Snow Mountain Chinese Take Away in Highland

I never leave reviews but feel I had to warn against this place... The best thing about this place was the guy taking orders. He's absolutely delightful - really lovely guy! However, the shop/waiting area is very dirty - didn't bode well. We ordered mini spring rolls, crispy wantons, honey chilli chicken with fried rice, sweet and sour chicken (Hong Kong style) and chicken chow mein. It cost about £45. The spring rolls were nice, the wantons over cooked (tasted burnt). The honey chili chicken and sweet and sour chicken were in a disgustingly sugary, sweet sauce and the chicken was chewy and stringy. The batter was really soggy and chewy. It had most certainly been frozen and reheated (veg was mushy). The chow mein was pork (not chicken as ordered) and it tasted off! So gross. Rice was fine as were the noodles of the chow mein. It also came with free prawn crackers, which was nice, apart from that they tasted really fishy... I only ate a bit of each, couldn't finish it. Felt nauseous for hours afterwards! Really do not recommend!

Probably one of the worst take outs I’ve had. Honey chilli chicken was unlike anything I’ve had before and inedible. Beef curry was poor and binned half of it. Not cheap. Save your money and get a micro meal.

Wowwww.....i used to use this shop a lot when up here on wee breaks away but I've just popped in for curry chips tonight and Absolutely DISGUSTING.... CHIPS are reheats.... Greasy as he** and just rank. Canny believe how bad this is compared to last time i was here.... And this is the last time i will be there... I'll wait till i get to Inverness in future....£5.50 wasted....i would've been better with a sandwich from Aldi!

We have been going over a year now and it has been consistently excellent food. Great selection of delicious food and generous portions . Excellent service. Highly recommend.

Food was great, good value for your buck. Piping hot even after arriving at home, perfect! Delicious and lots of meat.

3 of us went for late night food, 2 of which were very poor, 1 in fairness said his Duck fried rice was good. I felt unwell all night and the next day after mine. The main issue is however is the price. £14.10 for a basic meal is way overpriced. The same meal in my local would cost £8.

I eat gluten-free and it was the only place (without a reservation) that the cook and waitress were very kind and offered to adapt a dish for me to be gluten-free. It was chicken soup and chicken with rice and sweet and sour sauce, everything was delicious. Thanks for the kindness!

There are a lot of poor reviews but I can't say I've ever had an issue with the food or the service from here. We live a few miles away and often use it.

Overpriced disgusting food came in a box and was a total mess phoned to complain and they are very rude over the phone just hang up on you avoid this place don’t waste your money !

We were on holiday with our son and daughter in law and the 2 grand children, and on our last night at Aviemore we had 1 very large Chinese takeaway and I must say it was all delicious and very tasty well worth the money, even our 3yr old granddaughter ate all hers. Would recommend and if we are ever back up at Aviemore we will certainly be back......... Thanks for a lovely meal

Had a special fried rice there the only special thing about it was it was hot that's the 1 star. There was no sauce a few pieces of chicken or meat & even fewer very small shrimps & veg it was mostly all rice tasteless very expensive too, small portion sorry have nothing positive to say just so bland boring over priced food.

Didn’t wait long 15 minutes food pipping hot ordered smoke chicken with black bean sauce and salt and pepper chips And it was delicious will definitely come back again 😀

Really good food and delivered on time. Only downside is that for a cash only restaurant in a town with limited cash facilities, the delivery driver had no change, meaning paying almost £10 above the price of the order which is disappointing. Highly recommend the food though.

Now I only had some chicken chow mien and chick balls so can’t give me a full picture of the food. But from what we had I can’t rate this place highly. It’s was the most expensive Chinese I’ve ever been too and the food was the saltiest I’ve ever had. The chow main tasted like they had doused pot noodle in soy sauce and put packed bbq chick slices on top (there was no chicken in the noodles just a later on top clearly added afterwards). The chicken balls were also weirdly salty. Aside from that the staff were nice and it was one of the only places open that late so I was happy to be able To get something to eat, but it just really was not worth the money and I wouldn’t want some else to waste there money.

As a person recovered in hospital and want to eat something different of the hospital food is impossible why like all the shop in Aviemore not make delivery these is unbelievable person can't reach that place can't have the opportunity to try the food absolutely disgusting of the treatment give to a disabled person shame of you ewerione shame of you I can give less to one star why is impossible otherwise I give - 5

Food was a bit pricey, but very tasty! One of the best Chinese.

