Little Tofu in Southend-on-Sea

Can’t believe they’re closing down :(

Heard a rumour they were closing because of issues with landlord? What is it with landlords messing businesses like this up?? Superb food in my opinion the best Chinese in Southend!! If it's true please open somewhere near by!

Best chinese around Westcliff and possibly even further. So sad to see they are closing in October

Very dissapointed, heard some good things, but was not impressed at all, spent nearly £45 on food, granted was decent sized portions but seriously lacking flavour, had to wait 55 mins for a collection order. And didn't get free prawn crackers, an order of that value you expect crackers ATLEAST. Won't be ordering from here any time soon.

Best Chinese around! The food is always great, the staff and friendly and it’s ready to collect quickly. I love that they use eco conscious packaging too

I haven’t been here for a while, and I was disappointed with the food today. I noticed the portions significantly smaller and it was also expensive. Just prawn toast, rice and a dish just over £25! The Kung Pao Chicken lacked flavour - no spice or nuts. It like a mediocre sweet and sour. Also it wasn’t even a box full. Such a shame, as I always like the eco ethos it has and the lady behind the counter was very friendly. Not great value or taste this time.

Love this place. Best Chinese in Essex easily.

Used to go here, felt like the only decent Chinese around that doesn’t bulk but their sauces in drums from Montines and Chuck all the cheap stuff in. Unfortunately, after picking up a recent takeaway. I found a blanket price rise on all items to be up 50%. That is unacceptable. The food it great but how on earth you can just slap the prices up like that is beyond me. Also the front of house always makes it uncomfortable and needlessly adds to stress to the experience. Almost like it’s a hinderance that you are ordering. Like don’t work there then?

Brilliant! Incredible food, full range of vegan and non-vegan (meat) options, really friendly staff. Absolutely loved it, well worth ordering from.

We LOVE this place. There’s nowhere like it in Chelmsford so, every so often, we make the trip especially. The vegan options are great, as other reviewers have pointed out, the staff are really friendly. It’s well worth a visit.

Tasty food, Quick n Exceptional Service. Highly recommended…

Really good food. Had almost everything off the menu and always good. The tiny tofu box is great value for money and really tasty.

the food is nice and staff is also nice options for larger portions would be great

We order from here for the good vegan choices for my wife.

OMG. Seriously. Lovely little place, fantastic staff, environmentally friendly, and food! The food! Not greasy, plenty of vegan options, portions just as they should be. Just had satay tofu and veg fried rice - all fresh, aromatic, rice fluffy, no MSG in sight... just gorgeous 😍 My only worry is that my waistline will pay the price for the discovery of this little gem! 😋

Amazing vegan options! Can't believe how tasty the food was! Our non vegan friends also loved the food and said they'd change their regular Chinese to this one. Had tofu balls (sweet and sour style), teriyaki tofu etc and all as good if not better than meaty styles! Shame we don't live in the UK anymore otherwise I'd be happy to go here as often as possible :)

Being vegan I'm difficult to please, this place ticked all the boxes for me. Fantastic food and highly recommended.

Fantastic fresh food. Great service and happy to help.

Great food and great service! All made without MSG so you feel great afterwards 👍🏻

Amazing food and great veggie options. Really friendly service too 😊

lovely food just a bit pricey for portion size but its authentic and worth it

Oh man alive! The food is so good. It was so fresh and cleanly cooked. The service was great. A call to let me know they’d got my order, then delivered promptly by stock a friendly woman. Superb.

Really good food that feels healthier than other Chinese we have tried. We don't feel bloated or dehydrated after eating Little Tofu. Good quality and really tasty and great service.

Best takeaway in Southend. Excellent quality food and super friendly staff!

The food is lovely but DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE to place your food order. The past 6 times we have ordered the restaurant have taken our payment but not received our order. This means we then have to phone up and order and pay again as restaurant claim they don't receive payment and it will ping back into our bank account in a few days. The payment always come back after 4 days roughly but this means every time we order from here we end up paying out twice. It turns into a very expensive take away.

Unfortunate, disappointing first time experience. No effort to acknowledge a paying first time customer.

