Yauli

Yauli is a small Chinese takeaway on Murray Street, the long high-street thoroughfare that runs north from the centre of Montrose toward the railway station and the Basin. The Murray Street parade is the town's working-day spine — a strip of butchers, bakers, hairdressers and small independents serving the residential streets behind, and Yauli has held a position on it as a sit-back-and-collect Chinese for years.

The shop trades to the format Montrose locals expect from a Murray Street takeaway: a long printed menu of Cantonese-leaning standards, generous portions, late-evening trade through to closing, and phone-and-collect rather than online-app ordering. Reviewers on Restaurant Guru describe the food as well-priced and consistently hot, with chow mein and curry-sauce-on-chips orders mentioned as the regular order. The setting is functional — small counter, no dine-in — and the trade is local-repeat rather than tourist passing.

Murray Street itself is one of the streets that gives Montrose its character — a long, slightly narrow east-coast Scottish high street running roughly parallel to the High Street, between the burgh centre and the railway-station end of town.