Princess Garden

I use the Eat24 app to order food from this restaurant and was really impressed there was a «special instructions» section where I can ask for extra veggies since there were no buttons for those requests. When my food got delivered they didn’t bring anything I asked for. This is the first time I’ve used this app to order food so I don’t know if this happens to anyone else? I was disappointed. I’ve ordered from this restaurant a few times and the food is decent and the pricing isn’t bad. I don’t think I’d recommend this place to anyone though.

Absolutely fabulous I’ve been eating here since I was 12 yrs old and it just keeps getting better and better that’s the way Chinese food is done !!! Keep being fantastic …

Everything was great, if not entirely as advertised. The pad thai tasted like really good lo mein.

I ordered their pad thai. Quite disappointed. I would not order it again.

This place has gone so far downhill I have just ordered from them for the last time. I ordered using the Beyond Menu app at 6 pm on Friday for delivery at 7:40. 7:40 came and went with no food. I called at 7:50 and they said they were really busy and ours would be the next delivery as soon as the driver got back. We didn’t get our food until 8:20. I knew about their slow delivery from the last couple of times, so I figured if I placed the order really early with the specified delivery time well into the evening we would get our food when we wanted it. Obviously, they do not have the slightest idea how to plan. Also, my husband’s food was so salty it was pretty inedible. Once upon a time this place had fast delivery and good food. I will never order from them again.

Well.. My first time here.. Phở is suppose to be the Asian version of chicken noodle soup when you are feeling under the weather. .
Sadly my mother is no longer here to make me phở.. So here i am looking for phở.
I ordered it to go on the Unilocal app. It works!
Picked up the food without many questions.
I came home to find that my phở was lacking.
The steak and extra steak i paid for were dry. The meat was not fresh. The meatballs were ok. The broth was chicken? It looked like my phở broth was made from won ton soup. Ewww!
My meal was composed of the steak, meatballs, noodles, a lime wedge, bean sprouts, and a tiny smidgen of siricha sauce. As I previously stated.. The broth was severely lacking.
Phở normally has mint, green onions, cilantro, soy sauce, lime, hoisin sauce and fish sauce as condiments.
I’ll go some where else for phở from now on.

There’s a reason why Chinese restaurants don’t serve phở. Now I know why. Their phở was as fake as Pam Anderson’s… I was quite disappointed. Being an avid «phở-​eater», they skimped on greens (no green onions, cilantro, etc), I counted about 7 sprouts and I paid extra ($ 1.50 for extra brisket) and got a total of 4 slices. They included a slice of lime and a small container of (mixed) oyster sauce and sriracha sauce. I had to add in my own (from home): fish sauce, garlic oil, and greens. Their noodles was the cheap (and thick) kind, the ones you would get from the Asian grocery stores for .99 cents a package. The only good thing was that the broth was super hot. I also ordered the chicken wings (with spicy mayo) because my order hadn’t reach the required minimum amount of $ 15, but I haven’t eaten the wings yet; that’ll be tomorrow’s dinner. We’ll see how THAT goes…

This place is pretty decent. I’ve only gotten delivery from them so I can’t speak on service. But the pulled duck fried rice is so good! Plus they delivery phở!

Great quick to go Chinese restaurant. This place is pretty awesome considering its 5 mins from my house and that they deliver. I don’t think that I would ever want to sit down and eat but it’s awesome for pick ups. I want to say that this is your typical Chinese restaurant. So things such as kong pow, chow main etc are their bread and butter. And the pricing is very reasonable.

The second time we ordered it took an hour and a half to arrive by delivery. They calledonce to say they ran out of fried rice (what kind of chinese restaurant runs out of fried rice?). I tried to cancel or order, but they said they already cooked it. My husbands food was fried so hard he could barely eat his sweetand sour pork. My sechwan chicken looks suspiciously not like chicken. It’s so greasy is inedible. We will never order from here ever again.

