The best restaurants serving Chinese food in Hertsmere East of England

Best Chinese restaurant in the UK

We used to love the food year but over the last 12 months it has become hit and miss. Last night's order was so laden with salt that our mouths burned into the next day The special fried rice tasted and smelled only of egg Not worth ruining our health with this food

A group of us bioked and had various set nenus to share TBH i thought sll l the ge dishes were very average and some not good at all All our table of tge same opinion House wine was awful

Tim's table was far better than expected. Not rally sure what I expected - but in every respect it was better. Nice, modern feeling restaurant in terms of decor - not particularly a Chinese style, but then with a name like "Tims table" I wasn't expecting that either. The service was friendly, and swift. And the food was great, and fairly priced - I wouldn't say cheap - but not expensive. All the dishes came out hot, and tasty. The Bang Bang Chicken (actually a cold dish) was a favourite, as was the Smoked Chicken. The sizzling beef was delicious too, and came out with a full-on sizzle. The noodles ordered were tasty, but quite a small portion. The BBQ Spare Ribs dry - were tasty, if a bit dry - guess I should have expected that! Order a side of BBQ sauce or something if you can. The menu is extensive, with lots of things to try - we will definitely return, and sample some of the other dishes! If you are in or near Radlett, and fancy a nice Chinese meal - this is the place!!

We have used this takeaway many times and on some, and the food is normally really good. but on some occasions, the food is not up to their standards.as this was the case last night, we had duck, chowmain, bbq ribs, chicken balls, and egg fried rice prawntoast. the food was absolutely disgusting. ribs were so dry.the duck chowmain, if you could call it, that hardly any duck burnt noodles and the prawn toast was burnt and so greasy we had to throw it all in all a very bad effort and experience

Friday night dinner instant 5 star

This small mom and pop take-out shop serves good Chinese food that will not alarm or confuse local appetites. Been back a few times and it has not disappointed yet. However they only accept cash - no cards. Looks like they do a decent amount of delivery too. Friendly staff.

I have been using Wok U like for about 30 years...This year the lady that takes the orders is both RUDE and UNABLE to accept Fault...2 Times my order was undercooked and I asked for my money to be refunded...In the last year the Service has been APPALLING...Pitty...Won't be using again and DEFINITELY NOT RECOMMENDED...Taken business else where. .I wish I could contact THE OWNER...

Ironically I wasn’t even hungry tonight but this place is so good, I had to get my fix. It’s ironic; it’s like rain on your wedding day or a free ride when you’ve already paid.

The salt and pepper chicken was so dry and no chicken to be seen. The king po king prawn had a weird smell and the sauce was like water. All in all it was tasteless and very disappointing

I have eaten here many times over the years and it's still good.

I simply tried to order a takeaway however unfortunately it never turned up. After placing the order I asked for it to arrive by 8pm. The woman said no problem. By 8:15 the food still hadn’t turned up so I called back, the woman was incredibly rude and unclear and disinterested. She didn’t provide any reason why the food wasn’t here and then cancelled my order! I called back again and asked for the food to still be delivered, but this time it was 8:30. The driver called by and said the food wasn’t 4 minutes away but by 8:45 it still hadn’t arrived. I called back for a fourth time and spoke to the same rude woman, she claimed that I had told the driver I hadn’t ordered any food, despite constantly going back and forth with the Resturant, why on earth would I have said such a thing. My order was cancelled by the woman and she hung up on me. Totally rude unpleasant and unprofessional staff at this restaurant.

After waiting for 1 hour and 10 minutes for our food to arrive we had high expectations wrongly thinking that Paya would have been beavering away cooking our food from scratch. How disappointed we were. My wife ordered Peppercorn Salt Tofu and I had it with chicken. Both were re-fried and dried out layered in almost raw onions and carrots. I had the Chicken in Black Bean Sauce which was tasteless and gloopy, like they had just thickened a watery sauce with cornflower. My wife’s Szechuan Stir Fry Tofu was again tasteless and floating in almost raw vegetables as was her Stir Fried Mixed Vegetables. Now, I’m no Ken Hom but believe me I know how few ingredients go into making a takeaway Chow Mein Chicken. In my 60 years on this planet I had never had a bad Chow Mein until last night. Raw carrots, raw onions, tasteless and a pointless game of spot the chicken. My Pork Ribs in Sweet Peking Sauce were small, bite size lumps of gristle that resembled ribs in the same way a pebble resembles the white cliffs of Dover. In fact the only two edible items on our £70+ bill were the Crispy Vegetable Rolls and the Egg Fried Rice. In the past we’ve always received a bag of prawn crackers but not this time. We have been ordering from Paya for almost 10 years but will never do so again.