Ocean Lounge Chinese & Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Rochdale

I decided to order from ocean lounge based on the reviews. In hindsight, I wish I didn't. I feel utterly bamboozled and duped. The glowing reviews can't possibly be true!

The food was utterly awful, so much so I cannot find the words to describe how utterly diabolical and disgusting it was. A complete disappointment and so inedible that I didn't bother to eat most of it. Going hungry tonight is a better option.

Ocean lounge is a very poor Chinese restaurant and takeaway also masquerading as a Thai takeaway and this is even worse (didn't think it was possible!)

£45 I might as well have burned or put in the rubbish.

£5 delivery charge which takes the Micky (I'm only three miles away) and as I spent over £25, I got a free starter. Decent food would have been nice (probably asking too much) or no delivery charge at least. I certainly didn't want more horrendous food.

Weeping Tiger was no where to be seen, jungle curry was definitely jungle hot with unknown "jungle" meat in there which was incredulously gristly. Presumably beef.

Mixed starters arrived cold and were ghastly. Very oily, indescribable fillings.

The salads were of miniscule proportions and were simply boiled meat loosely mixed together with incongruous flavours. Some coriander, slices of onion, hint of lime and that was about it.

The chicken wings were sizeable but again incredibly oily and bland tasting.

Lamb Thai curry came drowned in that ubiquitous black Chinese sauce which is reminiscent of soy sauce but nothing else. Definitely wasn't Thai that's for sure.

However, the 1st prize goes to the Chinese chicken cabbage! This was the biggest insult to injury! Some porridge like consistency of god's know what in a container and in a polystyrene container, a quarter of a iceberg lettuce.

I am utterly livid. I was expecting it to be so-so but ocean lounge have really outdone themselves. They've won my award of worst takeaway ever. One that I don't think will be beaten for some time if ever.

Next time I'm listening to my gut feeling. I'm not going to put up with so-so or bad food anymore. I'm also going to travel somewhere with more than a handful of Google reviews, of repute and a decent website. The quality of a website can say a lot about an establishment.

I can only hope that my review acts as a warning to others and that they take heed. Don't make the same mistake I did. If you must have a takeaway order it from somewhere else.

The fact that I felt compelled to leave such a review should tell you all you need to know.

The only nice point was that the delivery driver was friendly and courteous enough to call and confirm my address. Although in hindsight, I do wish he never...

Had quite a large takeaway meal tonight but 3 different main courses dominated by sliced red peppers. It was as if they had been to a red pepper sale and bought the lot. Do red peppers actually have a place in Cantonese cooking?

Meat Hong Kong style (with red peppers) was thick, fatty and chewy. Crispy chicken (with red peppers) was poor. Char sui pork Szechaun style (with red peppers - no chilli) was red peppery. I may be a bit mixed up now as to what was what though but you get the picture - I may have possible red pepper overload?

Fried rice (yung chow) with bits and pieces was good - no red peppers - but overall a big disappointment for £6.50 or so.

Unless you really like red peppers, best be cautious in ordering. Or, now, having been warned, ask for no red peppers.

We have eaten here before - sit down in restaurant - and it was great, but this is night and day poorer, though I think my own poor choices didn't help.

This wasn't the Ocean Lounge's finest...

We booked a table for 7pm, 24 hours coming, they said that was fine. We arrived for 7 and were seated, handed a menu, and our drink order taken. 30 minutes later, they finally took our order. 30 minutes after that our soup arrived. 50 minutes after that, we complained to a waitress as to how slow our service was being. Most of our food was cold when it arrived. The chicken and sweet corn soup was horrifically thick and my friend described it as “essentially solid”. The next dish (that took 50 minutes) arrived and was 8ish chicken skewers... that were cold, like really cold.

My main arrived and I’d ordered a chicken balti (I don’t really do Chinese but my friends wanted it and so I went along), my ‘balti’ was a Chinese curry with just added seasoning. It was definitely not a balti. And unfortunately, some of the chicken breast was actually raw in the centre.

We had finally paid by 10pm. We were there for 3 hours. We won’t be...