How much for a Chinese takeaway where you are?

[Donewiththisshit]

How much is a typical Chinese takeaway in your area. Rarely get takeaway and fancied a treat tonight. 4 adults- ordered a duck pancake starter, a dish each, a couple of rice dishes and a chow mein plus one packet of prawn crackers. £100!
I’ve cancelled the order and going to get the pair of shoes I’ve had my eyes on.
AIBU to think that’s ridiculous or is £25 per person what we are paying for takeaways these days and I’m out of touch?

Where I am for 4 of us would usually cost £30ish.

I paid just under £50 last time for 2 adults a teenager and 3 little kids

Irish here but 2 of us would be €30, 2 mains, chips and rice and noodles.

Unless you roughly say where you are @Donewiththisshit this thread is a bit weird because of course it’s more expensive if you’re in Chiswick rather than Catterick

YABU

It depends what we have. A half duck is perhaps £18 and that's before you've had anything else.

If we get sweet and sour chicken, soup, rice, one meat dish, and noodles that's about £30.

2 adults 2 kids- a couple of starters then usually 3 mains, two rice, a noodle and crackers- around 35.

We are in the UK and just in the north. Are we ordering more than the average person perhaps?!

I think to accurately gauge we have to know the actual order. As duck is an expensive starter and chicken fried rice at least double egg fried rice

Yes, I’d say so. I think a dish each is quite a lot - most people would share them between two. Duck is expensive as well!

We live in rural NE Scotland. Just paid £29 for 3 generous main courses, a bag of chips (dc2's choice), a box of seaweed, massive bag of prawn crackers, 6 fortune cookies, 2 lollipops and a selection of interesting looking sweets from Hong Kong that they threw in for the children.

There's only 2 of us here but we usually buy far too much and it's costs £30 - £40. But we don't get the duck - I think that's an expensive dish and might be why you were pushing the £100 if it was for 4. I'm just going to look at our menu a mo.

We would get prawn crackers free here if we spent that much. I think they throw a bag in when you get to about £30.

Sadly prawn crackers no longer free in our local 😂🙈

Prices in S Wales.

Wow! About half that @£50 here in North West.

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.

Also still get free prawn crackers and sometimes a big bottle of coke!

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

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

Just over £100 for 4 of us. SE.

Our eyes are bigger than our stomachs though.

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

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.

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 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!

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.)

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.