Eighty 8 in South Ayrshire

Take my advice AVOID AVOID we went for my birthday last night a main each with sides rice and chips,& shredded chicken. it was the most disgusting food ever from here. I was feeling sick afterwards and my partner wouldnt eat his. to start off the shredded chicken didn't have any detectable chicken in it, it was only thin strips of batter, back het, terribly hard unable to chew. and sauce was but a salty gloop! king prawn curry was over cooked so all prawns were hard chewy just the way prawns not meant to be cooked. The chips were hard, inedible and back het so much so the crows didn't want them. Duck green peppers black bean sauce was disgusting. never seen duck meat that thick, I very much doubt it was duck. it was huge chunks hard meat with slimy croc skin utterly disgusting. it went down toilet, the cat wouldn't even eat it. I did attempt to complain to Ben about it but the phone service is rude argumentative and abusive. I got a load of abuse and hung up on. 88 is a dive now. They definitely should be shut down. But they don't care because they're making so much money selling to all the drunks with low standards in what they consume they dont care what is in the food they’re eating. Never ever go here on a Friday Saturday night because you’ll probably get dog and be unwell. GO ELSEWHERE. Unless you enjoy indigestible yuck- I felt sick after eating what little I had. it's put me off going back and it was once my regular Chinese takeout years ago. We hadnt been for a long while but thought treat for birthday. HIGE MISTAKE. especially since all the abuse off the girl over phone when tried to complain. -there are many better places to take away food in Ayr. Punjab in main street. have crispy light fluffy chips great tandoori tender meat cooked fresh. I took photos because the public should be informed standards in 88 have gone to the dogs. Def go elsewhere the girls on the phone leave a lot to be desired and the food isn’t what I’d call food. Do yourself a favour AVOID AVOID AVOID it is abysmal abusive and disgusting. GO Anywhere in Ayr or Prestwick BUT HERE!!!

Food ok for what I received unfortunately I had things missing from my order

Food is fresh & tasty. Menu has something for everybody. Counter staff and delivery drivers are always friendly. Only reason I gave 4 stars for service is because there is a long wait for delivery when it's busy (but the food IS worth the wait!)

Called for delivery. Good on the phone and clear on when delivery would arrive. Meal was good 👌

Order was missing one item, and had to wait an absolute age to get it. Won’t be back! Could hear them lying to customers on the phone to say the driver was at the end of their road when he was in the shop.

Delicious food, loved your sweet and sour chicken balls especially 😋

Ordered dinner a selection of dishes the chicken noodle soup tasted like onion and the chicken was so dry, salt and chilli chicken had a whole onion in it not very pleasant at all, sweet and sour chicken balls the chicken was fatty and greasy the chicken skewers were okay but the satay sauce is having an identity crisis it is a cross between curry and satay

Useless vermin scum. We’ve been returning customers for a while now and have put up with their incompetence regarding wrong orders. We only get 20-30 minute breaks so when somebody goes to get it, it has to be right. They’ve forgotten orders by a comical amount but still charge for the food they don’t give! It is not our and your responsibility to empty food bags to make sure you have got your order correct. To top it all off, they won’t rectify wrong orders at all so don’t bother handing money to thief’s. Kitchen runs worse than monkeys trying to operate a phone, it’s pathetic.

Very good food and reasonably priced.

Amazing food for the price , always hot , however service is sometimes slow on the weekend

Been going for years, used to be good but shocking now. Never get order correct, charged wrong, rude staff. Decided to try it again tonight after avoiding it for months due to the fact it’s open later and tonight confirmed why we’ve avoided it for months. Food quality has decreased in the past few years and staff can’t seem to get a basic order correct. A shame as it used to be really good. But will never be back now. Even when they get the order wrong, no apology or even an attempt to fix it which is laughable. Food used to justify the lengthy waits but can’t even say that now as it’s went downhill drastically.

