Golden House Restaurant — Restaurant in East Devon

I got a take away from here last year and whilst it wasn’t amazing, it was ok so ordered here again as reviews are better than the other chineses. Well the quality was not great at all. I’ll go dish by dish….

Half duck was super fatty and on the undercooked side, no crispy skin at all. The cucumber and spring onion was a tiny tub, the same you get with the 1/4 duck. The hoisin sauce and pancakes were decent. I had ordered extra pancakes as usually we need it but here, the meet was so bad that we only managed to finish one pack of six pancakes.

King prawn chow mein, one of the better dishes, good flavours, loads of huge king prawns so good value.

Stir fried vegetables - avoid! No flavour, soggy and mostly bean sprouts.

Young chow fried rice - waste of money. It doesn’t have the young chow flavour at all. Just regular egg fried rice with dry meat and shrimp.

Egg fried rice - no actual pieces of egg and doesn’t have that wok flavour but it’s edible

Crab meat sweetcorn soup - real crabmeat but not much of the meat. The soup flavour was quite nice but way too gloopy for my liking.

Hot sour soup - not very spicy, flavour ok, shrimps were not fresh.

Sweet sour chicken balls - good, batter not too heavy. Unusual sauce, I liked it but not all my kids did.

Chicken ginger spring onion - one of the better dishes, gloopy again but flavour was decent. Clean chicken meat pieces.

King prawn in garlic source - not nice, looked like porridge. Unbelievably gloopy, with lots of mushrooms. The prawns were large but I didn’t like the gloopy source.

King prawn Szechuan - prawns were battered, source quite sweet and not very spicy, tasted similar to the sweet and sour sauce.

Singapore rice noodle - ok, quite dry and flavour not special. Edible

I won’t...

Food is good, but staff dont really know what's going on there. We called them to make the order, they repeated the order back and when we went to collect the order we were missing stuff (which is no big deal but, it was the way they dealt with it that was rude). Then I reordered the food we were missing ,which I had to wait for, knowing my other food is getting cold. Then they realised they take the second order wrong and they charge me for 1 thing not for 2 lots. The lady was explaining to the other member of staff the situation and said 'He made a big mess" ? In the front of me? Which i think was really rude as, they make a big mess from the beginning and tried to blame me for it. Well.. sort or train your staff because you have a...

Very poor. On getting order home two dishes were incorrect even though checked by person at desk. Would normally go back and change but staying 9 miles away with a family we just had to make do. So paid for chicken got chips. Paid for egg fried rice, got plain rice burnt Noodles were horrible, oily and burnt. If you are holidaying in the area avoid as I think they rely on you not complaining. Don't believe the reviews or the overpriced menu. Really wished we...