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    Mandarin House

    3.0 (2 reviews)
    Closed 5:00 pm - 11:00 PM

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    8 years ago

    Quick service but maybe too quick; Soggy chicken sweet and sour balls not at all appetising and tasteless.

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    The Phoenix Garden Chinese Restaurant

    The Phoenix Garden Chinese Restaurant

    4.0(3 reviews)
    2.8 mi

    Chinese food at it's best and at a very good price. Best place for groups I've been, mainly due to…read morethere circular tables. The decor is pink throughout. The menu is varied, you can expect to easily spend £12. The alcoholic beverages are slightly excessively priced, they have a special shot of high grade spirit, It knocked me for 6, I think it was moonshine couldn't be sure. The portion sizes are very good, the services was very friendly. Walking up to the second floor could be a problem for disabled people.

    It is rare that I'll eat in at a Chinese place. Chinese is made for takeout, dammit! You order your…read morefood, they cram it into little foil tubs, top it with white cardboard and send it to you. Then, you shovel into your gaping maw as you sit, slack-jawed, watching whatever the television has deemed appropriate for your evening's entertainment. Chinese just isn't Chinese without uniform scenes from Emmerdale flickering across your retinas like a strobe like from some really boring Hell. The Phoenix Garden, however, has gone some way towards dissuading me of this notion. The decor in the restaurant is quite lovely; the pink pastel hues grant the place a lovely, warm ambience for you to enjoy your food in and the service is quick, charming and very helpful. The food itself is certainly the best part though. It's not that expensive, and is very delicious. It loses something in the formality of the restaurant atmosphere, I feel, but the food is still worth the hassle of actually leaving your hovel. It's not quite The Swallow (but then, what is?), and I'll never forgive The Swallow for closing the restaurant portion of the business, but The Phoenix Garden does a fine job in its stead.

    Happy House

    Happy House

    3.8(10 reviews)
    3.2 mi
    £

    One word: Poppadoms…read more Not what you would expect from a chinese restaurant, but amazing poppadoms. The best poppadoms I've ever had anyway. I think it may be testament to the quality and cleanliness of the oil in their fryer. But really good poppadoms. And, here's the best bit, they're free! I know! Free poppadoms! Unfortunately only if you spend over £10, but then who manages to order a chinese meal without it being that much. Now, this is a traditional British Chinese takeaway. You know, the really heavy, gloopy, greasy, salty loveliness that is a good Friday night chinese takeaway. The sort you eat til you burst. And bursting is a real possibility when you see the portion sizes! I always try and fool myself and say that I'll just get Singapore Noodles, cos its smaller than a meal and separate noodles. And then it arrives (they deliver) in a double size container! Although I like to 'forget' this the next time. The prawn toasts are amazing as well. Whole slices of white bread, deep fried and really good and hot prawny filling. Mmmmmm. If you want a feed, you want it delivered and you don't want to move afterwards (and a partial to left over chinese for breakfast, look em up and give em a call. Oh, did I mention the poppadoms?

    This is my second favourite takeaway in Cardiff (after City Pizza), and my favourite Chinese…read more Firstly, the portions are huge. I eat way more than I should do and it still feeds me for two days, even when I only order two dishes. The noodles are some of the best I've ever had, the chips are great, the meat is always tender, and if you order over £10 or £20, you get free poppadoms or prawn crackers respectively. Their menu is huge and they have a wide variety of vegetarian meals. They're also great with fussy eaters, happy to take out any ingredients you don't, or can't eat. They deliver to nearly everywhere in Cardiff and I've never waited more than 45 minutes for an order. And their food comes in those nice plastic tubs rather than tin trays, keeping it nice and warm while you're eating, and ideal for putting in the fridge to eat the next day.

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