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monkino
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I am willing to accept that it my just be my perception, but has anyone else felt that the quality of Chinese takeaways has deteriorated over the past 10-15 years?
I am not just talking about a specific restaurant, or restaurants in a specific area (I have lived all over, not just London and outside) but I have travelled across the UK and have experienced the quality reducing quite a bit.
For example, the chicken does not taste or feel much like chicken, the soups taste very synthetic, and many of the other dishes feel like poor quality, and pre-cooked elsewhere and just heated up.
Might just be, but wondered if other people felt the same?
I am not just talking about a specific restaurant, or restaurants in a specific area (I have lived all over, not just London and outside) but I have travelled across the UK and have experienced the quality reducing quite a bit.
For example, the chicken does not taste or feel much like chicken, the soups taste very synthetic, and many of the other dishes feel like poor quality, and pre-cooked elsewhere and just heated up.
Might just be, but wondered if other people felt the same?
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I'm not a huge fan of Chinese takeaway and never have been. It has always been chock full of monosodiumwhatsits.
You could be right!
I agree about the chicken I have had! Too squidgy!
I think they are really filling, ours does me (small meal) and the kids and then usually enough for a meal for me again the next day, i have ibs though so cant eat a large meal all ay once,
If you get lemon chicken or pork dumplings the meat is okay though (but being battered it's less heathy).
The food from mine is, perhaps you should try a different one.
All the Chinese takeaways near me in MK are pretty poor, but i have a friend who lives near Towcester and his local (Happy Garden) is very good... so good that i now happily drive 12.5 miles to it to get Chinese whenever we want it.
Cat :eek:
It tends to be beef they pass that off as. The meat is quite similar.
Not many of them used 100% chicken, most of them used 80% as it was far cheaper than the 100%, the lowest grade stuff we sold was 65% and believe me quite a few takeaways used this!
Beef, Pork, Duck and Prawns were all 100% so that was all I ever ate from them.
MSG was delivered weekly in 25KG bags:eek:
It seems to be a common view that chinese food isn't filling with all that MSG.
Our Chinese takeaway can feed 8 of us for £15 so I can't really agree that it's not filling.
The acid test is whether you're hungry half an hour later, simply eating it all doesn't mean it fills you up properly.
Exactly. Chicken pumped full of water & chemicals may seem to fill you up, but not really as it is 50% water!