Rice Box
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Open 12-2pm, 5-12pm
Cheap and cheerful.
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178 Cowley Road Useful links: Oxford Restaurants Oxford Hotels Oxford Pubs & Bars Oxford Concert venues Ads by Daily Info:
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For take-out customers, the Rice Box offers extremely rapid service and a more or less inoffensive (if bland) environment in which to wait for your food. It's not the most atmospheric of eateries, but if you're looking for value for money in terms of portion size, you could do a lot worse: each main course we had could well have fed two people. If you don't look out, though, they may well forget to give you the free fizzy drink* they offer with each box meal (this has happened to me twice now: I suppose I should be more on the ball). We started with 6 veggie spring rolls, which were crisp and succulent and perfectly nice, although not particularly evocative of any interesting vegetables. Very good value for £1.20. The spare ribs with garlic and chilli are unquestionably for hardcore chilli veterans only – the meat itself (battered) is quite dry and chewy, and the highlight is definitely the generous litter of chilli pepper, garlic and spring onion fragments in which they are presented. My main course was quite satisfying: a large number of slices of tender honey-roast pork on a bed of rather plain rice and Chinese cabbage. The sweet and sour pork had by my companion was sweeter and less tender but apparently very good if you like that sort of thing. The whole lot came to £15.20 for two people, which is a fairly standard price for Oxford Chinese. A little bit basic when it comes to contrasts of taste and texture within dishes, but good if you're after enormous servings of Chinese-style munch. *At time of writing, Coke, Diet Coke, Lemonade and Fanta. M.R., 03/03/05 I fear the Rice box has gone downhill. The last 2 times I've used them for takeaway I've ordered sweet and sour chicken and found that it's fast fried on both occasions. Which means the chicken inside is slightly undercooked and yet the batter on the outside is inedible. The few times I've eaten in they seem to be using lesser quality chicken. Sorry! mr V, 18/10/06
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