Evergreen Chop Suey House

The Evergreen has held its corner of Ferryhill's Main Street trade for years, running the Chinese chop-suey-house format that the town's ex-mining population has supported since long before the aggregator platforms arrived. Aggregated reviewer scores sit a shade under 4/5 across Google and Restaurant Guru, with the bulk of feedback picking out the consistency of the standard sweet-and-sour and salt-and-pepper sections, together with the chip-shop crossover sides — chicken curry with chips, special fried rice — that working-week customers reorder week to week. The shop trades evenings only, closed Mondays, opening from late afternoon through to last orders around the late-evening cut-off and running a little later on Friday and Saturday nights. Collection is the dominant route, helped by the kerbside parking immediately outside the parade, though local-area delivery is also offered for the streets around Ferryhill town centre and into the Dean Bank estate. The Main Street parade puts Evergreen Chop Suey House in walking range of the Town Hall, the Manor House Hotel and the parish church, giving it a steady weekend-evening post-pub trade alongside the regular family-order weekday business. For a small Durham town that has lost a number of its older Chinese takeaways to the post-pandemic shake-out, Evergreen's continued presence — under the same Chop Suey House trading name customers have known for two decades — counts for a lot among long-standing regulars.