Oriental Palace

West Cornforth — the small ex-mining village locals more often call Doggy — sits a short drive east of Ferryhill, and Oriental Palace has been its central Chinese takeaway for years. The kitchen runs the Cantonese repertoire customers expect from a Durham village Chinese: salt-and-pepper variations, sweet-and-sour dishes, the standard chow-mein and curry range and the chip-shop crossover sides that have become the area's late-evening staple. Portion size is the recurring note in reviewer feedback, along with the consistency of cooking under long-standing ownership. Online ordering runs through the shop's own site at orientalpalaceorder.co.uk, with delivery covering West Cornforth into Coxhoe and central Ferryhill. The village High Street parade brings Oriental Palace together with the Fry Time fish-and-chip shop and Pizza Planet — three different takeaway formats giving the small village an unusually broad evening choice for its population.