The best restaurants serving Chinese food in England

Recommended this place a while back and checked the reviews as we have just recently moved to the area. We started with sweetcorn soup which was really tasty, so we had high hopes but how wrong was we! We ordered Singapore vermicelli and a prawn blackbean with egg fried rice. The prawns were clearly not fresh and was frozen as they was huge and bitty, my partner ate one but avoided the rest as we didn’t want to become sick 🤢 the vermicelli was tasteless had sad looking pieces of veg and egg that looked about 10 days old not a hint of any spice? The egg fried rices was yellow and tasteless with no egg. They looked like uncle bens packet rice, when asked how the food was I expressed we was not happy with the food but had already dished most of it onto our plates to share it apart from one of the rices, the waitress said ‘we will take the fried rice off the bill’ and walked away? We have left still really starving and £60 down for basically abit of sweetcorn soup and a few spoons of vile rice and black bean sauce? This was an absolute tragic Friday night meal - Waitresses was nice when we first came in & ordered our drinks and food, but when we gave feedback they couldn’t get away quick enough. Judging by the reviews this used to be a really good place, but defiantly do avoid at all cost this was awful and quite literally left a bad taste in our mouths. We have come home and are still hungry and have a horrid peppery taste left over off one of the dishes. Only positive I can come away with is the taste of the pinot Grigio rose. I am shocked and we defiantly won’t be returning at all. Nothing was rectified or even tried to replace, just a rice that was not touched was taken off the bill. Save your money & go to a take away instead because this is shocking 😨

Food was tainted with the fact I got charged twice. Otherwise would have been lovely. Had ribs, spring rolls, noodles and didn't realise you got prawn crackers for free so ended up with two bags.

Have used the same place for years and as they’re closed had to look elsewhere The only one that came up as available and husband wanted a Chinese I only had a chicken fried rice and spring roll, lovely rice and spring roll crispy and nice filling Hubby had his salt & pepper ribs, special chow mein and a kung po chicken and said it was all delicious Would def order again albeit is more expensive than our usual

Great service, friendly warm welcome. The meal was very tasty with plenty of fresh ingredients. It's nice having little extras included too such as prawn crackers, fortune cookies and chocolate.

Beim vorbeigehen entdeckt, am nächsten Tag dann besucht Bedienung sehr freundlich. Das essen war frisch zubereitet und die Portionen wirklich...

Refused to let a six year old just order a plate of chips and charged full buffet price as he occupied a chair in a half empty restaurant. The food was flavourless and bland and the service was pretty poor. Will definitely not be returning

First time trying here - Best Chinese in Billericay! Was super quick, the portions were huge, everything was so fresh and was the tastiest Chinese we have had in such a long time. Will definitely be our go to from now on!

Unfortunately one dish did not arrive, were advised the kitchen was too busy to send the missing dish. Attitude of the staff was not great, I would have expected an apology.

been coming to this restaurant for about 10 yrs and has always consistently good not a cheap eats kind of place but service food and quality has been good but went recently and has gone downhill food not anywhere near the standard it used to be portions smaller less meat or fish and flavours nothing like they should be im not a food critic but go to Chinatown a lot and all the main we had at bejing palace tasted the same base sauce of hot chilli wouldnt recommend ever again which is sad

Turns out you’re actually limited with some of the menu items. You can only have one helping of duck.. not sure if thats the case with anything else, but I only come for the duck so was disappointed at paying £30 a person for not actually all you can eat. Actually against the law and a breach of contract to not mention that before dining. Would never return..

Such amazing food for the price

My third visit to this restaurant. The staff are very friendly, welcoming and helpful. The food was nice and hot and very tasty . A most enjoyable evening and very reasonably priced. Would highly recommend.

The food was as lovely as ever, as we had moved away we had not visited for a fes years & the food is as good as ever. Sorry to hear you are closing we wish you all the best gor the future.

UPDATE: We became regulars here until 2020 and were very sad indeed to dscover that it has closed its doors. A real loss to anyone who enjoys first quality Japanese food! This is one of the best Japanese restaurants in London but it is so authentic that you need a guide. The sushi is good, the usual menu items are very good but if you really want to eat well you need to choose from the blackboard with the day's dishes chalked up in Japanese. Marinated squid guts and tuna cheek are delicious and so genuine: you could be in a very good local restaurant in Japan. These kind of dishes are not found in most London Japanese restaurants and this is why Sakana Tei is special. Grab a Japanese or literate Chinese friend and treat them in return for choosing the delicious surprises you would normally miss!

My wife and I went to Legends following a recent online review (Shropshire Star) which was enthusiastic. Our food was ok, but when we came to pay the bill (£47) we were told that if we wanted to pay by card the cost would be £50, £1.50 extra charge per person for the water we had with the meal. The owner explained that we had rented her glasses! She tried to justify the 6% increase by saying that her bank charges for card transactions. I didn’t have cash and didn’t want a walk up the street to get it, so reluctantly paid £50. Needless to say this left a bad taste and we wont be going back.