Slow Boat Chinese Take Away in Newport

Best curry sauce in the world... ! No joke it is.. Just that

I swear they make ordering and collecting a Chinese as difficult as humanly possible, so that it’s more rewarding when you finally have the food at the end. Order on phone, they say 20 mins. Arrive 20 minutes later, you have to stand in a slow moving queue of about 15 people just to pay for the order. They then tell you they haven’t started cooking it yet, and you have to wait another 20 minutes for the food. Meanwhile, you have to stand in a seemingly lawless environment, with feral children running riot, everyone driven crazy by the world logistics a takeaway restaurant has ever provided. Food is alright but avoid like the plague for the effort needed to get it. Really putting the ‘slow’ in slow boat.

Just terrible, guy who took the order at first I thought was automated, tried for the time tonight, no card payment so had to go get cash. The portions are soo small, the rice would not even feed me, chow main portion half the size of anywhere else. Sweet and sour sauce tasted off. Never again!

Friendly to customers. Great food good prices. Place order over the phone and it be ready by the time you get their.

Lovey food would definitely recommend

The food here is delicious I’m very fussy when it comes to ordering from Takeaways but I always order my Chinese from here never go anywhere else nice portions the curry sauce is absolutely banging best curry sauce I’ve ever tried the staff are friendly I’ve always had good communication over the phone after placing my order I’ve always asked can they read it back to me it’s been perfect every time I’d never change this Chinese for the world excellent service and experience

Best Chinese in South Wales. Been going there years. Every time someone recommends me somewhere else, I just roll my eyes, because I know it'll never compare Special Chow Mein. Chips. Curry Sauce. Prawn crackers. BBQ ribs. The amount of food that actually is for £20.00 is beyond cheap, enough for two people in all honestly. 10/10

I’ve been going to this Chinese since I was 6 years old and I’m now 38. I don’t live in Newport anymore but when I go back to see family, I always plan to have a slow boat. The curry sauce is incredibly and I’ve never found another one like it.

Can't understand the negative reviews, every meal we have from here is delicious - the best Chinese takeaway we've had snd always visit here when jn the area. Chicken curry is the best 👌

Food is nice when the Wai wai is closed on a Tuesday, but Jesus christ ordering over the phone us painful. Just try it. Not what you need when you're hangry.

We have been going there for 35 years no problem always good food

Very rude staff That will take your money and put the phone down on you and not give you the stuff you ordered never will I use them again

Best Chinese food portions are small though

The person I spoke to this evening clams this site do not exist She clams she has no computer And found her rude on the phone

Great chicken curry plenty of chicken

Best chicken curry Iv had very nice people too 🤤🤤🤤🤤 I drive from pontypool to for the chicken curry egg fried rice

The best fish and chips in Newport and probably in Wales. Such great value and service. The batter was so crispy and not at all greasy I can highly recommend this establishment!

Honestly this place is so amazing, food is delicious, I always have the chicken balls which are delicious and special fried rice, the curry sauce is the best I have ever tasted, genuinely lovely place, will never use anyone else 🙏

Reasonable price, good food, good service

Delicious, reasonably priced food.

This is a Chinese takeaway /chippie. There is an excellent choice of both Chinese dishes and normal chippie food. It's our go to for Saturday night takeaway. The only drawback is no delivery service and it's always packed on the weekend so phone your order in advance.

Great food, unfortunately cash only, I wonder why ? Otherwise it would be 5 all the way.

The best chop suey in gwent, the best Chinese curry sauce in the world! Accept no substitutes

Use this takeaway the food the food was absolutely excellent lovely and hot but lovely and hot and excellent value wonderful taste on the curry

Smallest portion I’ve ever had from a take away. Tasted good but not great value for money. Won’t be going back

First time eating takeaway there chips excellent curry average, prices good .

The best chinese around and the cheapest

Very nice food. And good for your money.

Chow mein......I've had a lot better was very basic could of made more of an effort .....the curry was a odd taste the chow mein has no bean sprouts and tasted blaned

Best Chinese Takeaway in Newport!

this place was very shocking thay had very little to order no mushrooms rice spring rolls or garlic mushrooms and so on I was very unhappy with it

Always good food .friendly staff

Greasy old Chinese that's remarkably very popular. Service and parking are terrible.

A true Newport classic takeaway! Traditional British Chinese take away with a large menu on offer and the best curry sauce which hasn’t changed for as long as I can remember

Lovely place to go to get a Chinese meal

Great food! shame they don't take card.

Awesome Chinese - best curry sauce in the UK.

Slow boat curry sauce Simply the best. Better than all the rest.

Good quality restaurant for returning back to again if ever you are passing through

We have been going here for years, always love food

Food OK a bit inconsistent. Sometimes good ather times average.

