The Red Lantern in Plymouth

I've ordered a lot of times from this place, the food is always piping hot and delicious, the prices are also reasonable. Out of all the places I have tried this one stands out as being the best for Chinese food.

Beautiful food, delivered on time, hot and tasty. Would definitely recommend.

Excellent food at a great price

My first take away from thexred lantern, and definitely my last. Food was so bland, no taste at all. Was delivered in good time but worse chinese food i ever had

We come here frequently and have never been disappointed. We tend to go for the Peking Duck (in my opinion better than aromatic duck) which is on the Chinese menu, and it melts our mouths every time, as well as Chinese BBQ choices, which are also great. This place has been around a long time so it must be doing something right. The majority of negative reviews are to do with the deliveries, which is usually organised by food apps such as JustEat. They get so many orders for deliveries, with JustEat being renown for their incredibly slow deliveries around Plymouth, so its risky way to go. But if you come in and eat, I guarantee you a great meal.

Amazing food, the best Chinese in Plymouth! The portion sizes are ample and excellent value for money! ❤️

What's an absolute joke of a restaurant should be ashamed of yourselves 1) you need to update your app 2) I called you to ask if I could add prawn crackers on your response not a problem at all but failed to tell me I would need to pay cash on delivery for them and when I said I can only pay by card you've taken them away 3) need to change your oil or your batter for your crispy shredded beef it tastes like fish I'm extremely unhappy Ordered at 5:30 got food at 7 30 call twice and got reassured my food would be a lot quicker I must have mug written over my head Thank you for the delivery driver I know you were just doing your job

The seaweed was over cooked quite bitter

food was so tasty, will def order again

Ordered takeaway from just eat. This was my first time ever ordering from here and I'm very happy. The order was ready exactly on the time that I was told to pick up and the server was very lovely and polite. I didn't dine it but it looked very clean and well presented and people who were eating in seemed very happy so it was a great atmosphere and I will consider dining in in the future. The actual food itself was well priced compared to competitors. As I never ordered from here before, whilst on just eat I was comparing the prices of different restaurants and I went with this as it was the cheapest. The more reasonable price doesn't affect the food quality in the slightest. I ordered egg fried rice and chicken balls. The chicken balls were massive in size and you get 9. The egg fried rice was a small but I could easily share that as I ended up with about half leftover (food container sized). The egg fried rice was so well cooked. The rice was so soft and the eggs werent crispy or burnt. The chicken balls as well were very soft and well cooked. I'm really fussy on chicken and am that person who scans for pink and it was completely white in every bite. The batter was a beautiful golden brown, I cannot express enough how golden they were. Overall I am so incredibly pleased with my order and will be returning. (I fear I'll be here every week now 😅) Thank you red lantern

Amazing food and excellent quality ingredients.

The Driver was rude and would not take back the ribs because they were eaten we had tried one ? Otherwise be no case in general totally disgusting food phoned the restaurant no refund to be given as driver already decided there was no case

Perfect order besides being not at hot as we would’ve liked and despite the amount of food we ordered (a fair bit), it didn’t fill us up. We would order again due to the cleanliness of the food, one of the best we’ve had.

First time ordering from here and will def be are go to place now was lovely and fresh and hot and really tasty

can not fault the food! absolutely stunning was late but was explained by staff over phone very polite and time of year restraunt was busy thanks for the awesome food!

Absolutely fuming with my delievery All dry , tasteless. And damm Rite rude I I’ll 100% avoid

Food was good but service was absolutely terrible! Ended up spending 4 hours there because it was so slow! They prioritise Deliveroo drivers over diners.

Honestly, worst service I have ever had. 3 hours to eat a meal. Painfully slow. They prioritised the takeaway drivers over the customers. Maybe either have a takeaway or a restaurant, you clearly can’t do both. Really shocking…

They did miss the drink I ordered, but the food was fantastic xx

Ordered my food on deliveroo at 20:10 only to received a phonecall at 21:41 asking me to cancel the order as they realised they don't have what I want. That's one hour and forty one minutes wasted. Don't bother. I won't, ever again. At the very least, a restaurant should be reliable. They could have let me know much earlier. Shocking.

Very tasty Chinese food. I am not all that huge on eating Chinese but as of lately after trying this restaurant I am hooked. Flavour is very nice and considering everywhere else is chicken and burgers this is lovely change. Will keep ordering for sure.

