How much for a Chinese takeaway where you are?

Last time we (me and dh) had a Chinese, we ordered:
Mini spring rolls
Salt and pepper chips
Salt and pepper chicken
Chicken in black pepper sauce
Special chow mein
Wok fried broccoli
Prawn crackers
And it was a smidge under £40.

(Midlands)

We get beef chow mein, kung po chicken, egg fried rice, salt & pepper chicken, spicy beef, prawn crackers and a big spring roll to share and it comes to £55 with delivery.

Thats bonkers price!!!! I'm in the east midlands and i feed 5 of us for £40!!!!! Thats chicken curry, sweet and sour chicken, beef in oyster sauce, rice, prawn toast and free prawn crackers 😋

I recently collected an order for my Dad and DB - I was staggered that they had to pay for prawn crackers - at my local takeaway you get them free.

I think the duck pancake dish is what pushes price up - just yesterday we were checking out the lovely Chinese we used to go to but don't now as following a rebrand it's more £££ - quarter duck is £17:80 , half is £32:80 and whole£63.80

King prawns with ginger and spring onion is now £16;80 and special fried rice is £11:80

now we no longer use them ..

Duck and pancakes
Sweet and sour chicken
Crispy beef
Garlic chilli chicken
Beef black bean
4 x prawn toast/wontons
12 mini spring rolls
X large special rice
Salt pepper chips
Prawn crackers
Bottle of pop

£38 meal deal. Feeds 5 plus leftovers for tomorrow :)

2 mains, 1 rice,1 noodle and 2 soups in £45

Its bloody expensive and not something we do often

We pay around £26 for two of us (and that’s when we go all out)

Duck? In this economy? Come on OP.

I live in the midlands and the last time I ordered a Chinese it was less than £30 and that was for beef fried rice, beef in black bean sauce, kids chicken balls and chips, chicken and chips and a portion of salt and pepper chips with free prawn crackers. portions are massive and we struggle to eat all of that (we all like different things).

yours seems excessive to me but its more than likely the duck - one by me (not necessarily the one we order from) that starter depending on how many pancakes is either £11.80 (6) or £21.80 (12)

Also some of the Chinese takeaways don't feel that Chinesy anymore. I like, for eg, more noodles to have a big bbq taste and be brownish. Now they often seem pale, steamed flavourless things.

They should be, imo:-

SW London

From deliveroo the more reasonable Chinese has 1/4 crispy duck at £12.90 and egg fried rice is £5.20 (large)

The ludicrously priced posh place is 1/4 crispy duck £21.00 and egg fried rice is £7.60

Hardly ever get a Chinese takeaway anymore ☹️

I live in south London. Duck, prawn toast, three mains and rice, a plain noodles and crackers is about £60 from a very much average place.

Duck pancakes round my area can be really expensive, like nearly £20 for a half. Which often isn't a half, it's just shredded old crap!

I like the crispy seaweed, Singapore noodles and the prawn balls/butterfly prawns. The seaweed is about £6, and the two mains are around £8.50 each. This is quite a cheap place as it's literally just an old school takeaway.

I love vietnamese food and thai but my local ones are even more pricey as they're sit down restaurants. Morning glory which is just greens for £12!

Back with my local menu check...

Main courses are £7 - £9 so say £36
Chow Mein same so say £8
Rice is just under £4 - so for two rice . £8
The duck is £22 for half a duck and 12 pancakes or £11 for a quarter - so that's an expensive addition..... say £22
Crackers are £4 but they'd chuck them in free here.

So about £74 here with the half duck starter not quarter.

Probably another £10 if they chose the expensive mains like duck or king prawn.

I'm in the north of England and I would expect to pay approx.:

Duck for four: £20
Mains: £8 each
Rice: could be £2 - £6 depending on what kind, so let's go with £4 ish
Chow mein: £4
Prawn crackers: £2

So you'd be on about £66 by my reckoning.

We are 3 adults and have used the same Chinese takeaway for 30 yrs-
typically have
1/4 crispy duck
Sweet& Sour Chicken
Beef & green peppers in black bean sauce
Egg fried rice
boiled rice
Chips
Pot curry sauce- usually £30 ish delivered with free prawn crackers & free veg spring rolls.
Live in S Yorks.

You have fundamentally misunderstood takeaways.

You order more than one dish each, and then have delicious leftovers.

I hope this enriches your life.

(To be serious, where I am - North East - starters are around 3-5 and mains 6-7; I'm a single mum with one DD, so we obviously don't spend as much as the OP, but I would generally get a couple of starters, a couple of mains, and rice or noodles; I might push the boat out and get three mains so we have a good choice, and I would definitely expect there to be enough for breakfast another meal.)

I think that would cost about £60ish here (east) but that seems a huge amount of food for 4 people tbh. I’d prob go for 2-3 mains between 4 people as portions are big in my local. But then you get the whole problem of not everyone liking the same stuff!

Around here that would come to:

Crispy duck - £10.60
Main dishes - £8.50 each including chips, noodles or rice
Chow mein - £8.80
Prawn crackers would be free.

So a total of: £53.40. But you wouldn't need four main meals (they're huge) so the spend is likely to be closer to £35.

I'm confused how many dishes you ordered was it 4 mains plus 2 rice side dishes or 2 rice mains and chow mein as another main?
We are normally 50-60 for 4 people but would have leftovers next day for dinner.

That seems ridiculously expensive because I was bored I just put some estimates into my local takeaways website (I went for the more expensive rice and noodle options) and this is what it came to. I'm in East Anglia

Just over £100 for 4 of us. SE.

Our eyes are bigger than our stomachs though.

We spend that for two of us, but we get enough for three meals out of that. Including a whole crispy duck. We have it once a year on OH birthday

Around £35 for us, 2/3main dishes, rice, and salt and pepper chips.

Probably the same as you, here in east Anglia. For the two of us. Two mains, a rice, noodles and a starter would be 45-50. Are all the takeaways that much, seems a lot for up north.

I do find that ordering straight from the restaurant rather then via just eat/deliveroo is 10-20% less.