Tai Pan

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  Google user

  ·4 months ago

  “Quality food but not entirely to my personal taste so can't moan too much..”

• G

  Google user

  ·4 months ago

  “Our takeaway treat as the food never disappoints. The crispy deep fried lamb is so succulent even my fussy teen enjoys it. And the noodles with bamboo is a meal in itself if needs be.”

• G

  Google user

  ·7 months ago

  “Ordered a takeaway chowmein and there were a lot of burnt noodles. Surely who ever was serving would have seen that, but still decided to serve it anyway.”

• G

  Google user

  ·10 months ago

  “So I attended this restaurant yesterday which was a Sunday to treat me and my daughter and was surprised to find that it was an eat as much as you like menu. This consisted of about 15 items described as appetisers and 15 items described as main courses. Examples of the appetisers were crispy seaweed, spring rolls these were mini spring rolls (bought frozen from any decent Oriental supplier and not very good even if you buy the best ones) sesame prawn toast these are also bought frozen from Oriental suppliers, Salt and chilli squid which we had two portions of and this was actually half decent although I can tell the difference between frozen and fresh squid and this was definitely frozen but it was okay. The main course side had chicken curry and Sezhuan prawns amongst quite a few other dishes and I sampled both of these aforementioned - The chicken was definitely frozen poor quality with a flavourless curry sauce although there was some fresh peppers in it and the prawn dish was horrendous - I was shocked at how red the sauce was and the only flavour that came through for me was tomato ketchup which I was horrified about. Not surprisingly the prawns were a frozen variety of average quality but quite big. The main courses menu also includes egg fried rice or special fried rice and Singapore style vermicelli. We had both of these and the special fried rice was basically egg fried rice with three tiny prawns and a few pieces of what looked like chopped up Spam but certainly wasn’t cha siu pork which is what should be used. There was zero vegetables in the special fried rice and the Singapore style vermicelli had no chilli or curry flavouring which is what makes that dish Singapore style and as a consequence was flavourless oily and disappointing. We ordered two drinks which was a large glass of diet Coke each and I was mortified when the bill arrived to see that they charged us £8.80 for these two glasses so therefore £4.40 each for a pint of cola. The meal was £16.80 per head and while the concept of eating as much as you like makes it sound very attractive and reasonably priced the quality of the food was a massive let down and I feel that they cut too many corners in the quality of their ingredients to make it remotely worth visiting again. To add insult injury the staff were very unfriendly and spoke to us in sentences of no more than three or four words and I had the general feeling that they just wanted our money and to get us out of there as soon as possible. They were also constantly speaking to each other in their own language which I found quite rude. If you find this review helpful please consider following me - I will follow you back 😀 thank you.”

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• G

  Google user

  ·1 year ago

  “We thought we’d change it up and come here Instead of our regular one and we was so disappointed with atmosphere and service and the food was dry and no flavour , the service was terrible as we must of no been regulars as other in there were being checked up on and made to feel really welcome unlike us when it came to the food was dry and oily unlike our regular Chinese we go to in Eltham wile will not be coming back here and I do not recommend it all all I would go to china noddle in Eltham instead as much better service and food and value for money”

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• G

  Google user

  ·1 year ago

  “Beautiful restaurant, however they charged me £1 extra as I requested to have my rice made spicier they didn’t confirm this price before and then ambushed me and demanded I pay more on the spot. Not very good customer service. The food was also quite plain wish I took a picture.”

• G

  Google user

  ·2 years ago

  “Amazing food and very friendly service, this was our first visit and will definitely be going back for more 🙏 And a lovely surprise for my wife, as they brought her out a surprise wee birthday cake and candle 🕯️for her 45th. Lovely little place, well worth a visit”

• G

  Google user

  ·2 years ago

  “Excellent food, with fresh ingredients. Good service and helpful staff. The sunday buffet is excellent value for money. But make sure you book for the buffet as its normally packed by 2pm. Parking not the easiest but worth the walk. Unfortunately they don't deliver but your welcome to order and collect. Probably the best Chinese restaurant in the area and has been established for many years.”

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• G

  Google user

  ·4 years ago

  “Been going here a majority of my life, and it's incredible, best meal is a classic sweet and sour chicken, rice with toffe apple for desert. The service is great and the workers and so nice, especially the owner who's always present making sure it's all great, the atmosphere is very welcoming, go there for a good treat and order the swear/sour!”

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• G

  Google user

  ·7 years ago

  “Great food, great service. The workers are very friendly and so is the owner. we had the lobster (which needs to be requested a day in advance so they could order in fresh)”