Mr Ping Restaurant in Southend-on-Sea

Food a good as usual, quick service and tasty food

rotten cold horrible and went in the bin.

Item of food was missing, sweet and sour sauce tasted more like vinegar and the ‘roast chicken breast’ was practically stuck to the box. Wouldn’t order from here again.

Ordered at 18.48 and food arrived at 20.18 therefore not good at all in terms of service, which is s shame but I guess takeaways are no the priority? Why should anyone have to wait well over an hour for a takeaway? There are other Chinese restaurants

RUDE RUDE RUDE. They forgot a portion of egg fried rice on a £60.49 order. I phoned the restaurant to let them know and just ask to be refunded. They argued with me over the missing £4.20 rice and denied it was missing and were making me count containers of food and tell them how many we have. I used to ordered nearly weekly spending between £60-£80, NEVER AGAIN. Shocking customer service, rude staff and to be honest the food is extremely expensive however. Acted like I’m trying to steal £4.20

Great choice for a large group. We had a big round table for a party of ten. The food was delicious, with plenty of choice on the menu and interesting new things to try. All the staff were polite, friendly and professional and the atmosphere was perfect for a catch up of old friends. I think there was background music but that's exactly what it was - nice and subtle without being intrusive. The cost was higher than the last time I dined at an all-you-can-eat, but you have to appreciate that everything has gone up in the last few years - it was a fair reflection of their hard work to keep the customer happy.

the food is amazing and the delivery time was on time

We have used mr pings for a very long time - 20 years - never ever had any issues with the food or service

Delicious and good portion size

Got much less rice than a £1 packet rice never experienced so little rice before. Duck curry tasted nice but was watery and duck inedible

Food was cold, had to heat it up and then tasted awful! Worst take away I’ve ever had. Waste of money! Such a shame

food was cold and stodgy. no from me

Disappointing as we order from here regularly - tasteless chow mein, the other dishes were just ok

Great food, arrived hot and in good time, always a pleasure eating from mr ping, eating in the restaurant even better Thank you

The chicken chow mein had an unusual texture as though the noodles had been overcooked, and a couple of the dishes weren't very hot (temperature wise). Took 1 hr 10 mins to arrive which is quite slow.

I thought I would try a different Chinese for a change, and I’m so glad I did, I won’t be going anywhere else now ! The food is bang on , 10/10

Great service. The delivery guy was pleasant. Food delicious!

Big portion’s great value for money 😋

noodles were so greasy they were inedible, curry sauce tasted really weird and we didn't eat it. chips were gold and stale. really not good

very tasty meal. best I've tasted in a long time.

Ordere online via Just Eat, food arrived in super quick time. We ordered vegan salt + chilli beef, vegan kung po chicken, vegan mixed veg fried rice and vegan salt + chilli chicken. All food was very tasty, this place offers an excellent range of meat-free options.

Perfect food. Mr Pings is great and we never have to wait till the arranged delivery time, always a little earlier. We won't order from anywhere else in future.

hot , big portions - friendly driver

Ordered off just eat , big tasty hot portions - came when it should and can reccomend. The singapore noodles where absolutely amazing.

Great but forgot sweet and sour sauce

When we do order Chinese, we always order from u guys ... It's always great .. don't go anywhere else..

The food is good and delivery fast

Went to Mr Pings for All you can eat Sunday buffet.Plenty of choice, freshly cooked and very tasty. I like the idea that the food is brought to the table, and the service was great. There were five in my group and we all had a great time. My only criticism is that the decor needs an upgrade.

Delicious soup and prawn vegetables just very tasty. Thank you

Chip's were dry. Ribs were fatty. Noodles were ok but a bit greasy.

Really low quality think the salt and pepper chips were reheated from day before, very expensive for quite basic items

First time on all you can eat and I have to say I was impressed food was really nice especially the veg soup my son had two. The food was hot and quick to be served. I would say the duck was nice but the portion was light. It's not cheap with drinks but a good night out for a treat.

Excellent food, excellent service, one of the best Chinese takeaways in Southend!

This is my regular Chinese takeaway restaurant but last two meals not so good. Took a gamble and glad to say Mr Ping is much improved and the meal was great. Rice not clumped together, good portion sizes, delivered hot and within the time line.

Amazing food great quality highly recommended

Glad you are open early compared to other takeaways we could have dinner earlier and we are very satisfied now thank you

Delicious as always and perfect service. We love Mr Ping x

Said I qualified for free prawn crackers that didn’t turn up - rice noodles bland

Food was great, piping hot and really tasty. Great selection on their menu too

I didn't get the free prawn crackers promised in the promotion of spending £30 or it would have been 5*

Never again worst Chinese Iv ever had do not eat here!!! Rude lady won’t resolve the food issue either.

