We bought four main take away meals here: chicken fried rice, 3 out of 10, salt & chilli chicken, 1 out of 10 and truly awful with small over - battered bits of chicken; salt & chilli king prawn, 4 out of 10 and pork chop 5 out of 10.
As we bought four mains we got two free starters from a limited selection; a sesame prawn toast (3 triangle pieces) 2 out of 10 and a crispy seaweed 4 out of 10.
The branch has gone down hill pretty badly. And as if the food here wasn't poor enough I'm becoming so weary with a growing trend among Chinese and some Indian restaurants that want only cash by claiming to have problems with their credit card machines and I don't believe a word of it.
I've been using these cards half a lifetime with almost no difficulty all that time anywhere for instance in the third world, at 40,000 feet in the air or on a ship 1,600 miles from the nearest land without a hitch. Yet in the last week I've encountered two Chinese and one Indian restaurant all alleging card machine issues.
It's cheapskate tactics to avoid a charge already built - in to the prices or worse a tax dodge. These places also won't take a cheque. Time to start refusing my hard earned money to such crooks.
It was a stormy day and blowing a gale as we drove into the car park. It's been quite a time since we last were here. We arrived just at lunch time opening at noon. The place was quite cosy when we went in. A flat screen tv on the wall was on with the sound turned down. It had the text displayed. Kenny Rodgers sang in the background throughout. We were the only two sit-in guests the whole time that we were there, although a few folk came in for takeaway food. There's a two course special lunch menu at £8.50, but if you opt for a king prawn or a squid main courses another £3 is added. There's a price hike for duck mains too. The two course lunch selection didn't have one of the dishes we wanted (salt & chilli pork chop) so we had a quarter crispy duck with (6) pancakes for two as a starter. The pancakes were microwaved not steamed. So three of the six pancakes were hard because they were microwaved for too long. We had the salted chilli pork, fried rice and a salt & chilli king prawn and boiled rice. Microwaved pancakes aside most of the food was really very good indeed with a great balance of chilli heat in the mains. The portions were ok, not generous. The service was reasonably prompt and the chap serving was pleasant and welcoming. The food bill came in about £24. Borderline four star. read more