Dragon City

Dragon City sits a short drive from Spennymoor's central High Street, trading from the small Wood Vue parade that serves the residential streets between the town centre and Middlestone Moor. Established in 2019 under current ownership, it runs the working Chinese-takeaway format the area expects: salt-and-pepper variations, beef in honey-and-chilli sauce, the standard sweet-and-sour and shredded-chicken range, and the chip-shop crossover sides — egg fried rice, chicken curry with chips — that account for the bulk of weeknight orders. Reviewer feedback aggregates around the mid-4s, with the house special chow mein and pepper-chip starters picked out repeatedly, and the price-to-portion ratio noted as the reason regulars keep coming back. The kitchen trades Tuesday through Sunday from late afternoon to late evening, closed all day Monday. Online ordering runs through the shop's own Facebook channel and Just-Eat listing, with delivery covering the immediate Wood Vue catchment plus into Middlestone Moor and Tudhoe Grange. Because the parade is set back from the through-traffic of the main Durham Road, Dragon City's collection trade has the practical advantage of off-street parking immediately outside the door — a small but useful difference from the town-centre Chinese shops on the High Street and Cheapside parades that have to deal with peak-evening kerbside congestion on Friday and Saturday nights.