XI' AN OXFORD — Restaurant in Oxford

Really disappointed with the food.

This Chinese was recommended to my partner and I by family.

I’ll start with the positives, the service was good and it has a nice atmosphere. The chicken satay skewers were decent enough and the shrimp fried rice was good.

In terms of negatives, the rest of the food was honestly not worth us eating. We ordered;

the hot n spicy soup the bits of chicken and shrimp were nice but the soup was nasty.

sweet n sour chicken was okay but by no means good. I don’t know whether it was too fatty but the consistency and taste was of a poor standard.

House noodles were dreadful. You can see from the photo that some of the noodles were dry and crunchy, like they’d been sat under a heat lamp for a couple of hours. The sauce was okay but again had a similar consistency to the sweet n sour and was very oversweet.

Chips were okay, we got the chilli and garlic but usually you get some form of seasoning from a chinese on chilli and garlic chips. Not here I’m afraid.

We also had a surf n turf dish (seen in a bowl of noodles). I can be a little fussy when it comes to seafood but it was vile. I had one scallop and really, really struggled to not spit it out.

All in it came to £90 which for a Chinese feast is about expected. However, would have been a lot happier getting a takeaway from somewhere else.

I will say to their, we went on a Wednesday night so it may be a case of lacking fresh produce. Having said that, we...

We recently ordered takeaway but unfortunately, our experience was very disappointing.

To begin with, we ordered sweet and sour chicken with jasmine rice. The dish was lacking in both quality and quantity. There were very few pieces of chicken and pineapple, which are essential ingredients in this dish, the jasmine rice was not cooked properly making the meal unenjoyable.

Additionally, we ordered two portions of chicken noodles. The noodles had a distinct fishy smell, which suggests they were likely cooked in the same pan used for a fish dish without proper cleaning. The flavor was far from authentic Chinese cuisine, tasting only of fish and garlic. To make matters worse, the vegetables were soggy and unappealing.

This experience has left us deeply disappointed, and we will certainly avoid ordering from this place in the future.

It’s a real shame because this restaurant used to serve excellent food a few years ago. Unfortunately, the quality has declined significantly since...

We (group of 9) had dinner there. Given the price of the menu, I would expect a much higher standard than most other Chinese restaurants in Oxford. The food however was average. The fried noodles was good. Fried rice and spicy Tofu were very average and were in tiny portion. Chinese tea was charged on a per head basis at just under £5 per person (which was shockingly expensive). Service was good and most staff were very attentive. Environment was clean with high hygienic standard. Overall, I think it’s positioned to attractive non-Chinese customers. There was no parking provided and you need to find somewhere to park...