Formosa Garden Restaurant — Restaurant in Aurora

Came in today at lunch as a direct result of the great reviews.

The staff were extremely friendly and I was sat quickly to wait for my friend. I loved the complimentary hot tea and the water with a slice of lemon. These were great touches that separate Formosa Garden from other "Chinese" or east Asian restaurants.

The atmosphere seemed like a relic of the 80s or, at the very least, the early 90s. I understand that small restaurants can't always keep up with the times, but updating to a modern look would change the ambience significantly. Unless you like that dated look, then: great!

I ordered the Orange Chicken and was thrilled that the spicy dish was actually spicy. Most places will tell you their orange chicken is spicy, but in reality, it never is. Formosa kept that promise, to which I'm grateful.

My friend ordered the Cashew Chicken and had two complaints:

[1] There weren't enough cashews, and [2] The meat was a tad rubbery.

As we discussed this, I realized my orange chicken was also more 'chewy' than chicken should be. Almost as if the chicken was thawed in the microwave, then cooked.

All-in-all, the experience is one I'd try again to see if these issues were outliers or the norm.

The lunch price was great and very competitive with...

The wife and I went here for dinner trying a new place and here is a 100% unbiased review. We like to find hole in the wall places like this and we love to support small businesses. The vegetable egg rolls and the egg drop soup were bland with very little flavor. We ordered the chicken Gyoza and the Chicken skewers and both were great so we highly recommend. I ordered the combo fried rice with chicken,shrimp and beef and it was also really great. My wife ordered the BBQ Pork with vegetables which she found to be overly drenched in BBQ sauce. Our waitress was ok and she met our needs but seemed to not like interacting with customers. The entire restaurant is out of date and makes you feel like your visiting your grandmother's house with flower pattern all over it. It wasn't horrible but was a little weird. The bathrooms on the other hand are gross and need a massive cleaning and update. Not trying to be rude but it would definitely help in the customer recommendation to other people. Overall it was a good place to eat and a definite diamond...

Called in to order delivery for my family I asked for lo mein substitute with one of my entree's instead of egg fried rice was told first I could pay 4 dollars more and sub it out on both my entree's then after I finished ordering I was called back and told it would be a additional 4 dollars for the second entree's lo mein which I declined and went with the egg fried rice for some variety but what noodles I did get are nothing like a order of lo mein I'd ever want to eat just plain noodles with no seasoning I called back and asked how they thought this was a ok substitute and they told me people can order plain lo mein noodles and it would be 10 dollars extra to substitute vegetable lo mein for the entrees side of rice so if I wanted a edible side I would have to pay the difference for them...