Disaster cancelled delivery after waiting 2 hrs plus. Used frequently before service patchy but food compensated. This time response unacceptable and will not be using again if 0 stars an option would have been left. Totally no customer service and ruined a Saturday night meal. Ps this is the polite version

This is a carry out shop food is good but they won't take payment by card over the phone which they did until this week going to somewhere else shame

Great food at reasonable prices

First timer,will be back , delish

Fantastic onion rings, garlic and chilli mushrooms also a winner. Excellent takeaway.

Haven't been for a while as the last couple of times food was disappointing and wrong items were received. Went in early just after opening hoping to miss the crowd. Food was ready within 5 mins (never a good sign) don't live too far away, so on opening of our meal the only hot item were the chips! We had to microwave our mains, rice and sauce. I am so fed up of receiving sub standard food from this place, if I can spend my hard earned cash surely I should be receiving a hot tasty meal in return. Meal went into the bin. Never again will I use 88, the usual excuse is "its Saturday and busy" I don't care, the food is just awful. Will never be back.

At peak hours you need to call hundreds of times sometimes to get through but it's well worth it for the amazing Chinese takeaway food - possibly the best in Scotland.

Increasingly hit or miss, been going here for 3 decades, but the past year or so has seen a decline in the flavour. Shame.

Ordered a takeaway chicken dish and only waited about 7 minutes. The staff were very friendly and polite. Food was delicious and competitively priced. Have used it several times since. Haven't had a bad takeaway yet.

We love the food Best Chinese around

As usual excellent service and food

It's absolutely amazing as always.

Got the beef curry on Monday as my favourite takeaway was closed ,normally pretty gd ,disappointed still chewing some of the beef yet ,still deciding whether to try again ☹

Freshly cooked, food is pretty good. Sadly let down by the front of house staff who at best are rude and frequently charge incorrectly and get orders wrong and incomplete. There are a few other restaurants in Ayr which provide a much better and friendlier service. If the owners reading this, sack your front of house staff.

Quite slow to get food. However staff were great and tobefair it was busy. Food is decent

Worst Chinese in Ayr. Got my order wrong & chicken balls were terrible, pink chicken & slimy. Not cooked properly. Also got beef curry instead of spare ribs. Rice was ultra dry. Everything went in the bin, waste of £20. Won’t be back. Only went because I needed to get a taxi home. Next time will go to Ocean Views or Golden City that are on another level.

Ordered a chicken fried rice when I opened it the chicken was grey and small pieces which looked like it had been scraped off the bone. Customer service is poor also.

Have been a customer for many years, in recent times, quality of food has taken a major downturn, no longer reliable for a good meal.

Best Chinese in ayr unfortunately only tried for the first time about 2 week ago wow the food was perfect

Unbelievably rude and arrogant older woman working on the front desk. She miserably took my order and then continued to talk to a customer in a disgusting manner while I was waiting for my order telling them they should look at the menu outside when it was pouring down instead of look at it in the takeaway, whilst aggressively telling them to Hurry up. There is no place for this sort of behaviour when you work in customer service! Ashame that something like this can ruin an experience at a decent Chinese takeaway.

Best chinese takeaway I've ever had. Will definitely be back. Thank you

Food ok, delivery takes too long. but cash only.. little suspicious to me any business these days not providing customers more convenient ways to pay. Recent order was a collection, told me had to go get cash. I just had to walk away leaving them holding my order as no wallet on me, just phone for apple pay. Never have that issue anywhere else.

Nice but too much rice not enough curry sauce

The lunchtime menu is amazing value, can sometimes be mix ups with orders due to language barrier but food is always top notch

excellent food and staff are very friendly i would definitely recommend this place

Right gid Chinese, best spring roll aboot. King prawn and cashew nut is awfy gid anaw.

Great as always. Reasonable prices and really nice food.

Best chinese takeaway in Ayr by a country mile. Volcano beef/ chicken is outstanding. . 👌

Ordered delivery and food was cold when it arrived and had to be reheated before you could eat it, therefore not enjoyable

Ordered a delivery and after an hour of waiting and no sign of delivery . I phoned the rude person that answers the phone to take orders to ask where my delivery was. Was told the delivery was waiting on a driver picking up the order. Gods knows how long the food had been cooked for waiting to be delivered. The food on previous occasions has always been good but the customer service from the person who answers the phone is extremely poor. I asked how much longer it would be and was told it would be there when it was there and at this point I asked to cancel the order only for the phone to be hung up on me. Will never order from here again.

