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3,35

Based on 133 opinions finded in 2 websites

3.9Cuisine3.9Price2.9Service
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Nº 724 in 901 in Portsmouth

Nº 33 of 40 Chinese in Portsmouth

CUSTOMERS TALK ABOUT DISHES WITH..chicken

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Chicken tasted rubbery, more onion than chicken, curry was VERY salty, sweet and sour dish tasted vinegary - not a nice meal at all!

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Nicky L . 2024-08-19

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Food is unreal. Tasty and very good VFM (value for money.

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king alfonso of all the spains . 2024-04-04

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Used the light after many years and was very surprised how much better it was this time

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Dave Barrett . 2024-02-12

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Lovely tasting food. Well recommend.

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Michael Coulter . 2023-12-28

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extremely rude staff member, tried to order food and he told me my address was wrong when I repeated my address 5 times and it is in the right area for delivery as we have ordered from here many times before. Rude service who hung up on me when I was nothing but polite. Shame because the food is pretty good and we would order a lot from here if it wasn’t such rude staff! Lost a sale and customers there.

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Amber G . 2023-11-30

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Not a very nice experience Crispy chilli chicken very vinegary Not much chicken on Chicken curry but lots of onion. Highlight - chips were ok!

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Tracy W . 2023-11-08

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This is a real good chinese, unfortunately for me.they must of been really busy as the food took a hour to get here by then wasn't hungry

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Wayne Barker . 2023-10-05

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Fantastic service and always a speedy delivery, great value and choice, always tasty with good sized portions

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Gary Turner . 2023-08-17

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Had chicken chow mein. Really tasty. Served quickly and with a smile. Will use again.

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Samantha Spivey . 2023-05-27

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Absolutely gorgeous and so tasty best one yet And reasonable price

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Dennise Duggan . 2023-03-21

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Good food and great service. But a little bit pricy now

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Philip Dixon . 2023-02-28

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Since the owners have changed the quality of the food become really bad. We ordered food on Saturday and Sunday night we all had really bad bellies. It's a shame as we used to go there quite a lot before the changes happened :(

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Betina . 2023-01-16

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Not very good will not go again

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Jane Colley . 2022-05-31

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good but could be better - soggy chips let it down, good sizes on portions, friendly staff and a talk thru screen micro phone system of ordering - cooking staff wearing masks - good food apart from chips

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gavin c . 2022-04-24

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Not very nice the flavour and chewey the meat

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Kevin Legg . 2022-04-06

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Absolutely awful food and awful customer service.

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Hayley Smith . 2022-02-08

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Delicious, first time for us tonight using The light Chinese takeaway, it was the best we've had in ages . Will definitely be using again . We also had a freebie thrown in and the ribs were lovely and tasty and tender. Delivered within 49 mins and still hot . Job well done

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penny mortimer . 2022-01-07

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Tasty food, delivered in good time. Visiting family all enjoyed their meal. Lovely treat in the bag too, many thanks 😊

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Maria J . 2021-08-19

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They must of changed staff this is delicious and a proper pancake roll lovely meat chow mein and pineapple fritters yummy

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Jennifer Hamilton . 2021-07-21

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Fast turnaround good hot food at a good price

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Anton Galea . 2021-07-13

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Lovely food, tasty, hot, couple of freebies thrown in too! Friendly service. Staying in Port Solent Marina and googled Chinese takeaway near me. Highly recommended Thank you

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Deborah Fountain . 2021-05-05

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Cat meat avoid or your probley die

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sugarfree Turner . 2021-04-01

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Best take away ever! yummy foods. Definitely recommend this place.

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Nancy Barnes . 2021-03-27

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Took the opportunity to try The Light last night as I live locally and have tried all the others. The Light was far and away the best I have experienced. The food was delivered at the time I was told when ordering, it was hot, fresh and the best Chinese I have had in a very long time. Will definitely be returning.

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Stephen Barnes . 2021-02-13

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Had a lovely chinese very tasty and big portions...recommend singapore chow mein and sweet n sour hong kong prawn absolutely amazing PLUS come with a freebie which was nice and tasty....defo getting from here from now on....BIG 5 STARS 😋

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rxsky . 2020-12-30

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Tasty food, large portion and affordable price.

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Jat Vaja . 2020-12-24

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Very nice had several times never been disappointed

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Daniel Taylor . 2020-08-01

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(added june'20) another lovely meal from The Light, I think the best we've had. [added May'18] now our regular go-to place. used many times, food is always really nice, hot, and delivered in good time. never had an incorrect order. [old review] Just had a lovely takeaway from The Light Chinese. very tasty food with big portions, and cheaper than our regular place too 😊

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Dave Madeley . 2020-07-01

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Very fast hot food I seldom get takeaways but this was good Virtually no oil and a good amount of meat Sweet and sour sauce is amazing

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Pat Fis mc . 2020-05-23

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Great tasty food, great service and good prices!!!

