How much for a Chinese takeaway where you are?

That doesn't surprise me. It's about £15-£20 per person here (South East) and that's without ordering crispy duck. It's also why we haven't had a chinese or an Indian takeaway in over 2 years. I refuse to pay that when it costs the same or only slightly less than having a meal out.

We pay about £35 when we get a Chinese takeaway for 2 adults, 2 teens. However, I also supplement with a couple of dishes I make myself, because I think my version is more tasty, or if we can’t get a particular dish that we like. So I normally make a foo-yung (egg) dish and an aubergine, pepper and potato dish. Then I also cook rice. Which, thinking about it, sort of defeats the object of ordering in a Chinese and not having to bother to cook!

Half a duck is £26 at my local so that probably pushed the price up. For 5 of us (3 teens/ preteen) it's around £70.

About £40 for 4 of us veggies.
We get mains , sides, rices and usually some left over for the next day

I had no idea as never order it but a local restaurant that does takeaway has a half duck £22, main courses and chow mein are in the range of £7.50-£9.50 and rice £3-4 depending on type.

£70 here last night in SW London but when we are at my dad's in Ayrshire much the same take away is about £30 and they give us free vegetable spring rolls

I stopped ordering Chinese about a year ago, wherever I went the quality was always awful, but I moved and now I’ve found a great one, we had two starters, a shared fake duck pancake thing, two mains and one rice to share last weekend and it was £64. I’m in the north west. It is dear, but it was a payday treat after a very dreadful month, so not a too regular thing.

I’m in the north west and to get the same order as you got it would cost £69.10 that works out to £17.27 per person.

We order for 4 adults get a chicken/pork dish each, special chow mein,pork fried rice and chips around £40

Live in Kent ( near Canterbury )
Prawn curry x1
Veg chow mein x1
Egg fried rice x1
Chips x1
prawn crackers x 1
spring roll x 6

serves 3 adults
£22

My cousin ordered a Chinese just for herself, no idea what she got but she said it was £30 for one person ! She lives in Watford

Yes, it seems a bit steep. We're 2 adults and a child and normally have a beef and chicken dish with rice and chips and a chicken starter and it comes in under £25 with free prawn crackers.

I promise you I’m not one of the MN teeny tinies (quite the opposite🙈) but between DD and I a main and 2 sides is more than enough! Salt & chilli tofu, vegetable chow mein and fried rice is our go to.

At our local (East of England) the set menu for six, including half a duck and mixed starters as well as prawn, pork, chicken and two beef mains, two XXL special fried rice and a noodles with veggies, would be £70. And even with six eaters you’d get leftovers.

£100 for four is a lot!

Roast chicken for a week too 😂

Dh, and I get one each on the rare occasion we have a takeaway. Chinese food is surprisingly easy to cook yourself, although I can never quite get the onions as nice, even flash frying!

I think that’s a big order and would be similar cost here in Sheffield, but I reckon our order for 2 adults 2 kids would be about £60 max, so £15 pp which I think is fine. We only order takeaway if we overlap with our tastes - I wouldn’t order 4 mains plus starters and sides as it would be way too much. Some leftovers are good but I don’t want 50% left!

Our order came to £51 the other day :
aalt and pepper chicken wings / chicken satay skewers (4) lemon chicken main/ chicken in black bean main / chicken curry and egg fried rice / large chow mein/ large egg fried rice and cola It seemed expensive but we got 7 individual meals out of it

There are usually only two of us ordering, but occasionally DS1 has something and DP’s friend comes over, so for the four of us it’s about £30. That is with DP and I sharing a main. DS1 and DP’s friend usually have enough left over from their respective mains to have a decent sized portion the next day. We’re in NI. Chinese meals are generally enormous😅

Yes I think prices have gone up massively in the last few years.

Oh god that’s nothing like getting a Chinese takeaway! I mean it’s probably cheaper but so is beans on toast or a marmite sandwich.

Around £100 here too, but it’s my favourite takeaway so we get it sometimes. It’s definitely too much food but there’s leftovers of the mains for lunch the next day, we like all the starter/appetiser bits and usually
go for a full duck as ds is a big meat eater and other than a couple of other appetiser things quite a lot of the duck is really his main.
we also like the salt a pepper squid which is about £12 each and we get 2. It’s a bit too much but 1 isn’t nearly enough.
live in the se but it’s a really good Chinese, best in the area and always busy with a queue. Although we order for delivery 😂

About £30 for 2 starters, 2 main dishes and prawn crackers.

Sorry that does two adults here for two whole meals each. You could eat the lot in one sitting but it's easily split into two meals each.

2 X rice (not the plain stuff) and 2 x mains, £21.30. London.

Not the same on any level though