Absolutely BOSH! Great Chinese takeaway. Food was lovely, staff are very nice and friendly.

We fancied a Chinese whilst on holiday nearby to aviemore. Decided on Snow Mountain rather than the buffet galaxy option as we thought this would be better value for money. We checked out the reviews for this take away and we nearly were deterred, but this was a good chinese, we ordered early for collection, the food was lovely, some items tasted slightly different to our normal chinese at home but that happens, would recommend! Ignore the nasty reviews left - the owners seemed lovely too.

Terrible, bland. Watery cornflour sauce. Not even edible. Really disappointing. Unfortunately picked up on the way through Aviemore, so couldn't return it.

When I went there last week I got food poisoning and I was sick the year before when I went

At an average level, the same ingredients are generally more expensive than in Dundee. I understand that the cost is high.

This is the nicest Chinese takeaway in Aviemore, the owners are very accommodating & very nice people, prices are very reasonable & myself & my partner rate them very highly. Recommend to everyone. Very good size portions. We go to Aviemore every 3-4 months & use this takeaway every night of our stay. Jacqui & Neil from Glasgow.

Poor overcooked & uncooked food I was debating whether to order due to the poor reviews… shouldn’t have bothered the reviews are true it really is awful. Considering it’s the only Chinese takeaway in aviemore you think they would do better. Avoid at all costs.

Food was lovely. Long waits however worth it in the end

Eaten here last few years when on holiday been very good but this year salt and pepper spare ribs very greasy and not best quality ribs,then had chicken chow mein again very bland not much flavour and tiny portion of chips £23 for 3 dishes very expensive a shame used to love the place sadly we will not be returning in near future

FANTASTIC food, reasonably priced, and friendly staff.

Very expensive for sub standard food. Placed an order for delivery after arriving in Aviemore. We ordered chicken balls, noodles and some honey chicken. Chips and rice. It came to an eye watering £55 the same food would cost me £25/30 back home. For the price I expected the food to be amazing but it wasn't anything special. Very oily and sub par. £6 delivery for somewhere a mile away is also very expensive considering it took 1hr 15min after being quoted 45min. Overall I would look elsewhere for better value

The food was worth a 3 1/2 star review possibly but the cost makes it more of a 2 1/2 stars. £28 for a basic Chinese takeaway for two made it not really worth the price. More used to paying around the £15/18 for what we had.

Worse Chinese takeaway I have ever had, two members of our party ended up being sick after the meal. From what I coukd tell is the oil has not been changed recently so everything had bitter taste especially the prawn toast and chicken wings. Due to people feeling I’ll we decided to bin most of it. I am going to try for refund if successful I will draw a line under it

Visited aviemore 2 times, only ordered from this takeaway in two occasions. Once in July 2022 and last night 3/11/23.on these 2 occasions I have not received the food I ordered. Was looking forward to a wee cheeky chicken curry fried rice, arrived back at the lodge with a chicken fried rice instead. We thought this was hilarious as we did debate whether we were going in or not due to previous experience of receiving wrong order. Food however was nice enough, a bit expensive though £21 for a meal side chips and salt and pepper chips. So I cannot rate the curry as I’ve yet to taste it 😅

Chicken inedible and tasted of fish. Chips ok.

Overpriced for average quality. Staff are too busy chatting to their pals. Would not recommend

This is not really a dine in place. The food was a version of Chinese but not an especially good version. Then again, why go to Aviemore to eat Chinese. My food was ordinary.

Went there to get a Chinese. Prawn crackers tasted like crunchy air. No taste at all. Duck fried rice was mediocre. £10 is a ridiculous price for a mid portion of rice. Definitely not coming here again.

As I sat to write this review, this morning, I wasn’t surprised to find so many other poor reviews. We had a takeaway for 6 people, and I can’t even begin to say how bad it was. Prawn crackers weren’t fresh but then it got worse as we opened the 2 x Combo Starter Boxes at £13 each - full of inedible over-fried ‘stuff’. This included deep fried tiny pieces of prawn toast (deep fried bread, cut into tiny pieces and ‘painted’ with red colouring and a few sesame seeds. Not a prawn, or even a taste of prawn, in sight. Chips - which appeared to have been fried hours before. Chicken pieces - but like someone else mentioned, was it chicken?? And the driest, most unappetising spare ribs (no sauce as that would have been extra). But then we get to the mains! Chicken balls with sweet and sour sauce - all batter and no chicken. Some were so over-fried I couldn’t even get a knife through them. Lemon chicken - again all batter and no chicken (quoted as being the worst ever). Shredded beef with chilli - a lot of unrecognisable veg to fill out the sauce. The only edible dishes were chicken chow mien. Our friends paid for this disastrous meal so I haven’t had the opportunity to check for discrepancies on the bill, but it wouldn’t surprise me. What an end to an otherwise great day. Never again, and let’s hope lots of other people are wise enough to read Tripadvisor reviews before going here! Most of the food ended up in the bin.