Amazing wish they would deliver

Curry sauce excelant if you like it hot. I normally have beef chow mein fried rice curry sauce and prawn crackers overall very good

Come for the curry sauce, stay for the friendly service, great value, pancake rolls, special fried rice and much, much more. It's so nice to see a family run business that hasn't been ruined by the DeliverEats of this world. Uncle Roger would approve of the rice and the orange colour scheme. Fuiyoh.

So disappointed this is my go to Chinese . However Friday 30 minutes after eating sweet and sour chicken balls chicken fried rice . Stomach cramps started and the rest well I’ll leave to the imagination utterly dispainted

Raw chicken balls from here! Absolutely disgusted! Just waiting for the family to be sick. Will not be going here ever again!

I love this place. I used to go here about 15 years ago but have been travelling. Came back to newport and tried this place again... it hasn’t changed. Love curry sauce and chips. Chicken chow mein.... yummmmm

Nice food and reasonable too.Only negative thing is portion size is small.

Really small portions for the price will not be coming back.... :(

Very good service u can get from there

food is lovely ... curry sauce is the best.

i live in bristol and my boyfriend lives in newport so this is our local, and its lush, curry sauce is amazing and the chips are lovely, staff are friendly although if ordering over the phone it can be tricky but that might be my bristolian twang

Best Chinese in newport hands down brilliant every time 😀

Have been coming to the slow boat for over twenty years, the best chinese food in Newport but no longer, not sure whats happened even the sauce is different, such a shame, please go back how you use to be.

time they got there act together. they got a 1 for hygiene on there certificate which they try to hide on top of the front door. whole place needs a revamp. bake n take was a buisness back in the seventies which says it all.

have not been to this takeaway for years, and after this visit I remember why, the chicken chow main had the oddest looking chicken I've ever seen, I just couldn't bring myself to eat it, as for the rest of the meal, one word salt and lots of it, no wonder there's no scores on the doors, how people rate this place baffles me.

Best Chinese around just wish they delivered. Need a better system for que as sometimes people who telephone think they can push to the front

I've been going to this Chinese Takeaway for years, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good. Last week I had beef and mushrooms and nearly broke a tooth on a stone. This week (I don't know why anyone would trust them again), I ordered beef with onions and they refused to do it and did not even apologise about the stone when I said I can't have mushrooms after that (unwashed or unwiped, still containing a stone of all things). So I ordered chicken chow mein. The chicken tasted like it was 12 years old from the freezer, tossed into the chow mein and literally as tough as an old boot. Even my dog wouldn't eat it. Enough is enough, I won't be going there ever again. I feel ill.

This place is one of my favourite take aways, I have never had a rubbish one from here the curry is awesome would recommend it to everyone

Just had chicken fried Rice & curry sauce , food was absolutely disgusting , chicken meat was wing meat , brown & burnt which wasn't surprising as they served 5 people in 20 minutes after they had taken my money , obviously looking after regulars , saved my stomach the privilege and threw 95% of it down the pan , i wouldn't go back if they were giving it away if i could give a minus score i would .

Popped in for some chips & curry sauce the other day,busy as always,we have used this takeaway for many,many years and must say it's superb,the curry sauce is sublime,same taste as it was 30+ years ago!,never had a bad meal no matter what we've ordered off the menu ever!,really really surprised by the negative reviews I've had no such issues.

Best Chinese in Newport I would say! The chipshop chips and the sweet and sour battered chicken are Lovely! Deffo worth a visit

Been going to the Slowboat for donkey's years. The meal there is always excellent.I am stunned at some of the negative postings, they are ridiculous.

I had a takeaway from there first time I went the food was really nice after I went back second time the food was cold and no taste to it

We had the barbecue spare ribs to start with prawn crackers. The ribs were awful. Meat was tough and the sauce was salty and didn't taste at all like barbecue sauce. The curry sauce we had with our main course was good.

Went there 35 years ago for chips & mushroom curry with my girlfriend, we sat on the wall outside and ate them.

Best curry in newport never changes been coming here for years .clean, friendly good location ,good for parking to

Best chicken curry in newport, pancake roll excellent also. Staff always very pleasant and also takes orders on phone

The staff here are really lovely and kind. They are always rushed off their feet so this is a sign that there food is regarded highly.

had a curry not the best not hot enough ,the whole experience was not the best will not go again ,the rice wasent the best either

Popped in here for a change to our usual chinese on recommendations that it's a top takeaway. Worst mistake....Shop looked a little dated and drab but best not to judge a book by its cover. Ordered a beef curry, sweet and sour chicken balls, egg fried rice and chips. Nice and straight forward....Chips were anaemic and soggy, beef curry looked like It had been made using cheep sliced (packet) beef, it tasted that way too! minute portion of egg fried rice to be fair this was the only decent part of the order. The chicken balls were squashed into a container. Flat, cut in half,cheap cuts of chicken in a crap really salty batter. Never in my life have I seen sweet and sour chicken balls like that. Safe to say 80% of the food went in the bin...vile!!

