so that I can wander through its menu searching for another "hit" of nirvanic bliss on each visit. Since I happen to live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, I'm sure that Sir Richard Branson will be more than happy to have me add to his already bulging coffers and perhaps Virgin Galactic. Assuming his pilots park their cars on time for a change and we don't miss our departure slot again: Nothing is quite so ludicrous as hearing your flight is delayed because your pilot is looking for a parking spot for his car...it was like being stuck in an episode of Mr. Bean!

Coming from a guy who's lived all over the world and have tried Chinese food in various Western…read morecountries, this is a very mediocre Chinese restaurant. Pros: vegetables and tofu selection are great, and decently cooked Cons: the Cashew chicken my friend and I ordered was very bad; it was not marinated, diced, tasted like they boiled the chicken and stir fried for 5 second with random sauces.

Eaten here several times with my wife and daughter the food is always great and staff are very…read morefriendly highly recommended

me and my partner have had take outs from them and found they are consistent and the best around…read morealthough i might add the price is little high but it lush and fair portions :)

My parents are new to the area and we thought we'd try a local Chinese restaurant for takeout. I am…read moreso glad we tried Pagoda. It was a leap of faith as there weren't any Yelp reviews to help guide us. I am so happy to report that the service was excellent from the moment I called and placed the order. A friendly voice efficiently took my order, confirmed it and said it would be ready in 15 minutes. Exactly 15 minutes later I arrived to a warm smile and friendly welcome. The food was packaged up in an excellent Asian-inspired cardboard carrier. The aroma from the box was intoxicating for the short journey back home. The food was immaculately prepared and was delicious. We probably ordered too much, but absolutely nothing was left at the end! Fantastic job, Pagoda! Thank you.