Peking City
Quick info
About Peking City
On Covingham Drive in Swindon, Peking City is a Chinese takeaway with no seating, serving orders for collection or delivery. Alongside the Chinese menu it runs a standard chippy line, so salt and pepper chicken, crispy chilli beef, and chow mein sit next to spicy chips and jumbo sausages. Sweet and sour sauce, curry sauce, seaweed, and pancake rolls round out the list. Food is cooked to order, with preparation visible from the counter. Orders can be placed in-shop or through Just Eat and Deliveroo, and the shop takes walk-ins rather than reservations. In-shop waits for orders can run long at busier times.
Good to know
- ReservationsWalk-in only
Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention watered down sweet and sour sauce, bean sprouts in beef chow mein, missing sausages undercooked and long takeaway wait times.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention watered down sweet and sour sauce, bean sprouts in beef chow mein, missing sausages undercooked and long takeaway wait times.
Customer Review Summary
Fish and chips alongside Chinese dishes cooked to order draw the most consistent praise, with reviewers singling out the curry sauce, sweet and sour sauce, and spicy chips as favorites, several also noting fair pricing, and a recent visit calling the food excellent while feeling the premises could use a makeover. Close behind, longtime customers describe a decline: multiple reviewers report the sweet and sour sauce now watered down, the salt and pepper chicken reduced to mostly onions, and the crispy chilli beef arriving without its usual sauce. Order accuracy is a recurring complaint, with two separate accounts of missing jumbo sausages, sausages found pink in the middle, and beef chow mein arriving cold with bean sprouts despite requests to leave them out. Two reviewers also describe waiting up to an hour in the shop for a takeaway collection. One reviewer reports finding a piece of plastic in the seaweed. In both missing-sausage cases, reviewers had to return to the shop to collect the forgotten items.
Customer Review Summary
Fish and chips alongside Chinese dishes cooked to order draw the most consistent praise, with reviewers singling out the curry sauce, sweet and sour sauce, and spicy chips as favorites, several also noting fair pricing, and a recent visit calling the food excellent while feeling the premises could use a makeover. Close behind, longtime customers describe a decline: multiple reviewers report the sweet and sour sauce now watered down, the salt and pepper chicken reduced to mostly onions, and the crispy chilli beef arriving without its usual sauce. Order accuracy is a recurring complaint, with two separate accounts of missing jumbo sausages, sausages found pink in the middle, and beef chow mein arriving cold with bean sprouts despite requests to leave them out. Two reviewers also describe waiting up to an hour in the shop for a takeaway collection. One reviewer reports finding a piece of plastic in the seaweed. In both missing-sausage cases, reviewers had to return to the shop to collect the forgotten items.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“Excellent food which you can see being prepared very friendly and helpful staff but do feel the place needs a bit of a makeover”
- Google user
“Take away only. But great tasting food, friendly staff, chinese food cooked to order as well as the normal chippy food, I am a returning customer for several years. I would say 1 of the best chinese food in town but ill let you decide.”
- Google user
“We order like regularly I order today about £96 food found this thing in my food over all is good but today I am not happy what I received. plez plez when u cook look for this type of thing. This is not my 1st message to u got so many massage about this so can u plez look after this thing in future… We love your food but plez respect your customers…. Good luck.”
- Google user
“Normally love this place but found a bit of plastic in the sea weed … dont think I will be ordering from here again anytime soon”
- Google user
“Definitely gone down hill. Ordered Chinese watered down sweet and sour sauce hardly any chicken and the chicken looked like it was either reheated or very overcooked . Overall appearance wasn't at all good . Pancake rolls were hard. Let's just say i won't be going back.”
Location
Chinese Restaurants near Peking City
- Eat Well4.31401.7 mi£10–20
king prawn balls, big portions, extra onion
- Gorse Hill Chinese4.41681.8 mi£10–20
chicken fried rice, orange fried chicken, fried mixed vegetable
- 1.9 mi£20–30
all you can eat option, paper lanterns decor, lazy susan centrepiece
| Place | Rating | Distance | Price | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peking City | 3.628 | — | — | watered down sweet and sour sauce, bean sprouts in beef chow mein, missing sausages undercooked |
| Eat Well | 4.3140 | 1.7 mi | £10–20 | king prawn balls, big portions, extra onion |
| Gorse Hill Chinese | 4.4168 | 1.8 mi | £10–20 | chicken fried rice, orange fried chicken, fried mixed vegetable |
| Swindon Rendezvous (Hoopers Place) | 4.1839 | 1.9 mi | £20–30 | all you can eat option, paper lanterns decor, lazy susan centrepiece |
The 3 nearest chinese restaurants by distance. Ratings, hours and review terms come from public business profiles.
Similar Chinese Restaurants nearby
Browse more
Explore more of Swindon, or find Restaurants in other cities.