We ordered 3 dishes for dinner for 3 people quantity was fine but the food cooked was tooo much oily we could see the oil down in the tray. I don’t recommend the food here. Taste wise it was just ok. Total we spent 40 but it was not worth it

Our group ordered meals for 14 people and had it delivered to our lodge at Badaguish on Tuesday the 22nd August and I can honestly say I will never order from there again. The food was awful yes all £193 of it. Had we been able to they would have had it all back. On scrutinising the receipt for our holiday audit there were some discrepancies also. Not sure about other places but to give us reheated chips x 4 and have the cheek to charge £4.50 per portion oh and it was 3 we had not 4. Then charged us for the prawn crackers that were certainly not fresh £8 for. 2bags. NEVER AGAIN and I have told friends and family to avoid it too.

Chinese carry oot! Very tasty and an enormous amount! I'll be back...

We ended up here as we were walking along the high street looking for somewhere to eat. Portions here are huge! Ordered the duck crispy noodles and the seafood crispy noodles. We were not expecting 5 star gourmet - but the food was tasty and service was quick. We would def re visit if in the area.

Food was disgusting over priced and food was barely edible rice was below average all mush n looked microwave curry sauce was poor n chow mein was average only thing good in my order was the chips

We ordered three different dishes as well as rice, with specific alterations requested to the mains. None of these were an issue. The meal was fresh and cooked quickly to taste. All dishes were indeed very tasty. We ate outside and enjoyed the view at the benches avaliable.

Helpful staff, quick service great food.

Ordered sweet & sour chicken, rice and salt & pepper chips. Only got 10 mins to prepare, was very tasty. Loads of chicken!

The most disgusting Chinese ever do not waste your money

Had a busy day so fancied staying in and have a take away. Found the Snow Mountain on line and liked the look of an extensive menu. We had the Chicken fried rice with curry sauce and the house special curry with fried rice. Very tasty, with good efficient service. Maybe just a tad pricey to what I have paid for similar but recommended none the less.

Food was ok, not the best though. We had to wait a lot

Always good food from here. We tend to visit this takeaway when stopping past aviemore. Never had a bad meal yet! Good sized portions. Will visit again when we are back.

I was a bit dubious to get a meal from here due to the previous poor reviews however thought I would give it a chance. Only got a special curry with fried rice and shredded beef in a honey chilli sauce with fried rice. Both dishes were very tasty and enjoyable, approx £9 a dish including the rice!!

Can you tell the chef the microwave isn’t working properly. Luke warm reheat. Disgusting waste of £90 AVOID AVOID AVOID

Had a takeaway from here. Special fried rice was really nice. Free crackers. Price was OK.

This was the worst Chinese food I have ever tried to eat (with the exception of accidentally sitting down in a tofu Chinese restaurant, which was equally as bad, as I don’t like tofu). Ordered duck in orange sauce and got a bland piece of duck with soggy white skin, topped with soggy batter. Added to that, it only had 2 small pieces of pineapple and a tart sauce. I always order this dish and it has never been so bad. My daughter got chicken in satay sauce, she definitely got two small pieces of chicken but we couldn’t find much more, which was in a gravy with veg. Hubby said his sweet and sour wasn’t awful, but not great either. For the privilege of this food, we paid £40, in Glasgow we’d pay £28 and get great food with added banana fritters! Avoid if you can, we are still hungry!

This was the worst Chinese food I have ever tried to eat (with the exception of accidentally sitting down in a tofu Chinese restaurant, which was equally as bad, as I don’t like tofu). Ordered duck in orange sauce and got a bland piece of duck with soggy white skin, topped with soggy batter. Added to that, it only had 2 small pieces of pineapple and a tart sauce. I always order this dish and it has never been so bad. My daughter got chicken in satay sauce, she definitely got two small pieces of chicken but we couldn’t find much more, which was in a gravy with veg. Hubby said his sweet and sour wasn’t awful, but not great either. For the privilege of this food, we paid £40, in Glasgow we’d pay £28 and get great food with added banana fritters! Avoid if you can, we are still hungry!

