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

[Orangelight23]

So after a very very long day we got the kids to bed, opened a bottle of wine and eagerly awaited our Chinese takeaway.

It was woeful! £40 that we could have just thrown away, we should have learnt our lesson last month when we had an equally awful one from somewhere else. Is it just out area or has the standard dropped?

I find that too. I end up picking a load of it out.

Good Chinese food has always been expensive. The cost of all takeaway is going up across the board IMO.

I don't think I've ever come across one that does :( I wish....!

I’m unreasonably worried about this now as I was planning a Chinese takeaway next week and not ordered one for over a year - hope it’s still good! I’ll be checking reviews!

My Chinese take away is just as good as it has always been, and it is generally cheaper than other take aways where I am. A Chinese for 2 of us tends to be about £25 while an Indian comes in around £40. I'm in Central Acotland.

I've just looked up our order and it is normally:

Large pancake rolls £3.70
Crispy chilli beef £7.70 +£1 for egg fried rice.
Salt and chilli box £8.90
Sweet and sour sauce £3

I don’t think that’s greedy. We like variety too and for two of us we’d have

3x mains
1x rice
1x side (like seaweed or bean sprouts)
1x prawn crackers.

In our expensive corner of the country this would be about £50-60. Prawn crackers stopped being free donkeys years ago around here.

I'm just going to pick my Chinese up now so I'll let you know!

Don't buy them but we've one close by and it gets crap reviews on just eat all the time. I sometimes look.

It's still going though. I wonder how sometimes?

Tasted just as good to me. However I did notice that the containers they were in are smaller than they used to be. I'd say 2/3rds the size.

We ordered from our nearest one once. It was awful. If we want Chinese we go to a Chinese restaurant run by Chinese. It's authentic and usually full of Asian people.