Terrific food wonderful service

Ordered here for the first time today as a special occasion. Small portions of food not as described. Phoned upon receipt to discuss, but they were not interested. Will not use them again. Definitely not value for money.

The best Chinese in the area by far. Plastic free ordering. Guilt free. Tastes amazing

TERRIBLE COSTUMER SERVICE !! especially the girl on the phone taken orders ,the manager don't care he's always busy ?? ( busy) That's why NEVER ORDER AGAIN !!

Always amazing food. I travel from Hawkwell just to pick up from here.

Little Tofu, little gem. Food here is fantastic, very tasty. They claim to cook it the healthy way and I would have to agree with them. It's just great. Stuff here are always polite and helpful. The premises are kept nice and clean. As you stand there waiting for the food, you can see the chefs preparing the food and dishing it up. Presentable and professional. Well done. Keep up the good work 5🌟

Wow. This place is just amazing! The food is great, from the sauces to the main dishes. I have ordered the prawn dumplings (which I reeeally really recommend) and the spring rolls. The teriyaki sauce is very nice too. I appreciate you guys have a website with the full menu and prices, incredible service and friendly staff. Thank you!!

Bad service, Chewy and off taste to the chicken, dirty box food served in, when called up, they were rude, and did not offer a replacement or refund, worst place iv ever ordered from

Superb top quality food. Restaurant quality.

Always great service and fantastic food. Slightly slower at peak times (obviously!) But always with any wait!

Very polite service, quick and a very good vegan menu, excellent

The food here is incredible! So much choice for vegans, we won't order from anywhere else. Always fresh, always hot, and always delicious.

All my favourite Chinese food but vegetarian tofu options, also meat version s available. Great take away

Great vegan food this is the only Chinese takeaway I have now Thank you little tofu

Quite honestly the best Chinese food I e ever had.

I have used Little Tofu a few times now and find the food to be extremely tasty and agreeable with me. On my last encounter after placing an online order to be delivered I received a phone call saying that my order will be later than expected due to the kitchen being extremely busy. This is the service I expect, I could have cancelled the order of I wanted but I chose to be patient. That's how you keep your customers, tell them if there will be a delay and if they still want the delivery. Also they had run out of one of the dishes I wanted and they replaced, after speaking to me with a more expensive dish at no extra charge. My food arrived nice and hot with my replaced dish and an extra cold drink as I token of appreciation for waiting. This is service and I will now use again just for a good all around experience. I had stuff from the vegan menu and it is always delicious, delivered in eco friendlier containers and not as much extra grease that is often associated with other establishments. Give it a go especially if you are vegan.

They always go above and beyond for their customers i have never had a bad experience with them or their food. They are super friendly and super accomodating. Forever thank you to the staff of Little Tofu.

Arrived at the opening time to place an order (with my son, single parent), only to be told that they are not able to serve me for 45 minutes. This is the same every open day, as I was advised. When asked for a delivery (my order under £20) the answer was no. I was a repeat customer. Not any more. Please don’t advertise you are open for walk in customers when you are not able to serve them.

This is without question the best Chinese takeaway for variety and service. Provides great quality food for both vegans and meat eaters alike. Worth every penny. .

Love the food here. It might be overlooked because it's in less popular position but foods great. Good for vegans too.

Good customer service, nice food options

Very nice food but the service is a bit slow to much talking

Great food the people are friendly

Dry & flavourless. Thankfully my partner ate the "prawn toast" before I did as it was actually cheese which I am allergic to! Will not be returning.

Top quality food, great people on front counter

I really don’t get why it’s rated so highly, I found it over priced and utterly disgusting! I swear the meat came from a cats arse and the noodles had been re-heated. Yuck 🤢!

Food is fantastic, staff are lovely, place is clean, what more could you ask for

Ordered from here numerous times, Staff are friendly. My other half is s vegan. They have a few tofu dishes for her. Its worth giving it a try. The udon noodles are the best.