Just called in as in the area and ordered a 12" munchies box, not our usual thing but looked good after a days walking. Have to say we all thoroughly enjoyed it, nice and fresh and plenty of it. Lady on front desk was very friendly too. Recommend if your local or in the area. Thank you 👍

Firstly, we order in the take away and was told it would be twenty minutes. One hour and twenty minutes if waiting in a freezing shop with a seven month old baby. This may have been worth it if the food was good, it wasn't. We couldn't eat the food as it was that bad... Not sure where they get their chicken from, was it even real chicken...mmmm

Excellent take away last night

Very nice food. Tried most of their vegetarian dishes and all really good and packed with flavour. The deep fried dumplings were great.

We just had honey chilli chicken,snd lemon chicken!! Absolutely deelicious,will definetly use them again.They also deliver now too

Nothing wrong with that !!!!☺️ hit the spot for all the family at 1030pm when the hotel was all closed down for the night

I wouldn't give this food to my dog, I'm not sure if a rat would attempt to eat this food. The last two meals purchased has gone straight in the bin. My bin deserves better treatment than this. 🤮

We ordered a takeaway to our hotel on our last visit to aviemore. Food arrived quite quickly and delivered by a lovely girl. However the food was pretty awful. Salt and chilli shredded chicken was so pale i dont think it had seen the wok. No flavour at all. Chow mein was bland and the honey chilli beef was served in a gloopy grey sauce. My partner who had the beef ended up spending the best part of the following day on the toilet. Will definately not be returning

**** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *** IGNORE NEGATIVE REVIEWS *** MORE DETAILS BELOW*** Stayed over at local hotel on business trip and was recommended this place by lady at front desk as i have halal dietary requirements. Ordered the szechuan king prawn with chips and it is one of the best iv had. Very big portion size can actually feed two people. They even gave me free prawn crackers which went well dipping into the szechuan sauce. Customer service was great and informative and food was ready at the given time and piping hot. If im in the area again in future will definitely pop back in here.

Did order delivery. It was fast and easy. Staff (owner) is very good, helpful and patient. The Szechuan chicken was not the same like I used to have else where, did not taste Szechuan spice at all in here and a little too oily. Next time will try something else.

Ordered Beef Szechaun and Special Egg Foo Yung ,Both Meals Very Salty , not Good, very Disappointed, normally gud but unfortunately not this time

Got a rake away from the Snowy Mountain. Food wax is very good, but it can be on the pricey side due to probably being the only one in Aviemore that I know of

As it's the only one in town, that I know off there's not much competition. Food was good, hot and tasty.

Best in aviemore by far love the food no problem parking truck over the road.

Got to be the worst £35 I have ever spent !!!

We ordered from the Snow Mountain twice on our 3 night weekend break as the food was excellent! Best curry sauce we have tasted. Food of good quality and very tasty! Delivered to our accommodation also which was great. Highly recommend.

Slow service, snails and tortoise move quicker, food was terrible , bland no taste cold ,looked like slime , will not return, worst Chinese we have ever had, threw it in bin ,best place for it,

Good food large portions for a great price. Needs a better outdoor eating area. Take away only, but a few benches outside.

Nipped in here on spec and were pleasantly surprised how good it was. Initially I was dubious as the place seemed a bit scruffy. However the food was very tasty. We had shredded beef with honey and chilli which was delicious. We also had garlic...

We've loved this place for a couple or three years now and this year gone even more ... I could eat their Sweet Honey Chicken Chilli every time I go (and in fact do!) but tonight the chef decided to treat us to fruit fritters for afters - banana for Ian and pineapple for me - I was sparing with the golden syrup (being diabetic it was pushing my luck!) but the fritters were beautiful - the whole meal is gorgeous - the service is friendly and efficient - what's not to like?! If you're on holiday in Aviemore make sure you call in here for a take away - you won;t regret it!

Shredded chicken was fair like snow whites face, chilli sauce was sweet going in but spicy going out Deep fried prawn was more breadcrumb than prawn but the dipping sauce made up for it. Chicken dumplings were tasty but the soy sauce too pungent. Rice and prawn crackers standard. Customer service great the women seemed happy to work there. A safe but no thrills option for a quiet days holiday.