Be aware if ordering through Just Eat. We placed at order only for an hour and a half later we checked Just Eat to which it had said delivered (We never had anyone at the door). I rang the resteraunt who said it was on its way. A further 25 minutes passed with no delivery to which I contacted them again who said the order had been completed (Despite never giving the Just Eat delivery code to any delivery driver). A large order for a large family on New Years Day now a massive let down. Won't be ordering from here again.

Brilliant food, excellent service thank you

Amazing food, our favourite Chinese, really good delivery time today

Red Lantern is without a doubt my favorite restaurant. I love the Malaysian sea food fried rice and chowmein varieties. The staff are very friendly and helped us cut cake for our friend's birthday. I will surely recommend it to others looking for Chinese food.

The food here is outstanding. The portion sizes are great for the price and the quality is brilliant. The dim sum sharer platter was warm and incredibly tasty. Best item on the menu. The mains too are brilliant, done fresh and not over sauced and go perfectly with the sides of rice and noodles. Friendly staff who very quickly come to take orders and bring the food as soon as it’s ready. One of the best Chinese restaurants in Plymouth, especially for the price.

I wish I could comment on the food. I ordered it at 7. It is now gone 9 and the order was cancelled. Absolutely shockingly bad. Never bother ordering. For a Thursday night it just isn't good enough

It was amazing food. Great service we will definitely be back. Amazing for a birthday

Ordered through Uber eats and after 3 hours 4 couriers had gone to the restaurant and then left again because the order wasn't ready. Ended up cancelling. Really poor service avoid

Ordered for delivery at 6:30, was told our food would arrive at 8pm, got to 9pm and was told our order had been cancelled out of no where. When we rang the restaurant they said they would start cooking again now (9pm) and would deliver it to us personally but at full price still and were told they were “doing us a favour” - awful service. I would comment on the food but after 3 hours we never got any

Ordered food three hours ago, they didn’t make the order, had to cancel order and book from elsewhere. Very upset.

Always brilliant service, tasty food, quick and value for money. Been going to them for years. Love it

Outstanding food and great value for money, these guys are always quick and efficient with delivery also. Absolutely lovely 😁

Updating as now a third order over 2 hours!! Ordered 7:30 and got it 9:20. Rang restaurant who blamed Uber, but Uber driver said they are always late. Stressful 😢 Last 2 orders I have waited over 1 hour - children very hungry asking 'when is food coming' - to be told the Uber Eats didn't go through, However Paypal paymet authorisation went through. Rang restaurant to say it's not good and they hung up on me. Won't be ordering from them again, just too busy for good customer service!!

Unbelievably bad service, lied to us about when the food was ready the first time we rang. Then blocked my partners number as we tried to call back 90 minutes later to find out where our food was. They’d answer then instantly hang up. 2.5 hours later they cancelled our order with no communication what-so-ever. Won’t be using again.

The delivery time was the best thing about the order. The duck fried rice was quite bland and zero heads up that the duck came on bones. After finding that out I then found bits of bone in the rice aswell. The ribs were small and hardly worth the money. Most dishes were luke warm at best. Felt like end of the night and we were given bits left over food or left out waiting to go in the bin food. Will not order from here again.

The food arrived an hour earlier than originally told so we weren’t ready for it. Also, it was nearly cold . Having spent a fair amount of money, we were really disappointed

We completed an order for delivery on the Uber eats app. After waiting over an hour and recieving a notification that a driver had collected our order, we received an order cancellation notification. We received no further information and no answer to 4 calls to the restaurant. This meant we were forced to order from somewhere else and will have to wait a further hour or two to eat!

Small portion sides, expensive, mediocre taste, made to wait 20 mins after being told food was ready. Will not be going back

We arrived as they oened their doors for the dinner service. We ordered half a roast duck, long beans fried with olive leaves and minced meat, mapo tofu and Hong Kong style sweet & sour pork. All these dishes get our thumbs up. We added three cups chicken half way through our meal. This dish fails to live up to its name. The main finishing ingredient of basil leaves is visibly absence. This gives the dish its distinct flavour. The other 2 ingredients of sesame oil and shoaxing wine were also lacking. Overall, the dining experience is a good one. Highly recommended.

The Red Lantern offers an exceptional dining experience with incredibly friendly staff that make you feel right at home. Their food is absolutely delicious, with an impressive vegetarian selection. The aubergine and tofu dishes are a must-try—simply heavenly! The decor is warm and inviting, adding a lovely touch to an already fantastic meal. A perfect spot for lovers of authentic Chinese cuisine!

