Are we fat bastards? How much do you spend on a takeaway?

[Hottubby]

I was interested to see on another thread that some people were horrified at a poster spending £40 on a takeaway and suggested she must be ordering an awful lot.
We had a Chinese last night for 4 people and it was £85- there was some left over for lunch today.
this was our order;
1x King Prawns Mushroom in Oyster Sauce 1x King Prawns Hong Kong Style Sweet & Sour Sauce 1x Aubergine Black Bean Sauce 1x King Prawns Satay 1x King Prawn Ginger & Spring Onion Sauce 1x Quarter Crispy Aromatic Duck 1x Mixed Appetisers for 2 1x Chicken & Prawns in Yellow Bean Sauce * 3x Egg Fried Rice (300g) 1x Special Chow Mein 1x King Prawns Fried Rice

so how much do you spend/order for 4 people and are we fat bastards?

That is a lot of food! The rice portions are always huge - I find that one rice served two easily. My fiancé snd I get one starter, two mains and one rice.

We normally spend about £35 for 2 on chinese but we get a lot. We like to have lots of dishes to try and it normally does us dinner 2 nights in a row and then lunch the third day

We spent £19 Saturday for 2.. 2 mains, a rice and prawn crackers.

Oh and we normally get
Special fried rice
Sweet and sour chicken Hong Kong style
Lemon chicken
Crispy chilli beef
Salt and pepper shredded chicken
Satay chicken/chicken chow mein

Prawn crackers and spring rolls free

Would expect to eat in for that money. Bit OTT for take out in terms of ££ and amount of food.

We ordered Chinese last week and it was £33 for three. To be fair, I have a small appetite but DP and DS are big men and big eaters. Even so, there was enough left over for DP's lunch the next day.

Also, how often do you slapsh out on a takeaway? I treat myself to a takeaway once a month - not more often as I'm an OAP so on a restricted income - and spend between £10 and £15 a time, but usually around £12 or £13.

Our order with friends this weekend-4 adults with good appetites:
1x chicken chow mein (one box chicken+veg, one box noodles)
1x cantonese style chicken (one small box of chicken pieces
8 chicken balls with S+S sauce
2 egg fried rice
4 slices of prawn toast
Enough for a full plate each+ we picked at leftovers

That was £38 I think

You do not need three portions of egg fried rice, a fried rice and a noodles on top of that lot!

For two, we usually order a starter like ribs or duck, maybe a portion of soup (two if we're hungry). Then one rice dish, one noodles and one other such as sweet and sour.

YANBU - your money spend it how you like!

That is a sh*tload of food for 4 people though 🤣

That being said if you’re eating it like a Chinese banquet and sharing then you’d order more dishes for that reason so not all bad. But if one person is doing a ‘Smithy’ then it’s a bit greedy…

Hope you enjoyed it regardless

For me and my partner we spend £20-£25 on a Chinese

We order vegetable satay, vegetable chow main, egg fried rice, mini spring rolls and salt and pepper chips

we had Chinese on Saturday night, for 2 adults and 2 DC. We had:

tofu in black bean sauce - main
aubergine and potato - main
tomato foo yung - main
prawn balls
egg fried rice
veg chow mein
veg spring rolls
prawn crackers

Cost about £45. There was masses of food and we had enough for lunch for all the next day.

Wow, that does seem a lot. We get 3 starters, two mains one rice for 4. Eat it all satisfied but not stuffed. Don't like waste. The lemon chicken is enough for 2.

We spend about £20 or so on an Indian but I never eat a whole meal and just have half the main and a bit of the sides. That's 2 mains, 2 sides.

That does seem like alot of food but as long as it's all eaten it's ok.

We only very rarely get Chinese takeaway (probably a couple of times a year). Usually we would have one main dish each, plus a vegetable dish to share. Sometimes we might share some rice too.
So our maximum spend, for 2 people, would be:
Sweet and sour chicken £6.00
Special chop suey £5.90
Mixed vegetables £4.30
Boiled rice £2.90
Total £19

There is usually some left over.

I do think £85 is a lot for 4 people. That’s a lot of main dishes and a lot of rice for 4 people also. Our Chinese is about £7-8 per main dish. We order 4 mains, 1x egg fried rice and 1x prawn crackers for 4 people. If we are getting fu yung as one of the mains we might get 2 of those as that doesn’t stretch as well between 4 people. We spend about £40 for a Chinese or Indian for 4 people and there is usually a little leftover.

My friend and I shared a chinese takeaway a little while ago. My DH isn't keen, but shared the crispy duck pancakes with us.

We had:

• chicken satays x 4 (one portion)
• Quarter crispy duck
• main chicken & cantonese sauce
• main chilli shredded beef
• 2 x egg fried rices

It came to £48.60!

I think my Chinese is too expensive!

Our Chinese is about £7-8 per main dish

Ours is 50% more than that.

I think some people aren't considering prices for picking it up themselves v Deliveroo and also living in different areas of the UK, or Ireland.

I ordered 1 x Vegetable Chow Mein, 1 x Egg Fried Rice, 1 x Chips with curry sauce, 1 x pot of curry sauce and 1 x bottle of pop the other day and it came to £19.45 with delivery. That was for 2 people and there were no leftovers. Usually I’d order 1 main and 1 side per person though and there would probably be leftovers, I just wanted to keep it under £20 this time. I’d expect to spend about £12 per person normally, so for 4 people I’d expect it to be in the region of £50.

There was me moaning about a chippy for four at £23 🤣

We would generally never order more than one main per person if eating at a Chinese. So, for four adults it would be four mains, plus four rice orders. That much does seem like quite a lot for four.

King prawns really are the best when it comes to Chinese food.

We would order the following for two + leftovers. Used to come to about £30 until recently it has gone up to more like £40. So yours doesn’t seem too much for 4 + leftovers

prawn toast
satay skewers
1/4 duck
2x main, 1x rice