China Garden

This is my favorite Chinese place. Generous portions, cheap, and quick service. Their BBQ pork spare ribs are amazing.

After trying their pork egg roll from a friend, I thought their food was quite good so I decided to go for lunch. First the place is definitely a great value and rather fast.
I ordered the Hot & Sour soup and Chicken fried rice. Both dishes had decent seasoning and tasted good except for the chicken. There was a couple pieces of chicken in the Hot & Sour soup which had no flavor as if added as an afterthought or fell in. The chicken in the fried rice did not retain any flavor either and was actually kind of wet/​slimy. At first I thought maybe it wasn’t fully cooked but rather I think it is the chicken piece used. I got a bit of fat and almost skin-​ish instead of just the standard chicken breast. So I just ate around it.
I’d recommend staying away from the chicken but the dishes were not bad and as previously stated the pork egg roll was good.

I didnt like the szechuan beef it had baby corn in it which is nasty also had a lot of veggies which i didnt like mushroom and cucumber. The sauce tasted too watery and i felt the beef was cheaper than panda and much more pricey it was 4.80 for a small lunch special which is basically just a small entrée and rice.

Similar to other reviews, I came for cheap and fast Chinese.
Be careful — when they say «steamed» they mean «not seasoned».
Unfortunately the food is flat and rather boring. There is an insane amount of variety on the menu to be overwhelming — this is typical of smaller Chinese places in my experience, but still disappointing. Why not feature several things you do well, instead of an innumerable amount of things you do dreadfully?
Had mixed steamed vegetables with a brown sauce over white rice. Everything was absolutely scary — I had chicken, but it was absolutely unidentifiable as chicken. Scary.

This place has everything you could want from a Chinese take-​out. Cheap, delicious, and fast.
The combination plates are excellent for the price, getting you a choice from a dozen or so entrees, fried rice, and an egg roll for about $ 8. It’s so much food that I normally get two meals out of it, which is a hell of a deal. Try it!

This place has reasonable prices, generous portions, fast service, and is very conveniently located (for me!). That said, convenience isn’t quite enough to make me want to come back here.
I ordered the Ma Po Tofu and some vegetable lo mein. Granted, I have never had Ma Po Tofu. I’m not really sure what it’s «supposed» to taste like. But what I got from China Garden was SALTY. So very salty, to the point where I could barely taste any other flavor. BLEH. Also, there was a piece of shrimp shell in my Ma Po Tofu… weird.
The vegetable lo mein was pretty good, but honestly that’s kind of hard to completely mess up.
My boyfriend had the boneless spare ribs combo. His eggroll was downright gross. The insides were a uniform gray. He asked me to take a bite of it to confirm how weird it was. I sunk my teeth in and didn’t even go any further… the texture and flavor was so disgusting.
I’m disappointed by this place, especially since our food SMELLED so good (well, except for that eggroll…)

I’m not a big fan of Chinese food but my vote was unheard among the family. The food over all was very unflavorful. The egg drop soup had near zero taste, the egg foo young was oily and the sweet and sour pork was plain (no veggies, fruit, etc). I did like the BBQ pork was good. My fam thought it was too chewy but I liked it the best.

A decent storefront Chinese place. Portion sizes can be large, so we almost always end up with too much food!

Affordable, above average Chinese takeout fair can be found here.
There isn’t anything really unique on the menu, but they do have really good Angel Hair and Lo Mein dishes.
I’ve never been disappointed with their food, and the prices are right on par if not slightly better than some of the other Chinese places in town.

I can’t say anything about their General Tso’s chicken or whatever, but i will say that the cook here really knows how to cook noodles. Definitely try what they call «angel hair» (or mi-​fun in Chinese). They cook it very well. You may need to add some salt or hot sauce to adjust the taste to your liking, but the texture of the noodles is always done just right. Many other chinese takeout places (and restaurants) that make mi-​fun have it come out soggy and oily, or very dry and sticky. Not here … the noodles are typically nicely separated and have a bite to them. So, if you aren’t sure what to order here or want to try something other than «typical» chinese take out, i would recommend you go for their «angel hair» items!

Seems like they have all the food that every other Chinese restaurants has. But this place must really care more. I have ate at others and so far none have been able to match the quality of the food. Be ready for a HOT meal. I have never had a cold one at this restaurant. It must be family owned as I always see the husband, wife, two daughters and the same cook in there.

I love this place! I love the people who run it, the people who work there and the food they serve. It’s much less greasy than any other chinese I’ve had in CU and the only time they messed up my order, they took care of it. They’ve always seemed happy to see me when I come in and I’ve never seen a steamed dish menu like theirs. If they used brown rice, they’d be a five star Chinese for me!

Why do all fast Chinese joints have the same exact menu? Seriously. It’s the placemat sized paper one. Red and black, meal specials and the same food. You know what I’m talkin’ bout, right? Everywhere across the nation!
My Tso’s Chicken here was sub-​par. Especially biting the nugget in half, and realizing there was a microscopic shred, literally a shred, of actual chicken surrounded by two inches of chicken flavored dough. Yikes.
That being said, all the vegetarian meals ordered were pretty tasty. Special request Tso’s Tofu looked rockin’ and tasted better.
The Ma Po Tofu was a bit on the slimy side, and our party noticed some flavor balance issues in certain dishes.
It’s very basic american-​ized Chinese food, fairly cheap and large portions, hella quick.

I tried this place out rather randomly after noticing its existence near Schnucks. The restaurant is a very typical eat-​in/​take-​out joint, with a nice lady coordinating the kitchen and taking the orders. As always, my order was the classic American-​Chinese takeout standby of General Tso’s Chicken. The food was ready in the promised 10 minutes, and I was happy to see that its container was practically bursting with chicken, broccoli, and fried rice. A good start!
Once home, I eagerly unloaded a mix of victuals onto a plate and began to chow down. Unfortunately, the experience from here on was a bit of a disappointment. The meat was not at all spicy (despite the cute little chili pepper next to its name on the menu), and the flavor was more bitter than I’m used to. Maybe that’s what they’re shooting for, but the peculiar bitter/​salty aftertaste didn’t jibe too well with my taste buds.
Granted, my opinion here is based entirely on one experience with one style of food. That being said, I’ve definitely had better. I’ll see how the leftovers are after a night of sitting in the fridge, but the next time I have a craving for the good general’s fried nuggets of fowl, I’ll probably be looking elsewhere.