The best restaurants serving Chinese food in Horsham South East

First time here tonight craving a sit down Chinese meal. After deciding not to drive up to our usual in China Town we found China Brasserie, this appears to be one of the only sit down Chinese restaurants near Crawley. Booked a table easily over the phone, parked in the council carpark 1 minute walk away, £2.50 for 2 hours, free after 8pm. Shown to our table upstairs promptly upon arrival. The restaurant is in a quirky old chocolate box cottage, think low ceilings, narrow stairs, uneven floors and exposed beams; if you're over 6ft prepare to duck every time you stand up. The interior is odd for a Chinese restaurant, think old cottage with Tudor beams and the odd Chinese decorative banner or framed design stuck up on the wall. Service was a mish mash of attentive all the way to having to pop downstairs to find someone. For starters we tried a mixture of the sticky pork ribs, prawn crackers, 1/4 crispy duck with pancakes, vegetable spring rolls and prawn toast. They forgot the prawn toast which we ended up having with the mains. Mains we had sweet and sour chicken, egg fried rice, of which there was barely any egg to be seen, and chicken chow mein which came with the thin noodles which it said nothing about on the menu, and was drier than the Sahara, no soy sauce spared here! The sweet and sour chicken was standard, we'd eat it again portion size on the smaller side. The same can't be said for the chow mein or the rice. We also ordered the broccoli in garlic butter, this was delicious but not worth anywhere near £9.15!! The prawn toast was lovely, with full size prawns instead of the usual prawn puree, but at £8.60 for the equivalent of one slice of bread, we wouldn't order it again. On to puddings. We ordered the ferrero rocher, passion pot and what was supposed to be the Monster Toy (Strawberry ice cream for kids), instead we received the Punky Toy which was vanilla, but our daughter had already eaten half before she informed us so we didn't bother saying anything. I was informed by the person eating the passion pot that it was nice, but tasted more like vanilla than mango. For all of the above including 3 cokes (Small glass bottles) we paid £103.95. The atmosphere was strange, one minute there was Christmas music playing quietly, the next there wasn't, then we could hear it playing from downstairs, then suddenly a rap song came on, then back to Christmas music. All in all, with the simple mistakes made and the odd dishes, including the overpriced dishes, we won't be back and will opt for China town instead next time.

One of our dishes was missing - but that has never happened before

Ordered a takeaway we regularly use them but today service was less than satisfactory it took 1 hour 20 mins for the food to arrive when asked why we only got a busy from the driver maybe you need to tell your customers when your really busy and at least give them some idea of how long we are Located only 10 mins from town and the food wasn’t up to standards either

I craved Hot & Sour Soup and my first visit to the Willow was not disappointing, the meal was just the best, presented well, tasty No MSG, the menue and combination of styles is perfect. The staff attentive. Well done, worth the 5 hour drive. I am looking forward to visiting at Christmas.

This is our go to place for a Oriental Takeaway, super friendly and quick service, freshly cooked, delicious, crunchy veg, yummy chicken balls and I love the chilli beef. everything is spot on with great flavours and was swiftly eaten at home. Thanks guys, top notch again, cheers Mat

We enjoyed a very good takeaway - phoned our order in and ready to pick up 20 minutes later. Everything freshly cooked, hot and fresh. Expecially enjoyed the Beef with Ginger and Duck with pineapple. Good sized portions and enjoyed the complimentary prawn crackers.

Absolutely Amazing Food. Jane is wonderful and we can't wait to eat here again.

Only recently started using this little place and don’t order a lot of food but what I do have is always delicious! This has definitely become my new favourite go to on a Friday night after work

Two take away Duck and Plum sauce meals contained no plum sauce therefore meat was dry and tasteless. Payment was by cash only which required a 500 yard walk to the nearest cash machine and back in order to pay for two tasteless meals.

This was honestly the worst Chinese ever,I only ordered chow mein and duck spring rolls. The chow mein was so sloppy,no crunchyness , didn't even taste nice cold!! The duck spring rolls,were burnt,clearly just been pinged,would never recommend and would never come back!!!

We have been buying take-outs from here from a few years now. Previously the food has been very good and the Oriental Express has been one of our favourites. Unfortunately, the past two occasions have been very disappointing, the food has been tough to eat and overcooked. The prawn crackers were stale. Has there been a change of chef?

New to the area so first time order for us. Staff very friendly and efficient, although when I called ahead to ask where I could view a menu online there wasn’t one available, not helpful. Also cash only, not unusual in Henfield but a pain in the backside as it means a separate trip to the cash point. Being in the middle of nowhere we have no choice for just eat or uber eats. Anyway managed to order for delivery and was told 30mins. Arrived On time and collected food only to find it was stone cold when I got it home (5 min journey). My biggest issue though was the complete lack of taste or flavour in any of the dishes. Possibly the worst Chinese food we have ever eaten. Such a shame as I like to support local businesses and I wanted it to be nice. Waste of £60. Will head into Horsham next time.

Always really nice food! Definitely a great place to order from

Only ordered one thing and on the menu it was £6 which was confirmed by worker. However, then charged me £8 on card machine and tried to hide the amount! Just disgraceful

Great food and service Very tasty food and a good price . Friendly staff 😊 Will be back for some more