Not good at all. I winot be ordering from here again sadly. I placed the order at 6:15, delivery due at 7. It arrived at 8:30ish. I understand that they might be busy so I can overlook the late delivery. Butter food I can't overlook. The fried rice was not fried rice, it was boiled rice with absolutely no flavour, barely touched it. The sweat and sour chicken was dry and hardly any sauce. The chips were over cooked and tasted stale and old. The crispy squid was soggy and rubbery, not very nice. The pork and black bean sauce was pretty good though! Nice flavour although I did have to put it in the microwave as it was cold. Not worth going back for one good dish in five.

Ordered on just eat from here. Food was nice, got chips for free too :)

Brilliant food but ordered at 7pm on a Saturday night it got delivered at 10pm. Not the Uber drivers fault the restaurant were just busy apparently. Not worth that wait but great scran.

Food is always amazing from here

love this Chinese food always hot

Quick delivery, friendly service and very nice food. We have ordered from Red Lantern several times and never been disappointed.

So many places to choose from but here just hits different. Food is cooked to perfection in my eyes literally obsessed. Keep up the good work x

Absolutely ridiculous been waiting 1 hour 40 mins so far and still no food delivered

We have had loads of orders from The Red Lantern. This was no good at all. Was there a different chef on? Not sure. But usually the BEST but very disappointed this evening. 🤔☹️☹️

Excellent food . Would use again .

Absolutely lovely food. There wasn’t a love tracker available for the delivery but delivery time wasn’t bad.

Awful. Worst Chinese ever. Pork not cooked, chewy, no sauce, rice in clumps, no seasoning . Rang no interest taken or any recompense offered.

Waiter so nice and friendly,food so good,will back again

Ordered a takeaway from here tonight. It arrived ahead of time, red hot and absolutely delicious

Ordered a take away. They put sweetcorn in the Yang Chow rice, ruined the flavour of all of the meet and rice, not mentioned on the take away meny Rest of the meal, noodles, duck etc perfect

First time ordering from here and very tasty indeed…the char siu with black bean sauce had a nice kick to it plus you don’t always see choy sum on menus so decided to give it a go, good amount of crunch and garlic…delicious 😋

The food was nice but £10 plus £5 delivery for one small container I feel isn’t value for money

We ordered through Deliveroo and the driver turned up 30 minutes later. Great; not quite! It was the wrong order and the driver indicated he had given our order to another customer. We spoke to The Red Lantern and they didn't know where our order was. They said they would cook from fresh and get to redelivered in 30 minutes. 10 minutes later the driver turned up again and said he had the order. It's not possible to cook seven dishes and deliver them in 10 minutes when it takes 10 minutes to get to the address! We sent the driver away as the food was not hot. We spoke to The Red lantern again and they said the driver somehow found the correct order and that it wasn't made fresh again. Obviously we aren't going to accept food that wasn't hot so, this time they said they would make it from fresh again (not reheat, which I'm sceptical) and get it redelivered. They refused to add any side dishes to compensate the complete mess up and said it wasn't their fault! The Red Lantern uses Deliveroo to deliver orders and therefore they are partners and when it goes wrong, they are the ones that are accountable. Obviously they believe in no accountability and didn't even offer an apology let alone something extra to the order for the inconvenience and additional hours of waiting with no tracking. I guess this is how it is for customers that have ordered many times, they simply don't care when things go wrong.

Absolutely incredible. The staff are great and speedy, food is incredible, plus it's affordable! what more could you want?!

Visited with a colleague for lunch, and had a really good dim sum lunch: all the items you would expect delivered to the table and delicious. I am a bit of a dim sum addict so I will be back to work my way through the menu. We each ordered 3 dishes and shared. With Chinese Green Tea we spent less than £25 and was very satisfied. Highly recommended.

I found sadly it lacked flavour although perfectly cooked , also found the chicken fried rice lacked chicken , but was good value

We asked specifically for the food to be delivered to the downstairs door (and specific 57a in the address) as the upstairs belongs to a different address, but the delivery driver still delivered to our neighbour upstairs. Not happy.

Fantastic food, amazing service had a great time here for a friend’s birthday party! The only thing that could be improved is the lighting of the restaurant as it is very dim and when taking pictures can be a little too dark, but other than that 10/10 :)

3hours to arrive, we got feed up with waiting and decided to eat something different as we had no update telling us what was going on. pointless delivering the order, most of it went in the bin. I will never be ordering from this restaurant again or using the "Just Eat" app.

Good atmosphere with good food. We had fried rice, fried Choi sum, and sweet and sour ribs. The food is cooked of professional standard, and it is of more Cantonese/ Hong Kong style which I like. Price is not high especially when price of food in Hong Kong has gone up much in the past few years. Service is friendly.

I liked the early arrival, never a bad thing. Always good quality.

