Lotus Garden Cuisine

The neat thing about hiking adventures is that it is usually followed by a dining adventure. This past Sunday afternoon following Norm K’s Freeway and Donkey Wash Trails Hike UYE, I tried Lotus Garden Cuisine.
Lotus Garden Cuisine is in the shopping center at the northwest corner of Rainbow and Sunset Roads immediately north of the 215 Freeway Rainbow Road exit. Due to its proximity to three major roads, it is in easy reach to motorists commuting across the valley. This is a Chinese restaurant that many people could enjoy. One of the many is yours truly who will share his positive experience dining here.
From my experience dining in Chinese restaurants there are two types of dining environments. One is the take out style restaurant with tables and the other is the cozy restaurant with a server. Lotus Garden Cuisine is the later.
I made it in time for the lunch special. In my opinion, the Chinese Restaurant lunch special is one of the best deals around. For the price of a fast food restaurant, the lunch special gives a lot for the money. As soon as I set eyes on their lunch menu, I was impressed. They offer over and above what many of the Las Vegas Chinese restaurants do. When it comes to the lunch special, many of the Chinese restaurants serve either egg drop or hot and sour soup calling them soup of the day. However, Lotus Garden Cuisine offers hot and sour soup, egg flower soup, wonton soup or house salad with house dressing. I have yet to see a Chinese restaurant offer house salad with house dressing as a lunch special choice. The lunch special menu gets even better. Hitherto now, every Chinese restaurant lunch special charges additional for shrimp-​based entrees. At Lotus Garden Cuisine a Mongolian Beef entrée and shrimp with lobster sauce lunch special is $ 6.75. All 22 lunch special entrees cost $ 6.75. They include soup or salad, egg roll, and fried rice. Plus, before the meal, they give you crunchy skinny noodles with duck sauce. I was starting to enjoy this dining adventure.
I complimented all this food with hot tea. I’d pour the tea from a tea pot into a small cup. The advantageous thing about hot tea besides the taste is that it gives me a break from the high sugary soft drinks that customarily compliment my dining adventures.
The food was served over the Chinese Zodiac place menu. Looking at the place mat, I had a revelation about myself, «Being born in 1972 makes me a rat.» But a good rat that is ambitious and sincere. Kind of like this review. Anyways the food served on the place mat was on regular china with silverware. This isn’t China Go Go or one of those places where the food is in styrofoam boxes with plastic forks. There was a quality presentation to the food. And ultimately a quality taste.
From the wonton soup which included broccoli to the shrimp chop suey, this was delectable Chinese food. There was sufficient shrimp interspersed with the vegetables, sauce, and onions that made up the shrimp chop suey. The egg roll was bigger than a Twinkle. The fried rice had a nice texture.
I had zero complaints about the service. The waitress would check up on me and never rushed me. Plus, she never charged me for the hot tea.
The lunch adventure concluded with the check and fortune cookie. All this delicious food that I shared with you and hot tea in a cozy atmosphere came out to $ 7.30 before the tip. That is less money than Panda Express and even some of the food at McDonald’s. My fortune would read «Keep your plans secret for now.» Now is over, and I can let everyone in on my plan that I am spreading the word that there is a really good Chinese restaurant called Lotus Garden Cuisine that is a hop and a skip from the 215 Freeway off the Rainbow Road exit.

This is our go to Lunch spot. I rotate between the Won Ton Soup bowl and the Shrimp with Snow Peas, both of which I name best in show. The service is fast and friendly, and the atmosphere is cozy, reminding me of the Chinese restaurants I visited as a child.

I finally found a Chinese restaurant that has decent, quality food. If you like eggplant, you must try the spicy eggplant dinner! The eggplant is cut in chunks with noodles and some vegetables. It has a great flavor; I was pleasantly surprised.
Another great entrée we enjoyed during this meal was chicken egg foo young and beef and snow peas. The egg foo young consisted of thick pieces of egg omelets with chicken in a tasty sauce topped with chives. The beef and snow peas entrée consisted of a lot of fresh snow peas, onion, watercress, and carrot.
Although the food preparation is fairly quick, the table-​side service (e.g., refills of hot tea, more napkins, check) is slow. When we were in, only one server was on the floor handling everyone in the small restaurant dining area. Regardless, she was nice and the atmosphere was comfortable, clean, and nicely decorated. This complemented the dine-​in food experience.
I will be back — next time for take-​out!

Good food with big portions! I ordered from the lunch special menu, Several items to choose from & comes with an egg roll & soup! Service was good, I will be returning!

The hot and sour soup is to die for, everything else was really subpar. The orange chicken and kong poa was just ehhh I think Von’s is better in all honesty. However the soup is really good.

This place is amazing no place can get the salt and pepper pork chops right for me. It’s always clean and quite and they give you the little chip thingy with sauce as appetizer. What else could a man ask for other then chicken wings lol.

I absolutely love this place been coming here for years good food never had a bad meal reasonable prices especially lunch hour me and my family love it!
Great customer service forever a customer

Met some girlfriends and just loved this place. Everything was so fresh and the Sweet and Sour Chicken was fabulous. Our waitress was great, attentive and friendly. Plenty of parking and we visited for 2 hours and all the while our waitress kept checking on us! I highly recommend it.

