Chopsticks Chinese Restaurant in Canterbury

Very nice food service very good but on our vist the cold coke we ordered and other people said same the ice they used on the night tasted really bad cholrine or like asked and was replaced straight away a little expensive for 2 people

Staff walked past us a lot food was slightly burnt , satay chicken was like a frisbee as was very flat, and hard but the food was nice was nice to get out of Thanet but not sure I will rush back

Terrible slow service. Over an hour wait for the first small plate of food.

Great food, service good. We love coming here. Excellent value Lacks atmosphere though, needs a good paint and some nice music

Outstanding late evening takeout comfort food!!

The restaurant was quite authentic n well decorated to celebrate n showcase Chinese New Year. Staff were bit inattentive to our ordering of drinks and food. Slow service throughout. Sadly. Child meals overpriced big time. Adults was ok. Food was amazingly good. Venue clean n very presentable. All in all a good night minus these issues. A good 3 out of 5 stars

Food is great. And the staff are lovely.!

Very nice and delicioud authetic chinese food

Lovely restaurant with the best food locally, so nice to have a good sit down meal with excellent staff and surroundings. Been going there for 15 years now and it never fails, love it!

Very nice all you can eat... Fairly expensive drinks prices but on the whole a good night out

Great evening out. Staff fantastic. Food was great

This is a hard one to write about. The atmosphere is lovely and the staff are great - but the whole system with ordering food is floored and leaves everyone feeling hungry or not able to choose a dish. I couldn't choose a dish for the starters as we are 7 people but could only choose 5 dishes... I can't eat nuts and don't like ribs.. which left me with 3 pieces of chicken the size of a small mushroom as we all shared a single plate of chicken You then have to wait until all dishes are empty before ordering any more starters so by then you can't be bothered and so it went on ...again just 5 dishes for the main and 1 teeny plate of noodles for my daughter while we had boiled rice because they wouldn't give me fried rice without egg in it but have 3 portions of egg fried rice to share with the other 6. It just made no sense. It is just a shambolic system and you literally have to beg to get anything.. even bamboo shoots we were told was over our 5 dishes between us!! They even brought out half a dish of beef.. literally 4 small pieces in sauce for my other half...? The portions are ridiculous and because of the system this place would only work if there were 2 of you or you had 2-3 hours of time to let one half of the table finish their choice of food and then the other half order theirs. Not one of us enjoyed it... such a shame. It could have been a great experience and a fair price at £24 a head if everyone could order a dish of their choice. For a bowl of rice, 2 duck pancakes and a bit of chicken over an hour and a half at that price, we won't be returning I'm afraid.

Food was good with a wide choice of dishes at a fair price all you can eat buffet the decor was a little bit dated but still pleasant good place to take friends and family the service was good and staff were friendly but there is a little room for improvement.

Thank you for another fantastic meal - can’t fault the food or service. Also, we dropped a mobile phone by accident in the car park, not realising until we got back home. Wilson & Li bent over backwards to get it back to us; looking for it in the dark and then opening the restaurant the next day so we could come and collect it. Thanks so much!

Love Chopsticks; the takeaway is always piping hot and fresh, and I have never had food missing or incorrect order. Service is very friendly and welcoming, never have to wait too long and will keep coming back as the food is delicious.

Food took ages to come out and wasn’t worth the wait and that duck was dryyyyy

Always good food and quick, efficient service with a smile 😃

The food and service is good and portions generous, but the place really needs a spruce up....it is well overdue.

Place is looking very shabby needs a refit and paint up especially outside

We had a group meal last night of 12, the food was fantastic and the service was even better! They catered for all

Great food and staff and managed to squeeze us in as we forgot to book

Food excellent would recommend been going there for years staff are super...thank you for a super evening

food is always worth the money but didn't like the chicken satay,it was more onions in a spicey sauce. will not buy again but overall very good. Would be nice if they started to deliver.

Very disappointing 😞 never again

For my daughters 7th birthday this year she decided she wanted unlimited chicken satay, and we were absolutely over the moon when we attended chopstix this evening. From AMAZING food to the most kind, friendly staff who made my daughters birthday an experience she won’t forget. Thankyou so much to everyone at chopstix, we will definitely see you soon!’

Tasty food, good prices and its quick with friendly service.

I've visited the restaurant many times and it is constantly amazing! The food is perfect and just the right amount of quantity without losing its quality. This is the best chinese food restaurant I have ever been to.

First class meal and first class service. Reasonably priced. Friendly staff who are always available but never hover.

