Cheerful Dragon in Havant

The search continues, tonight was the Cheerful Dragon. Usual order, Chicken Curry, no peas, no onions with boiled rice and an order of sweet and sour chicken balls. Collection.First impressions, busy but it was Friday and 6pm. The place looks clean and tidy but a little worn down. The staff were friendly and efficient and my order was soon placed. Even though they were busy my food was ready in just under 15 minutes. After the last couple of takeaways I decided to check the order was correct so I opened up the tubs, praise be to that Cheerful little Dragon as they had it spot on. I was even happier to see the food in aluminium containers instead of single use plastic, well done 😉So what about the food, the chicken balls were just right, crispy with some good sized chunks of very nice chicken and the sauce was thick and delicious.The curry while being very tasty was spoilt a tad by the chicken, it had some gristle in it, not really the texture you look for in a meal eh 😥Overall a very good meal made to order and served with a smile and by far the best I have tried locally so far 😋

Best chips about and can't go wrong with the Chinese food either. The chicken balls are always yummy and crispy.

Iv NEVER had a bad meal from here.. moved to area in 2006 used them since 2007... Lovley staff from back in the day to date.

Absolutely brilliant food, fantastic service. Lovely owners. Been using it for years and never been dissapointed.

I had their food many time and I love their shredded crispy chicken in peaking sauce! when the food gets to me it’s hot and tasty. The food always meet up to my expectations!

Since I'm not a meat eater I love the mixed vegetable curry they sell.No trouble at all for them when I ask for something taking out and extra cauliflower adding instead.Lovely chips too 😍My husband loves the chicken curry and deep fried wontons.Food always arrives hot with not much of a wait after calling.

Terrible delivery service. They charge £2.50 and then delivery is a case of 'when they can be bothered', ignore delivery times and expect a long wait after which the food is not very good. Better to use Aroma in Havant. Much better delivery and food standards. Seriously disappointed with Cheerful Dragon.

Disgusting quality of food & service from both the fish & chip shop & Chinese take away sides as every time we've used it, its bad.Whenever we go there, the lady gives her local customers preferential treatment by chatting for ages & ignores us, we then almost always get overcharged or short changed by her for ordering what we want, plus my Husband likes chips with his curry, so she makes a big thing about taking the money for the chips separately, then after waiting uncomfortably for the food, its usually bad, but tonight they excelled themselves, we are never going back!When we got our order home, my king prawn curry had hardly any small prawns in it, my Husband's beef curry was full of mushroom & only a couple of pieces of tough beef, the sauce was watery from a packet with too much water from the kettle, my egg fried rice was just soggy wet boiled pudding rice, so sweet, but the thing that usually outshines everything making us go back is the chips, my Husband adores them, but not tonight, she gave most of the chips cooked to a regular customer, so all we got were the stone cold rock hard scalpings wrapped up, everything was utterly disgusting, it all went in the bin where it belonged.

I'm only giving them one star as it's impossible to not give any. I ordered my family dinner from them it came and my chicken and cashew nuts had leaked all over my chips and there was no juice left in the container. so phone them back and after an argument with the owners they sent some more out but drained all the juice off before putting it in the box. so one dry dinner for me not happy and won't be ordering from them again

It has excellent standards it was extremely quick. I once had a delivery and it was still hot and the fish is different from any shop I had before and I never like takeaway from any shop except for this one. I highly recommend this shop for any people who is finding an excellent takeaway or delivery.