Chinatown Express — Restaurant in Newcastle upon Tyne

Major tourist attraction in Newcastle. The archway is one of the biggest in the UK specifically built by Chinese craftsmen from China. Chinatown, or mainly Stowell Street in reality, is mostly made up of restaurants which reside along its length. From quick eats like Chinatown express, Landmark westernised higher-end, Dojo Japanese, King Neptune (Cantonese), Sky (Cantonese), to seafood hot-pot fondue places, Palace Garden (Cantonese), and Wing Hong supermarket, to Mananza Korean, two Japanese teppanyaki restaurants and Meet & Treat pan Asian cafe eatery. There is quite the choice! There is also the Jasmine and Bread Point Chinese bakeries not too far away in low friar street, which is essential! Also slightly further away is Hi-You Chinese supermarket, and Laus 202 buffet restaurant which...

Where to start? Staff taking order had a face on her like a slapped fish, miserable, abrupt and no manners. Ordered 2 mains, salt and pepper chips, sweet and sour sauce and prawn crackers, within 5 minutes of waiting the meals where ready. Thought oh right that was quick, both of us were looking forward to trying this take away, got back home and served up............ how wrong were we. All the food was obviously pre-prepared and warmed up, the salt and pepper chips were tasteless, dry and over cooked (burnt). There was no meat, prawns or hardly any in the special fried rice which was very bland and just horrible, prawn crackers were soggy. The deep fried shredded beef was soggy and dry with hardly any sauce. Will not be using this place again and was a...

This is a very small restaurant in Chinatown, Newcastle. There are six tables and more sitting by the window. The service is very good and the food is very yummy. We decided to enter the restaurant as the kitchen, which you can see from the street, it is very clean and tidy. We ordered fried rice, fried noodles, wanton soup and duck with pineapple and ginger with chinese tea. We enjoyed it very much so the next day we decided to go back again and we ordered prawn crackers, half duck, special noodles and chinese tea. Everything was very yummy again and we left feeling very good. We really recommended this restaurant as they work as a team and they are very...