Lovely food friendly service They was quick bringing food out Would recommend 💯

A great night food was excellent and so much choice and friendly staff

Food was amazing!!Unlimited mains & starters for only £21.95 (Mon-Thurs) & £22.95 (Fri-Sun). All starters are delicious!! love their pork ribs, sesame prawns on toast & chicken wings!!!! Highly recommend going for more roasted duck!! As for mains, I love their Kung Po King Prawn & Sweet & Sour Pork (I reordered)! 10/10 the best Chinese food in Canterbury!!!

Great place for eat as much as you want. Really good food and great atmosphere. Very attentive and welcoming staff.

Came in today first ever visit! Very clean and tidy and lovely food, got a meal deal of the noddles bbq chicken and spring rolls which were amazing! The staff were lovely especially one called Gordon who made sure we had the best experience and told us what deals were best.

Use chopsticks once a week great food, very polite, excellent value. Can't wait until Friday again.

Not sure if the mixed race girl who served me was having a bad day but she was rude and her customer service was horrible. I get the food industry/retail work can be stressful at times but that shouldn’t be taken out on customers.

I don't really want to say too much because if this place becomes too popular....we won't be able to get a table. The food is amazing. The staff are very friendly. This is the best ever Chinese restaurant i/we have ever been too.

Always a great meal, great service best place to go for a meal or take away

One of my favourite places to eat out always go there for family dinners

Nice to actually sit inside a Chinese instead of having a takeaway at home. Lovely food 😋

Great place, great food. Portions were great, very friendly staff. Good value for money

Excellent service and food, will definitely return.

Had a takeaway and best I have had for many years

The food was nice the staff great. They was awesome 14 at a table & they handled like a boss. Do recommend.

OK, have lived in westbere/sturry for many years, we have used chopsticks on a few occasions, never rated it then, have just been for a family arranged meal, not my choice! So as a vegetarian I don't expect my mushroom skewers to turn up end to end with chicken skewers! Disgusting, and when they did bring more, well it was like mushrooms with curry coloured maple syrup! Then we move onto the main, vegetable chow mein, with vegetable curry, absolutely jank, worst chinese food ever, and the meat eaters complained about the poor duck being so so dry! I wouldn't advise on going here, i wont be back or would i tell anybody to go here plenty of other top notch eaterys around canterbury to go to, as chopsticks needs a revision with the upmost urgency, or just close it down and open a nail bar or something! Please note #1 I was not the bill payer! Also note #2 the prawn crackers were not too bad!!

Firstly, on a positive note, the staff are welcoming, the table was set up perfectly, Some of the dishes were great. Especially the main courses, in fact, pretty much ALL of the main courses were great! I generally judge a Chinese take away or restaurant on how they cook their deep fried shredded beef. The deep fried shredded beef was excellent, crunchy... and delicious! All other main dishes were perfect. However, that is not the case for the starters, and there is a gleamingly obvious reason for this... The amount of MSG (Chinese salt) in the starter dishes was absolutely overwhelming. Not only does it make you feel fuller a lot quicker, it also makes you want to drink like a fish (although fish don't actually drink so that's an odd saying really) but you catch my drift. This is also probably the reason for the limited number of dishes per group size! They essentially want you to order the extremely salty starters, with breaks in between giving you just enough time to start to feel fuller and thirsty.. so you order more drinks which are usually fizzy which makes you feel even more full, and then onto the mains, however, by that time, you're feeling pretty stuffed and thirsty due to the copious amount of Chinese salt (MSG). As the salt kicks in you'll feel very awake and hyper, very thirsty and full. You'll feel super awake and thirsty for hours when you get home too! And when the affects of Chinese salt start to wear off, you'll feel hungry again too! Personally, there are plenty of fantastic "eat all you like" style Chinese restaurants around the country that do not apply these type of practices. For the prices paid, the restaurant should not be treating their customers in this manner. I'm sure they understand that the utter disregard for their customers health by administering these kids of practices as well as the fact they know how immoral it is to try to falsify their customers "feeling full" to ensure they leave without eating as much food is completely wrong. They do all of this, knowing what they are doing, with a smile upon their face. Although I know that MSG is used in many Chinese dishes, I wonder if they would put quite as much Chinese salt into other Chinese diners food or their own food...? I think not. They only load food up with MSG so that customers feel fuller after eating less. Thus they save money because you're not eating as much as you normally would. As I said, food is excellent and this restaurant can become a 5 star eat all you like restaurant, but they need to use less salt... I mean waaay less salt. Ps, I'm wringing this review 4:04am, because I'm still awake and thirsty due to the MSG. Hopefully they read this review and change their ways.

