The Forbidden City Kidsgrove in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Best Chinese this side of the great wall of China

Great food and lovely people. Best chinese in the area hands down

Very disappointing. Over 1 hour to come food was bland, I certainly won't be ordering from here again.

Its got the right name" It should be forbidden in the city!! not fresh food, All from a Chinese supermarket!

First time ordering , I collected . Lovely friendly staff. Food was hot , really tasty and plenty of it.. chips chunky and hot also.. seen reviews where they were not good, enough food for tomorrow also. Positive experience for me.

We had set menu F just swapped duck to chicken.Delivery was after 45min,hot and very nice food. Plenty left for next day

The Forbidden City is a wonderful Chinese takeaway. The food is lovely and filling, the staff are polite, and prices are excellent. Definitely the cheapest Chinese takeaway in Kidsgrove, and I highly recommend trying their food. You won't be disappointed.

Always found it to be great food, I love their chicken curry and rice. But last night it was awful it ended up in the bin I just couldn’t eat it, it was so salty 🤢

Hate to leave bad reviews... but this chicken chow mein was disgusting. Was difficult to recognise if the chicken was chicken - it was covered with a fatty jelly like substance. Yuk! Wouldn't feed it to my dog. Waste of money. .

THE best Chinese in stoke on trent!! Not left a review before as we like to have a few times before we do.. 5th time tonight and yet again, absolutely amazing food. Lovely staff and competitive prices 👍

Food A1++,,,,,The most spotless takeawy I've ever found not only relaxing with an Ambient atmosphere ,with a touch of West End class too, it's air-conditioning is way ahead of most sit in restaurants , I didn't ,really !,wanna get up off the Chesterfield settee , it's a credit from the whole team to experience , I'd give this 10 stars if I could .First class.....

Rubbish tasteless and turned up cold never again

The staff are very friendly and the food is always spot on. Excellent restaurant.

My favourite Chinese lovely food and lovely staff

Just moved from London and can honestly say that The Forbidden City is one of the best I have ever had, spent £19.40 and had enough food for two days, if you are looking for real quality and hospitality than I couldn't recommend them enough.. now waiting for 5pm so I can have a second time around. Thanks guys.

Lovely friendly service and food is delicious

didn't get to try the food. was cash only with no way of viewing or paying for the meal online! its 2022 so its 1 star

Great food and Freindly atmosphere

Lovely food and lovely service, highly recommend in the local area

Food is always delicious, cheap and huge portions. Friendly and nice with quick service. Highly recommend.

Absolutely fantastic service the food was incredible for me it’s the best I wouldn’t go anywhere else

Very nice food and friendly staff

Usually our go to Chinese, but had gone downhill since we last had one! £2.10 for chips, 80% of them being small little sharp ones. Chow mein usually has a couple of big chunks of chicken, this time it was all small, stringy and around 4 pieces. It was also meant to be cooked in black bean sauce, but it definitely wasn't. Seemed like all they've done it tossed a tiny bit of black bean into it - shame as they do the best black bean sauce in all of Stoke. Gutted about this as I always recommend it as the best Chinese to anyone.

Great food, cooked fresh while you wait.

First time we have visited and we will be returning. Excellent service, food and value for money.

Just amazing food all spot on brilliant

First time ordering and was very nice. Will be returning again

Beautiful food best Chinese I've ever had 😋 Very polite and friendly staff/owners. Highly recommended 👌🏼 👍🏼👍🏼

Excellent menu, delicious food, always a pleasure calling and speaking to the lovely lady owner when I place my order, can’t fault this takeaway

I had a Special Curry last night from this Chinese and I must say it was one of the best curries I've ever had.. It was just delicious.. Top Chinese 👌🏻

Worst takeaway ever! Ribs, satay and even seaweed inedible, prawn crackers ok wouldn’t go anywhere near 👎

Excellent food. First time visit on Sunday but will return again.

Lovely people and fantastic food served at this place

Great takeaway, consistently great quality food. Fast delivery.

