
New Red Lantern
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About New Red Lantern
New Red Lantern is a Chinese takeaway on Front Street in Chester Le Street, serving food for collection with no seating on site. The menu covers familiar takeaway dishes, including chicken curry and chicken balls, alongside salt and pepper chips, salt and pepper chicken, lemon chicken and house special fried rice. Sides and starters round out the range with spring rolls, prawn toast, prawn crackers and mixed hors d'oeuvres. Orders are placed at the counter as a takeaway. The kitchen also offers noodles and curry sauce, and regulars have ordered from the place for years.
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Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention salt and pepper chips, lemon chicken, chicken curry and chicken balls.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention salt and pepper chips, lemon chicken, chicken curry and chicken balls.
Customer Review Summary
Reviews split sharply, with five-star regulars praising the salt and pepper chips, the chicken curry, hot food, generous portions, and friendly staff. Other diners describe cold chips, reheated or odd-smelling food, and stomach illness within an hour of eating, with several throwing full orders away.
Customer Review Summary
Reviews split sharply, with five-star regulars praising the salt and pepper chips, the chicken curry, hot food, generous portions, and friendly staff. Other diners describe cold chips, reheated or odd-smelling food, and stomach illness within an hour of eating, with several throwing full orders away.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“Amazing food, I’m a regular customer and I will always come back the staff are very friendly and welcoming”
- Fluerdoor Lheinekan
“Not sure if this Chinese has changed owners but first takeaway from here in about 7 months.. within 1hr of eating the food, my partner and I had the worst stomach ache and then came the sick and diarrhoea. Would not order again nor recommend.”
- Google user
“Foods gone down hill ordered salt and pepper boxes a few times and there well over done chips taste like theyve been done in dirty oil. Deliveries have turned up and incorrect items on more 2 occasions.”
- Google user
“Food arrived hot within the allocated timeframe, good sized portions and value for money, enjoyed by all, will most certainly be ordering from here again”
- Google user
“Normally fully recommend this place always been so nice and fresh, but tonight absolutely vile! Paid £52.50 and there was only the noodles and prawn crackers any good. The lemon chicken had funny smell when I opened thought it may just be the pineapple in it or summit tasted it had the same funny taste. The chips both portions were cold and had already been reheated literally like chips you eat the next day. The house special fried rice was as dry as sticks and the few bits of meat we got in it were chewy as. The curry sauce was frozen, the mixed hors d'oeuvres were the same as the chips prawn toast was dead fishy (I get it's prawns but you know when fish is like off?) but all cold and dry. Bar the spring rolls as they were just soggy and floppy. Chicken balls didn't taste like they were cooked properly as when you bite into them it was still like rubber not just teeth straight through feeling so that was weird too. So yeah for the first time whole order shite! Really really disappointed in this and especially for the price! We had ordered this for my daughters birthday as all of us have been left disappointed and my son literally did spit the chicken ball out and spewed so probably ill of it too not worth the hype at all!”
Hours
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Good to know
- ReservationsAccepts reservations
- ParkingUsually somewhat difficult to find a space
Amenities
- Accepts reservations
- Delivery
- Takeout
- Casual
- Onsite services
- Late-night food
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- Usually somewhat difficult to find a space
- Offerings· 1
- Quick bite
- Dining options· 1
- Counter service
Location
Chinese restaurants near New Red Lantern
- Sunrise Chinese Takeaway4.51660.3 mi£10–20
generous portions, chicken and pineapple, fried rice
- 0.3 mi£1–10
fish and chips, fishcake, chips
- 0.4 mi£20–30
chicken and sweet corn soup, early bird 3 course meal, house special curry
| Place | Rating | Distance | Price | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Red Lantern | 3.8222 | — | £10–20 | salt and pepper chips, lemon chicken, chicken curry |
| Sunrise Chinese Takeaway | 4.5166 | 0.3 mi | £10–20 | generous portions, chicken and pineapple, fried rice |
| Little Fat Buddha Asian restaurant &FISH &CHIPS | 3.9113 | 0.3 mi | £1–10 | fish and chips, fishcake, chips |
| Riverside Chinese Restaurant | 4.1106 | 0.4 mi | £20–30 | chicken and sweet corn soup, early bird 3 course meal, house special curry |
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