Stylish Chinese Cuisine

Advantages: Good food, service and surroundings
Disadvantages: Not disabled friendly; minimum charge

...? apple was £1.20 and pineapple £1.50. As a starter we confined ourselves to a basket of prawn crackers (£1.50) with sweet and sour sauce. While we were waiting, one of the waitresses came and unfolded the napkins, put them on our laps for us and then removed the wine glasses. The other waitress asked if we were happy using chop sticks and took them out of their paper bags when we said yes. For the main course we agreed that if we each ordered something different we could have a taste of each other's dishes. Tang's offers Cantonese, Peking and Szechuan cuisine. I was eyeing up the duck mains when my son's partner announced he fancied the crispy roast duck with pineapple (£8.50). I then turned my attentions to chicken with cashew nuts (£6), but of course my son said he had decided on that. Having been twice thwarted, I thought I'd have a look...

denella 24.09.2009 (26.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Tang's Chinese Cuisine, Southsea

I LOVE my Lean Cuisines

Advantages: Tasty, convenient, nutrition information is printed on the box
Disadvantages: could be expensive for some people; sodium content is quite high

...Lean Cuisine is a range of pre-packaged frozen meals for those people who want to eat a lower calorie intake and lose weight, and are great for people to take as lunches to work as they cook in minutes in a microwave. The range is very complete, and they cater to all tastes. There are Asian style dishes for those who like me love Chinese food - teriyaki beef, oriental beef, chicken fried rice for instance. For those whose passion is Italian, they do spaghetti, lasagne, and some other pasta selections, and they do a range of everyday type meals with vegetables. Most of the selections are between 250-320 calories and they have a nutrition guideline on the package so you can check fat gms, sodium and cholesterol content, ideal for those who have other dietary problems and need to keep track of their intake of those items. I...

poet831 25.03.2003 · Read review
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Tefal Steam Cuisine Steamer

Advantages: Great idea saves time
Disadvantages: None

...Well, it had to happen, I suppose. All good things must come to a end, as they say. Our faithful steamer gave up the ghost after nearly eight years of Stirling steaming service. Time, we realised, to buy a new one. We decided to make our purchase of a new steamer at the BBC Good Food Show. After circling round and round the stands and displays several times ("too small, too big, doesn't look quite good enough, no WAY" are we paying that much!") we discovered the Tefal stand. We both fell in love with the Tefal Steam Cuisine Steamer. My comment was: "My god, it looks like something out of Star Trek voyager!" For yes, indeed, the Tefal Steam Cuisine steam cooker does look incredibly funky and very, very modern. It also has, for the amount of food that it can cook, a relatively small footprint. And this is, in the tiny and pokey...

Martinscholes 26.11.2005 · Read review
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The Canon PIXMA IP1800 and the end of the world

Advantages: Cheap and replaceable. Attractive and efficient technology.
Disadvantages: Ink costs more than the machine. Potential ecological mayhem.

...My new Canon PIXMA IP1800 replaces my Canon PIXMA IP1600 so the planet may be doomed and It could be my fault. My Canon PIXMA IP1600 had nothing wrong with it. It wasn't broken. The pictures spilled out on glossy paper at A4 ready for framing. The text was crisp and black. I'd had it for a year or so. It was cheap yet efficient and as good as any printer I'd ever owned. It had no tray to catch paper coming out but otherwise was printing perfectly and I've been delighted with it. This is partly why I bought the Canon PIXMA IP1800 which is also excellent. But why bother? They're almost the same machine! The ink is running out on my old printer and, bizarrely, new cartridges would cost more than a brand new one. My wife was furious. She looked at the packets of ink cartridges with a shop assistant because she didn't believe me...