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David Brown . 2020-05-21

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Don't say that you are open and you are not keep up to date with your information on Google

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Lyn Collins . 2020-03-28

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Love the Chinese been going for a while. Never had any issues with the food. Good and reasonable prices for the food. Highly recommend

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Kieran Edgecock . 2020-02-07

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En general, la comida estaba bien, pero después de esperar más de 45 minutos después del tiempo de entrega indicado, el pedido fue incorrecto.

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Miss clarke . 2019-09-06

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Large portions full of meat. Tasty and quick.

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Lel W . 2019-09-03

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Visiting friends who took me here, definitely go back, food was lush and enjoyed by all, shame I don't live closer.

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Ali Jones . 2019-09-03

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Luke warm food and when I complained the customer service I received was very very poor. I wouldn’t recommend this place to my worst enemy

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Mark Colston . 2019-08-17

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Fantastic Chinese food is always amazing xx

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Louise Smith . 2019-07-26

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A very good restaurant with a takeaway service and delivery

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Antony Layton . 2019-07-18

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Good service good food good price what More could you want

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Ronald Bentley . 2019-07-04

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Me and my wife ordered a chicken curry from the light on Sunday 30th June 2019 and I must say it was awful the worst takeaway we have ever had period

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mark cammerer . 2019-07-01

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Ordered a special curry (extra extra hot)pancake roll and dry chilli and salt ribs. Absolutely amazing.thank you

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Paula Beer . 2019-06-28

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Always order form here since finding out about this place from friends. Always good food and never had a bad order yet. Recommended this Chinese to anyone 😊

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Mark Roser . 2019-05-19

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Great food great service and reasonable delivery times

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Luzette Hopkins . 2019-03-20

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We use this place frequently, this is by far in my opinion the best qualit and value Chinese takeaway that delivers in our area. Rapid delivery and food is always hot and ample size portions. Will be using this again

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Foundoutabout . 2019-01-22

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A bit tight with the sauce, a bit over the top with the rice.... for £3.50 you can't complain too much..

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John Baverstock . 2019-01-18

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Food came, was so inedible so I called them back and said it doesn’t taste right and would like a full refund. When they turned back up at my house they refused a full refund and gave me 3 quarters of my money, I couldn’t be bothered with the argument so toke the money and just know not to order from here again.

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holidayrabbit990 . 2019-01-08

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Me and my boyfriend ordered from here a couple of nights ago as the Chinese we would normally use was shut. We had heard a couple of good things about it so thought let’s try it. Never again! The chow mein was like rubber and looked very undercooked. The chicken balls where so dry we struggled to eat them the bbq sauce was lumpy and cold and we ordered some duck as-well that was just a tub of fat! We ended up not eating any of it. Would not recommend.

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emilylaura93 . 2018-11-16

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Fantastic Chinese.....you won't be disappointed....Ave a go😉

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Norman Bates aka Thebeardedpsycho . 2018-11-09

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Always good service and good food

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Jennie Cain . 2018-10-18

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Our regular Chinese takeaway.* Have collected but usually get orders delivered, we're always given an estimated lead time and food usually arrives 5-10 minutes early. Food is always hot, tastes great and, importantly, there's plenty of it! * - We've tried plenty, but they either don't deliver or got orders wrong once too many times. Been going to The Light for over 10 years.

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Mike O'Hara . 2018-08-01

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I'm very disappointed with the food I purchased.

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N Williams . 2018-07-26

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We order curries from here and they are lovely. Curry portion is quite big but there isn't enough boiled rice

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Rachel Ware . 2018-07-05

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Good local Chinese takeaway, use frequently, recommended

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Brian Masters . 2018-05-15

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We ordered from here in 2016 on the day we moved in nearby. It was o good. Oily with a funny taste. Their chicken chow mein is odd. Compared to most others, it's not the best. Tried it again.. you know... giving it the benefit of the doubt. Still no better. Beef and green pepper in black bean sauce. A few shavings of mystery meat, loads of uncooked green pepper and a tub of sauce. No thanks

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Stu L . 2018-05-12

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Huge portions, cheap and tasty.

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Mo Uddin . 2018-03-30

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Great food and service is always good. I eat here way to much.

