China Garden House — Restaurant in King's Lynn and West Norfolk

We visited last week, as the queues for the nearby fish and chip shops were very long (over 30 minutes wait just to place your order). We ordered lemon chicken, sweet and sour pork balls, and large egg fried rice. The lemon chicken was OK, which is the best thing I can say about the whole experience. The sweet and sour pork balls were dry, without flavour, and the pork looked, and tasted, as if it had been cooked either by an external supplier (and provided to this restaurant frozen/chilled, to be reheated) or several days before, and kept in a cold store. I would not even feed them to animals. The "sweet and sour" sauce, although traditionally containing vinegar and sugar, appeared and tasted like watered-down tomato ketchup, and was certainly not freshly made. The egg fried rice contained no egg. It was brown rice, and as well as being cold, was not enough for two people. I know Japan is reporting a poor rice harvest this year, but I assume that most rice used in Europe is from last year's harvest, and has been transported and stored for a number of months, before being cooked fresh. If the meat dishes are so small, and poorly prepared, the least a restaurant can do is provide a lot of noodles, rice, pasta, potatoes, etc. to bulk up the meal, so that the customer is not left feeling hungry, and short-changed by the experience. To cap it all, even though I was standing there with a (Tiptree jam) red plastic bag in my hand, when doing the adding up afterwards, and checking my change, it appears I was charged 10p for a carrier bag. We will be avoiding this restaurant every time we visit Hunstanton, as the food was not (for us) nice, hot, tasty, good, amazing or any of the other things that other reviewers say. Perhaps they were having a bad day. Perhaps they didn't like me paying with a £20 note instead of two £10...

Stayed in Hunstanton for a week and found it to be a lovely place, one night we were at a loose end for having something for tea so had a look at the local takeaways and decided to go for Chinese. This one being the only one within a decent distance thought we'd give it a go. Well the order was pretty simple, chips rice, crispy chilli beef, plain chowmein, mushroom foo yung, salt and pepper chicken. looking at the menu the prices are pretty standard but the portion size was diabolical.. A large egg fried rice fit in the palm of my hand. The crispy "chilli" beef wouldn't feed a child and was so dry the Sahara wanted it back... Eveything we ordered I would class as a small or extra small portion compared to any other Chinese we've ate from. The food was also very bland with next to no taste, salt and pepper chips if you've had them before normally come in a carton with lots of seasoning, peppers onions chillis ect the ones from here literally had salt and pepper on them 😂. The salt and pepper chicken was like deep fried chicken nuggets with salt and pepper thrown on them...

My advice give this place a wide birth and nip down to tesco and buy the microwave Chinese meals you'll get more food and cost you...

Placed an order today(Thursday 29th July) here with young girl at the cash desk to be told my order would be ready in 45 mins (understandable as was quite a large order) was told i would get a phone call when ready however after waiting over an hour I went in to the store to be told it would be 2 minutes (this 2 minutes turned into another 15). When i challenged the owner on this she then started shouting at the young girl (who i later found out to be her daughter yet the owner denied the girl was her daughter in front of the young girl. WHAT A VILE THING TO SAY TO HER DAUGHTER i then told the young girl who was then crying at the way her mother had spoken to her that she was better than working for this woman and to find herself another job If u are thinking of ordering from here maybe call up the day b4 u actually want to eat so you can eat at...