Me and my cousin decided to explore more chinese restaurants in the Las Vegas valley. We tried the Lotus Garden Cuisine. The food was alright. One of the dish we ordered was Salt and Pepper Pork Chop. It was ok, but it needs more seasoning. We also ordered the Walnut Shrimp with mayonnaise. It tasted good. The service here was ok. When we dine in, there was only one server but she was good. I guess there was only one chef in the back since we waited a long time to get our food.

Very good, never too crowded, fresh ingredients, fast friendly service. My favorite is the aromatic shrimp so good! Very good egg rolls sometime I get those alone.

Had a craving for Sweet & Sour Pork and Egg Drop Soup… So glad I checked Unilocal and found Lotus Garden! It is so good! It easily fed two people — and the price was very reasonable! We’ll be back… sooner than later.

I have been wanting Chinese food since I moved here to Vegas haven’t been able to find anyone that knows of a good place until my sister took me here and it is the best Chinese food I think I have ever eaten. The honey walnut shrimp is a must as well as the combination fried rice. The egg rolls, egg flour soup, crab rangoons were awesome. We had the mongolian beef was great too! Service was fast and very good! It is a small place and should be bigger because the food is so amazing! Love love love this place!

Excellent Chinese food, especially the roast pork Egg Foo Young… wonton soup is very good and flavorful… prices very reasonable…

We have been looking for good Chinese food since moving to Vegas years ago and I think we finally found it. We placed a large order over the phone and it was ready for pickup about 20 minutes later. Everything that we tried was very good. The honey walnut shrimp really stood out ad did the Aromatic shrimp. Can’t wait to eat here again!

I have been stopping in the last week or so for lunch, and have only had the large bowl of war won-​ton soup both times, but it is very good. The service is top notch, the place is immaculately clean, and the prices are what you would expect. The only even slight complaint I have is that they do not have fountain soda, but rather plastic bottles of soda instead. But I really like this place.

Sweet and Pungent shrimp (Aromatic) is simply Amazing! I have not been able to locate a Chinese Cantonese style restaurant here in Vegas that has it! I have to get my fill of it when I am visiting Los Angeles! Not anymore, now I can have it anytime I want!
Everything was marvelous, the won ton soup, the almond chicken, and moo goo gai pan! There chicken is top notch, all white meat and big generous pieces of it!
The service is Fantastic!
This was my first time and certainly will not be my last!
Mmmmmmm I am just about ready for a few more of those mouth Orgasms!

Just came in for the first time. It was good. Wasn’t the best we’ve ever had, but it was good. The food was good, the service was good, and the prices are very reasonable. We’ll be back.

I have been going to Lotus Garden forever and I love it. I prefer to support our local vendors instead of the chain-​fast food places. Do you know where your food is coming from??? I know where the Lotus Garden food is coming from because the to-​go food is gently placed in boxes for local meat-​vegatable distributors. Everytime I go in, they remember my name and my food is always good! My favorite gal, Lyn always asks me how my day was. It is like having dinner with family.
Joey, they work VERY hard which is more than I can say for you. 5 minutes? Really?
Get over yourself. Really, your concern is about sanitary conditions and you prefer Panda. Good for you! Enjoy that mystery meat!

A small, low-​key Asian restaurant– perfect for orange chicken (that actually tastes like oranges) and spring roll cravings. I especially love their won ton soup… I could eat an entire bowl as my meal! The soup is just absolute perfection with crunchy veggies, green onion and pork dumplings. Lunch specials here are a crazy good deal at less than $ 7 (soup, spring roll, pork fried rice and choice of entrée). Dinner is also a great deal at around $ 12 and it comes with an abundance of food (soup, spring roll, bbq pork rib, fried shrimp, pork fried rice and choice of entrée). I seriously don’t think you can beat it. Service is okay. They’re set to feed you, not make small talk and be super friendly, but I don’t really mind. They also offer to go orders, so you can always call ahead and eat the delicious food at home!

The lunch special prices and selections are some of the best I’ve seen. This is what you receive for under $ 10.00:
— Your choice of entrée that comes with fried rice
— Your choice of soup (egg drop or wonton) or house salad
— And an egg roll
I went for the Shrimp in Lobster Sauce — without fried rice on the side — and egg drop soup. Not enough «egg drop» in my soup, and my entrée was lacking in the taste department. The sauce was on the gelatinous side, and I didn’t care for the bits of beef scattered throughout. Furthermore, the vegetables tasted like they were fresh from the freezer. As for the egg roll, there’s nothing exciting about it, but it is packed with veggies and rice noodles.
The service is quick; my co-​worker and I received our food in under 10 minutes. I should also add that the employees here are resourceful. My co-​worker wanted to take her Thai iced tea to go and asked if she could get a to go cup. The server returned with a small food container with a hole poked through the lid for the straw — Hey, it worked!
Lotus Garden Cuisine may not be the best Chinese food I’ve had, but it sure beats going to a place like Panda Express.