Oriental Taste, also known as Crispy Chicken, is a takeaway at 19 Gerald Street in Lincoln, holding a 4.0 rating on Google. Crispy-chicken shops live or die by freshness: the good ones fry in small, steady batches rather than leaving pieces to sweat under a heat lamp, so it pays to ask when the next lot comes out, or to ring your order through so it goes from fryer to box. Ringing ahead is worth the habit anyway: dinnertime and Friday nights are when a small takeaway kitchen is flat out. On the Oriental side of the counter, regulars tend to settle on the one or two dishes a shop does best and stay loyal to them, rather than working through the whole menu. It's a straightforward Gerald Street stop for anyone in Lincoln or Halswell after a hot dinner on the way home.