China Rice

China Rice is the small village Chinese takeaway in Walton-on-Trent, one of the river villages on the Derbyshire-Staffordshire border, a short drive west of Swadlincote on the road to Burton. It sits on Bells End Road and runs as a family-operated kitchen with collection and short-radius delivery into the surrounding river villages.

The Tripadvisor reviews are notably strong — a 4.6 average across 21 reviews, ranking it as one of the two restaurants Walton-on-Trent has — and the named call-out from the regulars is the chilli and salt chips, which one of the longer reviews picks out as "absolutely lovely" and worth a detour. Alongside that the kitchen runs the standard Cantonese sweet-and-sour, chow mein, satay, curry-sauce mains and chef's-specials list, with the usual rice and noodle sides.

The shop runs as a phone-and-collect operation with delivery for the immediate village radius; reviewers recommend pre-ordering at weekends because the kitchen runs busy. One review describes it as "the best Chinese takeaway in the Burton area" — strong praise from out of district, given the size of the Burton restaurant scene a short drive away. Food comes out piping hot and fresh; the staff are remembered as helpful.