"?It?s not THAT bad,? ? waitress and employee who served us. Let?s start with the good. Ambience was old-school Chinese stop, good decor, ambience is fine, relatively clean. The beef and broccoli dish was genuinely good and probably cooked veryrecently. Now to the bad and the egregious; the rice was frozen bagged (the kind you cook in the microwave), the Moo Shu wasdevoid of sauce (try just plain beef, pork, chicken, etc); we were told the chef ?wouldn?t do substitutions?, the dumplings werefood service store bought, and the customer service in general could best be described as ?bored ready to leave work?.Altogether we did not enjoy our experience. I combed through older reviews to gauge why this place had such high marks when itseemed to be so run down?the answer seems to be in a recent change in management. Reviews such as ?why complain when someone iscooking food for you? with 5-stars seem to be the only positive critics left for this restaurant, which is sad because theyignore the fact that food isn?t free, and is instead a transaction predicated on the promise that it will be good food (whichcan?t just as easily be bought at the local Walmart). This said, China Garden fails the expectations you?d have. I would notrecommend this place."
