Man Lee

Man Lee is the long-running Cantonese takeaway on East Common Lane, sharing the small parade on the eastern edge of Ashby with Sam's sandwich bar a few doors along. The shop holds a solid four-star average across Restaurant Guru, Yell and Google with comfortably over a hundred reviews logged — a strong sample for a single-unit takeaway on a residential through-road rather than the busier Ashby High Street strip.

The menu reads as a fairly classic Cantonese carry-out card: chicken and beef curries, chow-mein and Singapore rice variations, sweet-and-sour and salt-and-pepper dishes, set meals for two and three, and the chip-shop crossover items — chips with curry sauce, salt-and-pepper chips, and the chicken-ball-and-curry combinations — that the Scunthorpe estates expect from a neighbourhood Chinese. Reviewer favourites pick out the chicken curry and the meatball dishes, with the consistent quality and the speed of the wait the most commonly mentioned positives. The kitchen runs as an evening-only operation, opening late afternoon and trading through to late evening Tuesday to Sunday.