The visual hustle and bustle of a busy open kitchen first attracts your attention, the menu is a consolidated choice of dishes... end experience! 5 stars all day long..

Good selection of lunch time menus, 2 courses for £5.50, great value

Honey chicken and thai chicken spring rolls are great

Don’t order from this take away if you are in a hurray. The delivery times are appalling, we have ordered here a few times and every time it has taken a ridiculous time for the food to be delivered. Food good though. Keeps pulling us back!!

The best Chinese takeaway in Ayrshire. The fried rice is proper fried rice with egg and spring onion through it. Sweet and sour Hong Kong style has chilli in it though so ask for it to be without if you don't like it .

Good food, fast service. Will use again.

Great Chinese takeaway just had a lovely meal Very quick delivery service

Large range of great food and friendly staff

Spring rolls are superb. The best in town. But I am not convinced that the sweet and sour chicken was real meat and the sauce was way too spicy for sweet and sour.

Great food here would recommend the prawn fried rice. The price is very reasonable and staff were nice. 45min wait for food so make sure to take this into account very popular fast food women absolutely rushed off her feet.

This lovely place have the most fresh and delicious Chinese cuisine, with a good price.

Not so great but seemed popular. Both dishes disappointing, bland tasteless sauce. Noodles were good but overall very greasy .

Great Chinese, highly recommended 👌

Very friendly and fast service.

The service and the food are both absolutely amazing. Highly recommended. The munchy box was lush.

Great Lunchtime menu. Volcano Beef briliiant!

Best Chinese restaurant in Ayrshire. Good service Kitchen is in view through a window so you know they have nothing to hide. Fair priced with good portion sizes. Fantastic food. No matter what you get you'll enjoy! Only 1 really small thing is Id like free prawn crackers after any order over £15 :) Thanks for your many of good meals over the years!

Great service phoned in and collected. Food tasted fantastic.

Waited 2hours for a delivery and it was definitely the worst chicken chow mein I have ever had, absolutely revolting!! 🤮🤮

Excellent food, prepared quickly, as always.

Definitely the best chinese in Ayr! The food is always fresh, piping hot and great value for money.

Excellent staff food and service

Best Chinese in Ayrshire, fantastic food, large portions and extremely reasonable cheap prices dont look past the 88 folks, just wish they took card payments only fault a have with them.

Got a cheeky Chinese and it was amazing and the staff are very friendly

I love Eighty 8. My favourite in Ayr

This joint has gone really downhill in recent years. I'd recommend avoiding.

Called at 5 last night for a delivery, by 6:30 on the second call they were trying to find my order and it would be with me "in a few minutes" 30 mins later when I called again, some limp wristed mutant screamed down the phone about cancelling the order then hung up, 😂 saved me cancelling it I suppose. Absolute dogshite.

Absolutely disgusting food. I wouldn't of even fed it my pet dog. Wouldn't recommend at all

Was recommended this place went along wish I didn’t the woman behind the counter is very cheeky! Never been to any takeaway and been spoke to the way this woman speaks to customers! Shame really the food was nice but won’t be back purely because the rude customer service!

food was great and ready quickly

I was recommended this place from a taxi driver in Ayr so went along the woman that was serving was very very rude actually put me off ordering from here if a wasn’t so hungry I would have left! I understand their busy but dont take on a customer service job when you have a stinking attitude towards paying customers who keep you in ur job! She wasn’t just rude to me she’s was rude to every customer that was their including the staff there!Think this place needs a friendly person serving could cost them their customers, the food was nice I wouldn’t return purely because the rude person serving shame really

Food was tasteless. Dont like brown gravy dolloped on food; its supposed to be Chinese! If I wanted brown gravy, I'd make roast beef & Yorkshire pud

fantastic zoo great staff thick customers that can't follow directions in keeping safe

Really nice Chinese a must to try if in the area

I work in ayr and when I get a chance head to 88 its superb.