Despite just eat's terrible website giving the restaurant the wrong address. The food was on time and well worth the wait!

But it was delivered to my back gate and not my front door. if we come back then please find our front door!

Amazing food and service. Great vegan selection.

We would have liked to have sat at a bigger table .. we asked for a bigger table on arrival at 5pm only to he told they are fully booked...just as we finished our meal a family of 4 came in .. just a bit disappointed that they couldn't have moved us. Food was lovely as always and staff friendly and kind.

Delicious Vegan Chinese August 2024 My son in law just treated me and my wife to a Chinese takeaway from Mr Pings, we were a little unsure as it's generally hard to find good vegan alternatives. I was initially impressed with the amount of dishes they have listed on their menu! We asked for one dish not on their vegan list, and they advised that they couldn't 100% say that it was vegan (respect the honesty). We had vegan chicken balls with sweat & sour sauce, vegan chilli beef, rice, and rice noodles (made for us as they advised their normal noodles are made with egg) with veg. All in all, the food was amazing, very tasty, and we really appreciate their transparency. We will be back and are so happy that we've finally found a Chinese that does really good Vegan food, thank you Mr Pings! ✌️🌱💚🙏

Absolutely disgusting - nothing fresh , rice was slimey. 1 star is to much for this vile restaurant. Seaweed refried I would say days old - Avoid at all costs. !!!! Ordered and arrived in 11 mins!!!!

The delivery instructions weren’t followed

We hadn't been to Mr Pings in over 25 years! It had been a family favourite but we moved slightly out of the area and stopped visiting. I'm so glad we returned. The food is as excellent as we remembered, all the favourites plus some new dishes we were keen to try, such as chicken dumplings. Delicious. We had the £25 a head menu, as much as you can eat. Small dishes, but obviously you can reorder and reorder, all the food is hot and fresh. Drinks and desserts can soon add up, 4 of us, I had 2 half shandys, the bill was £200. Nice people run this restaurant and work there. The place is spotlessly clean. We had a lovely evening and came home happy and very full!

Lovely food, good size portions. Will order from here again next time we're in Southend.

We had this as a takeaway; The vegan prawn is really good, actually in the shape of prawn,with the pattern,as was the vegam chicken,in fact they have quite the range of vegan options, the sauce with them was good too. Affordable,too. Staff were friendly and accommodating

So much choice on their vegan menu! I had the sweet and sour “chicken” and the shredded chilli “beef” was so good! So nice to see proper vegan options on a Chinese menu! Looking forward to trying more!

Fantastic! As per usual all the time....

The only saving grace was the food. We got warm Dr pepper and no free prawn crackers as advertised. It was tasty but very expensive as well. Only a starter and main each and drinks at £15 per head plus service and delivery charge... Not terrible but not the best either.

Delivery driver was late, didn't call us, nothing, when I called they said they delivered to the wrong address, said they wouldn't refund but sent food out again, there's only one travelodge in the area! Driver made excuses it wasn't him, bs, food was bland, not worth the near two hour wait.

The shredded beef was dry and mainly batter - I detected no meat at all, and the chilli and salt were undetectable. The egg fried rice was plain, old, clumpy boiled rice with bits of egg in it. Both were tasteless, cold, dry and I couldn’t eat it.

The best sweet and sour chicken balls very nice

Spent a lot of money and no free items as advertised. Everything was cold. Chicken chow mien bland and greasy. Curry sauce lumpy and bland. Katsu taste like frozen and defrosted / was thick lumpy no flavour, barely any sauce too. Dreadful.

I have used Mr Pings before and eaten on their restaurant on numerous occasions, however, if this was my first time using them probably wouldn't return. Some of the meal was lovely and warm. Other parts were bland and cold.

Food was ok, was only warm on arrival. A lot of money for average food. Or just maybe not my cup of tea?!

The food is fantastic, lots of choices for vegetarians and vegans and the delivery is super fast. Will be using Mr Ping from now on.

Had takeaway. food was good but the chill crispy beef was just half a portion. Looked like someone had eaten half the dish.

LOVE the food, always order from here and it’s always amazing. Vegan options are superior and food tastes delish. Thank you mr ping!

never disappointed with this place

I was sent chicken not vegetarian tofu. I ate one piece I'm really upset

Lovely food as always! Missed one item from my order, phoned the restaurant and it was delivered quickly, well done Mr Pings!

