China Express

China Express trades from Colney Road, the residential cut behind the rail line and Princes Road that connects through to the Lowfield Street corridor in central Dartford. The shop operates under the China Express Takeaway Limited entity — registered in 2005 — and has carried the same name and frontage on the parade for years, making it one of the longer-running Chinese counters in this part of the town. The menu sticks to the familiar British-Cantonese list of sweet-and-sour, chow mein, curry-sauce dishes and the usual set dinners for two or three, with online ordering for collection and short-radius delivery. Aggregated Google reviews sit at the four-star mark and the kitchen passed its most recent FSA inspection in autumn 2024. The shop runs the late-evening Chinese-takeaway shift, trading later on Fridays and Saturdays to catch the post-pub trade from the Hythe Street pubs nearby.