I recently moved to Ayr from Glasgow and made a point of trying each of the Chinese takeaways local to me and I have to say that 88 wins hands down, the food is always amazing and counter service is excellent I can’t believe the amount of negative reviews on this but on looking constructively it seems the common denominator is deliveries and the time they take, most nights when I’m in and order it only takes 5-10 mins according to what my order is and people come and go during that time so I can only assume that walk in orders take precedence over phone ins which shouldn’t be the case but I guess that’s how it operates so maybe best to opt for the walk in if at all possible, don’t let the negativity put you off the food is delicious and excellent portions all round give it a try I’m sure you won’t be disappointed

I ordered from here last Friday and the food was amazing delivery was super quick was delivered within a hour like the girl explained was warm and tasted delicious will be back !!

Saying to husband the order was £31 and on the recite it was £21 and when asked for our £10 back she went off her chops! Gave us the V sign and everything! Very nasty oh and the food was rotten never again!

GREAT FOOD AND STAFF BEST AROUND

Once the 88 was maybe the best takeaway in Ayr.....on recent orders it appears things have changed BIG TIME...very poor food now

Fantastic food ,best Chinese in Ayr for take away

Order shredded chilli chicken waited an hour which is cool but when it got here I got salt and chilli chips so now got to wait for the delivery drive to come back with ne order and by that time the rice will be freezing not happy and will not be ordering out or the shop again

It's the best Chinese takeaway in ayr

Ive used this take away for years and the food is ok however the wait time from ordering is definately NOT ok. The bloke that runs the kitchen obviously decides which orders get done and its definately NOT on a first come first served basis. Waited over 1hr for 2 starters and 3 main courses whilst others would come in order and leave, also whilst at the same time the delivery driver was taking away his orders all the time. The fellow that runs the kitchen is quite unapproachable, he would have you believe he does not understand English and leaves the poor counter staff to take the brunt. Wont be back as there are other Chinese takeaways in Ayr where the service is far superior.

Easily the best takeaway in town. The chicken volcano is amazing 🌋

Quite bland and has MSG added :-( once you get the food home its difficult to get it repackaged and returned

Best Chinese as always never disappointed, delivery can be slow however worth the wait !

Best Chinese I've ever came across

Recommended by the wife’s hairdresser after a couple of poor local takeaways we decided to give Eighty 8 a try After placing our order on the phone we were told it would be ready in 20 minutes which gave me enough time to drive the 10 miles into Ayr to pick it up as they unfortunately don’t deliver out to us. On my arrival I only had a short wait and the staff were friendly and helpful as a newbie to the area answering my question. The meal which consisted of skewered chicken with satay sauce, Kung Po chicken, hot & spicy crispy beef, 2 fried rice and a portion of Garlic & chilli crispy chips which we both agreed are to die for !! All was well cooked and hot on my return home Would definitely recommend and will be using as my regular takeaway They have a separate lunchtime menu which I’ve shown in photos

Live this takeaway, every Saturday night is Chinese time

Extremely busy place and food was delicious.

1st time trying here as we were staying in local caravan site. Easy to find. Quick service and food was really nice. Missed a dish we had ordred and when we rang they explained we hadnt been charged for it. To be honest good job as portion size is pretty big and it would have been just too much and gone to waste. Cant fault the meal we had and will be going back next time we are in the area.

Proper chips and curry sauce. Really good food and to be able to watch it all getting made great

Best Chinese I have had..plus portion size is big and staff are friendly

Been going to this wee hidden treasure for 17yrs. Even now I'm living in troon I still drive to this Chinese at least twice a week... my family and friends love the food they cook... very very busy too so expect to wait!!! but its worth waiting for

Absolutely fantastic food!! My go to option for Chinese food in Ayr!

Food is really good but very slow service

Good portions for price highly recommended

Well this place is putting out 5 star restaurant quality Chinese food and it's a takeaway service only. I am 100% a returning customer to this place. Does special offers on nearly all their dishes. This place is extremely busy as all the locals use it regularly and you can have a long wait for your food at times but on my goodness it's worth it.