New to Preston and what better way to celebrate joining the gym than to start sampling the local takeaways. We went with Happy House as it was the highest rated on justeat.com (yeah, I cheated on yelp. Sometimes these things just kinda happen. I'm sorry. I'll try harder in the future.) and we were not disappointed. With Manchu Wok in Manchester being a staple, I was keen to find a replacement.
The portion sizes were great- we shared 2 soups, 2 starters and 2 mains between 3- and actually only ate 1 of the mains between the three of us as the starters had been so generous.
The hot and sour soup we got was good- not too salty (often a problem) and it had loads of tasty morsels floating about.
The crabmeat and sweet corn soup had large chunks of crabmeat in it.
The prawn toast was far better than Manchu Wok- nearly at Fusion standard. It had a thick layer of prawn-y goodness and wasn't too greasy. And we got 5 pieces, which is pretty decent.
The salt and pepper ribs were well tasty. We got more than 10- some big, some small- all full of flavour despite being not that spicy. Barring one or two they were really meaty. Came with peppers, onions and chillies.
We shared a new special chow mein- it came in a large tub and one portion easily filled the three of us after all those starters and we shared the second one for lunch between the three of us again and will all e full until dinner. It comes with good, fresh noodles, loads of veg and loads of meat- large bits of chicken, beef and amazing prawns- by far the highlight of the meal. Seriously those prawns! They were really well cooked- not at all hard or chewy- just really tender and soft. Sadly only two or three prawns in the dish but if you were having this to yourself or between two/ three that's still a prawn each! Super tasty.
Price was pretty good and delivery was quick- plus they gave us free prawn crackers. Everyone loves a freebee!
Going to have to explore the other takeaway joints but I have a feeling we'll be returning to Happy House. read more