New Dans Castle Chop Suey House

New Dans Castle Chop Suey House has been the Chinese half of Tow Law's small Dans Castle parade for around twenty years — an upland west-Durham trading partnership that pairs it with Pizza Home next door to give the windswept ex-mining town two different takeaway formats on the same short row. Restaurant Guru aggregates around 102 reviews at a score close to four stars, with long-standing regulars repeatedly noting it as the consistent option in a town where the takeaway choice is otherwise thin. The Cantonese menu runs the usual chop-suey-house repertoire: sweet-and-sour and black-bean dishes, the chow-mein and curry range, crispy aromatic duck, salt-and-pepper variations and a range of starters including the spicy-sauce option that turns up repeatedly in reviewer praise. The shop holds a Food Standards Agency hygiene rating of 4. Honest note: a minority of recent reviews flag a price rise and a quality dip under newer ownership, which is the pattern customers tend to track across long-running village takeaways. Orders run by phone with collection only — there is no delivery service — which makes the Dans Castle parade a destination stop for the surrounding upland villages of Inkerman, Sunniside and the run down towards Crook.