Is this really expensive for takeaway chinese?

No, it's not you. Call them back and ask them to clarify the price... I can get more chinese for that price from my takeaway place and that's no delivery charge either.

How far away from you are they?

That's pretty expensive. that would set you back maybe £12 or 13 from the takeaway I use. Maybe another quid for delivery. Hope it was good!

Erm, I would expect SPF - £3.50, Chicken - £5.40, Chips - 1.50 each, so that's 11.90, and the answer is yes!

Wow, yes. For the same price we've had:

Dumplings

Soup

2 x chow meins

Chicken in black bean

SFR £4

Chips 2x1.40

Chicken £4.20

£11 here

Yes but we had a chinese last night and thought it was really pricey. We got thai fried rice, a chicken chow mein, sweet and sour sauce and some chicken wings for 17 quid.

Yours is way more pricey though I would double check that!

And now I want chinese

Thanks, Glad its not just me. Did have 12 pounds out, had to go hunting for more money.

Might pluck up courage to give them a ring...

Pizza on the way here S, or technically...

If you want to come

Tempting NN. Diet's going well then? ? About as good as here!

Think I might settle for cheese on toast.

Called them and it was

SPR- 6.50

Chicken - 6.50

and then the 2 chips

Dont think I will be eating chinese takeaway for a while.

to make it worse, I only had chips, H has a friend over who never offered to pay for his!

Fark me, £6.50 for rice?!

£6.50 for rice ? Thats very, very expensive

I was pricing up how much we would pay for that.

Rice is about £1.50

Chicken £6 ish

Chips about £1.40 each

Just realised it was special fried rice,was that with prawn,peas,meat in? If so it would prob be charged as much as the chicken where we go,maybe slightly less.

I've just come on here after friends have left and saw this. We had a chinese takeaway tonight (delivered) and we had:

1 spring rolls

1 barbecued spare ribs

1 sweet and sour chicken with fried rice

1 chicken fried rice

1 chicken chow mein

1 schezaun (?) chicken with fried rice

1 sausage and chips

1 mushrooms

1 beansprouts

1 curry sauce

1 chips

and loads of prawn crackers for £26.00. It's a fab takeaway, always really busy, and owned by the restaurant next door which is always heaving.

SFR is a main course dish though, isn't it? So £6 or so doesn't seem excessive. It's not comparable with a side dish of rice.

As to whether it's over-priced- it depends on so many factors (where you live, what the quality's like etc) that it's not really possible to answer. I've never found a Chinese takeaway that wasn't greasy and disgusting, although I love Chinese food, so I'd happily pay £17 or more for a decent one.

We had one tonight

1 sweet & sour chicken and fried rice, 1 chicken chow mein & boiled rice and an extra portion of noodles all delivered for £11.00 mmmmm

We paid just over £22 last night for salt and pepper spare ribs, vegetable foo yung with chips, chicken in chilli and garlic oil with fried rice and sweet and sour chicken with soft fried noodles. It was fab and we got prawn crackers free. SFR at our local takeaway is about £5.50. I am in the NW of England.

In Doncaster

Special Fried Rice is £4.20 but it comes with prawns, chicken, pork & peas

Black bean is £3.50

Chips are £1.10 each X 2

It would have cost you £9.90.

wss. i was more ? at the four quid for the chips bit...

I don't think I've ever seen a chinese which sells the kinds of non chinese food some people have had here (sausage, curry sauce, chips)

I'm also not too keen on take away chinese but i love noodles and they are generally fine as a take away. A noodle dish is about £8 in ours, so similar to your SFR. Thats central London though.

We're in Herts and everything seems more expensive here, however our Chinese is very good and cheaper than yours.

SFR is £4.50, chicken in black bean is £4.00. They don't seem to have chips on their own on the menu but with an omlette they are £3.

Last night we had, sesame prawn toast (4 big bits) 1/2 a crispy aromatic duck with pancakes sauce, veg etc, egg fried rice, sweet and sour chicken hong kong style, and special chow mein for £25 and with free prawn crackers and free spring rolls - about 10 mini ones in a bag which on the menu is £3

They do £1 delivery within 5 miles for orders over £8. And free delivery over £20 orders.

Last night we had-

Honey Spare Ribs

Chicken Satay

Special Chow Mein

Po Kwok Chicken

Egg Fried Rice

All for £21 delivered.

I'm now wishing I ordered chinese instead of making toad in the hole! ?

Chicken with black bean is £4.50, SFR is about £3.50 and my chinese doesn't serve chips. But prawn crackers are about £1.50 and they're normally about the same price I think. So yes it's pricey. Our local chinese is a gorgeous restaurant with fab takeaway and you get 25% off if you collect before 7.30 Bargain!