I love this place I go here most of the time it's cheap and has great service they do order and collect and delivery some of their meals have spice u can ask for it to be spicier or less spicy they have vegetarian and vegan options on the menus and use cute little emojis on the menu they have a nut emoji to say it contains nuts and to little plant emojis to say if they can be served vegan or vegetarian they also have a little emoji to say if it has spice in it their food is great and delicious I usually order chicken chow mein, egg fried rice and spring rolls for me and my sister to share while the rest of my family usually get barbecue ribs or something they also do little deals such as free prawn crackers or drink or both

Food is always Delicious and staff are always friendly :-)

It's the 1st time we have had a meal from there really good not grease at all tasted great.

Best Chinese in the area, absolutely no contest. All the other places taste the same, gloopy and flavourless. This is fresh and super tasty and authentic. Best service around as well!!

Amazing food, don’t rely on delivery times, make sure you add 20 minutes on collection time as always so busy.

First time ordering and it will be my last. I live less than a 5 minute walk away from the takeaway so expected food to be still hot when I got it home. Chow mein stone cold and had a funny taste, prawns luke warm. Only thing ok was the tofu in black bean sauce. Portions very small. Really wish I hadn't eaten the prawns but I was hungry - less than 2 hours after eating I started to feel nauseous and had a stomach ache. I usually have a stomach of iron, no allergies etc. I had been warned by a neighbour not to go here; wish I'd listened.

Food was amazing! when it got to my house.. took 1 hour 45 minutes when we wer told 50 minutes

Best Chinese takeaway in Southend, fantastic range of vegan options, highly recommended!

Some of the best chinese food ive had in southend. Food tastes clean andso much less greasy than ive had elsewhere. Good range of alternative/ vegan dishes which is quite rare for a chinese. Pickup times are always good and i am yet to be dissapointed by anythig ive had. Really recommend little tofu!

Great food and very friendly staff.

this Chinese is best In the southend area ....the food is fantastic and the staff are very friendly I tried them once and have never gone anywhere else since ..the food is second to none.....

Can't praise the place high enough. Delicious food. Vegan friendly options 👌 The staff are lovely. They try their very best to please. Can't ask for more than that.

Just popped in to give my daughter a tape messure. And got 2 big spring rolls. Um um um. Ate them when i got home

Great food, always ready when they say it's going to be. Worth a trip!

First time in ages I got to treat myself to a wonderful load of little tofu favourites and yet again! Amazing! Delicious 😋 thank you for being a smile to my face and stop my grumbling belly. Love you guys ♥️😘 from number 35 xx

Best Chinese food I’ve had in ages! I’ve ordered from here loads of times and never had a bad order, everything always tastes amazing! They do take a long time to deliver but it’s absolutely worth it. The staff are very friendly as well!

Ordered food 2 hours ago and still waiting despite calling twice and being told it was on its way. Shocking service and understaffed! Unless you want to wait up to 2 hours go elsewhere!!

Disappointed with the service. Taken over 2 hours for our food to be delivered. Don’t order from here. You’ll be disgusted. Food was too oily and undercooked, had to throw half of it in the bin. We’re left starving hungry. Absolutely shameful.

Highly recommended, delivery and takeaway.

Visited a friend in the Southend area, We order takeaway. The girl on the phone was lovely and the food was amazing & Delivered quick to our door also. Would definitely recommend .

Great food which tastes much more fresh and healthy and a standard Chinese. Very good veggie and vegan options and great staff.

Best Chinese takeaway for miles

My favourite takeaway in Southend. Delicious, fresh ingredients, natural flavour and my first choice every time.

Over 2 hours for delivery...rubbish!!

Always good quality since the take away opened in 2013. Standards have remained high as far as I am concerned. Good portion sizes and tasty for the price !!!

I'm vegan and my other half eats meat so we've struggled to find somewhere we can both find what we want in the same place. So glad we discovered this place. Amazing food. Very very impressed. The nicest vegetable spring rolls we've had. So much food for your money and tastes great. Will deffo be back.

