China Kitchen

Best take away ever. Super cheap for such a quality. The owners are a chinese old couple, the woman is preparing the food while the husband is cooking.
You can see how he is cooking while you are waiting.
Highly recommendable :)

In a small waiting area which looks as if it’s being held together by tape, I wait for my Chinese take-​away — last nights dinner. Remarkably, the room I’m in is colder than outside, this may be because instead of an extractor fan above the door there is just a large round hole in the window with some chicken wire over it.
I accept that learning a language is difficult and I’m sure the small Chinese lady speaks better English than I do Cantonese (Mandarin?) but when it takes several minutes to sort out a food order to which the end result is «no, we cannot do that for the menu is fixed» (or something like that), this isn’t particularly helpful as the menu, as it is, is particularly uninspiring. China Kitchen offer exactly what you would expect to see on a Chinese take-​away menu and nothing more. Which is a disappointment, having to choose between one bog-​standard meal and another. We settled on a pork dish and a bean-​curd dish — with rice!
Free Prawn Crackers! As one would expect but they must have forgotten the Prawn flavouring as these were completely tasteless.
My Pork meal was almost to an average standard, my rice, however, failed to reach those dizzying heights — and I was the lucky one. The ladyfriends meal was so substandard half of it was thrown away. Rice at it’s dullest was the highlight for her as the bean-​curd lacked any taste and the awful consistency made this meal untenable .
Not that I’d go back anyway but the state of my bowls in the immediate aftermath and even now, the following morning, dictate that I’d be a fool if I did. It’s not even cheap, costing about average for a take-​away. There is better available nearby.
To new experiences!
Ian