Ordered from this place because I was doing deliveroo for the first time and it was £12 off a £20 order. Well so thought I’d treat myself and ordered young chow fried rice, crispy chilli beef, chips and ribs coming to £28 (only paid £16 thank goodness) and the food was awful. Chips dry and over cooked, young chow fried rice just wasn’t and chilli beef tasteless. Ribs were edible. I love Chinese food but this wasn’t nice at all so this is my first and last experience of The Red Lantern. In my opinion a complete waste of money, do not bother. I wish I had read the reviews first.

Absolutely amazing food love this takeaway best one in Plymouth

A disgracefully tiny portion of sweet and sour sauce with the chicken balls. I'm shocked how small it was.

A great lil restaurant great with allergys

I would have gave five stars but there fried rice is so white there curry sauce is runny

Food tasted awful, pork belly was dry and greasy. Pork Wonton Soup had flavorless broth and the filling of the wontons was mostly fat. Lastly the Chicken dish I ordered tasted like it sat in the fridge for at least week, and the chicken tasted and felt like rubber in your mouth. I have never written a review of a restaurant before but this was so bad I had to warn people about it.

forgot a bunch of my items, waiting time was supposed to be 20 mins, was 1 hour. nice people though, polite server.

Once again outstanding food both in Quality and standards well worth a trip. Chinese new year a must and always a first choice.

Didn't receive my full order, missing prawn crackers that I paid extra on the "Meal deal" tried calling but constantly engaged. When it did ring nobody picked up. Food wasn't very tasty special fried rice with 1 piece of chicken is not special! Honey char sui was very dry. Not up to usual standard as I have ordered from here before.

Got takeaway from here a couple times. Food is of good quality and especially loved the handmade dim sum platter. Staff are also very nice and helpful.

Chose RL to collect a meal because at 70mins they were the shortest wait. But still kept waiting 20mins in the half full restaurant and while waiting watched 14 delivery guys picking up with few pauses. Surely these things can be organised better?

We just love this place. Always been super tasty and early delivery. Thank you

Overall good but dumpling was not a proper dumpling burnt and just a ball of meat in the middle and curry sauce needs a lot more flavour very bland

Not received order after waiting over an hour and half, no one answered phone, disgusting service, won’t order from here again

Crispy beef was inedible. Very disappointed in the whole meal from the Red Lantern Plymouth

The chicken balls were served with a tiny portion of cold sweet and sour sauce. its the smallest portion iv ever received. the chicken in the curry was very odd, cut into small cubes with a weird texture. This used to be my favourite Chinese restaurant but something has changed.

Best Chinese I've ever had amazing service highly recommend

I ordered egg fried rice, sweet & sour chicken balls and prawn crackers. The egg fried rice was soggy and tasted fishy. Something seemed off about the whole dish. Not too my usual liking.

Delivery time was 2 and half hours - 45 mins later than advised. Even for a Saturday not justified. Food was lukewarm on arrival by the time it went on a plate and sat down it was cold. Wasn’t great not worth it.

Food was delicious when it arrived, but it was an hour late which was way less than desirable.

Food arrived and it wasn't our order, it was already late the first time. Took it way and an hour later it finally arrived. Was good but two hours and a mix up weren't great.

Excellent quality and taste with a wide variety of dishes.

EARLIER THAN EXPECTED DELIVERY IS FINE WITH ME

i love u red lantern, the food is always so good and the service so nice too!! i have only ordered pick-up/takeaway but deffo will need to try dine in

Knew we had made a mistake when the lobby was full of helmeted delivery riders, in fairness we didn't order mains, the complimentary prawn crackers were stale and tastless, coupled with the dimly lit depressing decor we were not willing to take a chance.

Excellent food, cooked to perfection and tasted devine

Beautiful food, I usually eat in their restaurant. The food is So fresh and so many options

Terrible tasting food and we have had severe food poisoning! Have had full refund from deliveroo but just beware!!!!

Great food but waited over an hour for the food to arrive as take-away took priority.

Chicken balls were so dry and rock hard that it wasn’t possible to chew them

We received our food 40 minutes after our order was due to be collected and over an hour after ordering. We bumped into some girls we knew who ordered half hour after us yet received their food 20 minutes before us. We were also not kept up to date about our food. Then when we got the food it was cold and had to be microwaved.

Best takeaway 1/4 crisoy duck with pancakes ever had, gr8 veg mini spring rolls. A LOT QUICKER than app said for delivery. Hot too. 1st time ordering from here, will defo again!

First time, definitely not the last! Our new family favourite! Great food.