Not only was it late, but the app said it was delivered at 20:05 when it wasn’t. Then when i submitted a claim for help, the delivery time changed to 20:50. And didn’t turn up until 21:00, and was like warm/ some items were cold

It was a lovely restaurant, we had takeaway and the food was amazing as it was freshly cooked when we ordered as if we were dining in the restaurant , top marks would recommend , best Chinese in Southchurch area 10/10

Very rude women on the phone when we didn't receive our full order. How they keep trading, I will never know. Avoid this restaurant Always been a fan up till. Now.

Great food and nice people A+++++

First time ordering from you and believe me when I say it will be the last. Ended up with a horrific case of food poisoning. Your establishment needs to be shut down.

I know we’re in a cost of living crisis but the cut backs from this place are crazy. We had hardly any meat in any of our dishes and 0 seasoning: flavourless . Really underwhelming. The spring rolls say meat but there wasn’t any in them.

Great food. Super quick delivery from the restaurants own delivery person. Only issue was chips were missing from order.

We had a family birthday at Mr. Pings, it was a lovely evening, the staff were very friendly and helpful, will definitely be going back.

The blandest chinese ive ever eaten!

I order from here almost weekly and today the food just wasn’t what it normally is, most of the order went in the bin, it was dry, tasteless and just not up to the usual standard, sad that this is another restaurant potentially going down the pan

I attended the restaurant for a surprise 60th for 22 people,they allowed us to come in and decorate in the afternoon, which was great. The whole dining experience was fantastic , the food was amazing and the vegan and veggie choice for a couple of our party was lovely. We had such an amazing night and all the staff were so welcoming. Thankyou

One of the best chow mein I’ve ever had, delicious!!

Delicious food delivered on time

Ribs was disgusting and noddles greasy prawns were rubber and very expensive 63 pounds

The most disgusting Chinese Iv ever had in my life, AVOID AT ALL COSTS! The meat tastes not like meat everything was either really greasy or tasted weird it looked like I poured a glass of oil on everything. Only thing that was edible was prawn crackers so basically paid £60 for a bag of crackers as everything wasn’t edible lucky me.

Will never order from here again - absolutely worst Chinese we’ve ever tasted. Chicken chow mien tasted only of salt. Chicken rice was bland no flavour, the chicken was also questionable? Chips cold soggy / undercooked. The prawn balls hard and over cooked. The spring rolls were “ok”. Prawn crackers all broken. Sweet & sour sauce had a strange taste. Curry sauce was “ok”. Very expensive order - big waste of money.

Delicious food as always. The food came out warm and quickly. Friendly service. The portion sizes are just the right amount.

chicken chow mein tasted like sweat.

There was a slight issue with the order but they couldn’t have been quicker to rectify it. The food was amazing.

Great service as always, thank you

We order from this Chinese every week the food is always amazing however tonight my mum got chicken balls instead of prawn she did not tell me until I got in 2 hrs later she does not eat meat so she left them called restaurant told me the chief said he put prawn balls in I told them that's not the case it had p on bag but chicken inside they offered new but expected me to go pick up so my mum has just got curry sauce and noodles they have said I can have a credit for next time 😢not great

Pretty bland, salt and pepper chips were just heavily salted chips

Great food, but got the wrong drink. ask for diet coke, got original which I couldn't drink as I'm diabetic, I gave it away

Order was very late, some kind of error. When it finally arrived, it wasn’t really tasty, salt and chilli chips were cold and plain. Kung-po chicken also very bland, won’t be bothering again.

Ordered the veggie/vegan options loads before and was really tasty, ordered the same dishes this evening and they’ve changed the meat alternatives, it was extremely bland and chewy and dry, I couldn’t even finish it. Very disappointed

Brilliant driver came in the estimated time and very delicious food 😋😋😋

Despite the long wait it was a Saturday night, the food was still hot & good quality. The food wasn’t greasy at all which it can be from some other places. Will order again!

It's Saturday night so I understand they are busy. Food was super tasty as always. Will absolutely recommend and definitely be ordering again in the future

Good but they forgot the prawn crackers

There was no beef in the chilli beef. Not nice

Food was all really nice, hot on arrival, free prawn crackers over £30 a bit much though. Not ideal if ordering for yourself, but perfect for family orders

estimated deliver was 35 minutes and it arrived 2 hours after ordering. No tracking available and when I phoned they were not helpful, no apology and just kept saying will be there soon. Food arrived luke warm verging on cold. Not happy!

very poor oderd at half 7 pm didn't get my food till 9pm not good at all

The time kept changing and it took ages