Horrendous and simply inedible food. We couldn’t eat anything that we had ordered. Even the prawn crackers were awful! Customer service was dismal when we gave feedback on the awful food. Was also expensive for Chinese take away. Don’t even try it as a back up!

Best Chinese by far! Staff very friendly even with being busy we got our food pretty fast. food was delicious!

Awful food tasteless and soggy worst Chinese I’ve ever had

Can’t fault them. The food is always delicious and the service is excellent. I have several food intolerances and nothing is too much trouble. They manage to prepare a wonderful meal for me so that I don’t feel ‘left out’. The portions are a good size too, making a meal from Snow Mountain good value for money.

Great food don't be put off by first impression

Great experience. the Singapore per chily chow mein was delicious. recommend.

The food was lovely👌🏻Chicken balls with curry sauce are much improved. The front house are friendly and good service.

Upon entering we ordered our food immediately. Then we began to look around the waiting area and it was absolutely filthy, so God help the kitchens. We took our meals and left discussing the state of the place. Some of the company ate their food and stated that it actually tasted ok. However My House Special Chow Mein looked terrible and went straight into the bin. I would not recommend this place to anyone.

The place doesn't look great, the Covid precautions are in place - wood frames and plastic screening aren't a good sight. Huge menu, reasonably priced. We thought the set menu for 2 was tasty.

Really tasty food. Chicken balls with curry sauce...bang on..friendly staff. Reasonable price in tourist place especially nowadays everything is so pricey...

By far the worst food I've ever had, wouldn't give it my dog. Totally bland and tasteless. Expensive and awful

Soggy pancake rolls, chicken wings were ok. Chicken satay contained very little chicken. My niece honestly had trouble finding any amongst all the vegetables. Special fried rice wasn’t very special. Yet again very little meat added. Salt and pepper chips were again very poor only...

Really tasty food. I had the szechaun king prawn with hot and garlic sauce and it was delicious. My wife who normally doesn't enjoy chinese takeaway food had stir fried shredded beef with hot sauce and she said it was the best chinese meal she has tasted. Another good point was that they delivered it to the campsite we were staying on, great service. We highly recommend people to try their food. Oh and complimentary prwan crackers.

Curry sauce was lovely. The chicken in it, not properly cooked! Chicken breast, not cooked properly???!!! Seriously basic mistake. Not to mention the health risk. I will not be back.

Nice Chinese, took awhile for my order but other than that can't complain about the quality of food :)

Great food for the price, chicken chow mien was great and the curry sauce is incredible. Will definitely be back.

Thoroughly enjoyed my meal. The staff are friendly and helpful and ensured I had plenty choice with my vegan gluten free diet! I'll definitely be back!

My wife and I just had chicken noodle soup, BBQ ribs, chicken and pineapple with pickled ginger, chicken with bamboo and water chestnuts and shared fried rice and prawn crackers. All food was absolutely awesome, best Chinese food we've ever had.

Best chicken balls I’ve had, nice fresh chicken had been used. Curry sauce was very thick but hey you get a lot from it like that. I was supposed to get a long tray of fried rice but got a small one but again simple mistake. The place is genuine the man on the desk is very friendly and doesn’t need all the bad reviews I see on here he’s there to make a living for his family like everyone else give the guy a chance try out snow mountain.

all items were edible but not enjoyable. Pancake rolls were very soggy, chicken crispy noddles - very crispy noodles and chicken in a different sauce, my husband said the honey chilli chicken was ‘edible’. Wish I stayed home ate leftovers and saved myself £25!

Front of house really needs a bit of a face lift, a deep clean would certainly improve the appearance. The service was great though, I found the young man taking our order very friendly and efficient. The food was taste and hot. I would order again.

Curry is home made and tasted immaculate

I don't what was more disgusting the floor or the food, making a pot noodle has more effort and enthusiasm gone into it

Appalling, appalling , appalling ! Did I say yet how bad this was? I should have known better given the takeaway order area was filthy and one guy only waiting at the outside table. Ordered Hot and Sour Soup (blistering hot temp wise but neither...

Great chinese. Had chicken curry and fried rice was beautiful. Also had chicken and mushrooms and boiled rice. They did our order brilliantly as we wanted no onions in chicken and mushroom. When we got there they were sooo nice. Would recommend!!!!

Good choice, good food, ticks all the boxes

Best delivery in the area Really generous portions, great food Salt&chilli has a good kick to it Very patient with difficult orders too