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Sarah Austin . 2018-03-24

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Ok food.... kung po is actually sweet and sour..chips always dry and hard to digest..curry a little bland but overall ..ok ..just ok

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lindafogg1 . 2018-03-04

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Had eaten here before and food was ok but refused to swap chicken balls for vegetable spring rolls in a £3.50 special for a vegetarian. I thought this was very poor. Not good customer service if your a veggie.

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Mark G . 2018-02-03

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Not great food... very tight when it comes to sauce in the curry's and very salty

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T Elliott . 2018-01-07

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Consistently good food from a clean looking shop. Best Singapore Chow Mein ever!

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Debra Foss . 2017-11-29

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Have used this place for quite a long time but have had no reason to moan until now. Ordered a meal at 5.30pm & was told could be up to an hour....ok..that wasn't too bad...rang at 7pm, an hour & half later to ask where our food was to be told it's just left ...but how long had it been ready for as was not that warm when it arrived. When you pay good money you expect things to be within a reasonable time and HOT

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Iain val J . 2017-11-18

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Had eaten here before and as another local take away was closed we thought we would go back here again. What a monumental blunder. 2 mains ordered and a 3rd to go. We wanted a 3 pound special for our daughter . Now what could be wrong with that, well she doesn't eat meat so we asked if they could swap the chicken balls for mini spring rolls like Lee Garden do but the answer back from the kitchen was NO we can't do that. Although they sell mini spring rolls they couldn't swap chicken balls for spring rolls. It's not rocket science guys, you simply put 3 mass produced spring rolls in and take 3 chicken balls out. Your lazyness cost you around £23 and long term a lot more as we won't order here again. Must be good to make so much money that a simple swap is to much to do. Clearly vegetarians are not welcome here. Very poor show The Light. We definitely won't be back.

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F5086SOmarkg . 2017-11-03

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Decent Chinese takeaway. Don't choose plain boiled rice though; it's stuck together in a lump! Egg fried rice is good. They deliver for free. Hygiene rating is ****

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Wendy Callear . 2017-08-06

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I will not be having food from here again. I got delivered warm. The chicken chow main x2 was like rubber. Out sweet and sour was very chewy. Phoned up to complain, the manager said if all still whole would get full refund which was £24.00 but if eaten £5 refund..what a joke and not got customer care. Well not again.

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Trek536636 . 2017-07-25

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Not bad staff are good and very quick

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Mark Spencer . 2017-05-22

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Always a great Chinese. There's so much good stuff it's hard to pick a favourite

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Bryn Jones . 2017-05-17

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Great food and service as always

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Paul Harkin . 2017-05-16

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My family use The Light regularly, polite service, always very attentive, fast service. Great tasting food always. They also have "Specials" that my kids share. Never had any problems at all. Good Job !

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Charles Bulleyment . 2017-02-24

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Have had food from here many times and have never had a bad meal. Sometimes a little bit of a wait for collection but nothing too bad. Fair prices and good sized portions. Happy days and will be back again 👍

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F5086SOmarkg . 2017-02-08

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Great take away. Staff know regular customers by name. Great food

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Kieron Sean Joyce . 2017-01-30

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We always use The Light because they do great food and big portions

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Babs Tutt . 2017-01-01

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Excellence in Chinese food and service

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Melvyn Dix . 2016-09-17

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The best chicken omelette I've ever tried in years! Definitely would recommend This place!

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Connor . 2016-04-23

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My local Chinese, always delivers on taste and service - friendly, efficient. Their turn around time from order to being ready is quick too which is great when you are hungry. Sometimes we get it to deliver when we are feeling particularly lazy, other times we will go for a walk, place our order, pick up a dessert in Spar or OneStop then by the time we are back(10-15mins) iit is ready.

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Andrea Talman . 2016-03-16

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Couldn't hate anything about this place! More then generous portions and it taste perfect. Never order from anywhere else

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hayley fewings . 2016-01-15

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This is a great fast food, reasonable cost large portions, friendly staff, quick and ready to help. Local free delivery as well. A must if you can't be bothered to cook yourself or a good treat,

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Foundoutabout . 2015-11-11

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Best one around this one , great food at great price you get bigger portion sizes here than any of the other local shops, delivery of course and they are always polite on the phone and in person. Great job guys see you again soon

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Foundoutabout . 2015-06-08

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Enjoyed a mixed party meal for a large number of people. Everything was very nice and excellent portions. Plenty left over afterwards.

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marlynn52 . 2014-10-24

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Utilizamos este lugar muy a menudo la comida genial precios y grandes porciones, un buen servicio de entrega si dicen 20 minutos que está allí en 20 minutos o antes.

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Foundoutabout . 2013-12-20

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