Shengs Take Away Food Shops

Shengs on Ainslie Street is a Chinese takeaway in the residential southern section of Barrow-in-Furness town centre, a short distance from the similar operation at Lees on the same street. The two together serve a cluster of residential streets in the LA14 5 area that might otherwise have to make the longer trip to the town-centre concentration of takeaways. Shengs covers the Cantonese takeaway repertoire — starters, rice and noodle dishes, sweet and sour, and combination platters — in the format that has characterised Chinese takeaways in British towns for decades. Online reviews are limited, pointing to a neighbourhood business built on regular customers and telephone orders rather than delivery platforms. It is the kind of takeaway whose value lies precisely in being close to home for the streets around Ainslie Street.