Ming's Garden Restaurant (Richmond Hill) — Restaurant in Richmond Hill

A typical american chinese restaurant that I always heard of from tv shows/others that gives out fortune cookies with their meals.

Never really experienced takeout from one until I moved to the area. I find its one of the better options in this area though after trying 4-5 similar asian/chinese places within 10-12min minutes from my house in the north richmond hill/oak ridges area.

The price if very affordable for a quick meal and the taste is most comparable to takeout food from the food courts in the malls. However, this restaurant has about 150 options you can choose from.

A lot of their set menus have many deep fried options. If you order takeout and not eat it right away its best to reheat these fried things in the oven/air fryer.

I tried recently: the chicken fried rice, general tao chicken, sweet and sour pork, sweet and sour chicken balls, egg roll

As my palette is pretty sensitive to flavours, I can say the dishes do have pretty good taste and are not soggy if you eat them right away.

Those who typically like their food extremely flavourful with spices, sauces, and spicy hot sauce will not like this place as the flavours of a lot of dishes generally will not be strong enough for them.

Compared to the price, the value of the food is good especially in this time where inflation drove all the prices up everywhere.

Note: I have also have slight sensitivity to MSG and it gives me a temporary cough. This restaurant triggered this reaction.

Overall, I would go back there if I need a simple meal...

HORRIBLE

The service was ok, she showed us our seats, asked for our order and if we needed help- like any ordinary restaurant should

BUT HERES THE PROBLEM: the food was absolutely atrocious. We ordered the “Chicken Balls” and “Chicken fried rice”

AND LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHING. The chicken was clearly frozen chicken balls, HEATED UP IN THE MICROWAVE OR SOMETHING. It tasted like taking a bite out of chicken flavoured cardboard. And the worst part? IT WASNT JUICY.

Next is the rice. Luckily, you can’t go wrong with the rice. Pretty mediocre BUT THATS NOT IT!! I found these weird black stuff in it. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS, BUT ITS GROSS LOOKING. And no, it’s not seasoning, it was the only long black thing in the rice.

Anyways, my stomach feels upset after eating this THING.

Adding onto all of this; we were the only person, so it was awkward to hear our voice echo. Also there was a person just watching tv in there? Never seen that before.

Only come here if you like microwave chicken warmed with a hint of...

First time trying the restaurant. We picked two dishes in the chef's special list. Mango Beef had only 6 small pieces of beef slices on top. The huge take out box was just full of veggie. Most importantly, it was way over salted. We gave up after having one piece of beef. Lighted breaded spareribs were actually heavily breaded. Most pieces only had breading and bone. Breading tasted really bad as they did not use fresh oil. The meat was too dry as well. I'm the kind of person who would always take out the remaining food when going to restaurants. But the dishes were just intolerable that we ended up tossing them into garbage and ate just fresh bell peppers from our...