Bamboo Garden

Since I grew up accustomed to the Americanized Chinese food, this is my first experience with authentic Chinese food. I have to the admit the prices are pretty pricey even compare to my hometown, Philadelphia. If you want to treat yourself to some authentic Chinese food, give this place a try, and just a friendly reminder, most items on the menu are pretty spicy.

Fairly good Chinese food; way better than I expected for the area. Although there was only one other occupied table at dinner, I shrugged it off and decided to try it out. Service was polite and present, they kept coming by to check on us and see how the food was. I got the potstickers to start with and they were fine and even on the bigger side. My main was the noodles with pork and preserved vegetables and it was quite good with a spicy, sour broth. While I asked for the green beans with pork to be made spicier, it didn’t even register and I even had to add salt but they were still ok. The bill for two turned out to be over $ 40 but the portions are large and you can easily box half for your lunch the following day.

This is the best Chinese (+I think?) In Midland which isn’t saying much. You can get better Chinese food for less in big cities… Only go here when we really don’t want to cook. Its not bad, and at least the portions are reasonable, but it also isn’t that good. It lacks balance. Sauces are either too sweet and or salty, or not enough. The meat is usually mushy in the goo of sauce.

The Only authentic Chinese restaurant in town. I like their spicy fish and a cold dish called couple lung in Chinese

My favorite Chinese restaurant in Midland. I like it because it has authentic Chinese dishes along with Americanized-​Chinese dishes. It’s where the local Chinese come to eat. I recommend the boiled fish for a spicy dish. It sounds plain but it’s basically a very flavorful tilapia soup with plenty of vegetables and lots of red pepper. There’s a sister restaurant in Lansing called Hong Kong.

One of the better Asian places I’ve eaten in. Authentic — which is good or bad depending on what you want. Americans use to more sweetish flavored foods might be disappointed. The service is so so (the waiter forgot about us once) but the food is good.

I had the lunch buffet. I have to say I’ve been pretty spoiled when it comes to asian food. I really miss my favorite place back in Illinois. BUT I was surprised here. The buffet was small but what they had really counted. Everything was seasoned to the intensity that I like, which I would describe as medium-​high flavor impact. Egg rolls didn’t even need soy sauce.

Best Chinese in town. Nice lunch buffet. Lots of authentic choices if u order from menu. Also good Americanized Chinese food. I like the tofu dishes and cumin lamb most.

That’s a suck restaurant. Suck service. And the people was there, when the chef is cooking, spittle in the dishes. That was so sick. I have never seen that kind of environment in my life before. So dirty. The kitchen is so dirty.

Surprisingly authentic. We’ve had great experience with their hot and sour soup, potstickers, Ma Po tofu, etc.
More to the point: excellent service. A true sign of an establishment is how they handle their mistakes. On a very large take out order, our server accidentally forgot to include a large hot and sour soup. When we got home and realized the mistake, I called them up to let them know, and the woman immediately offered to give us a large soup for free the next time we stopped by. I was worried that with no written record this «promise» would go unfulfilled, or at best we’d have to convince the staff that the promise had been made. Not at all: the next evening, we showed up at Bamboo Garden during the dinner rush and requested our free soup to go. They were as good as their word: no grumbling that we weren’t ordering anything else, no hassle, prompt, apologetic, and polite. Perfect execution of service. I’m sold.

This has to be the best Chinese place in Midland to eat. Most of the food here is Sichuan-​style; which means it is spicy for those that don’t know. The spicy tofu is really good. They even make Kimchi, which is Korean but is it really good as well.
A lot of their customers are Asian so you know the place has authentic food. They do have American style dish that you are use to. They are on the lunch menu, but I would ask for the dinner menu that has more of the authentic items. Explore a little.

