Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express is the Chinese takeaway on the central Cleethorpes Cross Street parade, a short walk from the High Street and the Market Place core. It is firmly a takeaway with no dine-in option, working a settled local customer base across collection and short-radius delivery into the surrounding streets.

The kitchen leans noticeably stronger than the average parade Chinese on a handful of signature dishes — the crispy beef in Cantonese style is the most-cited item in reviews and TripAdvisor reviewers single out the king prawn chow mein as the regular favourite. The wider board runs the standard Anglo-Cantonese set: chow mein, sweet and sour, satay, salt and chilli, curry, crispy aromatic duck pancakes and a long set-meal column. Reviewers tag the cooking as one of the more authentic Chinese kitchens on this side of central Cleethorpes — friendly counter service and consistent dish quality are the recurring positives.

Opening is evening-only and runs through to roughly 11pm, with a slightly later weekend close. The Cross Street position puts the shop on the line between the High Street late-night trade and the residential streets running back towards Sea View Street — a useful catchment for a takeaway-only kitchen.