The Good Earth Express — Restaurant in London

Order for the first time via deliveroo. I wish in hindsight I looked explicitly and some of the reviews as meal was subpar. Chicken and sweetcorn soup - lacked flavour, I had to add a condiment or two for some oomph. Additionally it had an excessive amount of fat/slime which may understandably be to give flavour/body to the soup but giving the huge quantities of gloop it was just off-putting. The Egg Fried rice - for such an easy dish, I can not fathom any suitable reason for using rancid eggs in the dish. Beef in blackbean - pretty typical/standard dish to get from the Chinese place. Not my favourite but was playing it safe. Taste nothing like traditional blackbean sauce sorry. There is a flavour to it that I'm just not keen on at ALL. Very disappointing as it was a decent portion but don't see myself eating another plate. I ordered their chilli sauce. What a joke. Straight in the bin. Not authentic, looked like something from the chippies. In summary the only saving grace of my order was the aromatic duck but I love duck and was even underwhelmed.

I unfortunately cannot recommend this restaurant. I paid a pretty penny and for the price there are way...

I was told this is one of the best Chinese takeaways around (by someone who had been to the one in Esher) so I gave my local branch a try despite the high prices. Ordered with Uber eats spending £100 for four people expecting the food to be a level above your standard takeaway but it was much worse. Crispy duck was nothing exceptional and that’s as good as it got, the fried chicken in chilli sauce was actually just plain wings with lots of sugar and honey poured in and no spice, 4 pieces of prawn toast for a tenner is insane, 7 pounds for egg fried rice with clumped egg and white rice, and the mixed starter was also very hit and miss. We ordered ribs and got something else entirely, and to top it all off the order was over an hour late. Safe to say we won’t be back...

The food wasn’t terrible, but it really wasn’t good either. We ordered spring rolls (they didn’t come with any sort of dipping sauce, not even soy sauce packets), chicken and chive dumplings (it came with a vinegar dipping sauce), lemon chicken (the chicken wasn’t crispy and a bit soggy from the delivery), Sichuan chicken (the sauce kind of tasted like a Chinese salsa....it was beyond strange), and steamed rice. None of the entrees came with rice, so everything is à la carte. It was quite expensive for what you get. I definitely won’t order from there again. I gave the restaurant two stars because the food was edible,...