To be honest, I am pretty surprised that this place has some five star reviews. While the food on the menu have some interesting ingredients that makes it more «authentic», the dish that I ordered (princess chicken) was just alright in my opinion. The place is very small and has some cute decorations. The waitress was very nice and quiet spoken, but the place really needs to hire more waitresses. She was the only one that day I went. Even though she was nice, she really should learn to ask customers if they want to separate the bill because she didn’t ask me and my friend. At the end, my friend only needed one dollar change back. She made it much more complicated by bringing a calculator and that took a bit while. Finally, she gave back the SAME amount of change to us. What?! Overall, the food is okay and service is poor.

Love this place! They have many vegan and vegetarian choices that are so good! This is really a cut above all Chinese restaurants in the Tri-​cities area. Not a «fancy» place but service is great… friendly, quick, and delicious!

This is by far the best Chinese around. Jalapeño chicken is a dish I’ve never seen anywhere else and is definitely worth trying if you like spicy food.

I finally found a couple dishes that I like and will now up my ratings to three stars. Family style tofu, eggplant, clay pots were good.

Wasn’t sure what to expect, but it was as close to real Chinese food as you are likely to find outside if a much bigger city. We were the only Occidentals in the place when we were there. The hot and sour soup did not disappoint and was both. We will be back before we return home.

We stopped here for lunch on the strength of other Unilocalers’ recommendations… and were not disappointed. We were intrigued by some of the items on the lunch buffet, so we ordered that; it included dishes familiar to us like orange chicken and gong pau pork, but there was also a very tasty spicy chicken with a unique flavor… sauteed green beans and pork that I think may have had rice wine or some other wine-​y ingredient in it that really made the flavor pop… a delicious spicy napa and eggplant dish… a cold noodle salad with a hint of – star anise, maybe? — in it; very good. The tea, both hot and iced, was nice — fresh, light and refreshing.
Chinese food in outstate Michigan is so generic that it was a real pleasure to taste-​test all iour nteresting little samples and be pleased yet mystified by the exact seasonings in each dish. (The more pedestrian orange chicken and gong pau were, BTW, also good.) I had wonton soup which I didn’t find pleasing; but the hot-​and-​sour soup was good. My egg roll had a tasty filling but was overly greasy — maybe just a careless batch. We appreciated that the heat of the spicy dishes did not overpower the actual flavor of the dishes, as is so often the case — they were pleasingly nippy, but the other flavors were allowed to shine. And the food was not as salty as a lot of Chinese food, which I appreciate.
The restaurant is housed in what I suspect may have been a former fast-​food shack… it is not a dive, but the dining area is rather modestly appointed; unlike some other Chinese restaurants, no pretensions to looking like an imperial palace. (But one nice plus for larger parties are two semi-​private side rooms that can maybe seat 10 or so people.)
We will definitely be back, and we are looking forward to exploring the tasty mysteries of the dinner menu.

Didn’t really enjoy the food… but maybe it was too authentic? Mongolian chicken was very different than I ever had. Asian Express is my pick for Midland Chinese carry out.

I’m not from around here, but have been coming for work on occasion. I’ve scoured Unilocal (and the rest of the internet) to find good vegetarian options around town, but was coming up with few appealing options. Today I found Bamboo Garden and noticed their 10 «unique vegetarian dishes.» You can pick a vegetarian faux meat — chicken, beef, or pork — and have it added to an entrée. I got the Sichuan vege with mock chicken and it was tasty. I ordered it extra spicy and it had a little kick (not much). The vegetables are perfect, the mock meat tasty, the sauce not too shabby. My only complaint? The vegetarian spring roll was too greasy to be edible. Otherwise it was great!

Super Authentic, quality Chinese food in the tri-​city area. If you want the real stuff, you have to come here. If you want Americanized Stuff, then go to the mall. The real standout is the fish with preserved veg. I think you can get Chinese Hot Pot here too. (which I can’t even find down here in the D.) My parents have been going here for years, and really it’s your only choice. Obviously, the tricky part is ordering off the Chinese Menu, but it’s worth the effort.