Oriental Delight

Oriental Delight is the Chinese takeaway serving Rochester Road and the surrounding Pelham streets running east out of central Gravesend. The shop runs an unusually long card for a small neighbourhood Chinese — separate sections for king prawn, duck, chop suey, chicken, beef, pork, foo yung and chow mein, plus the usual sweet-and-sour and curry sauce mains, set meals scaled for one through to four, an English-dishes section (the curry-and-chips of the British-Chinese tradition) and a vegetarian list that runs to a dozen-plus mains rather than the usual token three or four. The satay chicken on skewers and the Singapore vegetarian vermicelli are specifically picked out in the reviewer feedback. Minimum order is ten pounds and the shop runs collection, phone-order delivery and walk-in trade. Evening-only opening from 4.45pm through to 10pm, with the standard British-Chinese evening-led trade. Customer feedback across Tripadvisor and the delivery platforms runs the usual mixed pattern — broadly positive on the cooking, with the inconsistency around delivery timing that affects most volume neighbourhood operations.