The best restaurants serving Chinese food in North East

Very poor food. When you complain they don't want to know. Eat there at your peril. Plenty other Chinese around . You have been warned 🤮

Undoubtedly, this restaurant serves the most authentic Chinese cuisine in Middlesbrough. However, if you crave chop suey or house specials, this might not be the ideal place for you, as they specialize in more traditional Chinese dishes. They also have a standard English takeout menu, for delivery, but its only ok. However the sit in menu is extensive, featuring various unique dishes such as beef aorta, jellyfish, offal, and chicken feet. During my visit, I ordered the Mongolian lamb, and my partner opted for the braised tofu dish. Both dishes were exceptional.

Was absolutely terrible waited so long for the food and when it got here a full box was missing and when we tried to ring the restaurant they would not answer the call

I've bought a couple of curry's from alos recently ,the curry sauce is like water, they have put prices up considerably, but are making the poorest curry sauce possible, used to be a really good takeaway, now it seems profit is more important than quality, very disappointed, Andy.

Oh dear....how the mighty have fallen. We used to visit the King Neptune when my wife and I first met...30+ years ago. It was EXCELLENT!! and we were regulars there. We haven't been for around 15 years to be fair but thought we'd celebrate our wedding anniversary there. What a mistake. The Neptune used to have a fabulous large fish tank, a real centrepiece!....now gone and just a gap where it once took pride of place. The room is also starting to look a bit worn and tired. We went a la carte rather than 'banquet' style and ordered : Prawn toast, chilii salt squid as starters then chili salt king prawns, szechaun chicken, crispy beef in cantonese sauce and fried rice. Drinks were 2 small proseccos and a pint of John Smith's. The good - the chili squid, chili king prawn and fried rice were very good indeed. The bad - They don't supply chopsticks!! Only forks, I mean REALLY?? No chopsticks in a Stowell Street Chinese?? Forks only. They also don't have the heating plates they used to, the metal tray like contraption with small candles underneath to keep the food hot. Now they just plonk it in front of you on cold plates so it cools down quite quickly , not great and the food suffered as a result. The crispy beef was average at best, and became just ' yuck' once it cooled down and coagulated, I left half of it. The Szechaun chicken was just okay with no real flavour to it at all. Prosecco came in a tiny 200 ml bottle at £7.20 each!! Really? You can buy them at £2-2.50 so a fiver mark up is ridiculous. The John Smith's was £3.90, a fair price. Service is also weak, only 3 people serving in total and we had to keep reminding them they'd forgotten both drinks and one dish. Bearing in mind it cost just over £83 this was a completely forgettable experience, honestly no better than a decent quality takeaway meal. If this was a Chinese 'cafe' or lower end eatery and set us back £45-50, then I'd say it was okay, nothing more, but for a Stowell Street 'top end ' place to eat, an absolute letdown. It just looks run down with zilch atmosphere - and what is it playing Abba songs in a Chinese?? - disinterested staff and the fact that when we left at 9.10 only 7 people were eating at 3 tables sums it up. We won't be going back, sad to say as we had such great memories of the Neptune, and unless your idea of a Chinese restaurant is no atmosphere, no chopsticks, average food at top end prices and disinterested staff, you're probably better off eating elsewhere.

Fantástica comida china para llevar nunca tuvo una mala siempre cuidan de ti y saben quién soy tan pronto como empiezo mi 3 porciones de albóndigas de pollo jajaja pero fantástica tienda recomendaría encarecidamente a cualquiera

It doesn't look much from the outside but it's the best Chinese takeaway around. The three meals deal is good value, and free spring rolls as well.

I had a beef curry from here and wouldn't order it again. The beef was so chewy I left most of it. The rice and chips were hot and ok but I will avoid beef in the future

Really nice best chips and massive portions really reasonable prices and few freebies thrown in👍👍👍

The food is lovely however book well in advance as the delivery is not good very very long wait we had

One of the best Chinese takeaways in Gateshead, food is always hot and ready with 15 minutes every time. Only negative is they don’t deliver.

Rotten straight in the bin worst ever wouldn't even give it to the mut ya want to be ashamed of yourself

The ribs (salt and chilli) had no taste whatsoever I think they must have forgotten to add the flavour. The curry sauce although was a little spiced also had very little taste likewise the fried rice was also the same. Chinese curry sauce should be full of flavour as should the rest of the dishes. Very expensive for little to no flavour we won’t be back.

First visit via just eat, easy ordering delivery on time, hot, plentiful and tasty. Will be back as meal was excellent

A lot better since its been taken over, prices slightly higher, but food really good for a takeaway, we like the currys, lots of meat, and generous with the king prawns