FlameDruid 14.09.2007 · Read review
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proline vacuum vc1800

Advantages: it is bagless, and light for stairs
Disadvantages: extension poles are cheap plastic

...1800 watts and I have found it to fairly powerful for what i need it to do. It will do laminate floors you just adjus the height of the floorbrush. You can also adjust the suction if it is too strong and is pulling up your carpet. It does come with an instruction booklet which does cover all the basics which you need to know. The only thing that I don't like is that there is no where to place the tools on the hoover for storage,you can hook the floorbrush onto the back of the hoover when finised but there is nowhere to put the other tools....

deborah311 21.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Proline VC 1800

x1800 awsome, but its too late

Advantages: awsome performance, awsome graphics
Disadvantages: direct x 9 whereas direct x 10 is now out on vista

...The card arrives, the box opens, a whole host of cables fall out, but you dont care about that and there on center stage the Radeon X1800 XT! When i played my first game with this card i was just amazed, the performace was awsome the graphics were awsome! games that used to look dull were now vibrant and brilliantly shaded. Being able to play games on full graphics was beautiful!! Now im not going to go through all the specs as you can find these easy enough on the connect3d website or even here on ciao. What i will say is a bit about my experience. When i bought this card it was a real kick in the pocket, but once i had it up and running it was a dream come true! With the vivo (video in video out) feature you can use it as a capture card. Make sure if you are going to buy this card that you have a spare slot below your pci...

randomtask 02.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Connect3D Radeon X1800 XT

Living with a powercolor x1800 gto

Advantages: reasonably priced and quite powerful graphics card
Disadvantages: Is now a fairly old product line

...I bought my x1800gto about 9 months ago now and I have to say that when I first got it I was very impressed. There were plenty of cables for different monitors as well as 2 dongles to convert dvi to vga. There was no software included, but I wasn't particularly bothered about that as I have all the software and games I will ever need. So, down to business, the x1800 gto is a cheap card that delivers very good performance imho. Not one to buy if you want ridiculously high resolutions in your games, but a solid performer at 1280x1024 on all but the most demanding games. If you want an easy solution for crossfire then you should think about this as you don't need a crossfire master! Simply purchase two of these cards and drop them into a crossfire capable motherboard and off you go! Also, this is not too bad a card for overclocking, I...

kleggnut 21.03.2007 · Read review
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Gourmet food for Dogs

Advantages: Nice treat for dogs
Disadvantages: Expensive for everyday feeding

...My daughter has a lovely Staffordshire Bull Terrier and his name is Mampi Swift, he sometimes comes to visit us and stay for the n night, if she and her boyfriend are going out so that he?s not alone all night and at times like these he like to get a little treat. His favourite is Cesar Canine Cuisine. Cesar comes in a little tin which is 150g per tray and there are quite a few different flavours to choose from. Mampi loves the T-bone Steak flavour and will sit patiently until you have opened the tray and put it in his dog dish then he waits until you say he can have it before devouring the lot in about five seconds flat. The other flavours are Porthouse Steak, Beef, Braised Beef and Vegetables, Lamb, Top Sirloin, Pork Tenderloin and the new breakfast flavours of Smoked Bacon and Eggs. There?s also a Chicken, Chicken...

Sunnysmiles 16.06.2009 · Read review
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Monty's - the Python of Restaurants

Advantages: Good atmosphere, excellent service, reasonable prices
Disadvantages: Inconvenient waiting area for queuing diners

...till 5.00 p.m. and 6.00 - 11.00 p.m. on Sundays. They do a nice buffet lunch on Sundays for £8.50 from 12.00 - 5.00 p.m. I'd also point out that Monty's is wheelchair friendly and family friendly too, although I've not noticed a baby changing room anywhere. Contact details: Montys Tandoori Restaurant Nepalese Cuisine Friendship House 1 The Mall Ealing Broadway London W5 2PJ Tel: 020 8567 8122 UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2006 Dined at Monty's again last night with some ex colleagues who are now my friends! We were having a reunion as several of us have moved onto new challenges in recent months and we quite missed working with each other. We had decided to meet for a few drinks in Ealing before going to eat and my pals insisted that I choose the venue. Well, of course, I chose Monty's and just had to update this review to...

anonymili 04.04.2006 (09.09.2006) · Read review
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A taste of the Orient in deepest, darkest Surrey

Advantages: Nice food, excellent service
Disadvantages: A bit quiet so a tad lacking in atmosphere

...and dining in the corner himself, which was rather pleasant. I wouldn't say that the cuisine is spectacular but definitely steady and consistent, with some real potential hidden gems on the menu. Definitely recommended. CONTACT DETAILS The Colony, 3 Balfour Road Weybridge, Surrey. KT13 8HE. Tel: 01932-842766 Website: http://www.thecolonyrestaurant.co.uk/...

larsbaby 22.12.2008 · Read review
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