Best Chinese curry sauce i have ever tasted. This place used to be amazing but over the years has gone badly downhill. Still owned by the same family but the food hygiene has gone from above average to a 0 then 1 & is slowly working its way back to a decent score. Over priced food, especially since increasing the prices and making portions smaller!! Family who own it are nice, as is the spicy curry sauce which is like no other. Definitely better Chineses around Newport. I now go to Jasmine Rice although The Slow Boat is a stones throw away from my home

This is the first time that my partner and I have used this takeaway and also the last. On entering the premises, my first thought was that it was in desperate need of a make over as it is very outdated. Ignoring aesthetics, we were happy to give the food a try. For a king prawn fried rice and a chicken chow mein the bill was just under a tenner, which at first we thought was very reasonable - When we were handed our food I was shocked to see how small each container of food was, smaller than the size of a hand/half the size of the takeaway box that you would get at any other takeaway. When we got home there was more disappointment, I opened my container to the sight of gelatinous gloop slopped over burnt noodles, the gloop did not taste good and somehow the chicken had zero flavour and tasted almost watery. My partner had a mouthful of rubbery and overcooked prawns and flavourless rice.The premises needs updating, seems like an okay price until you see how small the portions are, then it becomes overpriced. Very poor quality and bland food. I do not recommend this takeaway.

Been using Slow Boat Takeaway for over 30 years best Chinese curry in South Wales owners and family nice people who are alway nice to their customers and they have a large loyal following only criticism shop could do with updating .

Have eaten here for a number of years and would recommend it to anyone I have seen some awful places but l have to say the food is really good

Only ever have chicken curry with chips. The flavours are amazing . The curry comes with chips or boiled rice. Also pancake rolls very good

Last Saturday night I called in for fish and chips and a curry sauce, when I got home only about 4 miles away the whole meal was thrown in the bin, the fish was wet and runny the chips were old and hard and all was very very greasy, the curry sauce was so hot we just could not eat it, I understand that some would like a very hot curry but there is no excuse for poor fish and chips, we wont be calling here again, I would rather starve.

We had an awful experience with this place because we had ordered chips curry sauce , egg foo young , and a small sausage, when we got home the food looked messy, the chips were not good at all, we had to seive through to find any good ones, the curry sauce is far too hot, and the sausage looked inedible, this is somewhere we won't be going back

the money this place must make and why people think its the mutts nutts astonishes me. The menu on the wall must of been there for the past 20yrs - same as the tiles, fryer etc. Its just a pile of cheap ingredients fried in the cheapest reused oil. It may be Newports version of Chinese but its not and these people are being fleeced by this pile of slope. Honestly you can cook it better yourself. I'm sure you can buy the packets in the shops in Pill and mix with water. Get a deep fat fryer and save yourself a fortune.

Worst chinese i have ever had my special chop suey was half full of boiled rice, beef chow mein was all noodle and they do not serve beef fried rice!

I went here to order three items, which seemed reasonable at first. I ordered a Chicken Chow Mein, Prawn Chow Mein and packet of chips.My chow meins were given to me in the smallest container,the size reserved for small portions of egg fried rice. I was not told about this, so rang up to complain.Every takeaway I have been too serves you chow mein in large metal containers. I asked the woman why she had not notified me of this and if I could have had a larger size. She said this was the only size she did.Avoid, this takeaway it is over priced for this amount. The chow mein will not feed one person and I am not a big person either. Also this place only has a one star rating. Avoid this crap place.Make a difference and shut it down.

I am old enough and travelled enough to know a top-notch non-pretentious slap-up meal anywhere and the Slo-Bo as we call it is by far the best Chinese. Obviously I would give it 10/10 and the nearest I have had to that in a Chinese anywhere would be pushing 8/10 and no more. Little tip though - Sunday nights seem to us to be the best with Saturday nights being just a little bit touch and go as to whether you will get the best that they can do. Oh, and closed on a Monday - you have been warned!

Lovely Chinese takeaway, nice food with excellent sweet and sour sauce. Sweet and sour chicken balls are not the usual doughy balls you get in the cheapo takeaways and are really good. Our usual Chinese takeaway but you can't go there too often as it's not exactly heathy. Only downside is their lack of crispy beef, they want to get it sorted out! Also if you ring them beforehand they usually have it ready for you by the time you get there, however you do gave to watch out for busy times as it can get slow when you're just popping in on the off chance.