Best little take away in this neck of the woods

Amazing food, you should open a chain! Highly recommended :D

After going vegan I thought I'd never have a good Chinese again. This place is incredible, so much to choose from. Being vegan is easy when you have amazing places like this. Keep up the good work

Think sometimes this restaurant is a victim of it's own success with maybe an overload of orders, especially at the weekends, which results in it having really delayed /cold deliveries. Think timing should be made clear right at the start of the order online then you're not waiting longer than expected for food to be delivered. This is the only downside as the food is really delicious and reasonably priced and love, love, love the packaging.

ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED, DO NOT RECCOMEND! Me , my boyfriend and a friend have ordered from this takeaway earlier on today, food tasted allright but the outcome was awful. We all felt really ill and sick. My friend was throwing up and a little while after just fell asleep. The portions were also very small. We had paid £20.50 for our food that made us feel ridiculously ill so I called back and asked for a refund. The receptionist was not very helpful, told me I was not able speak to the manager as he is "busy" and they can not help me as they do not do refund. So I had wasted £20.50 on food that made us all feel really ill and they can not do nothing about it. Will not be ordering again.

The food was delicious! Cannot wait to order from here again. Also just a note based on the other reviews, I thought the staff in there were good. No issue with the survive whatsoever.

Very Nice Service and Reasonable Price.

My favorite Chinese takeaway ever! Amazing food and friendly staff.

To ultimately the Chef but to also the lovely staff at Tofu who just gave me that pork dish I asked you alter, you used chicken and more veg and other flavours.....well, it was absolutely beautiful!! ....and thank you. Awesome food as always! Sarah

Food always tastes pretty decent but an hour and forty minutes simply isn't good enough for a takeaway that is only a mile and a half away. The problem this has is that the food is always cold once it arrives

Fantastic food and generally very friendly and helpful staff. On this occasion, I collected and was on crutches. Was left to struggle with a high step and a heavy door on the way in. A shame as this is one of my favourite takeaways.

Great Vegan options clearly laid out on their website. Seriously tasty food. Love it and would recommend!

Having been a good quality loyal customer, since you opened. Having rated you too everyone i know. You decide to slap a min of £18 del and £2.50 del charge. Asked why there was a £2.50 charge (i live 3 min drive)( but currently just got out of hospital). There response was that they have had to hire a company to deliver so as they have to pay them. We the customer have to pay the chinese to do this. So for every 50 deliveries little tofu get £125, times that by 6 days. £750.. now thats just the delivery charge. That little tofu is an extortunate amount to be paying a company to deliver your food. Just one question considering we live 6 maybe 7 roads away... whys the food always cold???? Im all for businesses being profitable but your greed has lost you £30 a week from this house. Baring in mind you have been appolaging the last 6 months when you could not deliver as drivers were letting you down. So it seems your incompitence in finding a driver has backfired on the customer. Thanks

Great food, the most shocking service on the planet. Ordered at least 3 times as the food is decent but constantly lied to about delivery times. Called back 3 times and told there was no manager. Then told they couldn't process a refund. Took the step of actually going to the shop to demand it, told I still couldn't have it. Had to wait until he gave me the cash. Never EVER ordering again and will be telling everyone to do the same. Jokers.

Really disappointed tonight. An hour after we ordered, my husband called to check on our order. To be fair the lady who answered was really lovely and apologetic and said they were busy but our order was being done now. Which would have been fine, however if the food was being prepared there and then like she told us why did it take an hour after the phone call for our food to arrive? To add insult, the food was cold! 2 hours wait for cold food, we won't be ordering again!

Good quality food. Not greasy and well prepared! Probably the best Asian food in the area.

Great service with friendly staff. The food is served in very generous portions and is tasty and above all, if it's fried, is not served greasy. Nothing worse than a greasy oily Spring Roll. This is my Chinese Takeaway of choice in Southend . I've recommended to friends who also now use nowhere else.

Great little take away the food is very good and the food is not greasy at all 👍 I love the way they present the food in the little take away boxes and the little chop sticks very trendy ❤️

My first time it was poor service took 2 hours to be delivered and when you called it would say not in service .I Will definitely not order there again.

Great service. Food was so nice that I didn't leave any. Not greasy. Very nice. Will defaintly use again.