Hoi Shan

Hoi Shan is a Cantonese-style Chinese takeaway on Queen Street in Newton Abbot, collection and delivery only with no dine-in room. It opens evenings from 5pm to 10.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday, closed Mondays, and runs a minimum delivery order of £12 with delivery from £3.

The menu is a proper spread rather than a cut-down version: house specialities like Happy Family (beef, chicken and king prawn with bamboo shoots) and a special fried rice combining roast pork, prawn and ham sit alongside Szechuan dishes served with green peppers and onion, Thai-influenced sweet chilli and red curry options, and crispy aromatic duck with a choice of sauces. There's a full noodle list in both thin and thick varieties, the usual fried rice and chow mein base, vegetarian options, and English-style omelettes and chips for anyone after something plainer. Reviews are mixed - a 3.7 on Google against a shakier TripAdvisor score - which tracks with a busy, high-volume takeaway rather than a special-occasion restaurant, but the breadth of the menu marks it out from some of its more limited competitors on the same strip.