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

Me and my wife celebrated our wedding anniversary here and it was fantastic! The food was brilliant. It was so tasty. We ordered from the set menu and the price was very reasonable considering the amount of food we had! Starters - The starters were great. We had prawn toast, satay chicken, ribs and sea weed with a continuous amount of prawn crackers. The starters were absolutely lovely. Mains - The mains were brilliant. We had approximately 6 dishes and that filled us up nicely! Duck - The duck was absolutely lovely. There was so much of it! A great amount of pancakes to go with it and the sauce was lovely too. Dessert- We chose the lemon sorbet. No words needed. So refreshing and full of flavour. Perfect dessert to refresh the pallet. Drinks - The drinks were reasonably priced. We didn't order alcohol. We ordered some cokes and a bottle of water. Seating - One half of the restaurant was very busy, but the other half was nice and calm. We asked if we could sit in the quieter side and it was no problem at all so we sat on the quiet side. Service - The staff were brilliant. Very attentive and very friendly. We definitely recommend this place. We will be going again for sure!

Do not eat here if you suffer with allergies. First, the waiting staff could not provide an allergy menu (they do not have one - in spite of the legal requirement to be able to produce this information). Second, when we asked for a simple half a peking duck, we couldn't have this either as the restaurant fries nut-based dishes in the same oil as the rest of the other food. I ended up having a quarter duck and my partner, with allergies, just had rice... and then she had an allergic reaction. Cross-contamination is rife in this kitchen. We will not be back.

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.

Much faster than expected delivery time and food tasted good. Shame it was ruined by the diarrhoea that followed. My housemate and I shared the food and have both been suffering the after effects so I just can't give more than 2 stars.

The “bbq” ribs were served with something that tasted just like salty meat gravy and the king po was soggy and mushy and all of it made us both feel grim after.

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

went there for buffet lunch today, cold outside and just as cold inside. The buffet bowls were mostly empty and what there was was cold. Staff don't speak to you and you have to ask for a glass to drink your soft drink from will not be returning there and definately would not recommend this place. Why open if your not going to do decent hot food.

What a toilet rudest woman in the world works there food so bad it has deteriorated beyond belief and now I noticed hygiene rating has dropped as well DO NOT GO

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.