To think the standard of Chinese takeaways has dropped significantly?!

I’ve said this the last 3 times I’ve ordered! Really miss the old style Chinese takeaway I remember from 5/10 years ago.

How many people were you feeding?

We spend between £15 and £23 on a takeaway Chinese for two

You do......

If I have to spell it out …..

Racist how?

The market serves the market - British people have shit taste so restaurants provide shit food. For anyone genuinely interested in good food, though, Chinese cuisine can be amazing.

We spent £50 on one recently and it was vile. Stank the house out as soon as it arrived and was completely congealed. What do they put in it that makes it go that texture?

There was one where I used to live the did the best garlic and broccoli chicken that was super fresh but sadly we moved away.

Every dish was just onions too. Its a shame, it used to be great. I wish someone would open a proper, authentic Chinese restaurant here, we can handle it! Lots in our town centre but those places don't deliver.

The Indian is fabulous though, absolutely packed every night and interestingly, similar to PP, isn't on Deliveroo or Uber Eats.

We used to eat out about 3 times a week and now we rarely do because it all tastes like shit, makes you feel ill and is super expensive.

And about 90% of that menu isn’t really Chinese. Or are you having a bit of a racist wind up?

You need to address your strictures to the proprietors of the establishments in question, not their customers. When they start describing themselves as ‘Lucky Anglicized Chinese Takeaway’ I expect the poor benighted customers will follow suit.

If there are any left.

Same as my local one. So much variety. The menu is enormous!

Food deliveries are all expensive these days, and Chinese is the most disappointing one. We went into Chinatown to eat a couple of weeks ago and it so good, reminded me how it ought to be/ used to be.

I don't get it. I live in a town full of barbers and takeaways, and yet all the men have shit hair and the only decent takeaway is domino's.

I used to live a takeaway as treat, but it's all shit. Fish and chips are nicer in an air fryer, because no one sells soggy chips anymore.
Chinese all sticky and gloomy and sweet.
Ds doesn't like Indian.
We had a lovely Thai one, but it was quite expensive and closed.

Nobody cares chief

In my area there are no nice ones, but there is one in another town that we get now and again if I can be bothered driving. However our local butcher does specials- Chinese chicken stir fry or Mexican chilli beef that we get weekly (around £9 which is enough for 3 of us) and we make some rice to go with it and other sides and we always say it is so much better than a takeaway,

@Ablondiebutagoody The Chinese pay the same level of attention to cuisine as the French would their own regional cuisine - great attention to ingredients and the finer points of cooking methods. There is subtlety and variety, and a great deal of energy put into perfecting particular dishes. Calling what you get in the uk takeaway ‘Chinese’ is a bit like calling what you get in a Greg’s pizza ‘italian’.

I agree and would go as far as to say most, if not all, takeaway food is crap. I don't know if it's just my area but even the pizza is starting to taste like nothing.

It's really depressing to spend £50-60 on Indian food and get small portions that don't contain much meat.

I understand that there's a cozzy livs situation going on but it's putting me off ordering food from anywhere.

Ooh please educate us some more. What should we call it?

I call it Chinese "shitaway" - literally!

We rarely have takeaway these days as it is just crap. We had a rare curry lately and DH just said he’d rather I’d just made it.
Chinese is just a few bits in a sticky sauce. I think I’d rather just get fried rice, chips and curry sauce.
At least a pizza is still a pizza.

no doubt - the atomic red curries you find in provincial Indian restaurants are a prime example.

i just want to point out that very little in a uk ‘chinese’ restaurant would be considered edible in china. I think it is fine when some dishes are edited out (sharks fin soup, different cuts of meat, etc) but a great number of the uk Chinese classics are completely divorced from the original cuisine. It feels a bit off to complain about ‘Chinese food’ in the uk when it bears virtually no resemblance to anything you would find in China.

Loving the OP and posters who call it "Chinese takeaway" or "Chinese food" and not a "Chinese".

We are lucky to have a fantastic chinese take away near us. The takeaway has been there over 25 years,enough said 😁

Migrant communities setting up restaurants and takeaways have always adjusted their dishes to suit the tastes of wherever they have settled. It's not exclusive to Chinese communities or the UK

Air fryer crispy duck , super easy. Shop bought pancakes and hoisin, delicious. About £8 including the duck for a whole duck. Don't need takeaways any more !

What you are eating isn’t Chinese food, and it almost feels offensive to label it such. That is pretty much across the board for provincial Chinese takeaways. Real Chinese food is fresh ingredients, not greasy, and definitely no curry anywhere. I am not from the uk but lived in China for years and recently looked at a menu for a uk chinese takeaway and didn’t recognise 90% of the menu.