Coltman Chinese in Beverley

Hello!
We've driven north today up into Yorkshire. It's time for another Chinese Takeaway. The usual order, back to special fried rice and sweet and sour sauce. We also were given samosas, made from rice. It came packaged in a carton you'd expect to find chips and refreshingly the rice wasn't compacted in. The rice was lovely, the other half wasn't so impressed with the meat, but I thought it was fine. The samosas were delicious. The sweet and sour a little runnier than usual, but quite tastey if taken in moderation. He forks were great. All in all we decided on 8/10. Not bad at all.
:)
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Coltman Chinese
50 Coltman Ave,
Beverley,
North Humberside
HU17 9DS
01482 862845

Summer Palace in Hereford

Hello!
We're on tour, which means lots of blog entries again. Yung Chow Fried Rice was ordered again today. The special fried rice had a sauce and it needs to be dry to avoid allergy things. I hoped it would contain peas, or maybe there are no peas in Yung Chow rice, only a few minutes left to find out...

The rice dish was lovely: peas, meat, sweet and sour all quite lovely. The forks were quite bendy, but that's not a criteria, so the final judgement.... 9/10. :D
:)
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Summer Palace
60 Widemarsh Street
Hereford
HR4 9HG
01432 278988

China Garden in Kings Heath

Hello!
We're on the road again. Birmingham to be exact. Kings Heath and so here we are at the China Garden. Jung chow fried rice, it has no sauce, which is how we want it. :) sweet and sour sauce, two forks (not too spoony). We're not too far from the venue and after too much coffee this afternoon I'm starving. So I'm hoping for a high score....
It could have been an 8/10 but unfortunately there were no peas so the score went down to 7/10. Peas are that important!
:)
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China Garden
296 Vicarage Road
Kings Heath
Birmingham
B14 7NN
0121 444 2023

Peking Garden in Wandsworth

Hello!
We're back on the road, having been recording for the last few weeks. It's nice to be out, but more snow is on the way and it's still cold. Driving through London isn't fun at the best of times and the other half decided to take us right through the centre, but avoiding the congestion charge. Lots of rapid googling tool us to this takeaway, but the Yell app found us our final destination. The usual was ordered, no soya in the rice already, two forks and a nice warm car to eat in....
The verdict? The meal was not bad at all and we both settled on, you guessed it.... 7/10.
:)
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Peking Garden
162 Garratt Lane
Wandsworth
London
SW18 4DA
020 8871 2768

Paul's Garden in Dartford

Hello!
Our last rice on the road of this tour. It's been a roller coaster ride, all quite close to home. So we ordered the usual, King prawn fried rice for our third member this time. We've been to this takeaway several times over the years, so we knew where to come straight away.

Today we were in number 3s car with an awesome table in the back, luxury. The team were really rather split over the meal. I thought my rice was a little tired, but the sauce was lovely so a low 7/10. No. 2 thought it was lovely with an 8/10. No. 3 thought his was awesome with a 9/10. I wasn't really sure how to mark it overall, so I'll just leave our individual scores.

No. 3 wanted to add a category, the fork category. He graded his fork wasn't spoony enough, too much prod and not enough scoop.

A nice meal though in lovely company. :)
:)
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Paul's Garden
8 East Hill
Dartford
Kent
DA1 1RY
01322 227338

Jade Palace in Southend

Hello!
We're in Southend and looking for food. So having been for a pee at Tesco's we find this little takeaway. The usual order was made at a reasonable price. Two special fried rice, one without soya and because we're on tour as a three piece a king prawn fried rice. The special fried rice came out as 8/10. However the king prawn diner decided that he wasn't quite sure about the criteria yet and maybe should choose a more nuancey dish and oh by the way does anyone want to cat sit next week....
In general a nice meal though. We'll be back. :)
:)
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Jade Palace
3 Earls Hall Parade
Southend-on-Sea
Essex
SS2 6NW
01702 351777

The Mayflower Restaurant in Cheltenham

Hello!
Folk Festival weekend in Cheltenham. :) we're staying in a great hotel with lots of other folkies, but still we need to eat so we hit google and walk on out to the Mayflower restaurant. We think we ate in here before many years ago. But this time we go for take out. A slight diversion from the norm as they didn't have special fried rice, so it was shredded pork rice with an added satay chicken on skewers and instead of plastic forks we were given chopsticks. I like chopsticks though and as we weren't going to eat in the car we reckoned we'd be ok.
The meal was nice and the lot demolished. We gave an unsurprising, but perfectly good 7/10.
:)
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The Mayflower restaurant
32-34 Clarence Street
Cheltenham
GL50 3NX
01242 522426