The Chinese Food Centre in Havant

AVOID AVOID AVOID ABSOLUTELY DISCUSTING UNEDIABLE STAFF VERY ABUSIVE WHEN YOU MAKE A COMPLAINT

Love the food from the Chinese food centre. I Always use this place

Absolutely disgusting food. Chicken Chow Mein was Chicken over soggy noodles. Special Fried Rice was meat on rice. Nothing mixed in to make it a proper dish. Lazy Chef! Front of house wasn't appealing either. The person at the counter was perished with the cold. Never getting my custom again. I've seen better food given to dogs... It's a shame really because I used this place years ago and the food was excellent. I could do better with a stir fry pan and an air fryer. Close this place down ASAP...

This was my first time using this takeaway and I was blown away with high standards of cuisine. It reminded me of the Chinese food of 70's and 80's takeaways. I loved the chicken curry and the prawn crackers were wafer thin not thick as you get a most takeaways these days. Well done to the owner/chef. My only disappointment is that this takeaway is closed on a Monday.

Bought king prawn chow mien. It was awful! Tasteless. I felt so thirsty after eating it. I drank almost 2 litres of water as a result!! Must be too much MSG!! Won't be buying from here again!!

Very dissapointing, Chicken Chow Mien was tasteless. As per other recent review I suspect that it may have contained a lot of MSG as I was very thirsty afterwards.

Lovely food, pipping hot, excellent flavours and tastes.

The loveliest pancake roll I have had anywhere else and the hot and sour soup is fabulous. My new go to place in Havant.

Everything was weird... There was some random series blaring on the TV. The lady taking the order didn't even smile. The food was terrible... there is a sign on the glass door, with a phone number,stating that they deliver, when my husband queried the lady responded with... "We dont deliver, thats been there since Covid"... WHAT!!!??First and last trip there... thats for sure!

Great food, when you are given what you have ordered. The problem is, too many times, what you've ordered is not what you actually get, which is a shame and the only let down for me besides not delivering

advertises deliveries but doesnt do deliveries....

The food is amazing can't fault it at all . The lady serving people is very nice and very polite. As I said before can't fault the food

Absolutely vile, soggy undercooked chips disgusting sweet and sour sauce, no taste to curry whatsoever,first and last time to this place that's for sure

The food is amazing and wait time is very good

Great service and great food and all wS nice and hot and flavourful then pancake rolls are to die for full of ingredients and nice outer crisp skin

Really nice food,good choice of food on offer and very reasonably priced.

Alway agreat meal people very friendly

Really tasty food, excellent service and at a fair price. Never disappointed with food here.

This takeaway is absolutely diabolical the customer service is absolutely disgusting I placed an order and they expected me to wait two hours for a delivery when I call them to cancel the delivery because two hours was not acceptable some disgusting woman called Kym put the phone down on me and was extremely rude stay away from this Chinese the food is absolutely disgusting

I have been using the Chinese food Centre for the best part of 50 years,but today is the last time. I am so disappointed, standards have been going down hill for a long time, but tonight's meal was awful, bland, cold, no meat or prawns to talk of. I won't be back.

Highly recommended x Always come here (past 7 years) & have never ever had a bad meal.

The food is amazing, But customer service really needs help. When asking for Tofu it was a big deal to call it ' Beancurb' instead (Everywhere else in the world calls it just Tofu). We stoped eventually going there as we felt mistread and corrected by the lady behind the counter, even ignored at some points as she seemed more ocupied chatting some other customer.

The takeaway we had was awful, pancake roll was dripping in fat tiny piece of chicken, chow main was tastless with plenty of oil ,

I feel so sorry posting this but I had Chinese style sweet and sour and I couldn't find chicken! It was just batter and it had a strong aniseed type taste. Went in the bin sadly. First time I've had a bad meal from here but really awful.

Would not use any other Chinese...been using this one for years food is always amazing...

