The Modern

The Modern is the Chinese takeaway at the south end of the Wiltshire Road parade in Chaddesden, sharing the long residential road with the Indian, Chinese and fast-food shops that punctuate it further north. The cooking is the British-Chinese standard — sweet and sour, salt and pepper, the chow mein and chop suey list, special fried rice and the usual chicken-beef-pork curry-and-black-bean mains. The shop has a steady directory presence and runs the usual evening-only Chinese-takeaway rhythm with a longer Friday and Saturday run, the pattern needed to make a parade unit pay. Reviews are middling and short on the aggregators, a sign the trade is mostly walk-in and phone-order from the side streets around Wiltshire Road rather than wider delivery. A neighbourhood Chinese for the residential stretch of Chaddesden.