chinese take out: ok so im on a budget and im having a bday party on the 25th i wanted to order chinese take out for 10 poeple who much will that cost?? i dont want to spend more then 25$ on food [not including snacks] do you think its gunna be somewhere in that area?|||You can probably find a place that makes good chinese food for cheap. Like by my house there is a amazing chinese place that sells most of their stuff for $5. Their plates can feed like three people. I bet there's a small chinese restaurant that is like that in your area. You can also try to make your own chinese food. Spring rolls are easy to make lol. If not then order the pizza. Dominoes does medium pizzas for $5 each so you can buy 5 medium pizzas. That is, if they do that deal in your area. You can also have a potluck type of thing and have your friends each bring a dish. $25 isn't going to get you very far. =[|||What do you mean by takeout? Do you mean go to a resturant, order their dishes to go? That would be wayy more than $25. when my family goes out to eat chinese food(which is all the time cause i'm chinese), it's usually around $30-40 for 4 people, about 5 dishes, but we usually have leftover. If you mean takeout as in fried rice and noodles, you might be able to get it for about $25. In the Chinatown over here in Sf, a box of fried rice/noodles is $1... So maybe go to your local chinatown and ask them about big orders in one of those giant foiled pans.|||Food for ten people will DEFINITELY be more than $25. If it's possible to get some recipes and try to make it, I think that would be the best bet. And buy what is too difficult to make or just something like egg rolls. But I bet it will be at least twice that amount for 10 people. Probably more, depending on how much they eat.|||Why don't you ask everyone at the party to bring $5? That way you'll have $50 which will almost provide for you all. Plus if you have $25 on top of the $50 you'll have $75. This means that $75 dollars would easily feed you all with decent chinese food. Derrr :)|||i must say i'm not a big chinese food eater. but i do know pizza and if you want that to be cheaper then order only cheese pizza then have your own toppings that each person can put on their slice.|||thats almost impossible, if it is actually that cheap, you should second guess the stuff they put into the food ... -_- i think 2 extra larges or a party size would be enough|||most dishes that will at least satisfy a person is $6-8 per dish...you could go ghetto and buy 25 eggrolls for .99 cents each...|||you could do it....not very much food though