China Cottage - North Dorset

The staff at this restaurant are rude and the food is of extremely poor quality. There is barely any meat in the special fried rice and the portion sizes are a rip off. The takeaway area looks neglected and unkempt, with no signs of a good clean in years. I would advise against dining here.

I had to wait two hours to receive my food at this restaurant. Despite my efforts to entertain the waitress with some comedic material, I couldn't get a smile out of her. It seems like the five-star reviews must be coming from the owner's friends and family.

Nothing is worse than bad Chinese food. This was the worst. So bad in fact that I am writing this review before even taking out the leftovers (of which there are many). Tough, overcooked, past its prime, flavorless, lukewarm, bland, pretty heavy and disappointing. Basically, avoid at all costs. I'm not being dramatic and never give a bad review where it's not due. This is just too poor. To be honest, the duck was okay, but that's the only reason it might get 1 star.

Ordered a few dishes for delivery and was very pleased! Chicken balls were massive and delicious, crab claws lush, Peking bean curd lovely. Singapore noodles were not vermicelli so different from what I was used to but were nice and fresh and had great flavour. Hot and sour soup one of best I've had. Delivered in good time and very good value!

After driving five miles back to our holiday chalet i opened the main course roast prk dim sum £6.50) and rice £3.50) there was the equivalent of a 50p piece size of pork in ALL of the 3 dim sums collectively. yes its a 'first world ' problem whatever first world means anyway) but i wasnt going to drive back, so i called today to offer the owner a chance to refund me or i would write a poor review, he just laughed and wasn 't interested at all. locals and visitors AVOID. they really dont care about maintaining in form of consumer care