Fixed price menu with good choice. A bit too much air conditioning!

Absolutely beautiful no bad words to say about this delightful cuisine. Would 100% recommend.

My friend and I went for lunch there today 19th September. We had all you can eat menu it Was absolutely fabulous

Simple menu, nice freshly cooked food when ordered, served at good pace. Pleasent and polite staff. Smoked chicken and salt and pepper chicken wings in starters are a must have.

Super freundliche Bedienungen, sehr leckeres außergewöhnliches Essen (das Lemon Chicken ist phantastisch), alles heiß und frisch serviert. Besonders toll finden wir das allyoucaneat, das aus einer Karte immer nacheinander bestellt wird und in kleinen, frischen Portionen am Tisch serviert wird und man darf erst nachbestellen, wenn das aufm Tisch leergegessen wurde. So stelle ich mir ein nachhaltiges Büfett Konzept vor 👍👍👍

The taste is ok but the portion is a bit small in compare to other Chinese take away.

Easily the best meal out I've had in a very long time. Everything was cooked and presented well. I have very high standards when paying for food and I had no complaints. Staff were great too

Excellent service, tasty food, haven't been here in a long time but will definitely be going back, friendly helpful staff

Food always comes out hot and fresh, plenty of choice, and nice atmosphere. Lady staff are nice and very friendly with our baby girl. Drinks are a little bit pricey but overall great place. We have been quite a few times in different size groups and really enjoyed it every time x

The food here is amazing ! Even though we have moved out the area we still get a takeaway from here once in a while. The Salt and pepper chicken wings are phenomenal ! This would be a 5 star review but we did have one bad experience when we decided to eat in and didn’t get served for 45 mins and ended up having to get a takeaway to avoid having to rush our food. We still got charged for the drink we had each which I would of thought you would of given us as a gesture of goodwill. Especially as we are regulars. Very friendly staff especially the manager/owner. The food is always hot,cooked fresh and ready to collect when they say it will be.

The best all you can eat I have been to! The staff are so attentive and very welcoming, I could not fault them in any way! Very good value for money and the food is delicious ☺️

Good value for money and very nice food

Food was better than your typical eat as much as you can, all fresh and didn't mind waiting for our meals, bit too much salt put into some of the starters, but overall we enjoyed it.

This is the best Chinese restaurant I've ever been to I have been there over 10 times and each meal is brilliant

Better than what I expected. Good service,unrushed and attentive staff.

Great food and great service. A very lovely evening

Eat as much as you can but no wastage allowed, also drinks are pricey, you have to buy at least one drink per person, parties of 6 or over pay a compulsory 10% service charge

Scary service by some lovely by others , food is up and down , but has the market in the area .. its a gamble go during the week

Very very impressed. Food was perfect, very fresh and good variety of the usual suspects even during the week. I feel like reviews mentioning the 2-5 dish limit depending on the party size are missing the point that you can re order as many times as you like. The rule is there to stop waste not stopping you ordering what you like. The service was very prompt and staff friendly. Thanks for a lovely meal

I always enjoy coming to chopsticks , the food is always lovely would highly recommend chopsticks

Was a really nice place and atmosphere, lovely service and the food was delicious

Food was great Felt the restaurant was a little unwelcoming and everything felt done for the convince of the staff. Insisting on same cutlery all evening, only allowing a maximum number of dishes to be ordered at any one time. I understand the aim to prevent over ordering but 4 dishes for 3 people isn't over ordering. Sad as the atmosphere and the below pair service would be the reason I wouldn't return.

Food was insane, quick polite service, and good value for money will definitely be coming back!

First time dining in. Lovely and chilled atmosphere. Staff were very attentive and food was brought out in great time. Everything we ordered was fresh and absolutely delicious. All you can eat was great value for money! Looking forward to going back and trying everything else 🤗

Food all cooked fresh, staff very friendly. Food tastes amazing.

Lovely to sit and relax with a drink whilst waiting for your food to come out. Food is always delicious...

We had Chinese takeaway this evening and the food was good quality and nice and hot. We have had food here before and they deliver very good quality and good price as well. Definitely will do this again. Thank you.

The food is great. Cooked freshly. People very friendly.

Food was Lovely, Service was great. we had very enjoyable evening. thank you.

Staff were so helpful and attentive. Food was lovely

Not sat in for food but the takeaway is always great 😁😋 .

Amazing food and service as always! I first went to chopsticks about 3 years ago and since then I have rated this as my favourite Chinese restaurant! Unfortunately now living in South West London I rarely get to visit but every trip here is worth it! Definitely recommend to anyone!

