The Empire Chinese Restaurant

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An Excellent Takeaway Choice. 3rd September 2008

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Whenever I move, one of my top priorites is to find a really good Chinese takeaway to live off for a week or two. As we moved into the area, I noted this takeway was very close by. The same evening I moved in I went and picked up a menu. I did not regret it. I found their service to be freindly and warm, they told us if we needed any advice on the area to just call them and ask, they couldn't have done anymore.
We ordered a substantial meal for four of us, plus our cat. Well the cat got to share some chicken anyway. The meal was ready in good time, the only downside being that they do not deliver. Once home we all found our food to be very hot, fresh and extremely tasty. A lot of Chinese restaurants boost the taste of their food using monosodium glutamate - this is what often gives a very sticky ("glue") mouth for many hours or if you are unlucky when you wake up the next day, but this was not evident with the Empire's food - they didn't need to artificially enhance the quality of the food as it clearly stands on it's own.
Pricing is very reasonable, you can get cheaper but the quality will suffer. The only place in the Hounslow area that could beat this has been reviewed by myself on this site and is a lot more expensive.