We ordered here today for the first time had the set menu with sweet and sour and blackbean beef for 2 people, more than enough food for3 of us we couldnt finish it all. It was so tasty and one of the nicest chinese ive ever had the sauces were really nice and the food was hot . Beef nice and tender not chewy and the rice has mixed stuff in like peas, and prawns really good value for money lady on the phone was really nice too . Only minor issue is took an hour to arrive but well worth the wait as the food was delicious

Used this take away since it first opened in Kidsgrove but won't be doing so again as last week the batter on the Lemon chicken wasn't the best and on the Pineapple fritters was ok on outside but inside completely raw with hardly any Pineapple at all. Put it down to a one off and rang to place an order this week and mentioned last weeks issue and was told could have another fritter on the house, didn't fancy one and asked for something else, maybe rice, instead and was told no it has to be a dessert. Why does it? She knows by my phone number and name we order regularly, I said about this and she wasn't interested and put the phone down! Rude. There are 3 other Chinese take away in Kidsgrove, she would do well to remember that

Very good food. Drive from wolstanton here, it's that good.

Open kitchen. Spotlessly clean. Good food and friendly staff

Good food and excellent service

Needed a quick tea. Called a delivery was very quick.

Called in one night when I was nearby. Nice enough food but for some reason no online presence at all, not even through Just Eat or Foodhub. I'm not phoning anyone for a takeaway - what is this, the 90s?

There have been a lot of disgruntled customers,since Christmas,they have given feedback of- Issues with delivery time,food quality,and price,unfortunately has had a negative effect. Customers have been very patient. Sorry can only be said so many times. The customer is always right.

The staff always seem friendly enough anytime I’m there, the food is genuinely pretty good, and portion sizes are decent too. The only negative thing I’ll say is I went there a few years ago and ordered spring rolls, bbq ribs, and beef curry. The rolls let out a awful smell when I bit into one and didn’t taste good (not off but just not good), the bbq ribs were not good, and I threw the beef curry away. I thought I’d never go there again, but since then it’s seemed pretty good.

Fast service and great customer care. Fab food

Never had a bad takeaway always good

Brilliant place for food and value. Thanks

Far and away the best Chinese take away for both chicken and roast pork egg fried rice ( & curry sauce) in the area.

Ordered a take away from my usual Forbidden City at 10 pm arrived at 10:30ish. Ordered special chow mein sweet and sour chicken and a portion of salt and pepper spare ribs. Spare ribs deep fried and chopped chillies put on top tasteless totally bland, sweet and sour chicken came with the smallest amount of chicken cut into tiny bits the worst was the chow mien. Certainly nothing special about this couple of over cooked prawns, couple of beef and chicken bits and a ton of noodles. Tried to call rhem back but closed, finally called them next day and complained having finished a 12 hr shift this was a treat and dinner. I returned the dishes back to Forbidden only to have an argument. This was our local Chinese but no longer, disgusting service and food for nearly £20. I was told I was the last customer that evening which showed. If it was a restaurant I'd of walked out, shocking food. I will add I was given £7 back from the £18 spent and this isn't the first time we have had issues.

Having my other half went in today complaining of the standard of food. After 3 months since the last review one popped up today after a promise of a bad review to be left? Suspicious much? Onto the complaint. I've always used forbidden city for years and no complaints. After a 12 hour shift I thought it would be a treat for a late night takeaway. Obviously ours was the last one meal to go out. And you can tell. The special chow mein was 92% noodles and 8%meat. 2 prawns and even less chicken and 1 piece of beef. The spare ribs were alot to be desired. Deep fried with a sprinkling of chillies on the top. That's it. We spent over £18 and I wouldn't have paid £5. We tried to ring to complain but by that time (of getting the delivery and opening it) the place was closed. After a long 12hr shift I was starving and ate my sweet and sour and egg fried rice or I would have left it to take back tomorrow. My partner rang and took his noodles back and the remainder of his meal to be met with 'well you've eaten all the meat out. Where are the original boxes? Here's £8'. Disgusted and annoyed after being a loyal customer for a few years this is how we've been treated. Avoid at all costs.

Brill service lovley food high recommend

Excellent food,service and value for money.

Nicely cooked tasty food. As it should be. 😊

Love the food here it's always hot and tasty and a lovely lady behind the counter. I go every Friday highly recommend

not very good food, taste bad!!! bad service, rude staff!!! never again ¬.¬

Top quality. We ordered in the shop on a Saturday evening. It was busy with many customers coming and going. We waited quite a while for our order, but it was so worth it. We will definitely be returning.

The curry with rice for £5 there is enough to feed 2 people good value for money.