The best restaurants serving Chinese food in East of England

Been using winghouse for years, my first European chinese, why is it shut down ?

We moved to the area last year and still haven’t found a Chinese takeaway that we all love. Tonight, We wanted to try out a new one. We chose wing li - and WHAT A MISTAKE! We ordered £47 worth of food for the family, which included sweet and sour chicken balls, two lots of chicken fried rice, satay chicken, chips, egg fried rice, bbq sauce, and a pancake roll. The satay chicken was just a bunch of chicken in a sweet and sour like sauce with lots of veg and little bits of peanut - only had hints of a real satay chicken. The chips were like fries, not proper Chinese chips, while the sweet and sour sauce itself looked curdled with little bits (not sure what they are) floating around in it. The “egg” fried rice tasted like just boiled rice fried for a couple of seconds. The quotation marks on the egg in the previous sentence was because the egg fried rice didn’t have any egg in it. The pancake roll was mushy as well as very very salty. And finally the bbq sauce was like a thick balsamic vinaigrette dressing. Nothing like bbq sauce whatsoever. To us, it was an absolute waste of almost £50 and I would not recommend whatsoever. I ended up giving the dog the egg fried rice and even he didn’t eat it - so that’s really saying something! However, if you do order from here, I hope your food was better than ours, or you’ll be going really hungry! Ps: the pic is of the sweet and sour sauce 🤮

lied and said order delivered although it was not

Today we order a family meal !!! Which we paid 25 just for a half chicken half pounder burger and a fillet burger meal and tbh the food was so cold and not to be ok to be eat as per food standards .( The garlic sauce was like water Chil souce same ) I ask my burger to be plain no salad and it come with a luttece and all items that we receive was really cold. After all I call them ...they told me is nothing we can do about vif I m not happy not to order from them !!!!!! Please Avoid !!! They used to be good before like 2 years ago ! Long story short they don't care about them costumers any more !!!!! AGAIN PLEASE AVOID !!!!!

Always enjoy a dinner here, tge drinks are a tad expensive but the food makes up for it and plenty of choice! Would highly recommend eating here

Cash only. Food was not great and also a little more expensive than our usual place in Colchester. Five dishes to test and the most obvious was that the sweet and sour balls were crunchy almost to the point of being too hard and the batter just tasted strongly of oil rather than ginger or spice so had to be eaten with the sauce. The sauce was very clearly made with a lot of pineapple, not unpleasant but 'different'. The special fried rice was very dry and hard, containing lots of meat but most of it was sausage..frankfurter or spam or similar (!) ...and that was fairly nasty. The chicken fried rice was better. Lemon chicken and chilli beef were only average. Note that it is Cash only. The staff were friendly and nice.

Después de habernos alejado de la zona durante algún tiempo acabamos de regresar y tuvimos que reservar una mesa aquí, ya que nos perdimos el ambiente vibrante, pero lo más importante la deliciosa comida. No hay muchos restaurantes por ahora donde se pueda ver que los patrones han podido conquistar el declive del comercio desde el Brexit, el Covid y las temidas guerras, sin embargo esta gente lo ha logrado. (La única otra es la calle Helena en Elstow) La comida estaba en el lugar, el personal es amable y servicial. El servicio era un poco lento, pero el hecho de que no había una mesa vacía a la vista nos pareció que era aceptable y sin duda volvería. Gracias de nuevo La Cruz de Oro por una gran velada.

Had a takeaway from this restaurant and it was very poor. Starters lacked any substance and were very very salty to the point where the seaweed was almost to unbearable. The duck in orange sauce was disgusting and was almost like orange squash than a sauce. All in all not good!

Booked for a large group celebration. Good selection of food. Buffet style but you order what you want from the menu. Lots of choices and all arrived hot, with plenty to choose from. Staff were friendly and attentive. We took our own birthday cake and they were happy to provide knife, plates, forks etc. First time coming, but would definitely return.

We came here on an impromptu visit (7 of us) and they seated us right away. Our drinks order was taken as soon as we were seated and our food order shortly afterwards once they had brought the drinks. The starters came very quickly and were amazing. We then were left alone for 15/20 minutes, which was most welcome as we were almost full following the starters. We then ordered our mains which again came promptly, with every dish probably being the best Chinese that I've ever had. I will come back here again, and at £24.95 per adult and £10 per child (under 10), it was very well priced too.

Probably the worst Chinese I’ve had! Not very warm, very little sauce for the chicken balls, no flavour throughout, very disappointing

I collected a Saturday evening takeaway meal of three dishes two weeks ago.The meal consisted of a starter, a main and a noodle dish. I unknowingly, ate my meal but my wife ate only half of hers. As she was clearing the plates she said”OMG! come here.” She showed me the live worm moving around in the meal of noodles and chicken. She was shocked and revolted and very, very angry! When I contacted the Eastern Oriental they offered to reimburse me or give me another meal! Why would I want another meal? Now I was furious! To prove how concerned they were about my complaint they later refunded £7 onto my credit card for one dish! My total bill was £20.10 for the three dishes. This made me so angry that I contacted the Environmental Health Department who are now investigating. I certainly DO NOT recommend!

Amazing chinese food. Soooo delicious. We are converted to use this Chinese restaurant & takeaway now (have tried most in Bedford). Is slightly more expensive than others but you get much better flavour and quality. They do set meals too but everything on menu is lovely and always enough for next day.

Ordered tonight and all I can say is not even my teenager would eat his. Both rice dishes dry. Salt and Pepper chicken no taste what so ever. Not the first time it’s been a let down but it will be the last. When you call up to complain about the dry tasteless food the lady is not interested as they have already taken your money. Never again.

Really lovely takeaway. My partner has been ill recently and Chinese food seems to be one of the only things he can eat at the moment. We have tried other places but this is the best. Tasty, fresh and well cooked.