Had a fantastic meal from this takeaway restaurant in Havant and would not go anywhere else for my curry nowhere else can beat it and the staff are so kind

Was just awful, beef chow mein made me gag, shredded beef was terrible with no flavour and hard texture. Sweet and sour chicken Hong Kong style was alright but nothing special. Half of it binned,n won't be going again sadly

We've using this takeaway for years.... But alas sorry I'm done, I won't be returning. Two chow meins, one beef the other chicken. Just sliced up beef and sliced up bits of boiled chicken sitting on noodles, nothing else. I'll go elsewhere in future even if I have to travel.

This used to be one of the best Chinese Takeaways in the area and I have been using it for the last ten years. Sadly the service, quality and value for money has fallen recently. Twice in the last week I have been given the wrong meal however the young lady serving refused to replace it. They have also started to use much smaller containers for their food which significantly impacts on value for money. Unfortunately I will not be returning again and will use the Aroma restaurant next door instead.

The Chinese Food Centre offers very tasty dishes at reasonable prices. I asked for my favourite Cantonese dish, 'salt and pepper tofu' and they were happy to make it even though it was not on the menu. Served with slivers of onion, it was almost better than in Hong Kong! Also recommended: the Singapore fried noodles. Service was fast and helpful. We will be back for more!

Great food and plenty of it. Would recommend this place.

your best i love your food tastes best world good work 5 stars from best your customer my name is chris scott

Great value for money, fast service tastes great!! Freiendly front of house staff

Been visiting for 20+ years. All the best Chinese restaurants dont deliver, to get the best you have to collect. Big portions and unlike some you can tell the difference between pork and chicken in the dishes as it's not unidentifiable. Very rarely slow service, but I always ring before I collect.

So after my first visit I was back again and was just as nice, free prawn crackers a now extra

having moved from an area with a wealth of good restaurants and takeaways for our first chinese takeaway we relied on star rating which worked perfectly it really was delightful; a takeaway we shall visit again and again

Always friendly service and great food,highly recommended, best in town

Great food been visiting this place for 20yrs best chinese around

Love this place , always good food at good prices x

Good food, friendly staff. Shame they don't do delivery

Who writes these reviews lol. Wait till your up north if you want a proper Chinese meal. Prawns weren’t cooked either

Haven't been here in years but it is better than I remembered. Very generous portions for very reasonable prices.

The food here is amazing. Best Chinese we've ever had. Good value huge portions and very friendly staff. Thank you!!

Used this place a few times, outstanding services and great food I'd give 6 stars if I could.

I've been using this place for roughly 40yrs, since I was a teenager and it's still serving excellent quality UK style Chinese food. Good location central to Havant social amenities. Always friendly service.

And that's being polite, we've been using this takeaway for more than 15 years, it is now the worse in the area. The food was bland, soggy sludge, tasteless and cold, what the feck are those ingredients? This place needs a visit from environmental health and food standards. DO NOT GO HERE...

Better when pete ran it just little things like the pink prawn crackers made it special. Still nice and if they delivered would go here more often. Chips aren't the best and a bit pricey overall. But better than the average in the area.

Used to love this place back when Pete ran it. Even when taken over it was the same and loved, but the last twice I've been there has been literal bones in my chicken balls! Nearly broke a tooth eating here. So disappointed

Food is ok but a bit tasteless in my own opinion tried a few times but not impressed

Great stake good food every time

Cheap and nice food what more could u say oh and it's fast served

Very basic takeaway, it's hard to find a menu online and they don't deliver but, the food is always freshly cooked and tasty.

My partner and I normally get our chinese take out else where but thought having recently moved 2 mins away from the Chinese Food Centre we would grab some food on the way back from a long day. Safe to say we wont be doing this again. The chow mein had some sort of residue and the chicken was just chucked on top, the residue felt almost like vaseline it was the most bizzare texture I have had in Chinese food. The egg friend rice was very dry and the sweet and sour chicken hong kong style was very chewy and the sauce was very bitter it was as though you had just poured a bottle of vinegar all over the dish. We ordered some extra crispy chilli beef, this was the first thing i opened, the smell was revolting it was burnt to crisp and just smelt of over cooked egg. The prawn crackers were the best part of the take out so if your after some decent prawn crackers then this is the place but other than that it was aweful to the point my partner and I were feeling nauseous for the rest of the evening and into the following day.

