Kings Chef

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  Jack Simpson

  ·3 months ago

  “Always love walking past this restaurant because it smells so good😁😅 We finally ordered a big takeaway this week and it was absolutely delicious, all the food was great. Very friendly service, and the man at the counter gave us some extra drinks as a treat to celebrate the World Cup. Highly recommend!!”

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  Nephtalie Mastaki

  ·4 months ago

  “The food was really good, exceeded our expectations!!! The rice seemed a bit overcooked but everything we had like the chow mein was really good and delicious with the curry sauce!! Would order again”

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  Aimee Bowden

  ·6 months ago

  “My go to Chinese for years. The satay chicken is a must try and the ribs with honey! Delivery this evening was as delicious as ever. Happy customer! Thank you”

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  Tasha

  ·7 months ago

  “Really friendly staff, great quality and portion of food for the prices. Would heavily recommend 👍”

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  Liam Smith

  ·8 months ago

  “When the food arrived and I saw the soup after ordering ribs and house special chow mein I was like "wait this isn't my order" then I looked at the bottom and saw the noodles and thought "cool their house special chow mein is served in a broth". Sipped the broth and decided "yeah I can this eat". Really, really good and generous amount of meat. But nightmare to eat this kind of noodle in soup with chopsticks as a foreigner!”

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  Hannah Mills

  ·9 months ago

  “DONT USE AT ALL COST. SCAMMED US OUT OF OUR MONEY. Ordered on uber last night with plenty of time for them to do the order. We then got the notification that they were on the way about half our later they called my partner to say that the kitchen is closed and now our order can’t be done. Told us to contact uber eats and they proceeded to cancel our order but they had the cheek to tell uber it was us who apparently cancelled, and that they started making our food so which mean we now can’t get a refund! We spent £43 aswell…”

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  Jay

  ·1 year ago

  “Wouldn’t even bother giving it a shot again, me and my partner used to be regular customers here as it’s close to us, however we will not ever be eating here again. We were served completely raw chicken balls that made my partner extremely ill, which was a shock seeing as the rest of it was completely overcooked. She has now had to call off work and remain in bed due to it which is ridiculous This review is only being made as we attempted to contact the staff multiple times, the times we did make contact with them it was passed around to different people and they where extremely rude and dismissive refusing to take any form of criticism or make any proper attempt at an apology. After multiple phone calls and contacting the delivery provider we where eventually told we would receive a PARTIAL refund of the item , which we are still yet to receive after contacting the restaurant multiple more times in the days following. We are having to go through the delivery service to sort it. Genuinely shocking.”

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  Jamie Marie

  ·2 years ago

  “Ordered via deliveroo. I ordered Wonton soup, crispy seaweed, and crab soup with egg and prawn toast. Everything was with flavour and I can definitely say, my cravings were satisfied. The flood came 2 minutes late from the ETA but it was worth the wait. They also added complimentary crackers which I really appreciate.”

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  EuGzin

  ·4 years ago

  “The staff here are amazing! will definitely recommend their chicken balls and satay chicken and their ribs. So far the best Chinese takeaway in Reading.”

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  Arthur Bingqian Ma

  ·4 years ago

  “Today we decided to order a takeaway given how hot the weather is, didn't want to turn on the stove. King's Chef is a Chinese takeaway on London Road that offers traditional Chinese dishes from their Chinese menu in additional to the normal menu of Westernised Chinese food. We had ordered from their normal menu before and we thought the dishes were hit and miss, mostly mediocre. That's why this time round was such a surprise for us. Their Chinese menu is available in a hard paper copy if you pick it up from the takeaway, but not available online or via Uber Eats/Deliveroo. We ordered 4 dishes and each of them were absolutely fantastic. This was our first time ordering from their Chinese menu and we were blown away by the quality of the chef's cooking, I'm amazed they've managed to hide away in an unassuming takeaway. It is as the flyer says: "restaurant quality cuisine at takeaway prices". I consider the quality to be restaurant-level, on par with Memory of Sichuan, even above Kung Fu Kitchen and Home Cooking! From the left, the first dish is #22 Beef brisket with radish, a light stew with buttery chunks of fatty brisket, stewed with mooli radish that soaks up all the flavour. They were pretty generous with the meat too. To the right of that is #34 Yu-xiang shredded pork, my personal favourite dish of all time. Sweet, sour, spicy, and salty - all 4 flavours in one dish, made with black fungus and green peppers just as it should be. Next is the cold dish #3 Sliced beef and tripes in chilli sauce - the perfect dish to cool down in the summer with, numbingly spicy and garlicky with plenty of texture between the beef slices and the tripe. Lastly on the right is #17 Sweet & sour pork, but not the Cantonese version made red with ketchup. This is guo bao rou which is the Northeastern version, the signature dish from my hometown Harbin. It's made with slices of pork tenderloin, double fried extra crispy from the potato starch batter, and a light yellow with a gingery vinegar sauce. This was done exceptionally well, to the point I wonder if the chef is Northeastern, as it's a dish that is very difficult to get accurately and the only UK restaurant I've had it done correctly is Chummy Yummy in Hillingdon. All in all an incredible set of dishes with no faults whatsoever, our new favourite takeaway and we'll be sure to order from them again as our go-to takeaway for traditional Chinese dishes. And with such a varied menu, it'll be years before we exhaust our options hence why I'm shilling for them here to get others to try it out too! Despite the opening hours written on the menu, they are actually open for dinner too. Have you tried their traditional Chinese menu before or do you want to try it out now? What do you think of it? Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! :)”

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