The Hunan Chicken is very good. The vegetable stir fry is also very good. The PHO is fair. The sesame chicken ok though a tad dry.
The delivery is a great value and very easy.

Service was poor and the food was okay. The pad thai there is not pad thai. Don’t order it!

Ordered delivery waited two hours to get cold soggy food. Much better choices in the area.

Good place… Really liked the people very family oriented. Been 4 times and each time gotten something new and haven’t been let down yet. It is definitely worth a try out of all the Chinese joints out there.

This place is great here in Saint Paul and I LOVE to get this every SUNDAY !!!

Pleasantly surprised to find this place. I’ve seen it before, and glad we thought of stopping in today.
The place was fairly dead. Not too many people dining in, but there were people getting take out, the owners and some family hanging out.
We ordered the Korean style stone cooked rice with Kimchi and chicken which was really hot. Not spicy hot, temperature hot because it was cooked in a cast iron pot. It took forever for that rice to cool off, but it was good and very fresh tasting once it did finally cool off.
Also ordered the spicy szechaun chicken which was pretty fragrant. A tad oily, but pretty good.
AND The Wonton Soup. Not the best I’ve had. Was able to choose between egg and rice noodles. I opted for the rice. Next time I should have opted out and just gone with the broth.
Place is smallish– about 6 tables and the rest booths.
Service was great.
Pretty big menu and they deliver…

Fallen Angel
My family has been coming to this establishment since I was just a kid. This place used to be the place to come for excellent fried dumplings (guo tie), fried lamb with leaks (tsong bao yang), ma po dofu (traditional spicy tofu dish), gong bao ji ding (what you round eyes describe as kung pao chicken), mushee rou (mixture of a bunch of excellent things, not really even sure what), and lastly Peking Duck.
Sadly, with the change in ownership came a change in chef and things are now just not the same. Prior to the change I would easily rate this place 4 stars, now after unfortunately the transferred recipes have morphed to something completely different and not agreeable with my palette.

I and a couple of friends went there because we heard they had Peking Duck. We ordered Peking Duck and Chinese broccoli with oyster-​garlic sauce. We tried to ask the server what else could they do with the duck meat, because Peking Duck is usually served with by slicing crispy duck skin to bite size. The bite-​sized skins are to be eaten with thin pancake, scallion, sometimes sliced cucumber, and then topped with hoisin sauce. The duck meat is usually cook 2 ways and the duck bones are usually used to make soup. However, when we asked to server and probably the manager or the owner in charge, they had no idea what we were talking about, so the duck meat was just served skinless with no further cooking methods involved. We found this extremely weird.
The crispy duck skins tasted good as well as the stir-​fried Chinese broccoli. However, the plain and skinless duck meat was pretty bland. It would have been so much better if the duck meat was cooked some other ways.

My first visit to the Princess Garden since it was sold… so sad!
I ordered my two favorites, Moo Shi Pork and Sichuan Lamb. At the old place, these were transcendent dishes. Not so any more.
The Moo shi pork was the better of the two, but the fabulous homemade pancakes have been replaced by those brittle ones you buy frozen in the Asian grocery store. Really undistinguished, and they split when you load them.
Sichuan lamb was thicker slices of lamb than at the old place, with a few green onions and many big slices of round white onion.
Both dishes were more «saucy» than the versions served at the original restaurant. The waiter (very sweet, friendly young guy) told me that the new chef is from the Guangzhou area (near Hong Kong) and «cooks Sichuan flavor in the Guangzhou style, with more juice.» Just so you know, that’s what you’ll be getting.
If I were in the area, I would stop in for lunch – the food is fine – but I won’t be making special trips to come here anymore. End of an era.

It actually causes me physical pain to write this update… Maria has sold Princess Garden.
On a recent visit home, I was here with my family and the Egg Drop soup, the Kung Pao, the fried cream cheese puffs… were all… different. Change can be good, but not in this case. Clearly, recipes were changed and not for the better. I’m so depressed I don’t know what to do with myself, how will I ever enjoy Kung Pao again!!!