China Garden Restaurant — Restaurant in East Marlborough Township

The best way to describe this place is by using an exercise in imagination. Ready? Here we go...

Close your eyes and imagine being at a mall. Not just any mall, a strip mall. Better yet, a strip mall in AnySuburbianTown, USA. Not quite there yet? I'll help. Picture a Dollar Tree on one end, throw in a nail salon, a karate "academy," a tax prep place that sits empty 9 months out of the year, a tobacco joint that calls itself a "bodega" because it sells Fanta and grape huggies in the middle of the strip and, finally, say, a Big Lots that anchors this whole cavalcade of commerce. NOW you know the kinda strip mall I'm talkin' bowt!

So, yeah, that's where this Chinese takeout place lives. Mediocre-at-best food that specializes in General Tso's chicken, Sweet n Sour Pork and Shrimp Fried Rice, cooked by a hard working, bare bones kitchen staff with a questionable immigration status, handed over by an indifferent-but-borderline-angry Asian dude who you remember because he seems to be the one to answer every time you call and assigns you "Order #1" to pick up in 20 minutes (uncanny coincidence).

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I don't like giving negative reviews, but I feel like I just wasted $15. First of all the girl was too busy on her cell phone to notice me when I went to the counter. Even after the guy next to her said she had a customer it seemed like facebook or something else was more important. The hot oil was burnt and there was burnt pieces of something in my cashew chicken. I ordered cashew chicken, but it wasn't sauteed with cashews, just sprinkled in afterwards, I saw the girl do it. I also ordered spicy and it was not. The chicken and rice was good but the veggies didn't seem like they went into the wok at all. Maybe I'm just spolied with better food. I definitely...

We tried China Garden for the first time tonight. Delivery was on time but the food was very disappointing. We ordered egg rolls, but no sauces were included. Since when do I need to request sauce packets??! The shrimp egg roll came with no shrimp. The Lo Mein was so bland, it tasted like plain noodles with a few vegetables. The general tso chicken was the only decent part of the order but the chicken was dry and bland. We will continue to order from our go-to restaurant and not order from China...