Placed a £20+ order and went to collect. The food was bland and tasteless and was very disappointed so rang to say I would be bringing it back. Got there and explained my reasons, sadly never got offered any sort of refund so had to spend more money on food from elsewhere. You've had my 20 quid for nothing so you won't be getting my custom again.

Long wait boring food was ok but losing interest by the time we got

Only in the area for a limited amount of time but have ordered from here twice. Friendly staff and excellent sweet and sour and salt & pepper chicken! Would recommend!!

The best Chinese takeaway in Havant

Always great food. Decent portions cooked well

Best value & quality Chinese food in the area. Great service.

Best Chinese in Havant, no contest

We have been using this takeaway for over 30 years. After tonight, never again. The food is dry, with no sauces. As for healthy(yeah, I know it's a takeaway), forget about finding any mushroom, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, cucumber, peas, etc. Previously, all the meat was nicely sliced and you could see and taste nice quality had been used. Now, it was all chopped up small, presumably to make it look like it contained more than was actually there, and it included all the gristle and bone. We have never had a problem before, and always recommended it. Never again. Disgusted.

Been ordering food regularly from 'Petes' for 23 years. Pete has retired, & his son has taken over, but as he worked there anyway the food and prices haven't changed too much. People do visit from Chichester, Cosham, Southsea just because its the best tasting, value -for-money Chinese Take Away in the ' PO' area at least.

Excellent food great staff very welcoming and friendly value for money great service I would recommend here every time

Been using this takeaway for over 25 years, over the past year it's getting tasteless , don't bother picking anything on menu with the "chilli" emblem there's never been one near it, also had a beef in black bean sauce and there wasn't a black bean in sight just watery gravy like liquid, just bland bland bland, prawn crackers are soft and stale, no effort at all put into the cooking any more, chips are great though, such a shame

Just really grate food people come for miles away just for a take away

Food is good, very well cooked and at a reasonable price. Have always enjoyed the food

Friendly staff & real fresh & juicy king prawns in my mildly spiced curry opposed to frozen junk that is so common in this area, my only problem was the undercooked egg fried rice, that was quite hard to digest.

This takeaway is excellent. I quizzed the staff member who assured us they use local butchers for the meat. You can really tell that is true. Chicken balls made with breast meat as opposed to those processed sloppy efforts at most other places. Good work and well worth every penny.

Easily the best Chinese in the area, always impressed. We always deem it worth driving for, and you're never waiting long. Great service, great food!

Best Chinese I've ever had by a mile!

Excellent food and fast friendly service.

Ordered a selection of dishes for someone's birthday. Pleasant lunch with everything on time and as ordered. Good quality ingredients. Prawns good quality compared to some shrivelled up miniatures served in other establishments.

Love chicken balls - great value for money

We would definitely recommend this Chinese takeaway above any other in the area. Lovely food, friendly staff. Only bad thing is they don't deliver, i would have it more often if they did..

Lovely place. Top food. Top staff.

A reliable Saturday evening quickie. A well known Havant Takeaway, been in the Town for years. Good for parking.

Staff very friendly very clean establishment, the dishes we had were typical Chinese dishes does what it says on tin

We have a lot of takeaway meals from this takeaway reccomend the spare ribs which are full of flavour and very meaty showdown is also a firm favourite.good service.

Friendly service by Pete, who's been there for over 30 years (so he says). Lovely food. Shame I can't get it delivered to my home or I would have it more often. :)

He probado unos cuantos curry desde aquí ahora y aunque es bastante picante todo sabe muy sosa y mucho lo mismo. Simplemente no es sabrosa. Las bolas mixtas estaban bien y mucho mejor que los diversos curry que he probado. La entrega es rápido y siempre actual. No fue la mejor comida china que he experimentado.