The food was delicious 😋 thank you for your service.My famy totally enjoyed the evening. Bushell family 👪

Okay standard not much to shout about

All you can eat but with restrictions. ??

Food was well cooked, nice and hot, staff were excellent. Ingenious ordering and menu system. Would certainly visit again.

Food was fresh and really nice..the staff weren't very friendly and just no atmosphere

Great staff good food very friendly would recommend

Absolutely delicious, friendly staff and a very warm welcome.

Best chinese I've ever had highly recommend 👌the staff was lovely and friendly I can't complain at all

Tried Chopsticks for the first time, it is a shame to say I was very disappointed. The staff were pleasant, however they would rush your table when ordering. It was very very disappointed that you have to share dishes with your table (4 dishes between 5 people), mainly due to the fact that, the portion sizes were equivalent for 2 people not 5! The size of the mains were shocking, especially the size of rice! The experience did not feel like a restaurant and did not seem like it was all you can eat.The actual amount of food & portion sizes we had, was definitely no where near the price of £19/20! Sad to say that I will not definitely will not be returning

Ordered takeaway - Am new to the area and live close by. The food was cooked quickly and was hot on collection. Decent portion sizes and better quality than other Chinese takeaways I've had from other restaurants recently. Will order from here again :)

They tried too hard. The food was classic western rubbish. Covered in thick tasty goo. Which I quite like but expect it is not good for me. I think 1 visit is not enough and you should frequent ‘Chopsticks’, regularly to get a better feel of the place. I am worried they fear financial difficulties in present COVID-19 times. I will be back and I will eat here again. Four stars coz my starter was thrown on the table with complete disrespect that that dish was my food. Also, I was not asked “do you need a napkin” which I did.

Good all you can eat Buffett, food took a little while to come out though. Would recommend

The food was good. Not great but good. The service was a little slow on bringing the food compared to other Chinese restaurants I've visited in the past. But the people were lovely.

Definitely getting better the mini spring rolls was all home made the wait time wasn’t brilliant but all in all was very pleased

Esta es nuestra opción de comida para llevar más cercana y me alegro de que esté ahí. Comida sabrosa y recién hecha; amplia selección; bien empaquetado servicio cortés y eficiente; precio justo. Ojalá se reparara y decorara el exterior del edificio y el aparcamiento; la mirada abandonada no es nada atractiva y seguramente rechaza el comercio pasajero.

This is our closest takeaway option and I'm glad it's there. Tasty, freshly made food; wide choice; well packaged; polite and efficient service; fairly priced. I only wish the outside of the building and the car park were repaired and decorated; the derelict look isn't at all inviting and probably turns away passing trade.

Después de leer algunas de las críticas anteriores, estábamos un poco preocupados por comer aquí. Puedo decir con toda honestidad que fue encantador. Estaba limpio y los baños estaban impecables.La comida estaba caliente y sabrosa. El personal fue amistoso y atento. Definitivamente regresaría. 5 estrellas.

A late Feb 2020 for Saturday lunch. Our previous visit was 10 months prior and we were warmly welcomed and remembered from our previous visit. Eating from the ‘all you can eat’ Menu, and after clearing our plates after each course, we were invited for more dishes from the course options. Plenty of food and it is only your belly that stops you. Wont hesitate in visiting again soon. Highly recommend.

Amazing service lovely staff, lovely food and value for money will return without a doubt !

We visited the restaurant for the first time on a Saturday around 6.30pm. It wasn't busy but we were seated in a cold corner. The food came quickly, but was not the best Chinese I've had. We felt that the all you can eat option would be too much, so just ordered what we wanted. The portions are very big & too much really. We left a lot of food so they offered to box it up for us to take home.When the bill came I thought it was very high for what we had. Overpriced food & not the best.

Another visit in Feb ‘20. Very good and attentive staff as always. Should visit more often. Visited on a Saturday lunchtime. Met at the door and was made very welcome. Went for the All you can eat option and there was plenty of food with no need to order extra servings. Happily visit again.

Party of 11.... They had no idea how to cater for that many people. We ended up with very small potions each. Took over an hour for the first round of food to come out. And at £33 pounds each... never again.....

Went for a meal with friends the staff are really lovely but the food was far from it it’s all deep fried and taste the same just of oil! I arrived slightly late and we were told that we could only order 6 dishes for a large table none of which I liked so I had to wait until they said we could order again to get something to eat. Not much choice and food is poor worst I have been to I would avoid