How much would this takeaway cost you?

[bbcessex]

Just interested In regional variances really.

We ordered the items below for two of us. It came to £21.60

Mushroom noodles
King prawn Hong Kong style
Egg fried rice
Seaweed
Prawn toast
Hoi sin sauce

We are in South East - Hertfordshire.

What would similar cost in your area at a typical takeaway?

(It was delicious, by the way 😍)

£23.80 plus delivery, SE London

@bbcessex You might be fatter! Deliveroo has 258 restaurants that deliver to my address, most of them a lot cheaper than that. I just live in a bit of a black spot for Chinese deliveries. There are a few "fine dining" Chinese restaurants and lots of places that do just noodles or specialise in roast duck or only have dim sum but no "standard" style Chinese restaurants with a full menu that deliver. It would be cheaper to get an Uber to Chinatown and eat out. Although lots of restaurants there are going upmarket too. To be fair, the place that charges £46.20 is probably one of the best Chinese restaurants in London.

£21.20 Cheshire

£40.69 plus delivery
London

£31 here in North London.

Is Hong Kong style in batter?

Essex £35

What are mushroom noodles?

Around 23 to 25? Hants.

Mushroom noodles 3.50 which I've counted as a portion of mushrooms and a portion of plain chow mein.
King prawn Hong Kong style don't do this but all king prawn mains are 5.20
Egg fried rice - rice or chips are included with a main but EFR is 60 pence extra
Seaweed 2.70
Prawn toast 2.60
Hoi sin sauce don't do this but other sauce portions are 1.20

I make that £15.80, delivery would be a pound on top, which I think is possibly the cheapest so far, even though they've recently raised their prices quite a bit - it would have been a couple of quid cheaper this time last year.

On the odd occasion that I have Chinese in more expensive parts of the country I'm shocked at the price and that rice or chips is usually a couple of quid on top and not free.

This is from the Chinese that we've been using for 25 years this year, even after we moved house, but only a couple of miles away. When we started going, they had a young teen DS who took the orders and we've seen him grow up into a man and presumably he's moved away now as we haven't seen him for ages. Still owned by the same family though.

We've never had delivery as we used to live in walking distance and now usually go on the way home from the supermarket on Friday evenings.

Forgot to say, lots of competition locally - they're on 'takeaway row' where there's 3 other Chinese takeaways, and several pizza/kebab/burger/curry places.

That order would be masses of food, and you'd get free prawn crackers too. We get two mains, rice, chips (the best chips I've ever had) and a side like prawn toast or pancake roll and there's always enough for lunch the next day.

£25.50 in Surrey.

Reckon anywhere delivers it at 5am 🤤

We rarely get takeaway for two for under £40 (with some leftovers) - we are probably greedy! Leftovers make a second meal though. Takeaway for 6, as someone mentions upthread, is £80-100.

OP, your order is £26.80 for us.

£22 In West Devon

£24.90 in Ayrshire