Oriental Chef

Oriental Chef is the Chinese and Malaysian takeaway on Sitwell Street in old Spondon village, a short walk from the Chapel Side parade and a couple of doors down from the Co-op. The kitchen runs a Cantonese spine — sweet and sour, salt and pepper, chow mein, the chicken-beef-tofu mains — alongside a Malaysian side that gives it a wider menu than most village Chinese takeaways: the laksa and the satay dishes get specific positive mentions in reviews. Scores across the aggregators sit consistently high — around 4.3 on Google and Restaurant Guru, 4.6 on Just Eat from over a thousand reviews — with reviewers praising piping-hot deliveries and a noticeably extensive online menu. The Food Standards Agency rating from June 2023 was 3, "generally satisfactory". The customer base is the Spondon village streets and the short delivery patch into surrounding Derby east.