Shahe Restaurant - Newcastle

For one reason or another I couldn't order from my usual Chinese this eveningMy usual favourite, wonderful Chinese.

Found pubic hair in the curry staff think it’s acceptable, said would give money back place needs shut down 0 from us !!!

My mate Steve and I dined here for posterity last night- I had my first curry from here over 40 years ago. There used to be a huge fish tank at the entrance but this sadly is a thing of the past. Huge menu with lots of curries I’ve never heard of, but I went for the RC21-named by the owner after his son years ago apparently, and absolutely delicious. No draught beer due to wastage concerns during the pandemic, but bottled chilled Cobra went down well. The one down side which moved it from 5 to 4 stars sadly was that I ordered a vegetable paratha, having become hooked on these in Blackpool, but sadly a plain one arrived. The waiter hadn’t checked the food was satisfactory, so I got up and requested a vegetable one. One quickly arrived, but was quite disappointing as I think it contained a solitary pea. Hey ho. Excellent otherwise and not worthy of the dismal impression the takeaway side of the restaurant seems to generate. Go there for what promise to be some fascinating flavours. Ding dong.

Been using this Restaurant for takeaways for many many years. This week our order arrived on it's side, so we sent the delivery driver packing, as all the liquid had spilled onto the popadoms and salad. Our replacement order eventually arrived and we sat down to eat almost two hours after ordering. My husband enjoyed his meal but mine was very disappointing. I had ordered Lamb Tikka, which was hard and dry. I only managed to eat three pieces of meat. My rice and other things weren't very hot either, so not very appetising and most of my food ended up in the bin. Very disappointing.

Honestly gutted, been a customer of shahe for years and years and tonight my order came extremely watery, I rang them to let them know and asked for a refund and it felt like he wasn’t Listening to me on the phone and just kept saying bye and hung up the phone. I’m sad because I always get my food from here. But after this experience never again.