The best restaurants serving Chinese food in East of England

Ordering a delivering takes hrs online. Only way you can order for home delivery though. Only place that does deliver near us so I put up with it. Foods not great, not even nice but when im to tired to cook I order in. Absolutely does my head in just placing an order and always regret it.

Regular here, having tried all the different local Chinese restaurants. Not very greasy and the veg tastes the freshest. Recommend the Hot & Sour soup.

It's gone way down hill to what it used to be. Used to be the best Chinese takeaway in Southend. Now every aspect of this place is worse than its former self. Ordered food for collection they said it would be 40 minutes, got there and waited an extra 50 minutes for the food. No longer take card payment. And you can taste the ridiculous amount of MSG put in their food. Such a shame

As a recommendation from a friend who lived in the area who claimed it was his go to out of the lot in Luton area. I decided to sample my two go to dishes here. Overall, was well made and decent. But not perfect and a little bit of excessive MSG use left me thirsty afterwards. A good chinese place does not need to use too much MSG. I’ll start with the BBQ Pork fried rice. I actually ordered this without pea but was still included, perhaps a miscommunication, so I’ll let that one slide. Can’t say they contributed much to the flavour unfortunately. The pork was decent had flavour with the egg and rice. Not too salty but can tell it had salt, unfortunately not enough soy sauce (both light and dark) was used. The colour of the rice was pretty light and they compensated by using more salt and MSG rather than putting reliance on soy sauce to do the job. Egg felt like it was missing flavour, it tells me they may have separated the egg yolk out and didn’t crack a fresh egg in the wok. The BBQ Pork was deep fried rather than roasted and shown signs of marination; decently prepped. It wasn’t the best was definitely decent. Above the UK national standard I expect from a Chinese takeaway/restaurant. Good portion size for the standard size container. Now salt and pepper chicken. I must praise the size of the chicken & how well the batter was made. Chicken texture was not dry, very well made batter, crispy without overcooking the chicken. 10/10 on their prep and deep frying anthology. Unfortunately, this perfectly well prepped chicken is let down by their salt and pepper spice mix, the mixture was not distributed well so a fair share of the flavour was stuck at the bottom of the container. Right level of spice kick from using fresh chili, correct. Excessive amount of fresh chopped onions is used, it didn’t spend enough time in the wok doing the spice mix so it wasn’t charred unfortunately. Good mix of other dried spices and seasoning. What was most interesting was the inclusion of what looked like crispy rice noodle at the bottom underneath everything. Not a bad thing but thats a UK first for me in comparison to other chinese establishments. Despite my criticism, I do recommend coming here to order. As the food quality all round is good. It also wasn’t oily! Do be aware that they only accept cash before visiting.

Sweet and sour sauce not good. It's a shame everything else was great but I used to love ordering sweet and sour prawn balls but at some point they change the recipe and this source is just sweet with no sour. Please update the recipe for this sweet and sour sauce and I can come back and update my review.

I visited here a few weeks ago the staff were very friendly and welcoming, the food was amazing. Best Chinese restaurant and takeaway in Bedfordshire

Great staff, friendly and helpful. Quick service, tasty food and lots of choice too.

Ordered our food at 8:00 on a Saturday. The website said 60-75min wait which we thought was fine. It turned up in 11 minutes. Unexpected but very welcome. All the food was great and really hot, what more could you ask for?

I had received a delivery from you guys the order was here within 25 mins the order came with RAW CHICKEN IN MY CHOW MEIN THE EGG FRIED RICE WAS OJVERCOOKED AND WAS HARD RICE AND THE CHICKEN BALLS WERE ACTUALLY PINK RAW IN THE MIDDLE I TRIED TO CALL BUT NO ANSWER FAIRLY DISGUSTED RUINED A MEAL AND I WILL BE GETTING A FULL REDUND IMMEDIATELY TODAY

Great food as usual and it came early too

Very Friendly food is always very gd xx

I’ve just moved to Norwich and have been hunting for a good Chinese takeaway. I’ve tried 4 or 5 so far and last night tried Happy View on Ketts Hill. I am genuinely so happy I found it- everything we ordered was delicious! The food wasn’t greasy, it all tasted super fresh, the prawns and meat were very good quality, the vegetables were crunchy, the sauces were super flavourful and the portions were generous. Super happy all round and they now have one new regular customer!

We haven’t had a takeaway for 3 years now. Fancied a Chinese tonight and we always used Masefield Road before. So decided to order from them again. It was absolutely gorgeous, delivered hot, everything was cooked perfect. Enjoyed every bit and price still very good value for money. Would highly recommend to anyone. A big thank you to all the staff and we will definitely be back again.

One of the best Chinese takeaways in the town. Lovely food, any negative reviews must be from deliveries, we've use Good Taste many times without any problems.

Have they got new owners ? Nothing like it used to be. Deep fried chilli beef was slimy and inedible. Onions thick and raw. Sweet and sour sauce more like jam. Used to be the best takeaway not any more. All good things come to an end I guess.