China Garden

Food is always good. I have been going here for over 12 years. They have plenty of vegetarian options. They can make any of their meat dishes with tofu. All you have to do is ask. Everyone who works there is very friendly and helpful. They even give me free donuts on my birthday ! I have 4 kids and this is the perfect spot to please everyone.

If you are looking for crappy Chinese food this is your place… If you want good Chinese go to Chan’s Garden in St. Joe or Hong Kong in Stevensville… they do not wear gloves or wash hands between handling $ or food… Dishes are stacked on the trash area and too many weird signs…

The lady at the counter was soooooooo RUDE when the order came out wrong. Screamed out in Chinese and literally threw down the food at our table!!! NEVER Ever want to come back here again. I wouldn’t want to give even one star! The general chicken had more flour than the chicken itself. Glad it’s my last horrible experience at this restaurant!!!

If you’re a vegetarian you’ll be disappointed with the limited chicken less options. I tried their buffet and I wasn’t too impressed by what they had to offer. Their noodles are average and taste like they are drenched in soy sauce.
I also find it hard to communicate with the staff there so it makes it hard to ask for options from the menu.

After moving here from Indy, started to go to Chan’s for Chinese maybe twice a month. Recently tried China Garden and found their food superior to Chan’s. Their broccoli and shrimp is very good and the serving is large enough for two meals. Have tried other items on the menu and all have been excellent.

Typical Americanized Chinese food, great deals for lunch though

Absolutely awesome for the 14 years I’ve lived here. Their boneless chicken is amazing

First visit to CG was pretty great! Was a big lover of Hong Kong House and this Chinese compared pretty good. HKH has definitely fallen off over the years and have been searching for another great Chinese restaurant. Loved the chicken fried rice, egg drop, and whatever the shrimp meal is. Deep fried shrimp are great. The pork fried rice was good too but way to much breading for me. I’m already eating bad, don’t have to compound it by eating so much extra breading! They forgot the sweet and sour on our order only to find out when we got back home. Not cool. But over all we’ll go again!

Maybe I ordered wrong, but my food was tasteless. It tasted like I was just eating rice and raw celery. I will not be going back.

Really great place for vegetarians ! Great sesame fried tofu ! Great spring rolls! Delicious vegetable soup! Overall we end up spending 30 to feed a family of 6 it’s a good deal and most of all it’s super yummy

My go-​to choice for Chinese take-​away. General Tso’s Chicken, Kung Pao Chicken or Shrimp, Beef with Peapods, Hot and Spicy Chicken — the list goes on. The Hot and Sour Soup is awesome for clearing your head if you have a cold. Fast, friendly service — I do recommend calling in if you’re doing take-​away, as the wait can be long some evenings.

Five stars. Yep. Super cheap lunch specials for less than $ 5. Very tasty food and super friendly service. Great Tso’s chicken. Can’t wait to have everything here.

For Chinese food in SJ, this is the place I call the most (I almost always get takeout). I find their service to always be fast and very friendly. I’m mostly vegetarian, and they have a few options on the menu that I like. My go-​to choice is mixed vegetables with steamed tofu from the «special-​diet» menu, which means they don’t use oil when cooking or MSG in the sauce, so it’s just overall healthier, without sacrificing on the flavor. When I order it, they include the sauce in a separate container so you can choose how much to use. I love sauce so I like to order extra and they are always accommodating.
The food may not seem super-​authentic like you could find in Chicago or other big cities, but I’d still recommend if you are looking for good American-​Chinese food in the area

Great Chinese food, reasonable prices, and quick service «10 minute».

If you’ve got 20 bucks… 2 people could have a feast here.
Portions are Huge.
The food is average to above average.
The décor is early American Gothic.
They have plenty of seating, however, its the kind of place
you carry-​out from, even through you could eat-​in.
Should you give it a try ?
Yes, if you expect better than what Panda Express offers.

For the type of Chinese food I like, I find a few criteria that have increased my odds of success: 1) strip mall location, the narrower the better, 2) tiled, not carpeted floor, 3) orders called into the kitchen in native language, 4) kitchen is visible from the counter, 5) menu is based on the standard sheet you see in so many Chinese restaurants around the country. Black and red ink on white paper — not in a menu holder, ready to circle the items you want with a pen or pencil, and 6) standard backlit pictures of a number of the menu items over the counter.
That said, China Garden fulfills all those criteria here in St. Joe, which has us stopping in twice a week or more. They are masters of the fryolater — crab rangoon (which, in a tasty twist, they do with mozzarella cheese), egg rolls, fried wontons, etc. have all come out golden brown with consistency. The fried dumplings (wok-​fried) are meaty and gingery. The wonton soup has a deep-​hued, rich broth with, again, very meaty wontons.
My wife and I enjoy the orange-​flavor beef. It’s nicely tangy. One of the positive features of restaurants that meet these criteria is that a dish like orange flavor beef typically consists of mostly deep fried orange flavor beef and a broccoli floret or two rather than lots of vegetables taking up space in the container, or it being half liquid from the sauce. The protein source in the dishes China Garden serves is typically very substantial in amount.
A decent sized order gets its requisite fortune cookies (a flavorful, fresh brand), but they also tend to throw in a package or two of almond cookies, providing a sweet finish to the meal.
One or two minor quibbles I have is that I have not found their various fried rices to be as complex in flavor as others I’ve had, though they are still hearty. Also they have added one of my personal favorites, Singapore style rice noodles, but the amount of curry added has varied from almost none to too much. It may take a little time to get that one right, as the staff learns how to make the dish.

Standard Chinese fare in a nondescript restaurant. It has a bare bones strip mall type of interior.
Food is pretty decent, not quisine. The prices are good. Great for takeout, dine in if you don’t care about décor.