Asia Garden 知味 — Restaurant in Bristol

I see the rewiews are going two extremes, either very good or very bad. I would say this Chinese restaurant is NOT a common restaurant British people think of. Most Chinese restaurant here are either Cantonese or spicy Sichuan food, with rice or fried noodles. But this restaurant 's chef is from north china and the flavour is different. I know this because I am from the same province! If you ask them to make fried rice/noodles or ducks, it's gonna to be a disaster because in my home province we don't eat them. It's until I came to UK i discovered some new Chinese dishes. Try to order something different and it might surprise you 😜. Our home province (Shandong province) dish is said to be the mother of all Chinese dishes. We are good at doing braised chicken or lou mei, or some seafood like sea cucumber. I would say their rice is really horrible, and it's average compared with my hometown restaurants. But it's very rare I can eat Chinese dishes...

I don't get takeaways often but did get one from Asia Garden anout a yesr ago and enjoyed my meal. However, I recently got a takeaway here and standards have definitely slipped. I went for the mixed veg urdu dish & my son beef chow mein. They said it would be ready in 10 mins which I thought was fast. Perhaps I now see why. Mine was awful, I feel as though it was just reheated. It tasted bland and the only thing I could taste was a plastic taste maybe from the container and a smokey burnt flavour. The vegetables were non existent. A bit of onion and a couple of slices of carrot. Very disappointing. My son's dish also had a burnt flavour and he said the beef was of poor quality. Will not revisit this place again could have done...

Placed an order for the following Satay chicken skewers - Dry and tasteless chicken with a sauce that tasted like they had ran out of satay sauce so mixed in curry to make up for it. I can make a better satay sauce at home but couldn’t be bothered after a long day at work plus overtime. Crispy seaweed- Overcooked, tasted odd, too much sugar Egg fried rice- So dry it was like eating sawdust Chicken balls- Partner said they were dry, tasted dusty Chips- Not too bad but how hard is it to mess up chips?

Overall I was really disappointed, only ordered as I had a £10 discount. Wish I’d have spent the extra tenner somewhere else. Vile. Won’t...